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Show 1M1 GUIS IR HUSeAND IS A BIGAMIST t Molvin Brion, the negro dining car waiter who was shot yesterday afternoon after-noon by Floienco Brien, who claims to be his wifo, may faco a charge of bigamy big-amy when ho is released from the Dec hospital. The bullot from the woman's wom-an's revolver entered her alleged husband's hus-band's mouth, knocking out several teotli and lacerating his lips. Shortly aftor the shooting the woman wom-an mado the following statement in the presence of Sergeants T. H. Blackburn Black-burn and C. P. Fitzgerald, and Patrolmen Patrol-men P. J. Naylin and O. II. Mohlman, of her own volition: "I was married to Brlen at Helena, Mont., three years ago last January," she told the police. "Wo came to Ogdon March 11, 191G, and wont to live in the old Kiesel bakery building between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Twenty-sixth stioets. "On February 3rd Brlen's sister died in Chicago and I gave him $26 to pay his expenses to the funeral, outside out-side of his transportation, which cost him nothing on (he railroad. He camo back hero on March 22d, but did not come back to live with mo. I telephoned tele-phoned him several times, but he persistently per-sistently rofused to come back to me He would glvo no leason for staying away. "Several days ago I met him near the corner of Wall and Lincoln avenues aven-ues and asked him for money to go to see a doctor, as 1 was troubled with pains In my side. He refused to give mo the money and would have beaten me up if a passerby had not interfered. inter-fered. "Yesterday afternoon I went down to the commissary of the dining car service ser-vice whero he was working and again told him I wanted some money. He told me to get away from him and picked up an Iron wrench which was lying on the ground. When ho mado a movo to striko mo with it I pulled out the revolver and shot him." Later in the afternoon, at the hospital, hos-pital, Brion denied the woman's state ments as to their marriage, but said they had been living together for the past three years as man and wife. "While I was in Chicago to attend the funeral of my sister," Brlen further stated to the officers, "I married another an-other woman, and whan I came back to Ogden decided I would have nothing noth-ing more to do with the woman I had been living with She wanted me to come back to live with her, but I refused re-fused to do so." He was asked if he picked up the wrench and threatened to strike her as she alleged, and his answer was: "Yes, I guess I did." |