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Show BIGAMIST ALLOWED TO GO ON PROBATION DETROIT, Mich.. May 4. William' I G. Orton. confessed bigamist, whb tea tified he married Miss Hulda Nicholas here last year to give her child a name despite the i n : he already hail a wlfe ' and three sons in Brockton. Mass.. was 'placed on probation for five years by i Judge Thomas M Cotter, in recorders' 'court here Wednesday, ordered to pay I $R weekly for the support ol his I daughter by his second wife, and to return to I be first Mrs. Orion. The first wife pleaded for him In COUrt today, while the second Mrs. Orton, Or-ton, wh.: had filed I h bigamy charge, d marided he be s. nt to I. ill Judge Cotter said his leniency was ! prompted by consideration for the first Mrs. OrtOO and her children. Mrs. Orton had said she would take Miss ; Nicholas' child and rear It, If she could bv so dding gain the freedom , iif her husband. |