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Show t ' REFORMER GAINS FREEDOM ! I , 1 ' - .- .. Los AXGEbcs. July i. Donald D Stewart, held here on charges of bigamy. Involving four marriages, was freed from custody today on :i writ oi habeaus corpus. A showing that no formal charges had been filed against him was the cause for his release He hud been In custody for ten days. Charges of polygamy grand lar-:eny lar-:eny nnd conspiracy were said to be n file In a number of eastern cities against Stewart, former Presbyterian minister, and social reformer. When arrested in Los Angeles, Stewart and I Mre, Ethel Turner sbaldcston Stew art, Bald to be his second wife, were planning to open a sanitarium, according ac-cording to detectives. Stewart ban or-I cuplcd pulpits In Paterson. X. .1.1 Scunderson. Tex. and Chlco. Cal . and was at one time secretary of the pro-j hlbltlon forces In California. |