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Show Wire Willing to Take Other Woman's Babe i Pi rsi M in. ( rton Tn. Lug to ; Sa e i usband BVom Jail on I ligarny 'barge, rXETROIT, Mi'h April 20 Mra Moren G rton first Ife ; of William ; Orton, confessed bigamist, may adopt the child of tho second Mrs. Orton. if by doing so she can save her husband from I prison. This wan her statement ester-day ester-day .ifter iirton pleaded guilty to the charge of bigamy Orton claims he married Miss Hulda Nicholas to give her child a name. He was admitted to $2000 bond, pending a report on the caso next Tuesday by tho probation department de-partment 1 believe my husband s story that he married MISS Nicholas out of chivalry and because she wanted want-ed a name for her baby," Mis. Orton said. ''That Is tin- kind of a man he is " she continued. "H I honorable honor-able and square. Abovo ever-thln' ever-thln' els. I want him back." The Ortons came here Uiree years ago. During one of Mrs. Or-ton's Or-ton's visits to Brockton. Mass., Orton Or-ton met Miss Nicholas They were married last June and lived together to-gether three weeks then Orton disappeared The young woman found him in Brockton, and learned learn-ed of his previous marriage when she visited him there She returned re-turned lo Detroit and filed tin-bigamy tin-bigamy chargo. -on |