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Show RARE BIGAMY ! CASE REVEALED Has Common Law Wife for 14 Years Any Legal Standing? CHICAGO. Dec 16 (By Interna-! tional News Service) Captain Charloa Pike, army surgeon, held in the Crown Point, Indiana, jail for two days on a charge of bigamy, was frco on ?3oOO bond tonight. The bond was furnished fur-nished by his "second" wife, Mrs, Frances Helle-Ptte, whom the captain cap-tain married six weeks ago. Bigamy charges wire preferred agnlnst the captain by Marjory Bod-doea Bod-doea who claimed to have lived with Pike as his common law wife for 14 years, their association together dating dat-ing back to their college dajs In Pennsylvania. Backing up Miss r ; . . 1 . 1 . r m " charges Is Attorney Txmls A. U-ll, of Chicago, father Of Pike's second wife. Hell opposed hts daughter's marriage to Captain Pike, after Plko had made a clean breast of his previous association associa-tion with Miss Beddoes, but assorted that the worn-m had no legal claim on him. Pike and his wife were In seclusion seclu-sion in Chicago tonight. Charges against the captain probably will bo ; given a hen.rlnfr In Crown Point within ' two or three weeks, i |