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Show BIGAMIST ESCAPES THE PENALTY OF THE LAW Washington, July '19, Richard H. Smith, husband of two women, indict- J ed on a charge of bigamy and Irupris- ' oned here for some time while await- I I Ing trial. Is a free man today with ! two wives living and no divorce rec- ' ord. Smith was freed in tho criminal ' court on a charge of perjury, bavins previously been freed on the bigamy charge because no proof could lt found that Smiths wife No. 1 was living when he married wife No 2. Smith married Mary Merseen in 1802 and lived with her for u'no years. Becoming weary of her, with out any lgal ceremony, he forsook ber and married another Mary Merseen, Mer-seen, first cousin of wife the first. The first wife bad him arrested In 1 Montgomery county, Alabama, and through some technicality tho court j dismissed the case against Smith, courts of the District of Columbia were appealed to because Smith's sec- ' ond marriage took place lure, and now, after several months of legal sparrinng and failure to find evidence, Smith is a free man. |