Show CIRCUMSTANCES FORBADE IT Ebenezer Wo o df or d Proves an Alibi In the Adultery Charge Yesterday afternoon Deputy Pratt arrested ar-rested EbenezerWoodford of the Twelfth I ward on the charge of adultery the object ob-ject being of course to bring the cohabs in under this section of the law which provides a more severe punishment than the unlawful cohabitation clause At 930 oclock this morning the case came up before Commissioner McKay and upon being arraigned the defendant entered a plea of not guilty Woodfords first wife was called and testified that she had married defendant in 1869 and though she has never had a divorce she has not lived with him for many years past Floss Smith the woman alleged to have been a party in the offense was sworn and admitted that the defendant I and she had lived together during the past year Mr Dickson then rested his case and Mr Movie introduced a rather novel defense Mrs Woodburn No2 was again called and said that her husband had been injured in-jured in the shoulder about the first of January and that since that time they had not occupied the same bed She said that he was so nervous that no one could sleep with him and so she had gone to another room and slept with the boysHer Her thirteenyearold boy was sworn and testified that his mother had slept with him every night since the 1st of January This of course knocked the adultery charge and Mr Dickson concluded to let that slide and hold his man on the same old charge There being a clear case of unlawful cohabitation the defendant was bound over to await the action of the grand jury I I |