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Show FOR UNLAWFUL COHABITATION. Jonathan C. phatterton Denies It, Although His First Wife Alleges It. " This morning Deputies Smith, Gleason and Franks were seen out unusually early in the western part of town, and about 9. o'clock they returned with Jonathan Jona-than C. Chatterton, an engineer and machinist ma-chinist in the employ of the Utah &j Nevada Railway Company. Chatterton was arrested on the charge of unlawful cohabitation, and waived examination when taken before Commissioner McKay. His case was taken up to the Grand Jury, and bonds of $2,000 were fixed by the Commissioner, but considerable difficulty was experienced by Chatterton in obtaining obtain-ing the necessary sureties. Some of the parties who were communicated with by telephone declined to go .on his bonds, and when last seen by our reporter he had secured only one of the two neces sary bondsmen. . Chatterton was indiscreetly free in his talk and wasted quite an effort to convince con-vince the deputies and everybody else he met that he had not lived with his polygamous wives for a long while. It transpires that he was excommunicated from the Mormon church last year, and he claims to have put away at that time all of his wives but one. -He was quite sure that no case could be made against him, and defied the law to prove his guilt. His emphatic utterances in this respect will appear singular enough when the fact faces him that his own wife furnish fur-nish the evidence in the complaint.and that she has a fund of evidence of the most unmistakable character establishing her husband's criminality beyond a doubt. Chatterton was probably not aware of this when he so eloquently defied de-fied the power of the courts to prove him guilty. Every effort to obtain bonds having failed, Chatterton was requested to hold himself in readiness to go to the Pen, and at half-past two o'clock Mr. Cottrel, one of the guards, conducted him to the wagon and drove out to the Hotel de Ireland. |