The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-03-05
ACASE OF V;RTUOUS BIG
AMY.
CALIFORNIAN WHOM THE LAW JUS
TWO WIVES.
An Rernardino. California. is {
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virtuous place, aud Is making heroic
efforts 10 remain so. There is ju@'
enc man within is border who does
not conform 10 he stanea OF moral
ity established there, and San Ber-
nardino has been wrestling nobly
with thar man. The man is strong
He appears to have thu law OF hi.
side, aud sin f ur tusslcs he has
thrown San Bernardino to the grass
every time, and walked of victorious
That mans nxme was Oades, and ne
is an Engii Imam Of 3ooi address.
aid he went lnto III country two
years ago and sopu married pretty
wrdoN. N ncy foreIa aud he pros
per~d aud increased and mullIpll-
ed
n At leang i an oiiIsl worn wo'"a''
and three ureey we'll grown children
made tier appear:nce III he town oil
San b.rnardlno, ami asked where
Oades lived She Nas directed 10
the comtolt bic Oade.,. mansion The
door Was oprheC TO Ter and she and
tn chiliren walked in AID stayed
t:.tre. $40 tile neighbor~ Game aud
poked heir noses III, aud smelling
around for vice. he family were
perfectly happy and consented and
ali a. gay as Ialks 10 satisfy tie
ncIgIbors' curiosity, Oades toio
ti"n' bunny tina. ii WAS none OF
thrlr bu lie as NJ MS lis taml
wa happy. The Ielgnbors though
differently Billings had Oades
brough into conrI charges with
adultery uoder the oct OF 1870
O"deS Introduced documentary
si lehce and proved that the woman
With tnrrt children was his Iawfut
vile, h~1'ng been m4rrIe4 to him in
E'gland twenty years ago This
sen Billings and ) n Bernardino II
The grass and Oades walked home to
MI family. In = few days Oadea
was ttken before the sa.e codr
charger with open aid notorious
adultery with Mrs. Nancy ForelAl.d
Ne. 2. Here he paced himself u"d-
or he pro ection 0: tie code. whicl.
declares.
"t.,e marriage Of pc sou
having form T husband or wife liv
4ng IL >osu, Unless such former hus-
Baud or vi e wa, absent and nol
KNOW % such persons to be living
kr five years INN dlately preceding,
Such bsequen marriage in VOID
only f. m the ime its nulli,y il
adjudged by prop r tribunal"
Ths' curt then Considered the ques
to- whether Ms. Osdes No. | ha :
becn absentand rot known by Oades
to e living for five years inmediat-
e.y preceding his n'aFrlag9 with Mrs
70 and Oades introduces this
roll antic history:
About eight years ago be was liv-
ing with Aira. OAdes No. | and their
thr children in Wellington county
New Zealand. Their residence was
on the frontier. Having gone on
business 10 Victoria, The Maoris
ma i've tribe with which thu English
were at peace, made an inroad into
the Fo' dement, without awarning
Returning Oades found his build
mig burned, 1is field laid waste and
hlS family gone. In tho smoking
ruins ne found human bones, which,
settled nis doubts az to the fate nj
his loved ones. h stayed amid the
scenes Of his desoIation for ovar )
year and then.he turned his baek
upon them forever. He came to|
Csliforn a, ! wing in various place.
until his advent Al San Bernard nc
two years ago, as stated \
The court accepted the statement
and held that Oades had been ion y.
ant Of the existctce OF his wifi. e..
more than Ave ye RS previous to b,s
second marriage. Oades ..,ya !
acquitted and walked forth from the
courtroom once more to his hannv
a0me. San Bernardino had again
gone 70 grass. " ~ aA ,~s
The next thing n order for yirtu,
was TO frYOsdes for ainau 10