New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-23
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
WILLIAM G. BOLTON ARRESTED.
urs FIRST WIFE CHARGES HIM WITH ABANDON



urs FIRST WIFE CHARGES HIM WITH ABANDON
MENT.
A warrant was issued by Police Justice walsh
yesterday upon complaint Of Mrs. Charlotte L. Bottom
for the arrest of her husband William G. Bolton,
president of the Bolton Drug Cmpany. Inc war
rant charged him with abandonment OF her ana upon
il he was arrested by Detective Sergeant Ryan IN ms
drug store at Fulton and Clinton SITS Inc prisoner
was taken to the Police Central ONCE and then ar
rs,gned before Police Justice Walsh, who admitted
him TO 1900 bail ~.
Mrs. Bolton says that her husband has been guVS
OF bigamy but she has taken no steps to nave hliu
punished for 1t. lie processes to nave secureu
divorce from her in Sioux Falls South DAKOTA, wnoro
he went 10 live In April. on September 20 ne was
married 10 Miss Lillian shuler in Newark ~ J' ana
they went 10 Sioux Falls where the ceremony was ~
peated TO secure validity under the laws OF tat o'
Mr. Bolton was married the first time seventeen
years ago, when he had small drug store i'll NOV"
York Differences rccentlys arose between MN an =,
his Wife and finally they separated The grounu Vi
the Dakota divorce was abandonment of her husband
by Mrs. Bolton. no,.o.
A dispatch was received yesterday by Mr. Bolton
from his father at South Hadley, Mass saying ,ha'
mis- first wife had been there looking Tor MN WIN
revolver, and had started back 10 hrOohyn' WI.
BOLTON said that ne did not fear his wife, for she had
,hra.,sc.d his life a hundred times. He emphatcaly
denied the charge of bgamy, and showed copy OF
the decree Of granted by Judge Akens IN sonth
,,ohot. On scptember % Under IT, he told by his
counsel he ooud remarry In any State save New YORK
pd sonth Carolina He followed legal advice in all
the stems that he took For the last fortnight he ana
his socond wife have been visiting In South Hadley.
Whom he learned of the statements OF MS 1rst uie
matter In Brooklyn. SO he left his SECOND VIE at
his fathers house and went TO his place OF business.
nrefeabIe to the sort of life he had been living for
Ave years.
MORE TESTIMONY AGAINST THE TROLLEY.
The hearing on the application Of the Coney Island
and Brooklyn Railroad Company for permission to
Introduce the trolley electric system on it's lines along
tle southwest side of Prospect Park was continued
before the commission appointed by the Supreme
Court Yesterday. Charles +. Parsons, secretary OF
the National Gable Company described the use OF the
cable system in great Cities and said that every large
city in the country used H. except Boston, when was
the only large city using the trolley TO any extent
The cable cost more to hay, but the expense Oh op
grating was less than any other system
The trolley, with its cheap original cohs'ruc"oh'
,vas nseuI for small towns and villages where only
the cheapest construction was pracucaDie' " 1an
Francisco 10 miles Of cable had been laid. and In
chicago abont the same amount. The system had
been adopted for Broadway, NewYork, after caretui
consideration. More money being spent there
Dian on any surface railroad in the world anu the
builders REGARDED 1t as profitable Investment. Inc
crcat difficulty with electric lines was That inc
knowledge Of the power was in its infancy nd IT was
dnnperons The cable safer tnal inc E viIe5'
Gamucl g. Duryea, Charles y. Pced anu u ~ Cuis
eaestate owners IN the nelgnooaSSo1t esfmony was
introdnccd about the recent killing OF horses az fu
ST. and Broadway by the falling Of WIRE Inc "e''
ing will go on to-day.