The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-31
COGHLAN HAD A WIFE.
At Least He So Testified In Court
Three Years Ago.

New York Sun.
Whether or not Mr.. Coghlan had a wife
three days ago, when he married MISS MSS
Beveridge, he had one three years ago, ac-
cording to his own statement on witness
stand. In January, 1891, Charles r Cogh-
Ian appeared in the Bankruptcy Court in
London. He had filed unsecured liabilities
amounting to f3,0l2 and assets. In the
examination which followed he answered
ton. This is part of the testimony, taken
49, 1891:
Mr. Coghlan said he at present occupied
chambers in Piccadilly, for which he paid
a large rent.
Q.-Is that necessary? At is absolutely
In central part of the city, and / must
pay a proportionate rent.
Q.-But it is not a necessity to pay your
butcher and your tailor? A.-They never
pressed me for payment.
Qmlt appears to me that whether ea doea
not, you equally allege the fact as a rea-
son for not settling. Was it also stern
necessity for you to keep eight horses at
a time? A.-That was, perhaps, rather a
sdaafy' but 1t was one considered '0'iu
Q-You could afford in the same way to
T Was abe bib ba of ss Of for debt df s.
Q.-Dont you think this very extrav-
agant way of living? Al think it is a
very extravagant style of charging
Q.-Accordingly you have not paid the
sum charged? A.-Well. you know |
couldn't satisfy everybody at once, and it
would be manifestly unfair to pay one
creditor without paying the others.
$50 the only fair course was to pay
none of them, and spend the whole OF your
income on yourself? A.-Since my present
engagement commenced / have had to de-
fray the cost of bringing my wife and fam
lily over from Canada, and other heavy eX-
penses.
Q.-How many persons have sued you?
A.-That can't say; but since 1 arrived in
England everybody seems to have done SO.
The second week of my engagement my
salary was attached, and then L filed pc
tition in bankruptcy. 1 did not do so be-
fore, as l had a natural repugnance
against such q proceeding.
soon as your salary was attached? A--Of
course 1 did. because / had much greater
repugnance to living on nothing.
Q.-What portion of your future earnings
do you propose to set aside for the bene-
fit of your creditors? A.-None at all.
Q.-Do you think 1T right TO contract $1,000
thing? ALL / owe doesn't amount to my
earnings for one year. and but for my ILL
ness and the action of the creditors them
selves / should have paid up before now.
1 fully intended to discharge my liabilities,
but 1 cannot put myself under legal obi
cations to do so, as all have a certainty
of receiving at any time Is my two weeks
salary, for my contract with the theater
can be terminated on that notice. thought
it only just to myself and to my family to
take the contingency into consideration.
Three years ago Mr.. Coghlan had, ac-
cording to his own testimony, a wife and
family 1t was in 1889 that he was at the
eryone knew as his wife and girl of four
teen years. 1t was last spring that he was
at the San Reno Hotel with the same
woman and the same girl grown to be
eighteen years old. Part of the intervening
time, according to Mr.. Coghlan's friends,
he spent with the same woman and child
in Prince Edward Island, which is in Can
ada" and from there they are known to
have gone to England in the fall of 1890