The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-20
HAS ONE WIFE TOO MANY.
George T. Roger Is in Jail,
Charged With Bigamy.
HE ALLEGES A DIVORCE
Asserts That He Was Told That Mrs.
Rogers No. l Secured a Decree on
the Ground OF Desertion-No
Attempt at Concealment.

George T. Roger, yardmaster on the
hill for the Butte. Anaconda & Pa
cifc railroad. is in the county fail on
the serious charge of having commit
ted bigamy. About a week ago there
arrived in the city a woman from
Tennessee who claimed to be his wife.
She had long known that Roger was
married and lived in this city, but was
not in a hurry to run him down. He
left her, according TO her own story,
about four years ago and she has con-
stantly since then been familiar with
his movements and the fact that he
had married again. The fact that
Roger a few months ago drew a prize
of $500 from a San Francisco
paper and had just made arrange
ments to tax his second wife and her
sister and mother or a trip to Europe,
may explain why Mrs. Roger No. l
concluded to come to Butte and prose-
cute her husband. she found him liv-
ing at 1913 West Boardman street, and
after she had been here nearly a week
she consulted a young attorney as to
what she should do. He advised a
prosecution and himself called on
Chief Deputy County Attorney Con-
molly, to whom the case was stated.
Mr.. Connolly doubted that there was a
case and referred the young lawyer to
County Attorney Stapleton. The latter
was out of the city and the lawyer
resorted to the nusua proceeding of
drawing up a complaint on his own re-
sponsibility last Saturday and a war
rant was ISSUED by Justice Laurandeau
for Rogers arrest. He vas taken into
custody Sunday afternoon n confined
in the county Jail and his presence
there was studiously kept from the
public by the ~jailers. Although inquir-
les were made at the Jail for him on
Sunday evening. the jailer denied that
anyone had been arrested during the
day.
Roger admits that the m was
his wife, but claims that she has Sc
cured a divorce from him He stated
yesterday that after he had left her
he kept up a correspondence with his
sister and others residing in the same
town as his wife. His sister wrote to
him that his wife mad applied for and
was granted a divorce on the ground
of desertion. He mad no reason to doubt
the information and a he still be-
lieVes ID to be correct. He thereupon
married his present wife. They were
then living at Pendleton. Ore, and
from that place came to Butte about
a year n a half ago, since which time
he has been in the employ of the b..
A.. x z. Mr.. Roger says he announced
his marriage and made no attempt at
concealinga his whereabouts, n says
that if his wife did not obtain a di-
vorce he was misled about IL.
Mrs. Roger is a woman about 40 years
of age and has a boy IL years of age,
which she says was adopted by her and
Mr.. Roger some years ago. Mrs. Roger
brought with her her marriage license
and marriage cet~ificate. and says she
has never been divorced from Roger.
but will get a divorce just as soon as
she is through prosecuting him for
bigamy. She called on Mrs. Roger No.
? yesterday and told her all about II.
The second Mrs. Roger did not know
what her husband was arrested for
until No. l informed her. He Is held
under a $500 bond. but up to last even
ing he mad no effort to furnish the
bond.