Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-27
YOUNG BIGAMIST
TELLS HIS STORY.
Remarkable Conduct Of Restaur.
ant Man Who Now Languish.
CS in Jail,
HIS MENTALITY QUESTIONED.
Vile No. I Says This is Second Time
She Has Been Betrayed No. : Dis.
appcars-A Racy Narrative.


James A. Chapman the man who has
recently aIrted with the laws Of mati-
mony in two different parts Of the city.
ana who brought his second wife 20 re-
side within a block Of where his FIRST
wife was living with her mother viii
have plenty OF trouble ahead from
present indications. lie was married
by Bishop Hcber Cutler Of the ThIrtleth
ward a year ago and By Bishop walter
D. Heatle Of the seventeenth ward a
month ago Both OF these Church
officials say that they simply exer.
cised rights such as an ordained min.
isters have who perform marriages.
The principals In neither case We're
members Of the ecceslssticul wards Of
the respective Bishops and In the case
Of Bishop Beatio, he had no knowledge
Whatever Of previous matrimonial
tic
BISHOP BEATlE's STATEMENT.
lie said today. "Tha young people
came TO me, with a proper certificate
aud proper witnesses, and asked me
to marry them I did not know them.
but ] did know the witnesses. ! was
sick at the time and at first objected
TO performing the ceremony for tai
reason but on their insisting. ! finally
married them. Chapman has simply
perjured himself In his oaths before the
county clerk
WHAT BISHOP CUTLER SAYS.
Bishop Cutler said Il remember
marrying Chapman aud Miss Allie
Walker about a year ago. Ii they
claimed membership In the Church
did not know II, and married them sim
ply as any ordained minister mares
people who apply with the proper Wit
nesses and documents. Chapmans
parents have since become members Of
my ward, but at that time they were
not enrolled. He has never been
member OF the ward, and | don't think
! have ever seen him since the cerc-
mOny was performed. | was surprised
to learn OF his second marriage through
the papers. and think the case Is COW
cred BY the oaths he COX before the
county clerk, In performing marriage
ceremonies we take the word OF the
certificate as our guarantee that the
marriage Is legal
FIRST WIFE TALKS.
Mrs Chapman, No. /, who before her
was Allie NJ, Walker, has
great grievance against Chapman, and
she said today that In speaking out
against him, she simply spoke in behalf
OF womanklnd, IN the hope that she
could prevent other girls from being
duped as she had been duped. Il am
sorry for the other wife" she said this
when seen by q News repre-
sentative at the home Of wife number
two, ! came up here TO see the other
girl, and tell her that ! had not done
this TO cause her harm, but TO pro-
tect her from being duped as | was
duped. She was informed that Mrs
Chapman No, 2. had left her home last
night aud gone to live with an aunt
IN another part OF the city. and then
she said I'm regard TO her own case.
QUESTIONS HIS SANITY
- don't think he has very good
mind. He doesn't know better than to
lie In cases where II can easily be
proven, and he surely showed little |
sense when he took out a marriage H.
cense IN his own name and brought his !
second wife to live right on the same |
block almost He never supported me.
he has never bought me a single thing. |
and have supported myself ever since !
we were married. But / did not have
his arrested for his character, but for |
his second marriage, because ! know Il |
will not be long before he leaves that |
girl. too, He has lied about me TO my |
relatives IN the east, where he went |
and applied for help, and he lied about |
me to Judge Diehl. when he was ar.
rested last winter for beating me. |
suppose he viii lie about me again In |
This case, but that will not affect the
case was betrayed before met him,
but / swear that he knew all about il.
md that he saw the child when he
came 10 call at my mothers house.
more than dozen times, His sister
1rst told him OF my child, and my |
mother told him all the circumstances
with II, before she consented |
10 our marriage. She begged him not TO
lake me, but TO wait, and he would not.
have not tried TO conceal the pres
,nce Of my child He is a little four
,ear-old boy, aud lives with my mother
md me, / was betrayed but / have
supported the child, and am going to
Seep on supporting II. | can earn my
,wn living was duped twice and the
second time worse than the first, but
God help the man that ever dupes me
again"
MOTHER IN-LAW's STORY.
AT the Walker home the girls mother
vas found. hard at work. for she sup
iorts herself and her family. She said !
That man knew all about my daugh-
er before he married her He didn't
AVE TO take her and / begged him
rot to do t. He lived IN this house
wo weeks after the marriage, and
With my work kept the roof over his
lead Then he left my daughter three
months after they were married, and
anne back in a couple Of weeks. After
hat he left again and finally this sum-
1er he went east TO my relatives. He
etuned six weeks ago. and came down
ere into this room at If o'clock at
light He wanted a meal and gave Il
o him, and II was raining 80 ! let him
tay over night He tried TO kiss me.
nd | said No not after what has
appened-you can so your way now
nd my daughter will 90 hers.
We can take care Of her. and OF her
hlld | could not believe II when /
card Of the second marriage last Sat
rday, Even when my husband, and
~ daughter had found the proofs in
he county clerks office | would not be-
eve II till had seen for myself. am
mother and am sorry for him, and
Drry for the girl he duped second
me, | am sorry for my own daughter.
ut her character IL not on trial, She
as been wronged but she il doing her
art now, and ] am doing mine, and We
ont ask a cent from anybody
The little boy was present at the time,