Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-24
J. I. 0''NEAL
 PLACED IN JAIL Charged With Bigamy-Re- calls Olcott Charges by Woman and Indictment Which Followed. A MIXED AFFAIR
MIXED AFFAIR
Made Affidavit to the Effect That Ol. colt Was Not Guilty-OlcOtt De. clares He Has Perfect Alibi-News From W0man's Former Home.

J. l. U Neal, englneer at the
 power house of the Citizens Light & Transit company, was arrested last night by Deputy Constable A. l..
 Cason and Detective J. E. Rice on charge of bigamy. The information was filed with Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Creed Caldwell, charging that O'Neal has wife and two chjl-
 dren living at Red Oak, La., and that he also has an alleged wife , in this city, or did have, before she departed some days ago.
 O'Neal was unable to give bond in , the sum of $500 and was placed in , tEe Jefferson county jail 10 await a iearing. O'Neal denies :.e charge , against him, declaring that he was
 rot married to the alleged Mrs. J. T. , O'Neal, or Hattie Ward, as she was sometimes known, but lived with , her here. He adds that he has a wife in Red Oak, La., whom he mar ried under the name of s. ?. Durkav.
 He declares, however, that O'Neal is his right name.
 The arrest of O'Neal last night was accomplished after thorough investigation into an alleged riot, assault and battery and assault to kill case, in which Harry T. Olcott of this city, was indicted some weeks ago. O'Neal was at work at the power house at the time of the ar- rest, and had it not been for the previous arrangement, whereby an engineer was secured to take his place immediately upon his arrest, he would have been compelled to leave his dynamo unattended. The arrest of O'Neal recalls the sensational charges which were filed against Harry T. Olcott December 4
 by one Mrs. J. T. O'Neal, who claimed to be the wife of O'Neal, and in which she charged Olcott and an unknown woman with having gagged and tied her and then assaulted her i, at her home, No. 1115 West Bar raque street. It is stated that the arrest of O'Neal at this time. will
 bring to light other sensations that 1 will not appear detrimental to Ol- colt, but rather favorable to his case, i he having been indicted by the grand jury upon her testimony, three counts being returned in the indict- ment.
 A few weeks after the indictment , was returned against Olcott, Mrs. O'Neal disappeared from the city. A few days previously to her de- parture O'Neal, the man arrested yesterday, made an affidavit before a notary in which he signed the ! name of his wife, claiming that she authorized him to do so; stating in
 the affidavit that Harry Olcott was
 not guilty of what he was accused of by her and that it was her in- tention to withdraw the charge and
 not appear against him. it being her , desire that the case be dropped. This affidavit was made voluntarily on the
 part of O'Neal and is believed to
 have resulted because of an investi-
 gation that was being made into the
 matter by Olcott and the police.
 Since the disappearance of the
 O'Neal woman, Olcott has received
 several letters and affidavits from
 her former home. Centralia. Ill.,, ac-
 companied by photos of the woman
 in question, stating that the picture of the supposed Mrs. O'Neal of this
 e.ty, was none other than the photo
 of a young woman who was known in that city as Hattie Ward.
 Chief of Police Ingram. of Gen.
 tralia, says that the woman is none
 other than Hattie Ward-West-