Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-20
WEEPS AND TELLS
OF TWO HUSBANDS
Mrs. Murphy, Arrested in North,
Denies She Was Married
Third Time
AWAITS TRIAL FOR BIGAMY
TWenty-0ne- -Year-0ld Wife Pro-
tests That She Was Ig-
norant of Law
AWAITS TRIAL FOR BIGAMY

Weeping bitterly, Mrs. Clara Kimball-
Stewart rt-McCoy-Murphy denied yestef-
day In the city Jail that she has three
husbands. She admitted she has two
--one more than the law allows. How
ever, the young woman-she is only IL
protested that she knew nothing of
laws; that her second husband (Mur-
phy) knew she had a husband when he
married her. and that she had been
abused all her life.
1.-THE only friends I have ever had
are my stepfather and sister," she be-
gan. Even my mother used to beat
me when | was a child. The charge
they make against me of having three
husbands Is false. / was married to
Jack Stewart In San Francisco July 6,
1906. was Just II years old then and
/ didn't know my own mind. We had
a boy born to us and think the world
of him. 1t was he that caused me to
live with Stewart as long as 1 did, for
he used to beat me brutally and treated
me like q dog. l stood 1t as long as
could and then 1 came to Los Angeles,
leaving my son with Stewards parents.
SAYS MANS MOTHER COAXED
II met Murphy and we were married
in July this year. AT the time told
him / was married to Stewart, but he
said that didn't make any differences;
that we would get married, anyway.
His mother also coaxed me to marry
him. He said we would get married.
and it didn't make any difference
whether had a divorce from Stewart
or not-that nobody would know the
difference, anyway"
Here the prisoner hesitated for a Sec
ond as though she were wondering
whether to go on with her story.
Murphy was as much to blame for
this as l am. He forced me to marry
him. she said.
During the time that we lived to-
gether he gave me only about 50.
was very unhappy and I didn't know
what to do. Finally a friend gave me
$50, and I left Los Angeles to go to
San Francisco to see my folks, who
live at 72S Andover street. My father
is only carpenter and hasn't much
money, but have always tried to be
respectable and do what is right" she
said as her voice choked with sobs.
"One time when Murphy and l had
fight, I told him was married to
J. H. Mccoy in British Columbia in
1909. but I just said that to make him
mad. We were not married. Mccoy
was just a good friend of the family,
and I knew him as friend"
ARRESTED IN BAY CITY
Mrs. Murphy was arrested in San
Francisco several days ago as she
alighted from the steamship President
which she boarded at Redondo Beach
on the day the complaint was filed
against her. She was returned to Los
Angeles Sunday by Detective George
Home, who was sent to the northern
city to take her into custody When
arraigned before Police Judge Williams
yesterday morning on a charge Of
bigamy filed against her by Murphy
she was Informed of her right to a
speedy and impartial hearing, to the
process of the court to summons wit
nesses to testify In her behalf, etc.
Her preliminary hearing was set for
September 80 at 10 o'clock and her bail
fixed at $4,000. Unable to furnish that
amount she was remanded to the GUS
tody of the matron OF the city Jail.