Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-07
MAN Of MANY WIVES
IS ARRESTED HERE
W c. Bischop, a Tailor,
Jailed on Bigamy
Charge.
WIFE rs BUT 10 YEARS
Has Wife In Spokane. WASH. and
Known TO Have Others Through
out the country.
WIFE IS BUT l9 YEARS

Lying Ia bed, having almost entire
! ~ recovered from a weeks illness of
malarial yer, at the home of Mrs.
NJ. +. Symour, No. 100 West Thir-
teenth avenue, William G.. Bishop
alias c. Wiscop, 40, tailor, was
served With Il warrant by Deputy
Sheriff I.n,es Reidinger yesterday at
| blSamy. The warrant came from
Sheriff George e. Stone, of Spokane,
Washington, and was in the hands of
Sheriff Edgar Brewster several days.
awaiting Information from DR.. j. w.
John, who was attending Bishop, that
| Bishop vas we'll enough to be moved
to the county jail.
With nor eyes filled with tears and
sobbng .itifully Bishops wife, who
! until Octoper u, 1913, was Miss Eli
zabetl Leah Upp, of Seaman Ohio,
pleaded with her husband to tell her
the truth and either affirm or deny
| the charge that he had deserted
another woman at Wenatchee, Wash
iagton. She was subject for
sympathy and pity. Mrs. Bischop IL
attractive toung woman of the blonde
type and She told a ightforward
story to the officer and the news
paper mon. She was loyal to her
| husband to the last, kissing him sew
| eral times as he was carried from the
room on cot and placed in al am
| bulance to be taken to the county
| jail. She tenderly assisted in dress
| ing him and was thou ghtful to
gather UP his medicines and give
them to the deputy sheriff with the
request that he be well cared for.
! Bischop told his wife that he had
no other wife. He said that he had
secured divorce from his first wife
at WenatuLee on September IA, 1912.
and that she had since died. He said
| IIldl lit uG,I WI IL uY iuC ulNOlC C
papers. Mrs. Bishop threw herself
across tho bed after her husband had
been carried away and wept like a
child She was comforted and theL
related The story of her married life
| to the newspaper men.
II was married to Mr.. Bishop at
Seaman Ohio, where my mother lives,
on Octobe" p, 1913. A girl friend
of mine showed me an ad for wife
in matrimonial paper last April
and began a correspondence with
Mr.. Bischcp at Wenatchee. We ex
changed photographs and he came to
Seaman and we were married by a
Methodist minister there on October
q 1913. He said he was a member
of the Lutheran church, but | am a
Methodist.
And Mrs. Bishop stopped talk
long enough to go to her trunk and
take from it her marriage license, the
pastors certificate of marriage and
some newspaper clippin IS, giving an
account Of the wedding at the Palace
Hotel and the issuance of the license
by the county clerk of West Union
Adams county, Ohio.
after our marriage we went to
Louisville, KY, where Mr.. Bishop
worked -. two weeks. He saw an
ad in a paper for tailor.s who was
wanted by Mr.. Barnett of the Prog
ress here. and we came here and he
has been working there ever since
Mr.. Biscnor told me that he had lived
in Pine Bluff several years ago and
when we arrived here we secured
rooms with Mrs. Seymour. where he
had lived with his former wife. At
that time he was employed by Gold
stein and Bluthenthal. I told the
people here that | was the same
woman wko had been with Mr..
Bishop d,1ing his former residence
here, because he requested me to. He
said that he did not want his friends
here to know that he had divorced
his wife AID thought so little of the
matter that l granted his request.
shall remain loyal to Mr.. Bischop, but
l am doubtful as to his sincerity be-
cause Of statements he has made u
me regarding letters he has receiv-
ed 81 late."
! Mrs. Seymour felt the arrest Of