Weekly journal-miner., 1922-04-05
MARRIAGE, IN
 4 TANGLE; TNO
 ARE ARRESTED
From Sundays Dailyl


 Stinnett's complaints charging big amy and bringing about bigamy, were served late yesterday afternoon on Edward E. Cooper, caretaker at Niederer's hog ranch, and a woman whom Cooper married Thursday night under the name of Jessie Ray.
 On the complaint in which Stin- nett charges the woman with bigamy, her name appears as May Thompson Stinnett At the sheriffs office on her arrival, she said her right name was Mrs. Edward E. Cooper and that Stinnett's claim that he married her was based on his misapprehen- sion of a joke "He is fooling him self" she is reported to have told the sheriff.
 Stinnett, who is a patient in Ward 9, Whipple Barracks, was called into the county attorneys office yester- day morning following the report that he had begun inquiries as to the issuance of the Cooper-Ray marriage license. He had also intimated to the clerks office that all was not right and regular. When he was ask ed about if by the county attorneys office, Stinnett said 1t was true that Cooper had compounded a marriage that was illegal and signed a com plaint charging the woman with bigamy.
 He was later summoned back from the post to the office of the prosecu- tor, to sign an additional complaint charging Cooper with marrying a woman he knew to be already in a welded condition.
 Deputy Sheriff Jim Cook drove out to the hog ranch and served the warrants.
 A stir of excitement Friday pre- ceding the arrest of the couple, | spread from the ground floor of the court house almost to the roof. On Thursday a marriage license was is- sued to Ed Cooper and Jessie Ray, | and the couple were then united in a silver dollar wedding" performed | by Justice Charles H. McLane. The matter was duly reported in the 
 On Friday, Justice McLane was heard to utter words of information.
 You know that couple I married yesterday"
 No, I don't know them; remem- per reporting the marriage"
 Well, man named Stinnett says the girl is his wife"
 Such a claim had been made, as rvestigation revealed. In a telephone communication the county attorney said he received a man who said lis name was Stinnett made a claim hat he married Mss Ray under an- other name at Phoenix some time ,ast
 Antedating the marriage of Miss Jessie Ray and Ed Cooper were two , appearances of Cooper in the justice i ourt, One of these appearances was i Il answer to charges preferred gainst him by Jessie Stinnett, which iame, Stinnett yesterday is said to s ave informed the officials is really I hat of the Miss Jessie Ray whom cooper married. The charge prefer ed by Jessie Stinnett against Ed ,ooper was that of committing a l. lisdemeanor in that he did malic- b 'usly use vulgar and obscene lam O uage and did apply vile and abusive S pithets to Jessie Stinnett in her d resence and in the presence of two C linor children. At the top of this complaint was 7 oted in handwriting, "$10OO," repre- o ,nting the fine assessed against c, ooper when he was found guilty of e, e charge.
 Whether the Jessie Stinnett who -eferred the charges against Cooper ter married him as Jessie Ray, and neither Jessie Ray is the Jessie Stin- a: tt whom MT. Stinnett alleges is his R fife, is the question which will be to tiled in the courts, in