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IARREST MAN INDAVENPORT FORlt;LEAVING WIFE{SeriousColeman In District Courtof DubuqueA charge that ho betrayed two women %ntl hi* own children has placed Louis Coleman ir» the county jail ! * re in a fftetft1* cell charged with wife desertion. Deputy Sheriff A, P. }louton returned from Davenport Tuesday night with Coleman, where he was apprehended upon information furnlshi d t he Davenport police by Sheriff F. J, Kennedy^Six months ago Coleman wa: arraigned before Justice of the Peace Jess W. Green on a charge of failure to support bis wife and children. At that time the icourt told him to cease his attentions ] to a woman other than hfs wife. Coleman promised to do so. jt Is now charges that he failed to do so and later left town, the woman fallowing Mm. Hisindictment on a charge of wife deser- . tion by the district court grand juryIn Davenport, when Coleman was arrested, the “other woman” in the case, Bertha Bennett, of Hazel Green, Wis., about to become a mother, was also held by police. Her parents in Haxel Gr#en, following the arrest of Coleman, auecoHfod in getting her to come home.It is stated that upon their arrival inDavenport in February, the couple tookroorfts and since then resided there as man and wife. According to Miss Ben- j nett. Coleman promised to marry her despite the fact that he had a wife -and two children. The fact that he was married earn© to her as a shock when it was told by officers.“He said he would marry me. andthat** why I came with him/* she sobbed out to Deputy Sheriff a. P. Houston, when he saw her in Davenport prior to taking Coleman back to Dubuque. “1 didn't know he had a wife already/’Miss Bennett firmly alleges that she did not know Coleman was married, it Is said she saw her folks before going to Davenport and told them that she was going there to marry him. Coleman has refused to talk.IAGED WAUPETON «FARMER CALLED]c
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Dubuque Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Wed, May 10, 1922
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