Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1909 — JULIAN HOPKINS HAS TOO MANY LIVING WIVES. [ARTICLE]

JULIAN HOPKINS HAS TOO MANY LIVING WIVES.

ML Ayr Young Man Arrested at Lafayette on the Charge of Bigamy and is Awaiting Trial. —Julian Hopkins, son of Carey Hopkins, of Mt. Ayr, is in jail at Lafayette on a charge of bigamy, preferred by John Simmons, of Indianapolis, brother of the second of Hopkins’ three wives. Julian was at one time employed as a reporter on the Evening Republican and learned the printers’ trade. He also worked in a grocery store in Rensselaer. It is said by relatives here that he ran away with another woman before divorced from his first and now he is charged by the brother of the second wife with having married a third while the second was awaiting his return to a little farm where- he had left she and her child near Scottsburg. On Nov. 11th Julian was married to Miss Ruth B. Williams, of Clarks Hill, and a newspaper clipping on the marriage was sent by his first wife to the brother of his sec*ond wife, who came at once to Lafayette, filed an affidavit against Hopkins; who was working in Lafayette* as a solicitor for a picture enlarging concern, and his bail was placed at SSOO, which he could not give and he was placed in jail- His second wife, after waiting at Scottsburg for her husband’s return for several weeks, went recently to Arkansas and will be brought back to testify against her wayward husband. Wife No. 3 insists that there “must be some mistake, as surely Julian would not treat her that way.” Julian claimed that he had been informed that his second wife had secured a divorce but he had written her only a short time before his marriage that he had secured employment and would send for his wife and baby to join him shortly. _______