Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1909 — JULIAN HOPKINS BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT. [ARTICLE]

JULIAN HOPKINS BOUND OVER TO CIRCUIT COURT.

Mt. Ayr Young Man Faced By Three Women Who Had Been Married to Him and Guilty:* At Lafayette Thursday Julian Hopkins was given a preliminary hearing on the of bigamy and was bound over to the circuit court in the shm of SSOO. Hopkins is a son of Carey Hopkins, of Mt. Ayr, and formerly lived in that town. Several years ago he worked as a reporter onathe Evening Republican. Marrying seems to be his specialty and Thursday he was faced by three young women, all of whom claiift to have been married to him. The first wife was named Sweeney, of Lafayette, and although she is divorced from him, it is stated that she did not get the divorce until after he had deanother woman, deserting her. In company with wives No. 2land No. 3 his first wife visited the jail Thursday and in a very bland manner Hopkins reached through the bars of his cell and offered to shake hands with his first wife. She drew back in disgust and said, “I did not come here to shake hapds but to see you where you belong, and where you should have been put several years ago.” To a reporter for the Lafayette Journal she said that shortly after their marriage he took her to Detroit, Where he bought about S4OO worth of furniture on the installment plan, sold it and skipped out. Wife No. 2 testified that she was deserted last July, and that the support of herself and child had fallen on her. When Julian deserted her he sent her to her former home in Hamburg, 111., and he wrote to her a few times but did not aid her. Finally she went to the home of a sister in Arkansas and there worked at' corn husking to support herself and little child. Mrs. Hopkins No. 3 was Ruth Williams, of Clarks Hill. She testified that Hopkins came to her home as a canvasser for enlarging pictures- and made himself agreeable. Their acquaintance grew rapidly. Hopkins told her that he had never been married and she consented to become his wife and they were married in Lafayette on Nov. 11th* His first wife happened to be living there and she saw an account of his marriage' and sent a newspaper clipping to relatives of wife No. 2, who caused his arrest. Wives Nos. 2 3 together in the city court room and wept bitterly at the manner in which they had been deceived. Hopkins made no defense whatever although he plead not guilty. He was bound over to the circuit court in the sum of SSOO which could not be furnished and he was returned to jail. He stands an excellent chance of getting a penitentiary sentence.