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Updated: June 29, 2025
By Advice of Counsel "Kotow! Kotow! To the great Yen-How, And wish him the longest of lives! With his one-little, two-little, three-little, four-little, Five-little, six-little wives!" "The fact is I've been arrested for bigamy," said Mr. Higgleby in a pained and slightly resentful manner.
"And er did you marry these two ladies?" inquired Tutt apologetically. "Sure!" responded Higgleby without hesitation. "May I ask why?" "Why not?" returned Higgleby. "I'm a traveling man." "Look here," suddenly demanded Tutt. "Were you ever a lawyer?" "Sure I was!" responded Mr. Higgleby. "I was a member of the bar of Osceola County, Florida." "You don't say!" gasped Tutt.
Then His Honor smiled genially and asked what business there was before the court, and the clerk told him that they were all there to try a man named Higgleby for bigamy, and the judge, nodding at Caput, said to go ahead and try him. In the bottom of his peritoneum Mr. Magnus felt that he carried a cold stone the size of a grapefruit. His hands were ice, his lips bloodless.
"You're just like all of 'em! I suppose you were going to say I didn't look like a bigamist and all that. Well, cut it! Let's start fair. I am a bigamist!" Tutt regarded him with obvious curiosity. "You don't say!" he ejaculated, much as if he wished to add: "How does it feel?" "I do say!" retorted Mr. Higgleby.
The Grand Jury of the County of New York, by this indictment, accuse Theophilus Higgleby of the crime of bigamy, committed as follows: The said Theophilus Higgleby, late of the borough of Manhattan of the city of New York in the county of New York, aforesaid, on the eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at Cook County and the city of Chicago in the state of Illinois, did marry one Tomascene Startup, and her, the said Tomascene Startup, did then and there have for his wife;
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