The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, April 27, 1890
pg. 4

LOCAL CONDENSATIONS
Thursday - Engineer Ben Murphy charged with bigamy, appeared in Judge Cook's court for a preliminary trial, but when he found that a certified copy of his first marriage certificate, on record in Washington county, Ark., had been received by the assistant county attorney, he waived examination and was bound over to the district court, his bond being fixed at $400.   He was taken at once to Sherman and lodged in jail.



The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May 11, 1890
pg. 3

Engineer Ben Murphy, the bigamist arrested in this city 3 weeks ago at the instigation of his wife, who came here from Washington county, Arkansas, plead guilty in the district court at Sherman Monday, and was sentenced to two and a half years in the penitentiary.