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Show 4 . Twenty-fifth Wife of ' Champion Bigamist Is . Sought By Authorities LOS ANGEpES, April 16. Deputy sheriffs began today a search for a woman identified as Nina 'Lee Deloney who', they believed, be-lieved, was one of; 25 or more women married during the past 5 years by Richard liuirt who is in the county hospital -here, for treatment for self inflicted wounds. Miss Deloney is one of at least five of the women the officers haATe been unable to locate. liuirt, using the name of Chtu-les N. Harvey, according to the officers, and Miss Deloney were married December 5, 1919, at San Francisco, aud left S'anta Monica, near here, January 26, last, by automobile presumably for Tijuana. Lower California, with the announced intention of eventually going to Honolulu. Some days later, the investigators declared, Huirt, under the name of Harry Lewis, joined another "wife" in Sacramento, Cal. The automobile in which the trip to Tijuana was to have been made was found in a Santa Monica garage, officers said. The investigators said Miss Deloney originally lived in flodgeville, Ivy. A tclegrai received by Sheriff Cline from Hodge-ville Hodge-ville said the last word received there from her was from Tijuana, February 26, when she and the man known as Harvey were supposed sup-posed to be on the way to South America. The officers have found among the man's possessions five trunks containing valuable furs and other feminine apparel. |