Show sa aci 8 FO FOR ift MONEY PECULIAR MANIA OF EDWIN FRASER NOW IN THE tol toily BU latent DESERTED US tx A LAND alfter MX hundred frona br lie IT wrote that str she wold wear 8 him ellam again but she rounded Ro adl him up op HE JERSEY CITY police hold a prisoner who it would seem has the marrying habit he calls himself edwin saunders Si but his name is probably edwin fraser he is tall good looking and awen ty six years old with good manners fine clothes and an am english accent with t these h ese attractions saunders was not content with one wife chief of police murphy says saunders Is certainly a bigamist a and nd perhaps has as many wives as an african king saunders the police say came to this country about a year ago lie he got to know miss annie everett who Is pretty 19 years old the daughter of joseph everett of no bedford avenue brooklyn saunders ra swears he advertised for a wife and chose miss misa everett from a dozen women who answered sending their photographs to having formed miss everetts acquaintance saunder told her he was a civil engineer a single man the son of a wealthy scotchman they were married ten days daye ago saunders suggested pug u rested that they go to scotland on fhyr hc r honeymoon visit his parents re r until antil autumn and then return ke ike up their residence in brook IT fr everett gave his daughter e C to pay tor for the trip saunders explaining pla ining that while he was hard up st at the moment he would have plenty of money when he reached scotland saunders and his pretty wife arrived in liverpool he took her to a cheap hotel he suggested that he go to his hie fathers house and prepare tor for her coming and taking all hor her money he left her the young yoking woman was stunned by the receipt of a letter from him in a few days 1 I will never return to you saunders wrote so BO you had best beat go back to the states the bride passed two days and two nights in her room weeping the proprietor of the hotel learned of saunders desertion of her and cabled to her father within a month of her departure from brooklyn she was under her fathers root roof again he having sent her money A friend of this mrs mm saunders told her she had seen saunders in jersey city about a fortnight ago chief murphy was asked to look for him detectives tec tives doyle and dalton found him at a boarding house in hoboken saunders evidently suspected that the police were after him for he had his trunk packed and had told his hia landlady he was about to go when saunders Ba saw doyle and dalton he be ran through the house and tried to jump over the back fence but they caught him bim in saunders trunk the police found a certificate setting forth that edwin fraser and ellen keneally Me neally were married in belfast ireland nov 18 1891 many letters lettera were in the trunk dated belfast and signed your loving wife ellen AU all were full of expressions of intense affection one bore date april 6 1896 and plainy was in answer to a letter from ellens husband she cong congratulated him on the fine position he had secured in the trunk too were photographs of several young women and numerous nume rouB letters lettera in different handwritings all feminine saunders dera was waa impudently cool when he was wa taken to chief murphys Murp hys office well he said 1 I ta fa aney ancy its ita all up with me whom may I 1 ask Is the complainant against me why did you marry miss everett when you had a wife living asked the chief yes I 1 know answered saunders dera but I 1 was strapped dont you see aft and I 1 had to have money old eld chap cb a P EDWIN chief murphy has to the women whose letters were in saunders trunk his FM question chob the complainant jai nant leads the chief to think chere her ar other victims of this husband ikc kc literally alea tor for money fiers dem says the letters and photographs to rare sent ent in anew answer er t to 0 his matrimonial century assied 0 me o just the other day that we zahave have war it don make no d dua what congress d does am chile aja V A when theys cometa theys there wa toe be war an we faint hep bep it her apron dropped off just then and she said that was a sign so somebody me was wag talking about her before 1 I came pway she showed me a faded photograph of her husband who died a few years ugo ago the poor old woman firmly believes that the picture Is adang fading just as her husbands body Is decaying and that when his body has disappeared the me picture will be entirely gone washington star |