Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-17 | Page 1 | Bigamist Ward's Crooked Record

RECORD t Known as Potter and Had lra Kany Wives s I II I t v 4 tw r TE dF cr r j jl l TO UTAH UrAH i ard d to Be B in Hiding at Ogden p pt t i r to Denver Oslo CIo Feb police of Denver believe b lieve that Michael T Wards other name ie is A B Potter r For Fr F r four fourteen fourteen fourteen teen years A B Potter has roamed up and down these western states st tes marrying marry marIY marrying ing women tomen with available money ob obtaining obtaining taming their cash and then deserting them The experience of t the trusting woman who WN w as yesterday in a paupers grave y t Riverside at proves that she was a of th Potter method though the t e man who deceived and be betrayed betrayed betrayed her gave LVe the name of Michael T Ward Potter rave gave ave all aU sorts of ot names and from the similarity of operation de detectives detectives detectives are strongly inclined to be believe believe lieve that Ward Yard ie le Potter and vice versa Ward and the woman w man vv who ho com corn committed committed suj su il l last Wednesday came to totne totne the city last summer registering at the Windsor hote Later they lived Jived at the Warren House on Larimer street They were accompanied by a maid Miss An Annie Annie nie and said they came from state to attend to some mining busi Bs M T Ward Vard is well known under er that name to several wo women women women men of Colorado who have suffered from their acquaintance with him Among Wards Yards victims in his fake mining deals are Mrs frs Tilla A Jaquette and Mrs E D Welton of Denver who are each said to have purchased of him hima a 8 portion of the Bohemia mine in Douglas Ore for The identity of the Ute woman who committed suicide Wednesday was made known by Mrs Welton Velton Mrs rs Jaquette and a d Miss Grace Warren daughter Of the proprietor of the Warren hotel After consulting an attorney Frank Jaquette has gone to Salt Lake on a search for Ward Yard Potters criminal record covers a pe period perIod nod of about fourteen years years He was originally a railroad man nian but has not been in Denver under his hl hI right name for ten years After his departure a score of letters reached the local au authorities in regard to his bin performance In July 1194 he married a girl in Ohio only to leave leavO her a month afterwards after getting what little she had Be Before Before fore that he had bad wives in Georgia Ar Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas kansas Kentucky Kent and arid Tennessee 1 In his operation Potter nearly neatlY always as assumes assumes assumes the of a wealthy railroad man mILD For Tor a while he represented him himself himself himself self to be bl th business manager of the Rocky Mountain News