Show DELUDED WOMEN CALLED HIM HUSBAND New York Jan 9 Thomas Bruce the geological and mining engineer who is fighting requisition from Baltimore 10 Newark where he Is wanted on a charge of bigamy la a professional bridegroom according to one of his wlvea She was formerly Mary Cecilia Hannan and was married to Bruce tils i years ago in Newark Vhen I first met Bruce she said he told me he wan a widower We lived together fourteen months Durlnz that time ho was frequently away on business as he said I discovered subsequently < that he had another wife whom he had married a few months before me She is Pearl Arnold known on the stage as Ruth Dushon I Investigated further and found that Bruces first wife Louisa Howard Bruce was still alive In Richmond Va 1 discovered also that he was maintaining main-taining an establishment In Plttsburg presided over by Dr Anna Christian Among Bruces effects I found scores of pictures of women and letters from many women addressing him as Dear Husband I then concluded he was a professional bridegroom From his loiters It seems that he Invited women to meet him In New Jersey to get married He once told me that under the laws of that State a bigamist t could not be prosecuted two years after the commission of the crime Bruce Is the son of the late Thomas and Mamie Bruce oC Halifax county and grandson of Patrick Henry |