Show TH THE SA SAL SALMan VETERAN IN JAil TEllS OF MANY MARRIAGES I Man Now 74 Denies He I Wedded 22 Women to Get Valuables I T ra Pa April 27 7 Hy Ile V tJ D r. P Charles W W. 1 j 74 74 roid r- r old oid Civil Il war veteran vetran today broke the silence be he ha has since Ino his hla arrest on a charge of bigamy I amy and sad grand lar larceny ny that has bas resulted In two twenty two women In various arlous part parte of the country counter claiming i hip as the e ebl husband ico who deserted them fe Puffin t at t an ancient tJ ft bl black e the spruce p e ew w white t. t hatred veteran sat t Oft on a cot In his celt where he IB is serving nerving a year three sentence for or or grand nand larceny and 1 Spill span a B tale tt of matrimonial and heart beaU affairs affair which rival f those DM of ot Casanova I 1 have courted women all nU over the world Tea Tes and aDd lived with man many of or them as us their husband Day Davis be began an But nut I deny that I t married two twenty women woman ae s the police pollee claim y I did ci not g legally l marry that many many- and In some IOme oases the bride and I 1 Just signed a a. license which we bou bought ht In a book store and let It got at that TELLS LIFE STORY stubbornly t The o veteran fr refusing u who hr had to been speak k grumpy of m his r s case cale before hi his co conviction on a charge chargo of having married Mrs Anna tr of or Wilkes Winces Barre and disappeared with her Jewels waxed voluble The Th pictureSQue pic- pic white head tilted back he told his bis life Ute story which la Is partly corroborated b by letters letter from women whom Davis married The women's women s letters letter said MId Dav Davis Is deserted de deserted de- de send them taking mo motley money y Jewels sometimes sometime clothing clothing In in one Instance the bridal dressI dress dreu I I deny that I 1 acted In In such a B wa way the prisoner said seriously In Jn every case these women were poor and ana lone lonely and 1 supported them gave pave them pr presents s brought Joy JOT Into their lives My I grandfather was a supreme court Judge and my father rather was a minister minister min min- ister later and later became president ofa of or ofa I Ia a university I 1 went to sc school ool there I fought in the Civil war Then I roamed the world orld as asa aaa a soldier of or fortune fortune for tor- tUne tune REAL REAL HEART BREAKER R. R I I The Th lib stooped figure figuro In prison clothes accused of running off ort withold with withold withold old women women's s earrings and purses was forgotten Youn Young Davis breaker of hearts reeled off his conquests while the shadows of or the cell bars lengthened lengthened lengthened length length- ened across the atone stone floor Davis' Davis story takes that romantic youth to Europe there Europe there where the t thousands he spent upon a dancer in the Cafede Cafe Care Cafede I de Paris of the women inthe irv lIy the opium den on the Barbary coast the blushing brides ho took tool In tho the I middle nest I lie t told ld more details of how V he bought the names of ot women from a matrimonial agency Fifty for tor fifty cen cents I 1 got tol them he said with a bland smile I took up with some of them but the they've ve no I reason to complain They all were willing willing and and I treated them fairly Sometimes Sometime we got W a license and T r LAKE CAKE TELEGRAM FR J I ss wrote to In our n name DamN m. m That mat was good enough for tor moat of them theo Daring Daring his hili I three ear tJ Davis Dayts hopes to produce a set of of me 1 I |