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Show CAtL5DM,I ffllSDLi Grandson cf Patrick Henry Under Arrest in .Hew Jersey as "Professional Bridegroom." NEW YORK, Jan. I. Thomas Bruce, the geological and mining engineer; who is fighting requisition from Baltimore to Newark, where he Is wanted on-a charge of bigamy, Is a "professional bridegroom," according to one of his wives. She was formerly Mary Cecilia Hannan, and was married to Bruce six 1 years ago In Newark. 1 "When I first met Bruce." she said, "he told me he was a widower. We lived together fourteen months. -Durlnx that time he was frequently away on, business, as he said.' I discovered subsequently that he had another wlfewhom ( he had married a few months before me. She Is Pearl Arnold, known on the stage as Ruth Deshon. V ' "I Investigated further and found that Bruce's first wife, Louisa Howard Bruce, was sttil alive In Richmond, Va. I discovered also that he was maintaining main-taining an establishment in Pittsburg, presided over by 'Dr. Anna Christian.' "Among Bruce's effects I found scores of pictures of women and letters from many women, addressing him as 'Pear Husband.' I then concluded he was a professional bridegroom. s "From his letters. It seems that he Invited women to meet him In New Jersey to . get married. Ha once told me that under the laws of f that State a bigamist could not be prosecuted two years after the commission of the crime." Bruce Is the son of the late Thomas and Mamie Bruce of Halifax county, and grandson of Patrick Henry. |