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Show FORMER CLERIC ! IN BIGAMY CASE Unfrocked Minister and Woman Arrested in California LOS AXOFI.ES. Calif.. June 22. Officers from Boston are expected hero in B few days to take back to that city Donald I Si. wart former clergyman, and Mrs Ethel Turner O.sbaldeaton. who were arrested WedfTfesdsy near Bierra Madre, Oaltf Stewart Is wanted to .msv. or charges of bigamy, grand larceny and conspiracy. con-spiracy. Mrs. Osbnldeaton. who Is said to be ;his wife, although posing as hly sister, Is charged u 1th having conspired with i him to effect MgamQUS marriage between be-tween him and Miss Norma Bhren-'soll.-r nt Boston, from whom he Is al-lleged al-lleged to hao stolen $2,500 IN SKVETRAL PULPITS. Other charges. Including bigamy. art said to lie a'-rainst Stewart In New fori Indianapolis, Detroit and other cities He is accused also of having deserted desert-ed a wife and three children at Dundee Dun-dee Lake, N. Y. He is said to hive occupied pulpits at Dundee Iako N V . Patcrson. N J Saunderaon. Texas Douglas. Arizona, and Chlno. Calif. He was unfrocked several years ago. "I am going down, down, down " said Stewart In a cell In the city Jail. "They won't give me chance to get on my feet again for I am hounded by my past." CAREER IS TRACED. DETROIT, ' June 22. Mrs Mary Mitchell of Detroit claims to -be th legal wife of Donald D. Stewart, held In Dos Angeles on a fugitive Warranl a private detective agency announced here tonight. Stewart waa once engaged en-gaged to bo married to another woman wo-man here, the detectives asserted, and met a third woman here, to whom h-Is h-Is alleged to have been married In Indianapolis. In-dianapolis. Mrs. Mitchell and Stewart were married mar-ried In Wilmington. Del . November Is l91S. it was announced They lied here a fhort time when, Mrs Mitchell was quoted as saying Stewart deserted her and their child. Stewart, it was said, induced hor to take the name of "Mitchell," after their marriage. BAD CHECK DEALS. During Stewart's residence here he let it be Inferred he had been ordained ordain-ed a minister In New York In 1 909. He was born in Edinburg, Scotland. 37 years ago He worked here for a time chemist and while so engaged, is Laid t. have met a woman arrested with him In California who was known I here an " Mrs. Turnei Shortly after his marriage to Mn I Mitchell according to the detective agency, Stewart became acquainted With Miss Bertha Grannis Thev are I i j , i-,,,, Via an married a month 9dlU 1J trmmm - later at Indianapolis and t have scp - arated following the reported endorsement endorse-ment by Bruce Grannis, brother of the woman, of an alleged worthless check issued by Stewart. Grannis also declared, de-clared, the detectives stated. that Sew art defrauded him of $1 200 In a stock deal KNOWN AS M'GREGOR, an alleged worthless check also Is leported to hae caused Stewart's break With the third Detroit woman, I to whom he was reported engage.. She was 'Miss Van Doplk, formerly I Of Colorado Springs. Colo.," the detectives de-tectives reported. Stewart was known in Boston,, according ac-cording to the detectives, as Donald allan McGregor In thai city ho is alleged to have heon married in Step-, tembef 1921, to Miss Norma Enron-1 seller. The officers declare he obtained ob-tained $1,000 from Miss Ehronseller and $1 500 from hr mother before deserting de-serting her. Stewart's real name, the detectives stated was Robert Allan McLaren Browne , . Stewart 37 years old. and a native of Scotland. attained considerable promlnenco In California a few years ago through his work as a vice crusader cru-sader and temperance leader and as the author of a prohibition campaign song "Wei! Make California Dry' After Mrs Maude Hendricks commit-1 ted suicide at Haywanl. Cal.. near Oakland. Oak-land. December 30. 19M. when he re-ruaed re-ruaed to marry her and he w-as arrest-' cri for a statutory offense, he was un- frocked. although the charge was dis- missod for lack of evidence |
