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Show CAN'T REMEMBER ALL HIS WIVES Latest Bride Causes Arrest of Man About to Be Wedded Again TNDIA.NAPOLIS. Ind.. March 14. Isaiah Moore's twelfth marriage was to havo taken place In Minneapolis today, according to local authorities who arrested the men .Monday on a charge of bigamy and embezzlement. Tho embezzlement rharsre was preferred pre-ferred by his last wife. Harriet Tvans. B Hoosler BChOO teacher. and his eleventh bride. He Is said to have embezzled $$00 from her after they had been married less than a week. As Miss Evans' husband he was "George Melrose." Moore told the police he had forgotten for-gotten the last names of two of the eleven girls he said he married. However How-ever he did make up this list of matrimonial mat-rimonial ventures: FORGETS l VST VME Flora Dolf of Wyoming, Fa., married mar-ried 12 years ago, one child. Amelia Wierner of Detroit, Mich, marrlerj at Windsor, Canada, under the name of Harry ?,foore. Sue Harris of Houma. la., whom he married under the name of Harry I Melvin. Bessie fhe could not remember her last name) of Wilson, N. C . whom he ! marrld under tho name of George Shields. A woman whose given name was Gertrude, but whose last name he li said to have told the police he could not remember, of Findley. ihio Il-gave Il-gave his name as Howard Wilson on Laura Shields, whom he married at Spokane, Uush Florence Johnson, of ' David, Neb., whom he married under the name of J. H. Vaughan. Helen Hardgraves. at Augusta, Kans. Ql l K DESERTION lp to this time it Is alleged that he courted his brides In person and deserted each within a few weeks. As "Howard Wilson." Moore Is said to have married Irene Halo, three years ago in Chicago. He met her through a marriage bureau in a Southern state he said, lie deserted her, taking with him $130", It is alleged. al-leged. In June of last year he Is said to have married Laura Hertsberg at Peoria, Ills., under tho name of George Churchill. His las' matrimonial matrimo-nial venture was that with Miss Evans of Vlncennea, Ind. Mooro la 32 years old. GIRL DIED I Ko SPOKANE Wasn March 14. Death overtook Laura Shields five months afro, without her suspecting that she had been duped by her husband, hus-band, Howard Melvin alias Isaiah Moore, alias George S. Melrose, who is reported to hao confessed to the Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Ind., police that he had married ll women. Miss Mary I Shields. Laura's younger sister, said. "Laura was married to Howard Melvin, Mel-vin, three years ago." Miss Shields said "He was employed as a chemist in Idaho at that time. He seemed very religious talkecr religion and attended at-tended church regularly. "Soon after thej were married Howard How-ard disappeared. Laura belleed that he had become deranged. She always expected him to come back, but never heard B word from him. She died last n-tober The Associated Press dispatch dis-patch is the very first we have heard from him." oo |