Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-11
CITY AND COUNTY.

ARREST OF A PoLYGAMIsT.-ltw will be seen
by refernce to our police record of March l6
last that on the day previous one Francis Kaye
of Cherry Valley, (Leicester,) was arraigned
before the court for polygamy and bound over
in $1,000 to answer at the criminal term of the
superior court in May. Obtaining bonds he was
set at liberty. The case, however, did not
come to trial in May, being postponed 10 the
August term, by the intercession of his Eng
lish fellow workmen. The session of the
court, to which that case was put over, COM
mences in Fitchburg next Monday but anew
chapter in the case has been opened. The
wife he married in New Jersey, who had been
sent to England to her friends, has come TO
Worcester to urge on the prosecution, and
this has led Hayes bondsmen to procure his
re,arrest. Assistant Marshal Braman took
charge of the matter, and traced him TO Ashu-
eliot, N. H., where he was living with one Car
oline Thompson. He was brought to Wor-
cester on Thursday, and lodged in Jail.
This Francis Kaye is about thirty years of
age, a native of Burton, in Yorkshire, Eng
land, and weaver by trade. He came to
this country about seven years ago, stopping
first in Bloomfield, n. j., where he was mar
ried, in May, 1854, to Ann Marshall, a native
of Sheffield, England, then about twenty
years old, and good looking, who had also re-
Gently come over. She says they soon went
to Woonsocket, R. l.; then returned to Bloom
field, n. j., where they stayed about year;
then went to the west, residing in various places
in New York, Illinois, and Wisconsin. In June,
1857, they came to Dedham i'll this state.
While living in Dedhsm they became ac-
quainted with the above named Caroline
Thompson. At Dedham, Mrs. Hayes health
was poor, and they were in poor circumstan-
ces, financially. Kaye induced his wife to con-
sent to go back to England, to live with her
parents or relatives, on the plea of poverty,
while he was really plotting to get rid of her.
Kaye went with his wife to New York, and
saw her depart in August, 1859, telling her he
should go to Lawrence and work in the facto.
ry. But, instead of going to Lawrence, he
went to Boston, and then, with Caroline
Thompson, came 10 Cherry Valley, because
there were so many persons in Lawrence from
Dedham, who knew his true marital relations
too well. The two lived together in Cher
-ry Valley from September. 1859, till Feb
ruary 1860 at which time the versatile Kaye
suddenly manifested disposition for another
change in his affections, and was found CO.
quoting with Mrs Sarah Hague, to whom
he made false representations, stating that he
had never been married, and that the woman
he had been living with was not his wife. In
this way he persuaded Mrs. Hague to accom-
pany him to New York, where they were
married February 18, 1860, by Rev. Frederick
Ogleby, d. ID. The newly married pair re-
turned to Cherry Valley. Mrs. Hague bur-
ried her husband in October, 1859. On ascer.
tanning the fact of the previous marriage of
her new husband, she took immediate mea-
sures for his arrest, on a charge of bigamy,
and he was bound over for trial, as before
stated.
Soon after Hayes arrest, and while in con-
finement, Mrs. Caroline Kaye" as she signed
herself, wrote letter to Hayes brothers in
England, enclosing letter from Kaye asking
for money TO get him out of prison. Mrs.
&c. Hayes" letter was addressed to Hayes
brother in England, as follows:-