Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-01-06
CAREER OF A BIGAMISr.

Frank q Wilson. alias Frank w. Emerson.
who for the past six years has been living by
Indiana Iowa, and Missouri. il in prison az
Palmyra Mo- on a charge of bigamy. As a
swlnd-er OF insurance companies he has been
emlnently successful, commencing his career
in Providence, X. l., where he il reported TO
have spent some time in iall on the charge of
forgery. How he escaped legal punishment
mere Is NOT known, but he turned mp again at
Laporte, Ind, where he married an estimable
lady: the past six years he successfully
figured a. agent of the Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance and Empire Mutual Life OF
chicago, the hnlckerbocker and the BROOKLYN
Life, and at the tine he was arrested al PAL
myra, Mo-, he was travelling for the Atlas
Mutual Life Insurance Company of ~. Louis.
On the 2lst OF September last. with his wife at
Laporte still living. and racei wing letters week
ly from him. Wilson married al ~. Louis one
Clara Arabella Wright alias Jennie Wright.
alias Cara H Hyde, and hall dozen other aliases,
who told fortunes, had some pretensions a
doctoress, and who, by the way. is reported by
her husband to have been the Jennie Wright.
who, about two months ago, shot man in Chi
cago for entering her room without IN nvitaton
wilson, alias Emerson. a. the same individual
who won some notoriety in Davenport, Iowa,
IN sontroNersy with w Guitian, agent OF
the New York Mutual Life Insurance Co. and
also notably spoken Of recently by the Macon
City MO- Press as Major Prank w Emerson,
late of the United States Army. stopping AZ A
Motel there. Ihe fellow As pretty generally
known among the insurance men in the West
and in the community, and with a character
not i'm the least creditable Since Sep,emb.r
last, after his marriage with Jennie Wright
(allas any other fancy name,) he has been
in constant correspondence with his
wife at Laporte, Indiana. always re-
GREETING immediate inability to send money,
Yet aboundinx in love protestaiions and good
promises. He told her in one letter that ne was
travelling Tor the New York Life Insurance
Company, in Missouri, and she Immediately
wrote 70 Mr.. j, Closer, Missouri State Agent
for the New York Life, who responded that no
such man was in his employ, but that a man
who answered her description, and TO A photo
graph sent him by her, was in the employ OF
the Atlas Life, and passed under the name of
Frank w. Emerson, and that he was married
ana living with another woman. She imme-
diately telegraphed 10 the Chief of Police at
81 Louis TO have her faithful liege lord ar
rested, but he eluded them and was travelling
around with his .dear Jen ME Wright- as a
registered wife, until at Hannibal under a tel
egraphic request from his wife, he
was arrested charge OF bigamy Mr.
u. b. Wilson, Esq, Illinois agent for the New
FORK Life and Closer, Missouri agent for
the same insurance company, both happened
10 be at Hannibal at the time of the arrest. and
both knew the gentleman-the former a. Frank
u. Wilson, and the latter Frank q. Emer-
son. Quite a scene occurred as they paid their
respects 10 him in the presence Of wife No ?
and the chief OF police, particularly when he
was told that his wife from Indiana was en-
route there 10 attend the prosecution. change
OF venue was taken from Han nibal 10 PALMYRA.
where the rascal expected, doubtless, 10 get
scot Tree; but on the day of trial his wife ar
rived, and after hearing the testimony-both
marriage certificates, or authenticated comics
thereof, being produced-Wilson. alias Emer-
son; In default of bail, was consigned 10 lail 10
wait his trial Al the the February term of the
returned via Quincy, to her home at Laporte,