The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-24

A BIGAMlsr AMONG Us-ll1s MYTHICAL
WEALTH AND NUMEROUS MARRIAGEs.-Thls
individual, who 1T one time was well known
in this city. where he passed himself oil as
a preacher and OF feeble health, and after
wards kept livery stable on Short street,
has appeared i'll Il new role. a gentleman
from Illinois came to town last week ana
inquired for the handsome farm OF some
seven or eight hundred acres belonging to
James Bennett, Esq, lying on the Nlcho-
lasyille pike. lie was told by the clerk OF
the Phoenix Hotel that he knew of no such
man, but referred him to Mr.. Bullock, the
sheriff of Fayette county, who was proba-
blv familiar with most of the landowners
of the county. 1t is hardly necessary to
say that James Benefits farm was myth,
and that the gentleman who had come III
search of it and of ID. Martin, the OVerSeer
residing on the place, was most grossly I'M
posed upon. He brought Il letter from Ben
nett 10 The fictitious Martin, telling him 10
deliver to Mr.. - the bearerl any NUMBER
of fine cattle and horses, which ne had SOLD
to different parties in Illinois. The suppo-
Sitiou is that Bennett had another matrimo-
NAL scheme on hand, and took this means
of forwarding it. He came to the town in
Illinois near which Mr.. - resides, and
pretended to be taken very i'll with the
heart disease. Air. heard that stranger
was at the hotel. and not expected to live,
and called to see him: and finally took him
70 his house. where he was carefully
nursed. Mr.. - also wrote will for him,
in which he enumerated land and other
properly valued ut about S1SO,O00. Bennett
got better, but not well enough to come TO
Kentucky after the stock he had solu, so ne
got Mr.. - to come in his stead, with the
result Indicated.
II is believed that Bennett has been mar
ricd some fifteen or twenty times. lie mar
rcd once in this city, and was then Il
widowcr. He has served at least one term
in the Dcnitcntiarv, and if he gets his de-
se1ts now he will he treated to the luxury
of q halter. Heis known in Illinois rs Ben
nett about Bowling Green, in this state,
nc Rarnett. He has also figured III Mlssls-
Sinni and Arkansas as Barrett, and In
VIRGINIA by still another alias. lie Is de-
scriRcd as tall. tine-looking man, WIN
a lono, lowing beard, and has the gen.
file. silbducd manners that are so fasclna-
ting to the fair sex. He must be bold
scoundrel to play the same game SO re,
peatedlv. but it seems that he has calculated
pretty we'll on the credullty OF Women,
and has shown wonderful talent at
dcceiyiuo them. The most extraordinary
Dart of his success lies in his never having
those who had more or less money. This
was the bait, and he rarely failed A; or, how
could he have managed to marry a score OF
wives, while many poor wretch OF bach
elor has never succeeded in imposing him
sell on one in long life! Bennett, Bar
rett, or Barnett, or whoever he Is, must lie
one of those killing gentlemen. SO taxing
with the fair sex whom we occasionally reau
of, but whom we confess never TO nave met !;
We should like to have his photograph and
soc What manner of man he is. MI, OF
mi illinois, telegraphed for his arrest, and left
the same day in hot pursuit.-LeT1'3ton
(ky.) Gazette, 18th.