Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-06
NINE WIVES TOO MANY.
HOW . Gay Deceivcr Married and
Abandoned Ten Women.
From the Detroit Free Press, May ls.


From the Detroit Free Press, May ls.
A Brooklyn official named Prell ar
rived in Detroit yesterday morning for
the purpose of making the arrest of a
man named James Kingsbury, on
charge of bigamy. Prell had a letter
directing him to a manufacturing es-
Enlistment on Atwater street, where
he expected to lind Kingsbury at work,
but on going to the shop he learned
that his man had left for Saginaw the
day before 1t seems that Kingsbury,
who has until lately resided in the east,
married woman at Mt Morris, n. T.,
about seven years ago. He lived with
her about six months, and then ran
away, turning up at Jersey City year
after rs minister of the gos-
pei, and having another wife.
While the first wife was
taking measures to have him arrested,
Kingsbury slipped off to New Haven,
stealing several hundred dollars from
his second wife. He was not heard of
again for ten months, and was then dis
covered serving as clerk in a crockery
store, and had been married about n
month"; the third wife being respecta-
BILE and worthy young lady. The
brotherlof wife No 2 was complainant
in having Kingsbury arrested, and the
bigamist was placed behind the bars Of
a police station to be taken back to
Jersey City. In some manner, which
has never been satisfactorily explained,
he made his escape from the station,
and though closely pursued for several
days, he got into Pennsylvania and con-
cealed himself.
The relatives of wives one, two and
three then made up a shake purse and
employed an official to spend his whole
time looking after the gay deceiver.
He looked for several months, and then
gave up the chase until he saw notice
in Harrisburg paper that Kingsbury
had married the widowed landlady of
boarding house in that city, robbed
her of her money and iewelry, and been
arrested in the act of abscondlng. The
notice was a week old when seen, and
when Prell reached Harrisburg Kings
bury had induced wife No. to with
draw her prosecution, and once out of
| jail, had made a successful escape.
| From what can be learned, kingsbury
was galivanting through Ohio and Vir-
! ginia for two or three years, taking a
wife here and there, and it is quite GER
tain that he came to Detroit month
ago from the Ohio state penltentlary,
having served short term there Tor
being connected with a DEMONSTRATING
scrape in Lorain county.
Kingsbury boarded at house on
Hastings street, and had not been an
inmate of the house a week when he
wanted to marry the servant girl, CIV
ing her to understand that he was to
soon come into the possession of large
fortune. Being addicted to drink, he
one night got to feeling highly elated,
! and "blabbed" most of his history to
a companion. This man got the name
of the wife at Jersey City, and wrote to
her that Kingsbury was here. The let
| ter was sent to Prell, and he came on
as stated, but Kingsbury had departed.
Prell left for Saginaw as soon as posi-
BILE, and hopes to catch the blgamist
somewhere up in the valley. 1t is be-
! lieved that the man has, during the
seven years, married at least ten wo-
men. Prell has personal knowledge OF
four, and newspaper slips concerning
four more, and, as the fellow was lost
track of for about two years, he proba-
bly, married ut least twice during that
period. If arrested and given the
average sentence for each time he has
married contrary to law, he will spend
his remaining days in prison.