Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-06-30
A MUcH-MARRTED MAN.
Harry ID. Wakefield and HIS Eight
Loving wives.
(From tho s. F. ohronicle.l


1t is probably true that Harry d.
Wakefield believed that the institu-
tion of marriage was founded on the
requirements of mans nature, and
that he also possibly considered his
nature of such peculiar texture as to
frequently require an actual partioi-
patton in the solemnity of taking up
on himself the marriage vows. Harry
Morse, the ever alert Sheriff Of Ala
media county, also has views on this
marriage question which do not tally
in every particular with Wakefield's;
but all this cuts no figure in the why's
and wherefores that caused Harry
Morse to pounce upon and cast into
jail Harry Wakefield yesterday after
noon. The doughty Sheriff has want
ed TO perform that same proceeding
for more than year, but the willy
Wakefield remained absent on the
eighth wedding tour accredited to his
experience within the last two years.
Harry d. Wakefield first appeared in
Oakland about two years ago, and,
from information at hand, has always
had a mania for getting married, thus
giving his love advances an honorable
intention. So far as known he was
always plauSiOle
AND SUCCESSFUL ROMEO,
But he was inconstant and Aw In ev-
cry fair new face bis Juliet, and want
ed to be the glove upon her hand.
About eighteen months since he
wooed and welded in this city Miss
Emma Grabe, young, pretty and
lusty dressmaker, whose parents re-
side in San Jose. Emma thought she
had won the first love of paragon of
husband, and for few months this
world to Emma was as lovely as big
sunf1ower. The tables soon turned,
however. Harry began to neglect his
Emma, and finally deserted her. She
applied to Harry's mother, Mrs. Mary
E. Beman, a clairvoyant on East Fiji
teenth street, East Oakland, but Mrs.
Beman would not be mother to her;
so, after a few more weeks of hopeless
waiting for reconciliation, Emma
applied to II. A. Leake, an Oakland
attorneyNJ TO procure for her divorce.
In the mean time, the polygamist
Harry had found his Mary Jane and
welded her in this city. She was
comely to look upon, and her busi-
ness was also that of dressmaker. Her
name was Mary Jane Hall, and for
time she thought her Harry was all
that
MRS. WHITING PAINTED JONES.
Harry had been partially truthful
in his dealings with Mary Jane, for he
told her before their marriage that he
had bean twice married before in the
East, she thinks at Chicago, but that
his first wife had died and from his
second he had procured divorce. But
Mary Jane soon learned of Emma
Grabe, when rupture occurred and
Harry was discharged. Attorney
Leake was also consulted by dress
maker No. 2, and retained to make
void her marriage with Harry Wake
man. This was about year ago, and
the two dressmakers appeared before
the Alameda county grand jurors, who
heard their story and indicted the fes-
tive Harry. Search was made for the
much married man, but he could not
be found About three months after
his departure his mother went East,
and it has since been learned that
mother and son travelled throughout
the East giving seances at Cincinnati,
Indianapolis, Louisville, Chicago,
Philadelphia, New York and other
cities. That Sheriff Morse kept track
of them and knew their intentions Of
returning is not to be questioned.
About one month since the mother
returned, and within the last week
Harry also, with little fresh. looking
Fifteen year-old wife. OF course there
was scene at Mrs. Beman's house
yesterday afternoon when Harry
Morse put in an appearance and found
Mrs. B., her adorable son Harry and
his new baby-wife seated around the
two o'clock dining table. AS above
stated, Harry Wakefield, who is forty
eight years of age, though In appear
ance twelve years younger, and who
is reputed to be the husband of eight
living wives, was incarcerated yes
terday afternoon in the Alameda
County Jail.