The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1880-04-10


in their ordinary forms had posi-
bly, grown monotonons. At least Il
this time he added q novelty by 4
eloping from Quincy, ILL.,, With r
Miss Carrie Cleveland, a boarding !,
school girl Of seventeen. with o
whom he had stolen interviews d
and clandestine correspondence !
for . year. lie is forty-two years .
old. The police everywhere were I
notified to lock out for the run !
away couple. Davis married Miss q
Cleveland in Chicago under an as I
sumcd name. But demaud OF bus
mess intrudcd, and his employers
sent Davis East, where. on the 4th.
inst, he was arrested in Albany
on dispatch from Chicago. Then
tho newspapers spread the news,
aud as it travelled fir and wide,
Davis's hearthsiones began to pop
into view all over the country.
So far there are said 20 be thirteen
women who claim an interest In
him, to say nothing ofscveral mat
rinonial schemes that have been
nippcd in the bud and various
scrapes that practically debarred
Mr.. Davis from subsequent visits
10 certain parts of the land. There
have been several contestants for
the first place, but SO far tho hon.
or seems to rest with Emma l..
Strong, 10 whom Davis was mar
ricd in 1861 in Indiana. He man.
aged his succeeding ventures with
great tact and secrecy. Once in
| his life the matrimonial yoke seems
| TO have galled him, and that was
| IN 1871 when after having bcstow-
ed the name of Davis upon at least
| two other women, he obt,ined an
Indiana divorce from Emma l..
Strong OH the ground Of cruel
treat ment. In 1864 he was married
at W;ndham, Canada, 10 Mary Ann
Madigan, aged eighteen. llc took
her to jackson, Mich, and tor a
+, while gravitated between two cen
, tres Ut domestic attraction. In
r course OF time Davis sent her home
= 10 Canada on q visit, aud tho day
, that made him y happy father
(. found him locked up In tho jack
SON Jail on n charge Of forgery. A.
. ter bis release, which was soon
: brought about, Mary Ann Mau''
!, van, neither saw nor heard Ut hin
. again for four years when she nc
:. citlen,ally met him on . railros'
;. train near Cleveland. In the sub
"a scnuent hos:ilitics the conducto
f and others sided with the woman
4 rhe overwhelmed Davis was pu
70 of tho train at Cleveland and u
"a ken before o Justice OF tho Peace
/. where he admitted that the We
,e man was his wife. lle bought III
,e release by giving her deed to IL
No acres Of land in Missouri and
20 written pledge to contribute reg'
he larly 10 the support ofhis wife a''
IN son. The decd was as worthic'
at as his pledge, since he owned u
hc land, and the deserted woman a
ev ter tracking him to Elkhart, Ind
to where he was living with Emma
CO. Davis, abandoned her case. 81
is heard nothing more Of Davis uni
rly this mouth, when she set her lig
lie on a Canadian hill SO brightly III
.ed the Chicago authorities saw it a.
,er summoned her, as she says "to =
ng ..,..,oo ao,c to phenomepal v
his a.. y mn +h;rd link in Dayi
ha"' ~ ~
yes matrimonial chain, so far as +,
ar.p ears, is Miss Maggie Vanderc
sho "a the Detroit spouse to wh,
ho,no Clarence Eugene has be
~ tnrn ns haven of rest
.oss;,,o nm more or less dom
~ soas,r other parts Of the CO,
49,. Gu hos lived with him
yes snec,;nrlv for nine years.
the cvcs were opened IN Chicago wi
ices she found her seal skin sact
o adorminv tho Quincy bride. !
mo- day that Davis returned a pris
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