The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-04-22
Uxorious Davis.

Clarence E. Davis, the polygarhist, af-
ter being indicted by the grand jury on
two counts for bigamy, was arraigned
in the criminal court this morning. The
bills returned by the jury present that
Davis, on May 81, 1864, married Mary
Ann Madigan, in Hamilton, Ontario;
that on October 81, 1871, he married
Maggie Vandecar, in Ohio, and on Feb
ruary %, 1880, he married Carrie Cleve-
land otherwise Carrie Lynch, the nup-
tial rites being solemnized in each case
while each wife was living, and without
any legal separation from any or either
by divorce. In anticipation Of his APP
pearance in court, the room was well
filled, majority of the attendants
being made up of ladies. Davis did not
look at all happy when ushered in under
the supervision of a bailiff, and, beneath
the searching scrutiny of the ladies
eyes, wilted to such degree that an I'M
broken study of the floor engaged his
attention from first to last Mesdames
Brantford Davis and Detroit Davis,
or wives Nos. 2 and 3, were pres
cnt, and from every appearance the
most harmonious feeling nov exists be
t ,een them. Wife No. 4, nee Miss
Cleveland, of Quincy, did not show up.
She is in the city, stopping quietly at
the Parker House, on the West Side.
Her whereabouts is not known to any
representative Of the Chicago press, and
she is living in retirement IN the
strictest sense of the word. Attorney
Gustavus Van Buren,, counsel for Davis,
announced to the court, when his client
was asked if he was prepared or desired
to plead, that they would both like a
little more time to look over the indict-
ments and the case was continued to
April Is. We learned this evening
that Mrs. Quincy Davis had written her
husband in the fourth degree letter
this afternoon. She is the one he claims
as his only love and true wife, but the
nature of her communication it has not
been possible to learn. A call at the
Parker House secured an interview, but
no sooner did the young lady suspect
and satisfy herself that her caller was
of the reportorial guild than she excused
herself and hastily withdrew. At the
county Jail Davis said he had received
such letter, but would not show it. BY
dint of persuasive interrogation he
was moved to say that his darling Car
RE still loved him devotedly, and be-
| lieved fully IN his innocence. The let.
ters to Superintendent of Police O'Don-
mel from alleged women claiming to
have been married at some moro or less
remote period, come pouring in at the
, rate of three or four day. st. Louis
is about the only place of any preten
sons that has not been heard from.
Three came to-day. The first, very
long one, signed Rebecca Davis, nee
Smith, went into the details of mar
rage with Clarence L. in San Francisco
three years ago. The writer says she
still loves him, although he left her to
work in a laundry. Another from Susan
Davis, nee Tweed, of Portage City,
Wisconsin, AYERS shat they were married
in the Winter Of 1868. He deserted
her in two weeks after, and she thinks
he is a scoundrel The other, and the
twenty third on file, is from Marian
Davis, Elgin, Illinois. She don't say
when they assumed the connubial yoke,
but does say he cleared out six weeks
after, and she reluctantly ADDS another
disgrace to his name. -Globe-D Democrat,
March %