, 1880-03-14
5-14-13. -
Davis Figuring on a Solution Of
His Matrimonial Puzzle.
he Smiles Placidly, Like the Man
Who Has Made It.
The Canadian Wife Anxious TO Railroad Him
to The Penitentlary.

to The penitentlary.
No more claimants to the dubious title OF Mrs
clarence Z. Davis Number So and-So turned u
Yesterday. The Canada wife, up to date, IL th
last one on the ground, aud so far as eau b
learned there is 60 likelihood that aur Of tn
numerous brood of wives alleged to be spr1p8iu
up 1nali parts OF the country will put in an ap
peafance. So far as this fresh crop Is concerned
| there Ia no doubt that in many instance
th5fr alleged claims rest on something n
more substantial than case o
mistaken identity, while 1t is not unfai
10 suppose that another portion
OF the alleged claimants never occt1pied tn,
legal relation Of wife to anybody, and are not a
au dtspieased ut the extensive advertising they
are getting a. result Of certain relations which
they may or may not have sustained to Davis
and which are generally regarded rs being ont
side the pale OF the moral law. The following
letter was turned up at the Central Station yes
terday, and is probably only one OF hos
! OF possible ones, which could be writer
from every country cross roads where Davis eye1
visited, and where he deceived, with co1tse.
| wnrd fancy:
srun,1.. Mich, Mnrch u.-ntg Of Police ca.-
cdQoIDEAk SIR: Davis, the much married man,
wife. and his father, mother, and brothers, and
assure you ahe was coed quiet lady and after
tied up to a woman. While they boarded with
me. Davis met at Laporte, Ind, young lady
ana AZ represented himself rs single man to her.
Ihey corresponded with one another. and she
believed him. Afterwards Mrs. Axtell, Of the
Ieegarden House, sister of mine, came to visit
her and met rs Davis 1t n ny house. and S spoiied
his little game. he Is d double-dycd scoundrel.
and ought to bare been in the Pf9t{entjaTy ons
DAVIS STILL ENJOYS
1unt1valed opportunities for reflection IN the
County jail He keeps UP his natty appearance
as regards dress, puts delicate clouds OF blue
a m ds eeFy Of bis
was closeted in tho :" cage" with Gus Van
Buren,, his lawyer, and Frank Davis, his brother,
the whole case was gone over from the Davis
standpont,-thnt all tho marriages except the
last were net valid in law,-for when repre-
erwards he loftily remarked that the case didn't
would sa@d; What ground s.t be hSd ior tais cog:
ne Immediately shut up on that point and
switched OF on side track to observe that he
was filling good deal Of newspaper space just
IN danger some time or other Of being brought
up with a round turn for their domestic sins,
and he hoped they would all get Justice. The
admitted, had wcartcd him until he was Tar from
well With this, he turned around and began to
CHATTER nsts %th G2e ne Ct The prisoners;
another visit yesterday, but the interview, which
vas heid in the presence Of Jaiier Currier, Capt
Ta
p!ucky little woman tried her best to induce
him to own her as his wife, but It Was no use.
Of the past-their marriage. his arrest for
forgery. his meeting with her at Cleveland. his
letters. bis acquaintance with her family, their
oognizant and by which she hoped to jog his
menory-he Warded her OF By
CALMLY REPuDIAT1N9 HER,
and telling her TINT sho would have a chance to
the Il various que questions invoived ed would be thor
oughly argued. He finally rebelled agn1nst
further submission to her questioning, and in.
back to his cell, and the little woman from
Canada was constrained to remark, "ohl what
9 miserable rascal He didn't deny me be-
le At e1eand cansps ana R vii Fl % faTa Sin
no good to deny me now, for I've got the papers
to show that H. am % his wtfe md h., BE- eaat s9 St
others can have him ii they want him.
She said this without any feeling, but With
quiet smile of triumph TINT was afterwards ex-
planned By her declaration that she proposed to
testify against him, and do all she could to Land
him IN the Penitcntinrr, when she would at once
haze ground for Immediately Ra securing the
sRs Rsny sad $drs was &C. BE- frssd hRs "asa e%
him end to gee him 4 =. properly p 1 punished for
another wife, and for then deserting her.
1t was learned yesterday. on the best au-
let up s Davs but vii F put him T thro%eR # It IS
and wavsring: but the old folks propose 70 keep
tongue to chenge her present purpose. They
have moved from the Revere House to place |
Of which he is Ignorant, and Of which they pro-
Tie y pulling nature Of this Davis caso has
been alluded to Of late as the muddie became !
worse and worse mixed. AZ nearly as it can be
married. No. in 1odl and was divorced from her
Ia 1871. In 1864 he married No 2, In Canada,
yhie 'e yet ssa It tcd to No 1a lS afc5 % The
ady, rs he now alleges, WIS the possessor at
hat time Of another husband 4 few weeks
= as st. whether the en- marriage 10 S No. wh}ie
vas yet undivorocd from No. i, was legal; and,
econdiy, II f were 50. has No: "a case Of bfgamy
e married her, had another husband living, |
rom whom she was undivorced, that marriage
'as clearly of. The burden Of proof, Of course.
state Of facts existed. 0n the suppo-
iage to No. : was also Illegal. It is Just
be sin marriage With No. !. At least that tt Is It the
'4y it would look to an unpre5udiced outsider
For the purpose OF gaining light On the qucs-
0ns involved, the reporter yesterday called
pon prominent lawyer il this city,-ono who
as considerable acquaintance with divorce mat
ars In Il professional way,-put the case to him.
8 fully presented above, and asked him his
d ag,tinst.. the. law on bgau.y,
nd, generally, what the prospect vas
Or his being sent down. The uncertain ele-
lent of a Chicago petit jury, aud what 1t might |
I'D might not do, was Of course eliminated
All thnt stands in the way Of the validity of
1e fourth ulurrtAge," replied the lawyer, after !
tdustriously scratching bis head q moment, !
is the second marriage. The question. then. !
whether that second marriage was not void !
ccausc uf his existing marriage with the first
ife. Altogether, it Is very curious problem. ="
Il Provided the Canada wife has q case ngninst
in at all: has sho one against him outside Of
anadaY''
'',rhat involves the most complicated and
tncult question that has been presented to the
,urts for hundred years. it involves a ques-
IN on which Story has written treatise and
LAW Ant SETTLED YET.
this country would recognze d mar
aee legally contracted and legally
nsummnted under another allegiance, al
ough there is great deal OF DISCUSSION on | /
at point fshould SLY in the case nf man
gully married In England, who should come to !
Is country leaving his wife there, and marry
other, that, upon tho question being presented
the first wife. the courts in this country
,t1ld recognize the marriage In England That
under sort Of judicial legal comfy which is
'eva1ling more than it used to prevail" -