Daily Republican., 1881-07-14
A Girl with Three Husbands,

The good folks of Erie county are lust
now gossiping over the exploits of a
young woman of respectable parentage
who has gotten herself into the clutches
of the blind goddess and bids fair to be
landed In the western penitentiary. The
story is best told by Detective Halstead,
of the Central Pennsylvania Detective
Association, who il now en- route to the
other side Of the continent to capture
his pretty game, Gagged in San Francisco
The prisoner is the daughter ola wealthy
farmer of Cory, Erie county, and at
present is but nineteen years of age
When but sixteen years old she recei we'd
the attentions of dashing young oil
operator named Hastings, who was re-
puted to Lave cleared several hundred
thousand dollaxs on the floor of the en-
change at Oil City. A proposal of mar
riage was made and laughed at by the
girls parents, who protested that their
daughter was mere child and refused
TO hear of the match. An elopelnent
was the consequence, and on the 18th of
September, 1879, the pair we're secretly
married in Oil City. The girl was
thrown among bad associates, and soon
dropped into bad habits. Early in the
Spring of 1880 she suddenly decamped
from her husband while they were on q
visit to New York, ard took with her
some 5000 in cash, besides three United
States registered bonds, which could
not be converted, and were consequently
valneless. The matter was hushed up
and search made for her, but without
nj
prove that she went to Buffalo and
started millinery establishment, taxi
ing into partnership ole of her former
Oil City acquaintances.
Here she played the roll of maiden,
and soon attracted = young clerk in one
of the railroad offices. In July last
they were married in the Episcopal
church in that city, the girl being no
less than eighteen years of age She
lived happily with her husband until
September, when she was startled by
the announcement that ..e was expect
ing visit on the next day from an old
Oh City friend. 10 her dismay she dis
covered that it was no other than her
first husband. That evening she fled
from Buffalo. How she obtained the
money no one knows. but she next turn
ed up in Chicago, where she spent last
winter ana trimmer in a fashionable
stor' Here she played her
old game. Her pretty face aud trim
hSure attracted attention. Although |
her first husband had discovered harii
residence and subsequent flight from
Buffalo, ap' a.ad placed Detective Hal
''e' Oh her track, she succeeded In
detention.
On the third of March she was mar
ried for the third time. Her victim
was clerk in Field Il Letters whole
sale establishment, drawing good sal.
ary and able to support her in comfort.
She had been marri ed scarcely more
than three weeks when she found out
that her movements were watched; and
on the .9th of March, the very day on
which her first husband arrived in Chi |
cago to face his taithless spouse, she I
broke open her husbands secretary,
took from it 800 in cash. and left the
city, On the 4th Of April she left for
San Francisco. She was recognized
there last week by a friend of the Sec
onl husband, who telebrapheu her dis
covery to Buffalo. Her husband ut Oil !
City wa, promptly informed, and q
message sent to the Chief of Police
asking for her arrest and detention.
Detective Halstead had a requisiton
from Governor Hoyt, given on the
sworn statement of her first husband
md will doubtless bring the lady to
ustice and the pcnitentiary, 1t is said
hat her parents in Cory have offered
money as a compromise, but her first
husband declares tina it is his intention
% make his bigamist wife pay the pen
tlty Of her exploits.