The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-12
a Gay Deca1vsr.

1t was week before last that Il Demo
crdt noticed the marriage of Miss Jessie
Robson Of this city. ard Charles w.
Graves. at Des Moinss, to which city the
couple eloped because the friends of the
young lady objected to the match.
To day we have the unpleasant duty oil
stating that Graves has been arrested a,
Des Moiues, and is on his way to DsveD.
port 10 charge of Chief Kcssler. and is to
be examined hers on the charge of adul-
terry, If not for bigamy.
On Saturday last, a young woman
arrived hero from LaMotte. Jackson
county, where she has bsen sojournina
with her brother, to inquire for Graves
she had heard the account of his slope
ment and marriage with Miss Robson
and had come to see about it. She had a
certificate which showed that Miss Jessie
O'Dounell and Charles w. Graves were
married at Marion, Linn county, by the
Rev. j. r. Rathbone. on Tuesday. the
Sd day of August. 1880. She was the
she was the legal wife of the young
Robson. She sought the services Of an
attorney, and on Saturday a telegram
went to Des Moines requesting the arrest
of Graves He was arrested by the Mar
sbaI of that city on Sunday, and his lawyer
attem pied to have him released on writ
of habedS corpus, but the Des Moines off,
GERS preferred charges against him for
bad conduct while there, and held him
Last night Chief Kessler went TO Des
Moines with the warrent for Graves in his
pocket, and his arrival this evening is ex-
speeted.
Young Graves commenced botellife as a
bell-boy in the Slavery House at DesMoines
f s,E six years ago, and was promoted to
the night cerkship5of that hotel. Early
last year be went to Cedar Rapids to act
as night clerk in the Northwestern Hotel
there, aud Josie O'DonneR was the pastry
cook in that house. In the conrse of two
or three months the couple
went to Marion and were married in due
form aud according to law. Towards the
last of August he came to Davenport in
search of employment. leaving his wife
with her brother at LaMotte. and on the
Sd of September became temporary night
clerk at the Kimbal House. He did well
at first, but he fell into courses which Sc
cured his discharge in mber, Mes n
while he had become acquainted with Miss
Robson, representing himself as single
man. and after he was out Of employment
believing that she possessed a competency
in her own right, his elopment With her
took place, the couple taking a train for
the west two or three days before Christ
mas and hating at Des Moines. where
Graves mother lives, and from which
city Miss Robson wrote her mother that
she had become Charles wife,. The
Leader rays that they lived about two
weeks at the Morgan house, and then
moved up on Seventh street. where
Graves was arrested" It is likely that
the wedding took place. if at all, at some
pace this side of Das Moines, as no mar
rage license las been issued to persons Ct
their names by the Clerk of the Polk
District Court.
The deserted wife. who Is 10 this city. is
in the deepest distress over her husbands
and she is approaching
She never suspected inf
deity until she read of it in the papers.
He is gay-looking brunette. aud would
take. with most young girls who should be-
come acquainted with him.-Dar. Dem.
ocrdt 1lth.