Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17
WIFE NO.. 5.
"A Groom Of Fifty and a Bride Of
Fifteen,
Frank n. Suo,.'s Arrest for Perjury
in Falsely Swearing That His
wirc-to-Bc was of Age.


For the fifth time Mr.. Frank n. Scot
is now enjoying the salubrious pleasure,
OF the honeymoon. Yesterday the happ,
groom registered at the Central Polio,
station, and ate his meals off a wooden
bench in the iron-bound room assigned
nm. Perjury wa the charge under
which he was held, and this crime, it is
alleged, he committed when he obtained
from the court the document which gave
hlm a legal right to wed Miss George
May Pressell, a pretty Indianapolis
maiden. Last Thursday week Mr.. Scott
arrived here from the Hoosier capital
and took rooms at the Queen City hotel.
The next day Miss Pressell put in an ap-
pearancc, and in q little more than one
hour after she had joined him they were
tied as tight in the matrimonial moose as
Squire Hayne could tie them.
The ceremony was performed ut the
Queen City in the presence of John Coo
per, who happens to be n brother of the
girls grandmother, la the fact that
Scott had sworn Miss Pressed to be of
legal age lay the basis for the prosocu-
ton, which the parents Of the young
bride at once began to wage against him.
For a girl who will not be nineteen years
old until the Goth day of February next
the new Mrs. Scott is remarkably well
developed. She is II plump, handsome
creature, and her whole soul seems
wrapped up in the welfare of the man
whom she promised to always honor and
obey. 1t was the first time she had
made such an avowal, but in this the
groom went her four times better, and
two of four other ladies he once promised
to cling to until death parted them, are
still among the living, and enrolled in
the long line of divorced. One week
ago yesterday they were married. From
Cincinnati the pair proceeded to Hills
boro, and there night before last, Detec-
i've John A. Mckinney, of the India
apolis force arrested Scott. Mckinney
Isl brother-in. law of VIM. Pressell, the
father of the girl, who lives at No POI
n Liberty street, in Indianapolis.
1t was at the urgent request of
the brides parents that the detective
agreed to follow the pair. She left home
without a word of notice, and when it
was discovered that she had sent a tele-
gram to Scott apprising him of her COM
ing, they became almost distracted.
Though nearly ''sweet sixteen" the
young lady has had the pleasure of cele-
brating but three birthdays, for she was
born on the last day of February during
leap year. The groom has seen fifty
birthdays. He is not unknown to theat-
rical fame, and was for some time press
and advertising agentat Brooks & Dixon's
Park theatre in indianapolis. He seemed
to feel the disgrace of being behind the
bars most keenly, and all day long his
young wife remained as near his side as
it was possible for her to get. 1t was the
first time that he ever suffered arrest,
and it was believed he spoke with truth.
During the war he "a the captain of au
Eastern regiment. and fought for the
Union.
In a little frame cottage at No. 132
Linn street there resides a lady who was
the fourth wife of the prisoner. Last
March she was divorced from him-a re-
suit of her W seeking-at Bedford,
Indiana, he not answering the petition
she brought to court. A little girl not
quite two years of aye, and a baby boy of
seven months are the living fruits of their
union. The lady was Miss Eva ohnson,
and to an Enquirer man she releted afew
points in the history of her erstwhile hus-
band. His first wife he married in Bos-
ton q good many years ago. They were
divorced, and the lady still lives, she
thinks, or at least was living two years
ago, when she and Scott visited Boston
together.
After the severance of this little love
affair MIR Spntf want IN nlinnnnp1tu
and there he married two of the fair
daughters of the town before he met and
loved Miss johnson, but not, however,
at the same time. The divorce
court was mot called into requisition in
either case, for death robbed him of both
treasures. In December, 1880 he mar
ried Miss johnson, but their life was not
one of ~unalloyed bliss. She lived at her
fathers most of the time, and he had a
room at the Park theater. Often when
she visited him there she would be sur
prised to find Georgia Pressell there.
Then she was a mere child, and not worth
the feeling of jealousy.
"Why, | have made dresses for that
child, was the remark of Mrs. Scott No.
4, referring to the new acquisition to the
Scott household. ''She is nothing but a
mere child"
But the fact is the mere child is ma
tured far beyond her years. The second
year of their married life Scott managed
a "Hazel Kirke' company for Gus Froh-
man, of the Madison Square theater com
pany, and last season he was with James
ONelll on his starring tour, while a son
of his first wife was one of the
advance III the same company. The
day after Mrs, Scott No. 4 received her
divorce she came to this city, and she
has made her home with her father ever
since. Scott seems diaposed to throw
the brunt of this last affair to his bride,
who he says he married to save from
disgrace, as she followed him to this
city. The coloring to this story is
doubted, as the girls trsusseau was fur
nished by the happy groom himself.
1t is possible the charge will not be
pressed in the police court to-day, The
girl is now his wife, and the more con
servative ones interested avow that it
would only cause her pain to separate
them, for it can be easily seen that she
is ~passionately attached to him, His
word is her gospel, and has been for
years. He has taught her the rudiments
of music-for he is a scholar-and these
have been mixed with the rudiments of
love. Mrs. Eva Johnson Scott, with her
babies, fingered about Ninth street last
night to get a glimpse of the father Of
her children and his new love.