The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-22
MAFEE'S MISTAKE.
He Thought No One Would Know
Him by Another Name,
And INDUCED I'm the Luxury of Two
Wives-Hts Recognition and
Arrest-How He Married
Countess.

New YORK, Aug. pa st. Paul. Mimi,
dispatch reports the arrest in that that city
of Thomas ]. McAfee, alias Nagel Murray,
alias Gerald N. Moore, for bigamy In
April last William o. Lodge, employed as
salesman at SO Third street, Brooklyn, met
in that city person whom he greeted with.
"Hello Joe"
4You are mistaken, ] don't know yon, y was
the reply.
eyes, you do" responded Lodge; "you are
Joe McAfee from Dublin. You are my sis
ter's husband"
MY name is Nagel Murray retorted the
man. Il never saw you before, and walked
away Lodge persisted that he had not made
q mistake, but did not follow the man. He
subsequently learned that Murray was emf
ployed in an insurance Office on Broadway,
and went there with friend Both of them
saw the man, who said his name was Muir
ray Lodges friend positively identified him
as Joe McAfee Murray was induced TO ac-
company Lodge and the other man to Lodges
house, where his identity was further
established, Lodge continued his inves-
legations and found that Murray had been
married to the Countess Van MentZenback
on Nov. 25, 1891, by Mayor Grsce. They
We're living in East One Hundred and
Twenty fourth street Lodge procured
warrant and had Murray arrested on
charge of higamy, but on being arraigned
Murray was discharged on the ground that
Lodge was not the proper person TO institute
such proceedings. Mr.. and Mrs. Muir
ray removed to St Paul, where,
as claimed, Murray assumed the
name of Gerald N Moore, and became
one of the firm of Curtis & Moore, notion
dealers, at So East Third street. Lodge was
in st, Paul ON business recently, when he
again encountered Murray, had him arrested
on a charge of bigamy, and he was held in
| $50, 600 for examination. Lodge claimed that
| Murray Tor McAfee) was born in Dublin, and
was for some time employed as man
aging clerk in the music warehouse
of Kramar Wood Il Co. Lodge claimed
that McAfee, whose full first name
| is Thomas Joseph was married to his sister,
Annie Jane Lodge, on Sept. %, 1870, in st.
James Protestant Episcopal church by the
Rev. Canon Russell and that he gave his
sister away. A baby girl was born to them.
| In August, 1881, McAfee deserted his wife
and disappeared from Dublin. His wife
never procured divorce, and was at last &C
counts living with her child at 112 High
street, Belfast Ireland MeAfee went
TO the south of France. Count Won
Mentzenback and his wife, whose
maiden name was Clara Meade,
the only daughter of the late Commodore
Meade, of the United States navy, met him
there They had one child, a daughter, q
few months old The count died not long
after their arrival at the French resort and
the young widow, with her infant daughter
and a nurse, embarked on steamer at Mar
settles bound for New York McAfee, OF
Murray, as lie represented himself, was
passenger on the same steamer. Or
arriving i'll New York they proceeded
without delay TO the mayors offct
and were married Murray was married
under the name of Nagel Murray, which
Lodge says, was the name of McAfee'
grandfather They went to Vineland, n j.
where the countess owned and still own
lands, houses, and other property wortl
over 100000 This property was asSigne,
to the countess by court of chancery afte
her divorce from Charles K. Lands
the founder of Vineland, who tel
years ago shot and killed the edi
tor of a Vineland newspaper H
was tried for murder and acquitted. Al
torney General Brewster defended him. 500
after his acquittal, a decree of divorce wa
granted to his wife, who was also awarde
the property mentioned. Mrs lands wen
/ to Europe and spent three or four year
travelling there and it was while making
tour of Germany that she married Count vo
Mentzenhack Mr. lands married tn
daughter of Commodore Meade the day afte
the commodore had been been taken to til
insane asylum.