, 1892-02-05

criminals can and do marry. 1t really
seems as If a plausible, smooth spoken
scamp can travel across the country leisure
ly, and marry a new woman every two
weeks, and he does not nave to be hand
some either. The explanation is in one
word. cheek" As an illustration, take
the case Of John Anderson, alias Madison,
alias etc, Hollandise merchant, foreign
count, California ranch owner or anything
you please. but recently arrested ut AL
bany.
The number of his wives now counts up
seven, and the returns are not all in from
the out townships. On the Sth of Deem
Der he appeared at a st. Louis boarding
place known as the Hotel de Lillian with a
big trunk, a fine address, plenty of good
clothes and a marked Dutch accent" as
the landlady puts it. He is about forty
years old, large and strong. certainly well
educated, and is of a really good family in
Holland. In Il few days the postman on
that beat complained of the immense extra
mail, and the maid servant at the Lillian
observed that Mr.. Anderson got about o
a peck and a half or two pecks of letters
daily-all directed in woman's writin."
The boarders joked him and he confessed
that he had advertised for u wife in the st.
Louis papers. The ad. described him as
owner of a fine ranch at San Miguel, Cal
aud the boarders believed his story. Soon
it appeared that he was engaged to Mrs.
Ellen Purcell, II well to do widow OF fifty
two years, owner of a grocery store at 32s
Montrose avenue. About this time Mrs.
Fannie FELTON,, also n well to do widow OF
about fifty years, arrived at st. Louis to
marry him; but she was smart enough to
leave her money at home and bring with
her a stout young man named Joseph
Strotherd.
Anderson soon found she had no money
with Ter. He promptly hired Strotherd to
boss his ranch at San Miguel and started
out to buy tickets for the three to that
place, having got sixty dollars of the stor {
young man to pay for his. Strotherl
and Mrs. FELTON, waited at the O'Neill
hotel, but they saw Anderson no more
hat is, not soon, but Strotherd will now
have the pleasure of seeing him in court.
When Anderson reached his boarding place
that evening there was a handsome lady Of
about twenty-three years there. who
amazed the bystanders by calling him her
husband. The next move was the very
sublimity of audacity.
He paid his bill, sent his trunk to the
depot, called ut the grocery for Mrs. Purcell,
who had sold her business and dressed for
n bridal tour, and took her to II priest who
married them, after which they boarded a
train for Cleveland. Or the way he dis.
covered that she had 81 500 sewed up in the
hem of her petticoat. They stopped at the
Forest City House. She changed clothing
hastily. Anderson MS hastily ripped open
the petticoat, got the 81 800 and 'lit OUT
for Boston. But he wasn't very smart
after all, for he did not cover his tracks
and n telegram overhauled him at Albany.
Publication of the arrest brought some
more wives" to the front, and now the
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tleman" will serve the state of Missouri a
few years.
Another gentleman who will certainly
d time" If he lives is Adelbert D.. Sly,
whose career has been even more sensa
tional that that of Anderson. His recent