The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-27
HE WAS A MARRYING MAN.
REMARKABLE CAREER or ONE.
ARMED nut PLIt SfBLE TIIEE

TIE SuN d March 10 about James Taylor. the
one-ainicd iEan who married eight women aud
i fceccd them NIL being finally brought up with
nroundturEotJrnarson Market Court for steal-
| ing $500 from Mrs Henrietta Taylor. formerly
Miss Cost snfjl Yves. TWENTY - first street. whom
| he married On Nov. 81. 1891. aud then desert
| ed. The Sun received letter from J. u. Dean.
President a tho Cheshire White Quartz sand
| Comrmnrf Cheshire Mass. enclosing photo
| graph and spociaen OF the handwriting OF
| inan whom Mr.. Dean. after reading The Sun q
| MARCH, rs. concluded was the same James Tay.
| lor. This man called himself Gen. Dean il
| 1885. when Mr.. !. j.. Dean knew him, and. Il.
| lowing FOR the difference Of nearly thirty years.
| the handwriting and picture constitute almost
| positive proof II tho identity of the man. 10
! has already l"cn ,o!i how Taylor married one
| woman in Chicago. six IN Pennsylvania. and
| one IN this ',v hc' dos having engaged him.
| self 10 At least three more. and now Mr.. Dean
| adds what i probably one OF the earliest chap.
| tiers in life more full OF romance and adyen.
ture than that of most mon.
One day in May. 1875. Mr.. j. B. Dean, then q
mill owner in Choshire. Mass. was sitting in
his mill when u une-armed man entered and
| ntfoduccd himself as DIR. John Dean. He said
that he was wealthy landowner In Michigan.
that firing Of his quiet lie there he had be.
como a sailor. and when the civil war broke
out had enlisted in the Union army. and served
until he lost his arm at the battle OF Lookout
Mountain
Never having seen a man BEFORE" writes
Mr. J. i; Dean. who was in that battle,
asked him how they got tho artillery up 20
high mountain and he said they hoisted it
up with derricks l believed that them
The stranger told Mr.. Dean that he had
come to Massachusetts in search OF some rels-
tivss named Dean. whereupon the Cheshire
man said that they were undoubtedly cousins.
and invited tho onc.armel Doctor to stay at
his house. an invitation promptly accepted.
Tho Doctor during the conversation had
taken pains to show rocketbook WeI[ stuffed
with bills. While in Cheshire the Doctor wrote
great many letters tors to public me9aGens.
which TIM he became asauaa iT with
esaSi i Himself in her favor that she in.
ena the @ pas whea
he was to have 'epaired In n. New York; She
ssyns at VIII" Willie ressng te stas
s ] If ssTs Sss:
i %ySS Gr5Sss sSsSss Sss:
after ee 20 tho SiI. writes that senss.
man. tut have not paid 1t yet" ~.
he carried about with him. IN Poultney there
The on..nrn,ed man introduced himself to the
principal Of the sem mary us Con. Dean, q man
As tn" principal was n Mason. he received
Ge en Ws 9Psn n Gowe sSSc9 h rs
see much ., the emnary, girls. who lionized
him. lilo had been there but one week when
9 vi GS tSSsrs sHe
them g,' with property. Unuccount Of this the
Nd To Il, Adams WHARF ODD n
days. contracting numb-r OF debts which he
"eH to an GonE hfss to BulinE
them he was intioducsd to wealthy widow
alter ait. meeting her As lie insisted on an mme.
date marriage. preparut ions were mRde forthe
ceremony. when again his plans were nipped
M DtaH had been writing Lns Letters to his
through tllcm tai the on earned man was an
inpostor. lie immediately wrote to his rela-
tn hs SnE G IN
SleS q % I'D i'd
s;;; 4 y i: $ B!E
road lnusn'it IN ths strength q lis many
1 %arrisa ax. |" s %S"a dssig,'PSsd q
tns aT f. In ndssen S sfPss wb bS
means q \ int horse which he btsSsed into
h hn M NV st md II saw e must
ment OF III identify. Death occurred to him
s9,i wnyto esc.re ir9m III his diifleultieA
r sSsn III 'n" ta "rnSF as fs pub
str"on IsT . s %hs @ boat
wss IT, SSary and Ia ss sR to hsS
any occasion tor its use: for. after disappear
Ing from public y"w for two months he Wss
willow nInei carton advertised for her son.
many year lost, and'a onelar nee man turned
sea- 81, ii he "xlansd nnd his arm was bitten Oh
hy shark .tG H." mouth Of the A%a5Gn
in mon ) ron her. besides Persuadng her to
living on III" fat Of the land when another
s.nGIr npnfnrSd IN Town t Gne , daE pr9 so
and M, I The on..arm :" mrostor barely got out 81
the plac" with his life and 500 OF tho Widow's
money, which WAS all that he could get hold OF
The last Known Of this advsnturer Is that in
1ss h. wrt t" some n sSnt n roIStSes' % the
trolucIng himself rs cousin. stole from
young woman there gold watch borrowed
Mr.. j. B. Dean. Who has traced the course Of
this remarkane man. says In his letter: He
Of He had " "oI m"nnars ana was In easy
,alkor. but hS VA good deal Of a marrying
The stpry Of this mans life. SO far as 1t has
appeared. cont aims more OF romance than ting
With tho tact u >iW, from J. - Dean. hf
Himself Him eli t., to- anotiI"r ind. having. broken
that oif. was "ct.rt;, in 4 plot T. '"loEe with
and h,tvi Keeper in Springfield. wrote his
own obituary as having pcen drowned. and;
resurrcc;ng himself, turns up as II pfodigai
son in Prnnsylynnin. nhcrwa,d going out
Mcst and GisaUpearing with watch and
money belonging to supposed cousins thore.
Z hen there lisa blank space, If 'm1ny years.
Two years ago begins N Pennsylvania the
record OF the onn-arined man now under arrest
in this city charged with marrying eight wo-
men. He mares xix women In Penhsylva:
MA. goes to th'ca-o, NJ John ,rurnar. and
tieeccs II newly acquired Mrs! Tufnsr: ."-i
comcs to this city, where Hs James r'ar4or. he
marri"s aud rni = one woman, ongtEns HIM
self to three more. calling himself lahgdon.
anl ends in !rison. y, Nl
The rescm bGnrse between thu careers OF
Gen. D-un-, art0n and Mr. Eantnn-turner-
Inyinr- Lang,l~n ami ~" ply, teal itos.m-
hlancps l"tw aen to two mon, sacm toJustify
Mr.. j. b. Dean III asserting foAttsaiy thnt the
prisoner o. Jefferson Marknr.is1 hts 'fcousin
4 t,i, . nsttf -fl IN