The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-25
4 Cambridge Man Alleged to Have
-Four Wives Living.
when the Court Clears Up Another Case
Against Him-Accused OF secreting
and Selling Mortgaged Goods-"wiSs
No. ." Fails Co Appear In Court.

MAIDEN, Mass, Oct. 25.--In the district
court yesterday, before Judge Bancroft,
Edward b. Warren was tried ON a charge
Of selling and secreting mortgaged prop
erty. During the trial several startling
and surprising disclosures were made con-
cerning the accused.
The defendant Is carpenter from
Charlottetown, p. Z. l., but has for q time
lived on Winchester street, South Med
ford, and at Cambridge more recently.
When at South Medford he Ii said TO have
mortgaged some property to Albert G.
Lynn of Lincoln and Main streets, Charles
town, and at the time Mrs. Jennie w.
Warren, who has appeared as the wife OF
the defendant, signed the papers.
, No payments were made and the interest
upon the mortgage rapidly became In
arrears, and upon going to Warren's home
in Medford Lynn learned that he had
moved. Lynn got into the house and
found bundle of unpaid bills and several
letters from q woman who signed herself
as his wife and who was struggling to
support herself and four children In q
meager way In his former home In Char.
lottetown, p. r. ]. Lynn then got track
of Warren and found that he had sold the
furniture In part to John McGrath OF
Morris street, West Somerville.
Lynn accompanied Medford policeman.
who arrested Warren at his Cambridge
home and took him to New York, but he
refused to divrlge the hiding place OF the
mortgaged property.
''wifs No. g."
And this Mrs. Warren was formerly
Miss Sadie G. Martin Of Cambridge, and
Lynn produced q copy Of . marriage Ger.
tificate issued by Walter w. Pike, city
clerk Of Cambridge, which showed that
Warren and the above named young lady
were married in Cambridge, upon July Is,
1878, and this paper was shown to o
reporter. with the remark that the Cam
bridge police inspectors were looking up
the career Of, Edward B. Warren.
Miss Marti6, or "Wife- No. g." as she Is
now called was sumrh6ned and promised
to be in c6pft yestkeday. But she failed
to appear and the fudge put some stress
in his rehafks 70 the effect that she had
disobeyed The, otd5f Of the court and that
sort of thing waa aunisbable.
The Csc Was dot disposed Of yesterday
and will Come DIP again, and It is expected
that Mas Martin Of Cambridge will be
present add make things interesting for
Warren, whom yhe claims, It is said, has
o wife and Four children in Prince Edward
Island, and one other with three children.
besides Miss Martin and the woman who
was sworn in court yesterday as Mrs. z.
B. Warren--a quartet In all.
which Il whichS
Judge Cotton Of Charlestown assisted
Chief Emery Holmes Of Medford In hand.
ling the cas6, aud he referred, in cross
examining the witness Lynn, to wives
Nos. ], and 8, and the witness in reply to
various questions referred to the wives In
like manner. But the Attorney for the
defense objected, claiming that the law
recognized only one wife. yet he made no
other effort to contfadict the statements.
All the time the trial was going ON War
rem sat In the prisonefs' dock compare,
lively unc6ncerned. He smiled occasion.
ally, and devoted his attention to chewi na
tobacco, as free and easy as though his
freedom were not In jeopardy.
The prisoner is about 5ft sin., Of light
complexion, with light hair and full red
face, and sports q light mustache; hs
weighs about 100 pounds.
The Cambridge police will investi gat,
the case and see IL there Is sufficient
grounds to prosecute him for bigamy.