Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-25
A MUCH MARRIED MAN
-Four Women Claim E.B.
Warren as a Husband.
ANOTHER SERIOUS CHARGE.
He is Accused Of Selling and Secreting
MoItagged Property.

MAIDEN, Mass, Oct edward b.
| Warrrn's trisl in the district court here
| yesterday on the charge of selling aud
secreting mortgagei property resulted In
some startling disclosures, chief among
which was the alleged tact that he was
married to four women, all Of whom are
| living.
The defendant Is carpenter from
| Charlottetown, II. +. l., but has for a time
lived on Winchester street, South Med
ford, and at Cambridge more recently.
When at South Medford he is said to have
mortgaged some property to Albert c.
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 aud the interest
upon the mortgage rapidly became in
| arrears, and upon going to Warren's home
In Nedford Lynn learned that he had
moved Lynn got into the house and
| found a bundle Of unpaid bills and several
letters from 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 ia Char
| lottetown, Il. +. l. 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 divulge the hiding place of the
mortgaged property.
The Dsrouement
And this Mrs. Warren was formerly
Miss Sadie G.. Martin Of Cambridge. and
Lynn produced copy Of marriage cer-
ticats 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 l3,
1878, and this paper was shown to a
reporter with the remark that the Cam
bridge police inspectors were looking up
the career of Ed ward B. Warren.
Miss Martin, or "Wife No 3" as she is
now called, was summoned and promised
to be in court yesterday But she failed
TO appear and the judge put some stress
| in his remarks to the effect that she had
| disobeyed the order of the court and that
sort of thing was punishable.
The case as not disposed Of yesterday
and will come up again, and it is expected
that Miss Martin Of Cambridge will he
| present and make things interesting for
Warren, whom she claims, it is said, has
a 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 Ms Mrs. K.
B Warren quartet in all.
All Mixed Up.
Judge Cotton of Charestown assisted
Chief Emery Holmes OF Medford in hand.
ling the case, and he referred, in cross
examining the witaess Lynn, to wives
Nos J. 2 and 3, 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 contradict the statements.
All thotime the trial was going on War
rem sat in the prisoners dock compare
lively unconcerned. He smiled occasion
ally, and devoted his attention to chewinl
tobacco, ~ free and easy as though hi
freedom were not in jeopardy.
The prisoner is about 5ft. SIM, Of light
complexion, with light hair and full red
face, and sports n light mustache; be
weighs about 100 pounds.
The Cambridge police will investigate
the case and see II there Is sufficient
grounds to prosecute him for bigamy.