Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-07
THE FIVE MRS. GRKENRs.
A St. Louis Lawyers Tale About tn, spouses of . Bigsmous Barber.
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tt. Louis Lawyers Tale About the
 spouses of . BIgsmous Barber.
 IFrom the Washington Postl
 "Ths eecspsde of Samuel Herbert Dy- ott. the Washington shoe clerk who seems to have married three women, calls to mind the story of Gardner ". Greene, who had Eve wives who looked like sisters," re- marked St. Louis lawyer the other night 'rIt sounds incredible, l" he continued, "but Greene actually married five women who were of the came figure, same complexion and all. When the fellow was tried for bigsmy all 6vs of the wives appeared against him, and the judgs couldn't tell them apart; neither could the lawyers. In order to keep matters straight the Greene wives had to sit in the same seat at esoh tession of the court, No. l first, No. 2 next. and 60 on.
 "Grsene was barber, and wss one of the finest specimens of manhood that I have ever laid eyes on. He was of fair complexion, full six feet tall, slender, 2 perfect face, c full head of curly hair, and poem of 6 moustsohe, to use 6 fsmi- nine expression. The first wife was quite we'll to do-money left by her father, be- | lieve. Greene courted her and won her. | She was pretty woman, of 6 rather un- | common style. She lad 6 Greoisn nose | and dark hair, which hung In beautiful | rinslets over . broad forehead. Her eyes | were sloe black. but her ekin was ss white e alsbaster. She was rather tall, and as grsceful and villovy e could be. She | was smart, too, and 6 man could not have wished for . better wife than had fallen tc the lot of Gardner Greene, barber. But she had hardly been married 6 month when he slipped of to Ohio and married another woman. He brought her back to St. Louis and installed her in e flat noi two blocks from the first wife.
 "well, he lived with them for about 1.-two months, Hitting from one to the other and was as happy aa king, and they ver, happy as queens. Then he went over into Indiana, after promising each wife (sl young husbands wilD that be would writ, every day. While he was in Indiana b, married third. This didn't keep hin from writing regularly to the two others In fact, he wrote SO often that the post man on the street in which they both ivet
 got two lettsrs-esch of which was ad
 dressed to Mrs. Gardner W. Greene
 mixed, and gave the missive intended 10 | No. to No. 9 and vice versa. Then ther
 vas trouble. One of the women hunte, up the other. Instead of fighting sn, pulling hair, as two wives of one hand
 some man might be expected to do, the
 compared notes, decided that Gardner wa
 gay decsiver, and struok of to Indian Il on No 1's money to find the man, wh
 was still writing letters burning with d fection. Sometimes the letters to the tv Iwives were just alike, except that on
 commenced. Ny Darling Heetsr,' and th
 other, Ny Darling Hsttie.'
 "when the two Ar. Greenee reaohs the little town in Indiana, Gardner V
 had gone, but Mrs. Greene No. 8 was ther' The other two had noticed that they vel
 exactly alike. and when they cav No.
 they were amazed to find that ahe vi Chicago, and Mrs. Greene No. 8 joined th
 merry chase-also on No. 1's money. Chicago Greene had married No. 4 and hs
 gone to his starting point, St. Louis, wit
 her. The three other wives were in Chic'