The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-03

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LIPPMAN BROS, Agents for Savannah.
mon style. She had a Grecian nose and
dark hair, which hung in beautiful ring
lets over broad forehead. Her ewes
Were slow black, but her skin was as
white as alabaster. She was rather tall.
and as graceful and willowy as could be.
She was smart, too, and a man could not
nave wished for better wife than had
fallen TO the lot of Gardner Greene bar
Der But she had hardly been married
month when he slipped off 10 Ohio and
married another woman. He brought her
back to ST. Louis and installed her in a
fiat not two blocks from the first wife.
We'll, he lived with them for about two
months, fitting from one to the other, and
was as happy as a king, and they were as
happy as queens. Then he went over into
Indiana, after promising each wife (as
young husbands WILLY that he would write
every day. While he was in Indiana he
married a third This didn't keep him
from writing regularly to the two others.
In fact he wrote so often that the nnstman
on the street in which they both lived cot
two letters-each of which was addressed
to Mrs, Gardner w. Green-mixed, and
gave the missive intended for No. 1 TO No.
?, and vice versa. Then there was trouble.
Two wives of one handsome man might be
expected to do, they compared notes, de-
clded that Gardner was a gay deceiver
and struck off TO Indiana on No. s money
TO lind the man, who was still writing
letters burning with affection Some
times the letters to the two wives were
Just alike, except that one commenced
My Darling Hester, aud the other My
Darling Hattie
when the two Mrs. Greenes reached
the little town in Indiana, Gardner w.
had gone, but Mrs. Greene No. 3 was
there. The other two had noticed that
they were exactly alike, and when they
saw No. they were amazed to find that
she was their perfect image Greene had
gone TO Chicago, ana Mrs. Greene No 3
joined the merry chase-also on No. rs
money. In Chicago Greene had married
No. +, and had gone TO the starting point.
ST. Louis, with her. The three other
wives were in Chicago about week be-
fore they made this discovery, and then
they posted off TO ST. Louis, wondering
If they would ever catch up with their
husband. In st. Louis, with the aid of the
police, they found No. 4, but they couldn't
find Greene.
oh, he's looking for another one,
said No5+ Let's keep UP tle chase, and
away they went To Texas, where thew
heard that he had gone. it was false
scent, and in about ten days they came
back. In the mean time the police had
located Greene at De Hediamont, an arts
tocratic little suburb of ST. Louis. The
money that he had obtained from No. 1
having run out, he had settled down to
his old business of barbering and had
married No. 3. Well, this last one Joined
the other four and they agreed TO call on
Greene at the Four Courts, when he had
been locked up. They were pretty mad,
for the newspapers had commenced to
make lots of fun over the resemblance of
the five Mrs. Greenes, for No. and No. 4
looked exactly like the other three, but
when they were ushered into Greene's cell
they had to laugh for he bowed politely,
and what do you think he saidl
q" Ladies, I'll tell you all together what
have told each Of you separately, you are
the prettiest women in existence There
are no more like YOU
Mrs. Greene No. was the smartest
woman of the lot. and she engineered the
prosecution of the gay Lothario For
fear that the other Mrs. Greenes would
separate, she invited them all to her
house to live until the case came to trial.
Fully approaching, in spite of its many
bad features, the humor of the affair,
she induced the other four women to
dress their hair just as she dressed hers.
She ordered five tailor-made gowns of one
pattern to fit her figure, and the dresses
fitted them all. They bought five bon
nets just alike. They wore the same
sized shoes and the same sized gloves. 1t
sounds improbable, but IL is true. Such a
thing never happened before, and never
will happen again.
Talk about the two Dromios or vii
kinsOn's widows. Here were five Mrs.
Greenes as alike as five peas and as pretty
as five rosebuds, with their five Grecian
noses and five pairs of sloe-black eyes.
Their names were Hester, Hattie, Alice
Nettie, and Felicia. One Of the newspa-
pers secured photograph of one, repro
duced it four times, and called the i've
cuts pictures of the Mrs. Greenes, or the
Mistresses Greene, as some insisted was
the correct way of speaking Of them. The
whole town laughed about it, Everybody
except the victims wanted to see Gardner
60 free.
Another funny thing about H. the la
dies compared notes, and found that
Greene's manner Of courtship was precise
ly the same With two of them he had be-
come acquainted many years before, but
had not courted them. The other three.
including No /, were won on short ac-
quaintance. There is no doubt in the
world but that he had particular stand
ard of beauty, and when he got No. /. and
her money. he struck right out TO marry
everybody who was up TO the standard.
One reporter interviewed all Ave wives
together one day, and they all talked at
once and declared that he was Just the
incest man
1.-The trial was the funniest thing that
old st. Louis ever had. The wives got
all mixed up. Greene had a couple of
good lawyers, and made a sort Of defense,
although he seemed to enter into the fun
of the afair.
(which one do you like bestp asked
one of the lawyers. Each OF the Mrs
Greene's held their breath and grew pale.
for each, if the truth was known, loved
Greene better than her life.
~ love them all just the same re-
sponded Greene. They are equal; they
ha re the same dispositions and all. At
one time ! thought that Hester was the
prettiest name then thought that Het-
tie was a pretty name, then Felicia, and
then got all mixed up
at didn't take them very long to find
Greene guilty, and TO fix his punishment
at ten years in the penitentiary. Agreat
many people thought the man was insane.
but as a matter of fact he was as sane al
could be, except, possibly in regard TO a
The daughter Of o. J. Burwell, Kansas
safe robber, got 500 signatures TO petition
for her fathers pardon and then raised money
by washing and scrubbing 10 paw railroad
fare from her home 10 Norton county to To
peka There she saw the governor and Sc
cured the pardon. IL is said that BurweL