The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-17
HIS FIVE WIVES
an cemo Up to tho Standard He
Had Marked out
GREENE'S MANIA ,F0R MARRYING

So Closely That They Might Have
Been sIsters-hetters Csuscd tho
TROUBLESOME Of tho sfostGsemarks.
bio Cases of Bisamy on RECORD.
cAtqpo TIM.
1.-THE cscapadOs Of Samuel Herbert
DyOts, the Washington shoe clerk who
secms to have married. three women.
calls to mind the story Of Gardner W.
Groeue, who had Eve wivoO who looked
like slSterp," remarked a ST. Louis
lawyer tho other night at sounds in.
crodlbIc," no continued, "but Greene
actually married Eve women Of tho
same figure, Same complexion, and all.
When tho fellow wus tried for blgamy
all Eve Of tho wives appeared against
him. and tho judge couldn't tell them
apart; neither could the lawyers. In
order 10 keep matters straight tho
Greene wivos had to cit IN tho same
seat at each session Of tho court, No. l
first, No. . next, and go on.
Greene wis barber, and was one OF
tho 0uOst specimens Of manhood that |
have ever laid eyes on. lie was Of fair
complexion, full six feet tall, slender,
perfect taco, q full head OF curly hnir,
and poem OF q mustache, to use q
feminine expression. Tho 0rst vile
was quito well to do-money loft by her
father, l believe. Greene courted her
and won her. Sho was q pretty woman,
Of rather uncommon style. She had
GreClnn nose and dark hair, which
llungin beautiful rlnglcts over broad
forehead. Her oyaa were sloe black.
and her skin was as white ne alabaster.
She was rather tall, and ns graceful and
willOwy as could be. She was smart,
too, and a man could not have wished
for better wife than had fallen TO the
lot OF Gardner Greene. barber. But shc
had hardly boen married month when
he slipped OF to Ohio and married an.
other woman. Hc brought her back to
st. Louis and installed her in dat not
two blocks from tho first wife.
HAPrY ron TWO MONTHS
"Well, he lived with them for about
two months, fitting from one to tho
other. and was as happy as king, and
they wero as happy az quCons. Then
he went over into Indiana, after prom
Using each wife (as young husbands
willy that he would write every day.
While he was in Indiana no married
third. This didn't keep him from writ
ing regularly to the two others. III
fuCL no wrote 80 often that the postmau
on tho street in which they both lived
got two Ietters-each OF which was nd.
dressed to Mrs. Gardner W. Greene
mixed, and gave the missive intended
for No. l to No. 2 and vice vcrsa. Then
there was trouble. One OF tho women
hunted up the other. Instead OF fight.
ing and pulling hair, as two wives OF
one handsome man might DO expected
to do, they compared notes, decided
that Gardner was q gay doccivcr, and
struck Of to Indiana on No rs money
TO find the man, who was still writing
letters burning with affection. Some
times the letters TO tho two wives were
Just alike, except that ono commenced
My Darling Hcstet' and tho other My
Darling Hattie
w hon tho two Mts: Troenes reacn ~!
the little town IN INDIANA TatuhSr w.
had gone; ont Slrs G'cene no. ., Ens
there. Tho other Two hao noL,ced tnas
they were exactly aIlke, anH wnen they
saw No 3 they were amazeu 70 unH thas
she was their perfect image SEeeno
Ind gone TO chicago. anu mrs Hreene
NO. joined the merry cuSse-aIso on
No. ls money. In chicago Greene naa
married No. :: ana naa gone 70 nis st a,!.
ing point, et Louie. win he 1st,, luz
three othe, Wives were IN Shlcago
about a woek before they made ms N u
covery. anu then tney posteu oit 70 %:
Louis, wondering y tney wgu'u eT ".
catch up with their husband: III o.
Louis, with the ala OF inc poncG, tmcy
found No. 4, ous they cou'uu uuu
Greene.
LOOKING FOR ANOTHER. =.
"Oh, he's looking for another ont"
said M l. .rcts kocp up tho chase,
" Nv ~. 800 " TAO whoro
ana away tncy "G"' ~ A0NoS' ""0'0
they heard that he had gone II was
iaIso scent aud in about ten days they
came back. In tho meantime INC ponce
bad located Greene at DO liodialnont'
an arlstocratic little suburb OF st. Louis:
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