The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-08
WALL IS A VERY
MUCH MARRIED MAN
Has Been Welded to Three Women ID
Twelve Years, and All Are Alive.
MARRIED FIRST AT FACTORYVlLLE
Detective North, Of delaware County,
N. ", Here Looking Up Evidence
Against Frank f. Wall Now in Jaii
There...Prisoner Said His First
Wife Died in Scranton But There
Is No Record Of 1t.

Detective William r. North, os Delhi.
Delaware county. n. Y, came to
Scranton yesterday to look up evidence
against man named Frank r. WALL
who Is under indictment In Delaware
county for bigamy. Mr.. North was
sent on here by District Attorney Will
liam +. White, of that county.
The detective called at the office OF
Clerk of the Courts John II. Thomas
and at the board OF health office in
city hall to look up the records. wall
was married at Factoryville. Wyoming
county, this state, on July l., 1884. HIS
bride was Miss Addie Van Gorder, of
that place, and the ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Thomas Hanown.
On August "a. 1889, he was married
at Preston Park, Wayne county, and
this time he led Miss Georgiana Fail
Ing, of that place, to the altar. Rev.
S. b. Abrams was the officiating cler-
gyman.
A short while ago he married a Miss
Morris, of Delaware county, N. Y, and
for that transaction he Is now In
trouble and under indictment to be
tried next week for bigamy, but 1t may
be a case of polygamy before the de-
tective gets through with it.
SAID FIRST WIFE WAS DEAD.
When Wall married Miss Failing in
Preston Park he claimed that his first
wife, the Van Gorder woman, was
dead, that she died here in Scranton
several years ago. No one questioned
his statement, or at least no one took
the trouble to find out whether or not
1t was true, and as the woman he
married seemed to be satisfied and take
for granted that what he said was true,
ht,,e oil MI A
day he deserted her.
The next heard of him was when he
turned up in Delhi, N. Y, and married
Miss Morris. He claimed to her that
his first wife was dead, and although
he admitted that he married Miss Fall
ing, he contended that the marriage
was not q valid one. An investigation
was begun and enough of facts were
secured to dispute the truth Of Wallis
assertion. He was, therefore, arrested
and In default Of bail was committed
to Jail to await trial.
District Attorney White says that
when the proper time comes he can
easily prove that Wallis marriage with
Miss Failing was a valid one and that
his subsequent union with Miss Morris
made him guilty of bigamy. But Mr.
White wants, II he can get the evil
dence, to prove that Wall Is not only
| a bigamist, but that he makes q prac.
tice Of marrying whenever he chooses
and that's the reason Detective North
came on here.
NO RECORD OF HER FOUND.
The detective heard that the Var
Gorder woman married again after
Wall left her, and that 1t was to some
person In Scranton. He went to the
office Of Clerk of the Courts Thomas tc
look up the marriage license dockets
and find out whether or not such was
the case. There Is no record in ths
clerks office of Van Gorder womal
answering to her description getting q
license.
The detective then went to the board
of health office to find il there was any
record there of such a woman dying
In this city, but he found none. He
proposes to remain in Scranton today
to follow up his search for the woman
and If he Is unsuccessful in finding any