The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-25
WAS TOO MUCH MARRIED
MAX ROSENBERG CARELESS OF HIS
MATRIMONIAL ENGAGEMENTS.
Now Both Wives Have Turned Upon
Him and the Grand Jury Has
Indicted Him.

Max Rosenberg, the theatrical manager
Who indicted by the Marion county
grand jury on the charge of bigamy. has
been located by the police in Cincinnati and
will be brought back to indianapolis at
once. Although the Indictment against
Rosenberg was procured at the last term
of the grand jury the fact was not made
public until yesterday. 1t was not thought
advisable to give out the indictment when
the report of the jury was made, three
weeks ago, as the whereabouts of Rosen-
berg was then unknown.
Rosenberg is not known in Indianapolis.
The prosecuting witness against him is one
of the women whom he is alleged to have
betrayed. She is Blanch Mitchell, Chi
cago actress, who is known as wife No. /.
She lives at No. 1885 Milwaukee avenue.
Chicago. According to the statement made
to her attorneys, Blackledge & Thornton.
and subsequently made in the presence of
the grand jury, she was married to Rosen-
berg in Chicago Nov. /, 1896. The ceremony
was performed by justice of the peace.
After the marriage Rosenberg and his wife
took up their abode in a Chicago hotel,
where they resided for a short time. Be
coming tired of hotel life, they went to live
with Mrs. Rosenbergs mother, on Milwau-
kee avenue. 1t seems that Rosenberg did,
not get along well with his motherin law
and they did not remain there long. How
ever, they spent most of the winter in Chi
cago and early in March Rosenberg left
the city. Ills wife, as she says. supposed he
was on the road with a, theatrical company.
During the first week in March Rosenberg
turned up in Indianapolis and procured a
marriage license for himself and Miss Jen-
ME Crawford, a milliner, who resided in
an Illinois town near Chicago. Rosenberg
and Miss Crawford were united in marriage
by Judge McMaster, of the Superior Court.
A month or two later wife No. 1 heard of
the marriage ceremony performed here in
Indianapolis and was greatly distressed
over the news. She cried great deal and
kept the matter to herself for several days
before speaking to her family about it.
Finally she confided in her mother. She
was advised to bring an action for divorce,
and did so in the Chicago courts. In Au-
gust the divorce was granted. About the
time the suit was brought the Chicago pa
perS contained some sensational stories OF
Rosenberg's alleged escapade, and some
wife No. 2, who learned for the first time
how she had been deceived. She brought a
suit to have the marriage contract with
Rosenberg annulled, and a decree in her
favor was entered shortly after wife No. /
secured her divorce. During the last sum-
mer both women met in Chicago and dis
cussed their troubles. Wife No. 1 was de-
termined to have Rosenberg prosecuted,
and on being informed in Chicago that this
would have to be done in the indianapolis
courts, as the last marriage had occurred
here, she came to this city during the last
session of the grand jury and placed her
case in the hands of Blackledge & Thorn
ton The woman told her attorneys that
she had understood Rosenberg had a third
wife in New York city. She spoke of hav-
ing met Rosenberg in Chicago last sum-
mer shortly after she brought the suit for
divorce. She says he accosted her on the
street and wanted to adjust their differ
ences. He proposed that he procure a play
and advertise her as a star under his own
management. She says she Indignantly
refused to have anything further to do
with him.
AT the time the indictment was returned
it was understood Rosenberg was In Chi
cago. Mrs Rosenberg, or Miss Mitchell,
informed the attorneys. she had recently
seen him there. She said he was very at
tentive to pretty, blonde-haired girl a
clerk in one of the large stores of the city.
However, the police were unable to locate
Rosenberg in Chicago, and nothing was
heard of him until a few days ago, when
Superintendent Quigley heard of him in
Cincinnati Yesterday the superintendent
sent a photograph of Rosenberg to the Gin
cinnati police and last night received word
that the man was under arrest.
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