The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-18
HE CARRIED LICENSES
MIR. ROSENBERG OCCASIONALLY
CAUGHT A BRIDE WITH THEM.
An Alleged Bigamist from Chicago
Who Married Here-Stage-Struck
Girls His Victims.

A divorce case in Chicago a few days
400 brings to light a case of bgamy, which,
it is claimed, was committed in TINS city
last February. Two pretty women claimed
Max Rosenberg as their husband and both'
singularly enough, claimed that they had
been married by a sort OF a slelght-ot-
hand which they did not understand. Inc
two women interested in the case are Miss
Jessie Crawford and Miss Blanche Louise
Mitchell A few weeks ag3 the latter
brought suit for divorce from Max Rosen-
berg and Miss Jessie Crawford was named
as correspondent in the suit. This attracted
the attention of Miss Crawford, who
thought she was Rosenberg's wife. She
hunted up the other woman and learned
that Rosenberg was the husband of Miss
Mitchell when he married her.
Miss Mitchell says she met Rosenberg
Nov 49, 1896. She was anxious to become
a stage dancer and a friend gave her the
address of Rosenberg, who claimed to be
a theatrical manager. She called on him
and became member of a company which
vas about to play THE Clemenceau Case"
Seven days after her meeting with Rosen-
berg she was married to him. 1t was a
snap Judgment affair, she claims. The only
time Rosenberg ever talked marriage to
her was before the whole company when,
in apparently jocular mood he said some
thing about it. A few days later she and
Rosenberg and another member of the COM
pany were walking along the street. Sud
denly Rosenberg asked her TO walk up a
stairway with him as he had a matter OF
business to attend to. She did as he re-
quested and found herself in the office or
justice OF the peace. Rosenberg pulled
out a marriage license and almost before
she knew what was taking place she was
pronounced his wife. She was indignant at
first Rosenberg told her he would choke
her head off il she told her mother. she
remained quiet about the afTalr nVe Gays
and then told her mother. The latter tod
the neighbors and IL became understood
generally that Miss Mitchell and Rosen-
berg were married. She says she thought,
in order 10 make the best of the situation.
that she would live with him, and did so.
She took him to her own home. lie re-
manned six weeks and then her stepfather
kicked him out Of the house.
Miss Crawford'S marriage TO Rosenberg
occurred IN this city last February and
she, too, claims that she did not realize
what was going on until she was declare
his wife by a justice OF the peace. Like
Miss Mitchell she was stage struck and
went to Rosenberg. He engaged her and
brought her and another woman to this
city, where they were to play at one of the
theaters. She claims now that she was
lured into the courthouse and that the
marriage was performed without her con-
sent. She lived with Rosenberg five days
and returned to Chicago. She was en-
ployed in millinery store before her stage
and matrimonial experiences and back to
her work she went. She never told her
mother of the marriage.
Miss Mitchels application for divorce
was granted by the Chicago court and now
that of Miss Crawford is pending and will
probably terminate in the pullincation OF
the marriage. Miss Mitchell claims that
Rosenberg had been married at least thee
other times and was d bigamist when he
married her. The first marriage she finds
in his record was to Jennie Lyman in Cleve-
land, in 1855. He next married Emma Bell
at Providence, r. l., and she was divorced
in 1892 Then he married Rose Sake who
obtained a divorce from him two months
after he married Miss Mitchell.
dispatch from Chicago says that the
two women have started proceedings
against Rosenberg for bigamy and have
secured a warrant from this CITY, where
he married Miss Crawford The record at
the police station contains no mention of
such a warrant