The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-07
YOUNG BUT PROMISING.
Fred FaIconer Has Two Wives in
Spite of His Youth.

! New hDrk, March Sired EalcGner Is
! but twenty-one years of age. and his bus
/ mess capabilities are measured by a
! clerkship in store, yet he was bold
enough to take upon himself two wives
and accept the chances of an arrest for
bigamy. His effrontery has resulted in
his arrest and Imprisonment. and he is
now being held for trial. with $1,000 fixed
as the price of temporary freedom until
his case comes up. Lacking friendship of
that value, he must spend the intervening
time behind the bars.
FaIconer worked at one time at Dobbs
Ferry. where he claims his home. In the
social life of that town was Miss Lillian
Travers daughter of a real estate man.
Falconer conceived some sort of an affec-
tion for Miss Travers. and the two were
married in November, 1893, when the
groom WAS but twenty years old and the
bride eighteen. Falconer settled down to
a domestic life. and i child was born.
Had he held his position at Dobbs Fer
~, he might now be a model young mar
Tied man of that quiet burg, but there
came q time when he had to look around
for another place. and he came ito New
1 =
he secured a place, at the Louvre One
Hundred and Forty-sixth Street and
1 Third Avenue. as floor walker. The wife
and child remained at the parents home
I in Dobbs Ferry.
There are number of girl clerks in
/ the Louvre" The most attractive one
among them was Miss Katie Smith, sew
enteen years old. of No. 469 East One
| Hundred and Fiftieth Street. Miss
Smith and the new hoorwalker We're
much together. in the store and out of it.
He was attractive and had had expert
! ence. and when. after five weeks of
courtship, ne asked her to become Mrs.
| FaIconer, she consented FaIconer took
her to the Rev. w H. Barton. of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. at One Hun
dred and Forty-first Street and Willis
! Avenue. and the parson made them one
as far as his prOnouncing them man and
/ wife could do it.
This was on the last day of January
Falconer had rented room at No ~
! East One Hundred and Forty-fourth
! Street. and thither he took his second
| bride. Neither went to the store again.
There We're Just five days of honeymoon
awful fact that her husband had deserted
/ her. He had left her without a word
: going nobody knew where. The girl had
/ the usual feminine cry, and then started
! out TO look for the errant husband on
/ the street she met one Of her former
/ associates in the store. Notwithstanding
( the fact that she was on a search for
1 Falconcr, and suspected that he had
gone forever, she was 50 proud Of her
marriage that she confided the fact Of
il 10 the clerk.
She was stunned when her friend in
formed her that FalcOner had been a
married man for a number Of years,
and that he had probably gone back to
his first wife. BroBen-hedrted, the girl
went home to her parents and told the
whole story. She was taken into the
family arms, and detectives were sent
after Falconer. He was traced to North
Norwalk, Conn The detectives got there
Just too late 10 arrest him. He had gone
but an hour before them. a suspicion
that he might have started for Dobbs
Ferry sent them scurrying thither. and
yesterday afternoon he stopped off the
train AT his old home. He was arrested.
He expressed no surprise but said he
expected IL sooner or later.