The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-30
TWO WIVES CLAIM BROWN
DEALER IN FRUITS AND VEGETA-
BLES ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY.

| Causes the Arrest of Jacob Brown,
Who, He Says, Is Sam Paskie, Sr.,
His Mothers Husband and His
own Father-TelIs n Tale of Ro-
mantle Marriage and Desertion,
Seventeen Years AgO-Has Been
Looking for the Missing Husband
Ever Since-BrOwn Denies the
story.
| At the instance of his putative son, Sam
Paskie Jr., Jacob Brown, a vendor of
! fruits and small vegetables, was arrested
yesterday on charge of bigamy. The
! charge is preferred by young Paskle. who
says that Brown, or Paskie, married his
mother in Germany quarter of a century
ago, and eight years afterwards deserted
her and her three children.
The arrest of Brown, as for the present
he may be called, was made by City De-
tectives Stark, Barrett and Shea. The
! tale told the detectives by the young man
who claims to have. suffered wrongs in
| Vulnerable at the hands of the one he calls
his father is sufficiently romantic to excite
interest, and, if true, shows that his moth
er, his brother, and sister, and himself
have just and true cause of complaint.
He says that in Germany, many years
ago Brown met his mother, wooed and
finally won her. He went then, the boy
says, under the name of Paskie, and was
possessed of those arts of fascination and
the face and figure that led easily to the
winning of her girlish heart. The mar
riage took place and for some years the
couple lived happily together. Then ne
disappeared.
The woman started in pursuit and in
! England left the boy in a charity school,
until he was of such an age that he was
able to assist in their support. The other
children accompanied the mother to the
United States, and they settled in New
York Here, says young Paskie, her lot
was not enviable, and for almost a score
of years she was compelled to make
scanty living for her children and herself
by the meanest and hardest of drudgery.
| Her life was one long round of toll, pri-
walton and want and this is all laid at
| the door of her husband and the father
of her children.
Finally she heard from her husband, in
Detroit She wrote to the authorities
| there, and a last received an answer to
her anxious queries. 1t was that Paskie
had once lived in that city, but that he had
since moved to Atlanta. The boy, Sam
I dShltf was luGu WIN nGF ana ne look up
| the search. He followed the clue to Al
| lanta, and then to Savannah, and here ne
| says he has located his long lost father
married and happy, and in a small way
| fairly prosperous. He has a photograph
In his possession that certainly closely re-
| sembies the quondam Brown. taken eight
| cen years ago. The instant that he heard
| Browns voice he Gained to recognize 1t
| as that of his father, and pointed the man
out to the detectives. The arrest followed
Brown took his arrest and subsequent
| confinement at the station house coolly
| enough, stoutly protesting his innocence
| of the crime with which he is charged.
| His present wife he married in Detroit
| eleven years ago, and has two small chill
| dren, and years old respectively. She
| is convinced of his innocence of the crime
! laid at his door. and refuses to hear Of
| anything that would or might cause her
| to think otherwise. Her faith in her hus-
band is perfect, and she laughs to scorn
| the imputation of his guilt.
Browns denial of the crime alleged
against him is forcible and direct, and
| too, not without interest. He repudiates
the whole thing, from start to finish and
| says he never knew the woman and GER
! tainly never married her He Is casually
| willing to admit it possible that sometime
| and somewhere. during the course of his
! career, he may have known her and that
| the children may be his, but this is as
| Arll riS MS d'liIllSSiOi Will extend. lie wants
! to see the woman, though, before he will
| make a positive assertion on this point
As to his past history. he says that he
| came to this country with his father when
| he was years old and that they settled
| in New Orleans. A the outbreak of the
| civil war he, then grown to manhood, en-
| listed in the regiment that subsequently
| acquired fame under the name of the
| Louisiana Tigers. and served with it until
| the surrender, when he received an hon.
| orable discharge from the Confederate
army. At the time of the surrender his
| commanding officer was Col. Clark who
| Brown says, died a few years ago. The
man bears upon his body the marks of
| three dangerous wounds one of his legs
| being shattered and thrown out of shape
There is also the deep impression of what
was evidently dangerous wound In the
scalp.
For eighteen months after the close of
the war he was in a hospital at Memphis
| and upon his discharge thence went to De-
| troit. He stayed there for time and
! then started upon wandering Bohemian
existence that led him for many years up
and down the Mississippi valley He le-
| turned to Detroit and came from there 10
Atlanta and from Atlanta 10 Savannah. He
| has been here some six or eight months
| and has been known to be a sober and in
dustrious man, VINO minded his own busl-
ness and let that of other persons severely
alone. Thus he acquired a good name
among his neighbOrs.
! Young Paskie. the alleged son, is about
| % years Old, and seems 10 be respectable
| and clear-headed sort of a fellow He is
quite certain he has found his father and
| is positive that his mother was married to
| the man now under arrest. He has tele-
| graphed for her and she is expected TO ar
rive in Savannah some time during the
| day. Then, probably, the mystery viii be
| cleared up
HENCKEN BADLY DAMAGED.