The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-05-02
He HAS WIVES
IN MANY STATES
so SAYS C-AUD (. CHAPMAN.
NOW IN TOCCoA JAIL CHARGED
WITH BiGAMY.
The Wedding Is SoIemnzed Soon At
ter the Departure of a Woman
Who Lived With Him.

Toccoa, Ga. May 1.-Claud r.
Chapman Of Greenylle, S. c.. was
today sent to the county Jail to await
the next term of the superior court
of llabersham county charged with
bisamy
chapman is a young man aboout "A
years of age, and first appeared in
Toccoa about one month ago as a
fru.- tree agent Soon after he came
here 'nis wife appeared, and they spent
two or three weeks together at a
boarding house in the city. During
this time, while Mrs. Chapman was
still in Toccoa, Chapman was paying
considerable attention to Miss Gussie
DWELL the daughter of G. H. Lowell,
of this place.
For some reason Mrs. Chapman re-
! turned to South Carolina to Chap
mans fathers last Tuesday. April
%. On the same day Chapman re,
quested Of Mr Lowell the hand of his
daughter Miss Gussie, in marriage
Mr.. Lowell replied that he could not
consent to the marriage until he could
learn something of the man who de-
sired to marry his daughter. Two
days later Thursday night. Chapman
procured license, went to the resi-
.dencc Of Rev, W. S. Whtmire. accom-
panied by Miss Lowell, and there the
twain were made one.
Chapman Arrested.
They returned to Mr.. IovelPs.
where they remained until the next
morning. During the day Mr.. Lowell
heard that Chapman had introduced
woman in Toecoa as pis wife. and had
rliyed with ner there for several
weeks. He at once lad Chapman ar
rested.
Mrs. Chapman No 1 was notified
that her husband was in serious trou-
bic in Georgia. She at once came to
zee. him, thinking that she could be
OF some help 70 him in his trouble.
no one here lsueY @nether they were
really husband ana wife. When Mrs.
Chapman No. ] arrived she metsaCyery
cold reception at the hands Of her
husband. Finding that she. would be-
the means Of sending him to prisons
if he remained in Georgia, she, made
her visit very Snort.
Mr. Lowell without delay, Instituted
a search for evidence of the South
Carolina marriage. This was no easy
task, as in that state no record Of
marriage is kept by the county au-
thorities. after three days it was as
certained that the marriage ceremony
was performed in Greenville county
He Denies Marriage.
Chapman has all along maintained
his innocence, saying that, although
he was living with Miss Julia Jacobs,
wife No. /, he was not married to her.
Chapman and Mrs. Chapman No. l
are both of good family, ana are well
known in Greenville county, South
Carolina.
Chapman is a young man of prepos-
sessing appearance and made a good
impression upon the people of this
community. He dressed well and it
now develops that he owns a consid-
cradle amount of property in South
Carolina. Mrs. Chapman No 1 is a
very modest woman and while here
with Chapman remained at her board
ing house, and 1t was not generally
known that he had a wife with him.
When asked if he did not know
that he would get into trouble by
marrying a second time, Chapman re-
piled tnat he had lived in many states
, and had a different wife in every
state in which he had lived, but that
no one would ever be able to secure
evidence to convict him of bigamy.
Miss Lowell, whose father is a man
of very modest means. but a nightly
respected citizen says that she will
have nothing further to DO WITH Chan
man, and that she wishes him to be
punished.