Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-04
George r. Duncan, Alias Geo.
E. Davis, Under Arrest at
Toledo, Ohio
He HAS AT LEAST SIX WIVES
Present Indictment Is for Wife Aban-
donment in chicaso-severaI Terms
in Prison Produce No Effect in Curb
ing Duncan's Marriage Mania and
He Holds All Records on Bisamy.

Chicago. Dec. 4.-George f. Duncan
alias George e. Davis, said by the POI
lice to be the husband of at least six
wives, is under arrest at Toledo, O
Duncan is under Indictment for wife
abandonment in Chicago, and he may
be brought here within a few days to
stand trial.
In the meantime Detectives Kane and
Qualey, of the Central station, are
searching for his six alleged wives, two
OF whom they have found. From de-
velopments of their investigation the
detectives expect to find additional
wives of whom they have no clew at
present.
Mrs. Lilly Rudd Duncan, who lives
with her sister in West Adams street
near California avenue, and Mrs.
Frankie Pendelton Duncan, who resides
at $3.50 Washington Park place, are the
wives with whom the detectives are
now in communication. Maud Ward
Esther Davis, Millie Russell and one
other woman are said to have welded
Duncan, who had never resorted to the
divorce courts to secure legal release
from any Of the women he led to the
altar.
Duncan, according to the police, holds
all records on bigamy. He is civil en-
gineer of ability, and a man OF good
education and fine presence. He was
employed in Chicago by firm In the
Monadnock building, and his salary is
said to have supported three house,
holds at one time.
Duncan, the police say, has a sort OF
marriage mania. Penitentiary sem
fences have failed to curb it. He was
confined in the Waupun, Wis, prison
for one term on q bigalny conVlctloil,
and as soon as he secured MS freedom
he is said to have set about Woolng ana
winning susceptible women AGAIN.
Again the law tore him from two MONIES
he was attempting to MAINTAIN at the
same time, and he spent year In the
Joliet prison.
Duncan's second term had no more
effect on his marriage mania than the
first. according to the police. When
released he again entered his neart-
crushing campaign, and six wives are
said to have had more or less lesai
claim upon him before he had been
three wears from behind the prison
bars. Miss frankie Pendelton, the
police say, was the last wife duncan
married. Miss Pendelton and Duncan
were wed in September of last year
and while Duncan was employed by the
Monadnock building firm. The wife
preceding frankie Pendelton, the po-
lice say, was Lilly Rudd.
The various wives of Duncan proved
too much strain on his purse, and ne
is said to have left Chicago a few
months after his marriage to frankie
Pendelton.
During his various courtships- and
he is said to have courted while legally
bound to two or three wives-Duncan
represented himself as well-to-do
civil engineer. His employers gave
him. a good reputation and he went
about In good society, none OF the
FRIENDS he acquired or his employers
knowing of his penitentiary record. He
abandoned such of his wives as hs
chose, it is alleged, as he married
others.
After he disappeared Lilly Rudd
Duncan began an investigation, and
as a result she came near calling
convention of her husbands wives.
Putting off the convention idea for
something more practical. the fifth Mrs.
Duncan went before the grand jury
and had her husband indicted on q
charge of abandoning herself and baby
She now wants him brought into court,
but she is said to be without sufficient
ready cash to pay the expenses of send
ing an escort in the person of a police
officer to bring him back to the scenes
of his many wooings and weddings.
Detectives Kane and Qualey are
looking for other wives of the much
wooded Duncan, hoping they can find
one in financial circumstances to meet
the expense of the fugitive's trip back
to Chicago. II they tail the state ma
advance the money. States Attorney
Deneen is thinking the matter over
now.