The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
HIS THREE WIVES
HEAR AWFUL TALE.
Women who Married II. c. Mills
Learn, He Is a Horse Thief and
Embezzler, with Prison Record.

women VINO Married H. L. Mills
Learn, He Is a Horse Thief and
Embezzler, With Prison Record.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
1--WE knew he was bad, but we never
dreamed he was so horrid as all that"
This was the sentiment expressed by
the three wives of John ]. Marietta,
? better known as Harold C. Mills, as
they heard it alleged in the prelimi-
naries to the trial for bigamy that
their sometime liege lord and spouse
had a penitentiary record for horse
stealing and larceny. and was wanted
by the police authorities of many cities
for alleged embezzlement. Meanwhile
Mills, or Marietta, sat in the prison.
er's dock in Judge Brentano's court
room, trying to look unconcerned and
not to see several former "acquaint-
ances'' who We're there to tell what they
knew about him.
Mrs. Sophia Headly of st. Louis, Miss
Marie Butler of Detroit and Miss Flora
Beals of Chicago were the women who
appeared to prosecute Marietta on the
charge of bigamy. Supt. Glow of the
Ohio state penitentiary was also pres
ehI III the court .IOOlll 10 reveal 10 the
three women the alleged evil ways of
H. c. Mills, or H. Z. Reed, of which
they did not know.
He is the right fellow" said Supt.
Glow, after taking a long look at the
prisoner. He is the same man who
served three terms in our penitentiary-
once for stealing a horse and buggy,
then next time for taking gold watch
from a mans pocket, and finally for
grand la 7 mis- 10 lrAto
And to think that l liked Mr.. Mills
because he wore football hair" said
Mrs Headley.
You'd never have dreamed Mr.. Reed
could do such things if you could only
have heard the grand way he has of
debating letters said Miss Butler, who
was married to- H. G.. Reed While act
ing as his stenogra pher in Detroit
He's too horrid to look at, said the
Chicago wife, known as Miss Flora
Reals.
And the women sat with their arms
irtertwined while the alleged record of
the man who is accused of being a gay
and reckless heartbreaker. was being
read. n
Mills troubles began in Chicago last
spring when he was arrested for his
part in the escapade in which Miss
Laura c. Stricken, Y. NJ. c. A. wom-
an, leaped from a window in the third
story of the Newport Hotel to escape
him. The young woman recovered and
left the city without prosecuting, but
by that. time the women who have
claimed him as their husband learned
from the newspapers of his where
abouts and decided to prosecute him
for bigamy.
Back of their prosecution of him,
however, is the story of the efforts
made by mercantile agency to pun
ish the man whom it accuses of having
defrauded many of its clients in diff
ferent parts of the United States.
Mills alleged record, with the crimes
he is accused of committing, run as
follows, according to Supt. Glow and
the officials of the mercantile agency.
Mills was farmers boy raised in a
good home in the country near Del
Roy, O., where he was born thirty-tive
years ago. His right name is John j.
Marietta and he is known in different
part of the country as Albert A. An
derson, c. H. Houton, Clifford B. Nc
Gov, Harold Clifford Mills, H. R. Jones,
Harold c. Reed and Homer c. Reed.
Part of his history is as follows:
May ii, 1899-Sent to the Columbus
(Ohio) penitentiary for horse stealing.
June, 1SS9-Sent to Ohio state peni-
Tertiary for two years for picking
pockets.
August, 1S91-Arrested for horse
stealing and sent to penitentiary for
Aug. %, 1S92-Sent to Ohio peniten-
tiary for four years for horse steal
ing.
Dec. Is, 1S99-Eloped with a woman
from Lima, O., absconding with money
of his employer.
April 1, 1s99-Becane manager of the