The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-25
BIGAMY CHARGE FOR DUNBAR
THURMAN IS WANTED ALSO FOR
LARCENY OF $4,000.
His wife. Who Was Miss Lowell and Married
Him Recently. Says He Has Another
Wire-He Borrowed Money From HIS
Brlde's Mother and Disappeared.

Him Recently. says He Has Another
Wire-He Borrowed Money From His
Brlde's Mother and Disappeared.
John B. Dunbar, who Ia said to be MEM
Der Of well known New England family
and a turfman, is wanted by the police OF
Jersey City on two warrants charging him
with bigamy and with the larceny OF
$4,000, the money having teen obtained
from Mrs. William Lowell Of So West
Seventy-second street, this city. whose
daughter Marie Lowell. Dunbar married
in Jersey City on Sept. 8. Dunbar is
thought to be in Boston, having 1t is al
legged, deserted his bride two days after
he had obtained the money from her mother
The warrants were sworn out by Mrs.
Lowell and her daughter before Justice
Hoos in Jersey City after Dunbar's bride
had discovered she says, that her husband
had wife and family living in Flushing
and was not divorced man, as she says
he had pretended to be. The police have
not been able to locate Dunbar, and yester-
day Mrs. Dunbar and her mother appeared
before the Grand Jury in Jersey City.
Mrs. Lowell, the mother, Is the WIDOW
OF william Lowell, prominent turfoaan'
VINO uleu tHTec years aSo. III u"uSh.Ii
Marie. is 20 years old. According TO the
story told by the mother and daughter to
the police in Jersey City. the marriage was
performed by Justice Duffy OF ~ Mont
gomery street, livery stable keeper, in
the parlor Of the Pennsylvania Hotel at
Greene and Montgomery streets. Dunbar
said he was 81 years old and lived ut 52S
Sumner avenue, Newark.
Mrs. Dunbar, who now charges her hus-
band with bigamy. said that she and her
mother had met Dunbar at Saratoga year
ago. He was a good spender and impressed
them favorably.
Dunbar, she said, informed them that
he had been married. but had secured a
divorce and that his wife was confined in
an asylum. The acquaintance continued
until Mrs. Lowell consented to an engage
ment bet ween her daughter and Dunbar
last summer
Prior 10 the wedding Dunbar. accordil &
to the LOvells confided in them that he
had chance to get an important cont ract
his brother George, who lived in Boston,
and that he needed $4,000 to secure Il.
He afterward reduced this to SO 900 and
Mrs. Lowell saws she agreed to advance
this to him. Dunbar, she says, offered to
make over to her an insurance policy and
two notes but Mrs. Lowell refused to accept
any security saying it would do after
She handed the money to him, she says,
on Sept 10. She raised it by mortgaging
house in West Twenty-eighth street.
Mrs. Lowell says that she had no idea
up to this time that her daughter and DCn-
bar had been married. As soon as he got
the money Dunbar confessed to the mar
riage.
He left his bride at the Lowell home in
this city and started for Boston to close
the deal, he said The following Friday
Dunbar sent telegram from Boston say
ing he would be back the following Sunday.
His bride became suspicious when she
got a letter from Dunbar saying that he
was ruined and that they must say good-by,
and decided, she said, TO visit Flushing,
where the four children Of his alleged di-
vorced wife were living.
When she reached the place, she said,
and told his young son that she was his
stepmother. the latter disappeared and
returned with his mother, who said that she
was Dunbar's wife. Mrs. Dunbar, No 2,
then told her story to Chief Murphy OF Jersey
City and the warrants We're subsequently
issued
A friend OF the Lovells said last night that
at the time Dunbar met Miss Lowell, the
latter was engaged to turfman at Sarat oga.
Dunbar made such an impression with the
ST DRY of the fortune he had made as hlm-
herman, that the engagement was soon
broken between Miss Lowell and the turf
man and was followed by her engagement
to Dunbar Miss Lowell has three brothers
and to the eldest of these Dunbar, this
friend said, had promised fine job in Bos-
ton lumber company which never ma
terializpJ