Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-10-05
JOURNEYS FAR TO PROSECUTE
HUSBAND.
Vile No. One OF Leonard Wade, Alias
Rodgers, Arrives Here to AD-
pear Against Husband.
Herald, Sept. IS.

huntington herald, sept. Is.
As G.. IL O. train No. . stopped
at the passenger depot here Monday
afternoon, demure little woman,
dressed in black, stepped 10 the plat
form aud anxiously inquired for At
torney John w. Perry. Finding
bin there TO meet her she introduced
herself a the wife No. of Leonard
w ade, alias Rodgers, who is now In
the Wayne county Jail on the charge
OF bigamy, and whose trial Will be
heard at Wayne Court House this
week.
Mrs. Wade, since her desertion
by her husband, more than year
ago, has been resident of Aurora.
Ind, and came from tnat place TO
Huntington 10 appear as a wiines.
against the man who married and
deserted her and then, without
securing divorce, married Miss
Daisy Payne, of Kenova.
Wade and the little woman who
arrived yesterday were married
about three years ago in small
Missouri town, the home of the
bride. According TO her story their
married life was real connubial
felicity for time, but a cloud ap
peared on the horizon of the union
and for a number of weeks lite for
her was made miserable bv her hus-
band. Finally Wade deserted his
bride OF year and was lost TO her
for many months. In the meantime
he secured employment AS brakeman
on thc Norfolk d Western Railroad.
and while working in that capacity
met and married Miss Daisy Payne,
daughter Of Doc Payne, OF kenova
Wade's first wife learned some
time ago of his Whereabouts, but
not of his second marriage. She
wrote him number OF letters and
one of these fell into the hands of
the kenova woman, who thought
herself his wife. She Immediately
informed her father and he notified
the authorities that the man who
married his daughter under the name
OF Rogers, Is undoubtedly Leonard
w ade and that be has living wife.
Wade, alias Rogers, was arrested
and placed In Jail at Catlettseurg.
Attorney John w. Perry, of this
city, was secured to conduct the
prosecution Of the bigamist and he
at once wrote and secured the
marriage certificate, showing that
Wade was married in Missouri.
When the case came TO trial, how
ever, the prisoner was acquitted
on the grounds that although the
marriage certificate showed thar
Wade was previously married, there
was no evidence to show that his
wife had not died or that a divorce
bad not been secured.
The prisoner was released and
since that time has been living at a
number Of places in this section.
Believing that it wogk be impos
sible TO have his wife come here TO
prosecute him, and knowing that 10
Ie the only chance TO find him guilty
Of bigamy, he has shown no fear aud
has even gone SO far as TO write At.
toraey Perry, representing Miss
Payne, the woman he last married,
to the effect chat the law will never
get him.
After this open defiance of the
law by Wade, Attorney Perry wrote
to Mrs. Wade, at Aurora, Indiana,
aud offered to pay her expenses to
and from this city il she would at
tend the September term of the
Wayne court with Miss Payne, and
appear as a witness against Wade.
Wade was arrested at Wayne
Court House on Monday afternoon,
on warrant sworn out in that coun-
ty. He was greatly surprised when
taken into custody and was com
pletely dumbfounded when told that
both bis wife and the woman he last
married will be in court TO testify
against him.
Wade wac not arrested at Wayne,
as stated in the foregoing article.
Having learned that his wife, or
wives, we're on hand TO prosecute
him, he skipped out.