The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-12
A MODERN BLUEBEARD
HE HAD SEVEN WIVES AND LED
 A REMARKABLE CAREER.
Showed Adroitness in Grimes and Kept Body of Murdered Spouse
 in. Box for Many Months.

New York Herald.
 George Albert Crossman, who cheated the galiows the other day by cutting his throat when he found escape from the police impossible and the discovery that he had murdered one of his numerous wives inevitable left behind him story Of callous villany, reckless audacity, tragic horror and dramatic retribution which is still a shock to all London, har- dened as 1t is to tales of crime and vil- lany
 The body of his victim-Wife No. 5- he placed, imbedded in cement, in a tin box. and thus for twelve months hid his ghastly secret in the house in which he continued to live with his fourth wife. Meanwhile. although he had al- ready served sentence of five years for bigamy. he married two more wo- men.
 Outwardly Crossman was an attractive villain of the type most favored in mod ern sensational fiction. Handsome and dark almost as an Indian, with piercing black eyes, thick. black hair, slightly curled and tinged with gray about the temples. a high forehead. a pallid com plexion and possessed of a good address, he found 1t easy to ensnare women by matrimonial advertisements and false piOttStdNiOu5 Ot dlGSNtOis NhAS 6CethAB hold of any money they might have had.
 His first wife died when he was D. be- fore he had contracted any other mafri- monfal alliance. Crossman always car- ried the death certificate of this wife about with him, presumably that he might ho able to furnish ready proof that from at least one of his spouses nature had given him a legal quittance.
 Begins Bigamous Career.
 Wife No. he married in 1s97 when he was 2s, and in November, 1898. less than year later, wife No. 3. Before the year was out he was serving five year sentence of penal servitude for bigamy. By good conduct he obtained the usual abbreviation of his sentence and was released on ticket of leave While still reporting himself regularly to the police, as required by his ticket O: leave he committed biEamy again on January 10, 1903, making Edith Thomp- son. the daughter of commercial trav- eiler. wife No 4.
 Unconscious irony had christened the house in which he established himself and this bride "Sunnyside". It was typical modern London suburban struc- ture of the eminently genteel and cheap variety-red brick. two-storied. bow windowed-just like any other house in Ladysmith road.
 The couple had been living here only few days when Crossman informed wife No that he had to make trip to Manchester, and suggested that his absence would afford her an excellent opportunity to visit her relatives, who lived in another part of London. Ac- cordingly on the morning of January 10 I9O3-five days after their marriage katt- Inft kba hnttaa tO U0 to her relatives, he ostensibly bound for the railway station, but really bent on making another matrimonial contract.
 In A few hours he was back again, bringing with him wife No 5, whom he had married in the interval, assuming for the purpose the name of Seymour. Mrs. Sampson was her former name. She was a widow and hospital nurse, and. though more than forty, was said to he an attractive woman, with very sweet disposition. But the important thing for Crossman was that she had some money saved up. No. { had brought him only $10o and he was run ming short of cash.
 Slain on Her Wedding Night.
 "Oh. what a surprisel" No had writ ten Rieefuiiy, as the inevitable post script to a letter she had sent her sis ter telling of her intended marriage. Of the grim nature or the surprise that awaited her she could have had not the faintest suspicion. The morning after she had entered the house as a bride she was dead-foully murdered. As to how she met her death only post-mor- tenn evidence obtained more than a wear after the deed had been eonSnitted was available. That indicated she had first been choked into insensibility, her throat cut, and then her skull crushed with some heavy instrument.
 In the house was a tin trunk that had belonged to Crossman's first wife. Into this he forced the body of his victim. locked it in a cupboard under the stairs and that same evening went to bring wife No 4 home again, telling her that his business in Manchester had taken up much less time than he had expec- ted
 No trace Of nervousness was appar- ent in his manner. there was nothing