The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-19

bakers wagon on Warren street.
Held also declared that the reason
that he had taken milk baths from the
paratively recent date.
Held told an EVENING STAR red
porter today that he did not care what
became of him. He has made three un-
successful attempts to end his life, one
of these was at the grave of his mother.
When arraigned before Recorder
Kelly in Kearny last night Held was
confronted by Mrs. Anna DucSwood
Parsons his wife No. g. and, after
making confession that he was a big
amist, was held in $1,000 bail for the
Grand Jury He is also under $1,000
bail for threats to kill wife No, 81
The women Held confessed to having
married are: .a
Miss Louisa Held. his first cousin, In
June, 1902, in EastOn. Pm. Ceremony
performed by Alderman Bruer.
Miss Nellie Murray. of 20 Walnut
street, Newark. Married by Alderman
BIauvelt, January "a, 1907.
Hiss ADnn DuckwoOd (now MIS-
Frederick w. ParsoDs), of 70 Seventh
avenue. Married ON February s, 1905
by the Rev. Mr.. Schaeffer, of Harrison
EVENING STAR reporters today dis
covered Miss Elsie Maur, who, in his
first confession to the police on
Wednesday, Held said was wife No. 2.
She is now employed as cook In
fashionable boarding house at 2So sum
mer street. Paterson. She is 20 years
old and pretty.
Held nm Awful Cut-up.
80 that bakers boy dared to say
had married him." she cried with flash
ing eyes. "Oh, what a terrible untruth
He tried to flirt with me and wanted
me to marry him. but l am thankful
that 1 withstood his would-be fascina-
tions.
He was most devoted to me and
bought me candy and gave me sugared
words, too. What a cut-up he was TO
be sure. Why, he told me that the
reason he was so pretty and that the
girls couldn't resist him was because
he mad taken milk baths since lie was
baby.
IF he dares to repeat again that
/ married him will go at once to
Newark and confront him in police
court.
II first met Fred Held when he was
drivi a bakers wagon and l was
maid at the home of DR.. Wandros' IN
Warren street. Fred made love to me-
first by teaching me TO speak lug
lish. You see l am scandinavian
Then he asked me to marry him, aiter
n years courting, and | would nave
done so. but some OF my friends told
me to watch out for him, that he was
a shifty fellow.
when I learned finally that he had
a wife named Louisa, whom he mar
ried in Pennsylvania l dropped him.
hut not without a great deal of trouble.
He went to my friends in Newark and
got my picture, and said that he would
keep it.
"Held is no Western cowboy. He is
a common baker by trade, but will
work at anything to get acquainted
with d girl He told me that he had
lots of girls, and that he always got
fheir pictures and kept them. lie
showed me many.
He Confesscs Marringc.
"When l told him that was done
Min him he confessed that he had
married a girl in Easton. Pa, but that
sbo was not good to him, and he was
o,oing To get a divorce. He said ne
would be true TO me, and treat me hNe
a queen. know now that he was after
my bank account. Oh he mas sweet
vsvs hut since / broke off with him
have often stopped in my work ana
thought how near he succeeded IN get
ting me into his grasp and then
would be like his other dupes
II am engaged now and my intended
husband is O. hard-worlxing fellow.
don't want TO be dragged into this az
FAIR. but If Parsons. the baker says
that he is my husband, l VIII go 10
~Newark and face him. believe 1t is
tie duty of every girl to expose such
villain, and that is why l speak SO
freely. MY intended will not be angry
with me for knowing such man a.
The baker. for have already told him.
Especial to the Evening start
GALVESTON, Tex, March l9.-Fred
~. Held. alias Parsons, not known in
this section.