The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-04
UPPER MONTCLA|R
SET ALL AGOG BY
MRS. PENNS ANT|CS
Missing Young Wife Returns to
Aged Spouse with Three
Extra Husbands"
TURN HOUSE UPSIDE DOWN,
CLEAN OUT THE LARDER
Citizens, Aroused by Orgie, Come
to Helpless Mans Rescue
En- MasSe.

Mrs. Charles Penn, the young wife
of the octogenarian boss painter, has
returned suddenly to her home In
Upper Montclair avenue, Upper Mont
clair, which is surrounded by the homes
of millionaire society residents, with
three additional husbands, according
to, Penn.
But, temporarily, the three surplus
husbands are in hiding, as the police
are seeking them, on complaint of the
disnifed and wealthy residents of the
vicinity, who object to Mrs. PENIS ex-
ceedingly liberal matrimonial views.
When the young woman married
Penn eight years g he was wealthy,
but she needed plenty of money and
that, with business reverses, reduced
the aged mans finances to such an ex-
tent that a year g his young wife
disappeared.
Identified Floater ms Wife.
Penn, still in love with her, spent a
large amount of money in searching for
her, and, finally, last fall, identified the
BODY of a woman found in the Hud-
son river Is that of his missing wife.
But this identification was upset a
few weeks ego by the sudden appear
ance of Mrs. Penn at the Upper Mont
clair avenue house. She refused to
talk with her aged husband. She
packed up all her clothing and jewels
and departed, saying as she went tina
she wanted nothing more to do wit
Penn, "as l have married another ma
IN Brooklyn"
With his love for her still burning
Penn has been searching Brooklyn
since then for her. He was sitting on
the porch of his home last night when
a woman and three men came hilarious
ly. up the avenue and turned in at his
gate.
Turn House Topsy-Turvy.
The woman was Mrs. Penn. She
brought the three men up on the porch
and introduced them to the aged Mr..
Penn. each as her husband.
Yes, l nave married all of them,'
she said, "and now I have foul hus-
bands together. That's more than most
women can do"
Mrs. Penn proceeded to make merry
with the three surplus Husbands on
the porch and in the house. They at
tackled the pantry and had a great
feast. Penn was too dazed to object.
They laughed, cried and made merry,
much to the annoyance of the exclu-
sive and rich neighbors. Their hilarity
was echoed over the mountains n
angry residents, some of them big BUSH
ness men of New York, came out on the
street and held a mass meeting of indig-
nation.
One of these outraged neighbors ap-
ySoarhad ponn and oQLed him what was
the matter in the house.
"I don't understand it," he said. my
wife has just returned home and she
has brought with her three men. who,
she y are also her husbands. She
says she is married to all of them.
They said they had been for two days
and nights on the meadows coming
here. 1 don't know what to do"
"Husbnnds, Flee; wife Remains.
But the n~eighbors knew what to do.
They went down and called on Acting
Chief Of Police James McGarry and he
sent Patrolman lennon on his bicycle
up to the Penn Home.
BY this time the roysterers had fin
ished their feast in the house and were
making the night hideous on he front
veranda. The three extra Husbands
saw the policeman coming n they
darted around the house and disap-
peared through the back lots. The
woman remained.
Mr.. Penn was still in a daze and the
officer could get little information from
him. The woman contented herself
with remarking that she had a perfect
right to bring all the husbands she
pleased to her own home.
OF course. Mrs. Penn had a right in
her own home and the neighbors could
not object to her presence. AS long as
the surplus Husbands had gone, they
were pacified.
1t was expected, however, that the
three men who accompanied Mrs. Penn
would return today or this evening,
and the neighbors are OF the lookout
for them.