The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-28
ACCUSES PRISONER
or KILLING. BRIDE
Family of Elizabeth Young
to Press Murder Charge
Against Apkins.

LEXINGTON KY. Aug. ASS Pc
ter Paul Apkins. young Russian held
in Jail here on charge OF bigaz.y.
second Johann Hoch or III. H. Holmes.
Did he expect to get rich by marrying
women all over the country and rob-
bling and deserving them. Did he ex-
pect to establish countrywide har-
EN-. having branches in every state.
These and other questions will be
settled next month when Apkins will
be placed on trial here for bigamy.
He is charged with having married
Miss Elizabeth b. Young of this city
while he had wife living. This wife
it is said. he had married only two
days before he came here and claimed
Miss Young as his bride.
Apkins's story is a strange one. Ac-
cording to his own narrative. he came
to this country from Russia, arriving
in Chicago Dec. 81. 1908. The next day
he was taken to the Iroquois Theater
there by friend, and was there when
the terrible Are occurred. Apkins says
his friend was killed and he himself
so badly injured that he lay in a hos
pital for nearly year His head bears
ed by his injuries received at that
time.
Sold Pianos.
Apkins says he was employed by a
firm of piano manufacturers and he
has travelled the country over He is
naturally reticent about his career,
but letters from many parts OF the
country seem to indicate he was busy
at other things besides making pianos
In July, 1910. Miss Elizabeth b.
Young of this city, reared from baby
hood by Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Baxter,
went to Milwaukee to visit friends
There she met Apkins. and so atten-
tive was he, especially after he learn
ed she had some money. that she fell
in love with him. When she returned
to Kentucky she correspondent with
Apkins. and he finally came here to
see her in April. He remained here
only short time then. and then went
back, as he said, to Chicago.
On May 20 he again appeared here
He went to the Baxter home and told
Miss Young he desired her to marry
him at once. She consented, and the
two went to Nicholasville, q little
town about twelve miles from here,
where Apkins suddenly found he was
without money.
Taking Miss Young with him he en-
tered a bank there ana presented a
check on a Cincinnati bank for $35.
The paying teller refused to cash it
unless Miss Young Endorsed it. which
she did, and Apkins was given the
money. The two then came on to Lex
ington and were married here by the
Rev. /. J. Spencer of the Central Chris
|tian church. The check was found to
be forgery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Apkins took train from
here to Cincinnati. where they stopped
on the night of May % at the Burck-
hauser hotel. At midnight the guests
were awakened by screams coming
from their room and an attempt was
made to enter. Apkins refused en-
trance to all, and the police we're call
ed out When they entered by way of
the window, Apkins was gone, but his
bride was there screaming in an in.
sane delirium.
She was taken to Grandview SAM
tarium, and on the next day Apkins
ltelephoned her relatives here they had
better come after Miss Young, as she
was i'll and in a sanitarium. Mrs. Bax-
ter and Mrs. Irene Strobe went to Gin
cinnati, and after considerable difiicul-
| ty they secured possession of Miss
Young and brought her home. Apkins
had disappeared and they saw nothing
of him. They heard nothing of him
either until several weeks had passed
Early in July Apkins was arrested
in Richmond, Ind, on charge of for
gerry In his suit case were found over
! 300 letters from women in different
parts of the country, all couched in en-
dearing terms and indicating he was
something of a gay Lothario, to say
the least. Also in the suit case were
a number of checks, alleged to have
been forgeries. There were letters
from Miss Young.
The publication of all this disclosed
to Miss Young's relatives here the
whereabouts of Apkins It also disclos-
companied Mrs Bertha Kohler, a
young widow of Richmond, Ind. to
Paris, ILL.,, where they were married.