The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-10-03
FORSOOK Wife TO
MARRY Her FRIEND

NEW YORK. Special John ].
Dunbar, his wife. Mrs Frances Ime-
son Dunbar, and her two children,
a boy, eight. and a girl, ten, were at
breakfast Thursday in their home, las
Brown Street, Jersey City, when the
doorbell rang. The maid announced
that Police Lieutenant Prescott want
ed TO see Mr.. Dunbar.
What can / do for you, Lieuten-
anti" asked Dunbar, as he walked to
the door.
to the station house, replied Prescott.
Il have a New York warrant for your
arrest on a charge of bigamy."
You or no one else can arrest me
on such a ridiculous charge" said
Dunbar in anger. Il have been living in
this house with my wife and step
children since 1907 and have the re-
spect of my neighbors. 1 refuse to
be arrested"
Prescott told Dunbar resistance
would be futile and unless he consent
ed to so quietly to the station house
he would be shackled.
Dunbar, a travelling salesman for a
New York cloth house, has earned a
good salary and supported his house
hold most comfortably. Mrs. Dunbar
has figured in Jersey City society dur
ing the past year. She Joined her hus-
band, and holding his arm said to
Prescott:
..Who Makes This Charge?"
ITO arrest my husband on such a
charge is ridiculous. Who makes this
charger"
Mrs. Anna Key Walls Dunbar, who
says she married Dunbar on Septem-
Der 20, 1891, in the United Presby-
terrain Church in Troy" said the Of
ficer. Her complaint says there are
two children, girl twenty ana a boy
eighteen, and that Dunbar disappeared
| .fr oh, oh
she learned he had married in Sche-
nectady."
Il have never been in Troy in my
| life never heard of this Anna Key
Walls Dunbar or of her two children"
Dunbar sai0. However. if you have
| a warrant for my arrest there is moth
I ing for me to do but accompany you
to the police station. Give me my hat,
| dear" he continued, turning to Mrs.
Dunbar. Then he kissed her and the
two children goodby and went to the
police station, where he was held to
await eXtraditiOn.
After the arrest n telegram was sent
to Mrs. Anna Key Walls Dunbar. She
| arrived in Jersey City Thursday night
and with Lieutenant Blackshaw went
to the station where Dunbar was a
prisoner. On catching sight of him
she cried:
why did you do this? Why did
you run away with Mrs. Frances Ime-
son, whom ] supposed to be one OF
J my best friends. and desert me and
| the children" / understand you now
say YOU never were in Troy, never
| heard of such 4 woman as Anna Key
! Walls Dunbar. DO you still insist on
| denying me and your two children 2"
While the woman was speaking
| Dunbar hung his head. Not once did
he so much as look at her. He SEEM
ed utterly unnerved. Again she asked:
DO you still deny that / am your
wife," but Dunbar did not reply.
According to Mrs. Dunbar of Troy.
there never was a better husband or
father than Dunbar until Mrs. Ime-
son, n widow with two children, came
into his life. Mrs. Dunbar and Mrs
ImesOn were fast friends. When the
widow and her children quit Troy,
following the disappearance of Dun
bar, Mrs. Dunbar would not listen to
stories that the husband and the
WIDOW had eloped.
Then came news from Schenectady
that Dunbar and Mrs. Imeson had
been married there. The first Mrs.
Dunbar got copy OF the marriage
record. From that day she has been
searching for her husband. She got
trace OF him a few days ago.