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AT LEAST -FOUR HUSBANDS
Vermont Woman Arrested in Boston
for Blgamy.

dard of West Brookfeld, VT, the lat
est of the men whom she is accused |
of marrying, Hugh J. Anderson OF
South bridge, chauffeur the third |
in the list, was applying to- Judge |
Hall at Worcester for notification |
of his marriage to her.
A remarkable story Of elopement, |
marriage, desertion, remarriage, an
nulment and continued remarriage, |
and disappearance was brought to
light by the arrest of Mrs. Cross at
80 East Canton street by Inspector
Smith of police headquarters and
James r. Wood, Jr., of the Vermont
authorities ON an indictment charg-
ing polygamy.
The woman, who is 80 years old,
waived extradtion yesterday and,
after spending the night at the city
prison, returned to Vermont this
morning in the custody of Sheriff
Benjamin H. Adams of Chelsea, VT,
and Herman Stoddard, her most re-
cent husband, who started for Boston
upon receiving word of her arrest.
While the polygamy charges
1 against Mrs Cross accuse her of
four marriages, only two of which
had been annulled at the time these
charges were made, the fact that
Judge Hall at the very time of her
arrest, granted Andersons petition
for annulment straightens the compli
Gated situation a tritie.
According to the information re-
ceived by a detective agency Mrs.
Cross was born 80 years ago in Hart
ford, VT, her maiden name being
Grace L. Burch. On August 1896,
at the age of 16, it is said she eloped
to Royalton, VT, where she married
George II. Cross, the Rev. ]. c. Max
ham performing the ceremony 1t is
alleged her age was falsely sworn to-
Within a few months, the charges
( against her run. Mrs Cross made an
l unsuccessful attempt to divorce heI
. husband This was in December
1898. Soon afterward the young wo
man came to Boston and again tried
. to get a divorce, but failed
: Although still legally bound {
Cross, il is said, Mrs. Cross contract
ed another marriage in 1906, this
y time choosing Harry II. Cook as hei
+ husband. This union proved brie
8 also Mr. Cook securing an annul
j. ment of the marriage while living il
Bristol, Conn
The third husband OF this womai
/, was Hugh Anderson, whom she mar
= ried at Providence, r. l., Septembe
a is, 1908, according to his own test
mony at Worcester yesterday.
After leaving Anderson, it is al
# legged the young woman lived for
h time in Roxbury and later at Boy
II ston Center, where she made he
J. home with a Mrs NJ. Garfield. He
e. next venture upon seas OF matr
Z mony was made, according to III
n charges, on March IA, 1910, when a
! Brookfeld VI, she became the wifi
n of Herman Stoddard, the Rev. Fran
! Daniels tying the knot. 1t is sal
she gave her name as Grace Ande
t son and swore II was her first ma
k riage. II is also claimed that on th
Il occasion the young woman at fir.
refused to allow the record of III
er marriage to be placed on file. an
that not until proceedings had bee
IF taken against her would she give u
10 the certificate
,e The fourth venture was, as usui
an very shortlived, Stoddard, who ha
.w discovered something OF her past c
reer, having the marriage annule
in December, 1910, in Orange count
IN | VT
IS In the interim between her tnii
is and fourth marriages It is charge
he Mrs Cross promised TO marry Z
st aged man named Spencer Of Bosto
and secured 8 600 from him. viii,
~. was used in furnishing an apartme
~ and some jewelry. 1t is also alleg,
a. az that her elderly admirer~ had his II
"a insured in her favor.
IN Still another complication is Il
-" presence OF child said to ha
been born to her first husban
of This child, named Bernice Cross.
rs now under the care of her matern
le uncle, who is also her guardian,
err Royalton, VI
NJ. Mr. Wood, who is the official inv,
at tigator of the State of Vermont, W
recently informed of the case
States Attorney Stanley G. Wills
So, when Mr.. Stoddard made form
Of complaint against his wife n
ng Wood learned that the young wom
he had been living at % Dartmou
no. street. Boston About six weeks a
on she disappeared from that addrei
he however, going, it is said to Onset.
On Monday the detective learn
OF her return to Boston and that s
'ut had gone to work as a dressmak
a. for Mrs II. Price at so East Cant
Jay street, South End.
illl At first the woman fatty denied
Al the charges against her, even ref
en- ing to admit her identity, but,
on coming hysterical, she finally CO
lld scented to so with them in a cab
M police headquarters. A stop W
ed. made at a house on Pembroke {
'ed where Mrs Cross claimed to be Loo
OF ing, to give her an opportunity
lit change her clothing.
IN The testimony Of Anderson at w
Iol' cester yesterday corroborated pr
yet tlcally all the facts In the charges
ND on which Mrs. Cross was arrest,
T. He testified that he married her I
der the belief that he was her I'll
legal husband, adding that she L
him she had been through ce
I mOny nj the age of lb which "