The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-12
Charles w. Blake, an
Englishman, Arrested
in Culpeper.
WILL BE BROUGHT
HERE FOR TRIAL
Has Wife and Six Children at
Brandy-After Mock Ceremony
With Wife No. Is Forced
Into Second Ceremony by
Girls Father, and Priest
Officiates.

Charles X. Blake alias Patrick
Blake. alias P. c. Blake. an English
man. forty-hvs years old. who Is
known as Lord" Blake. and who claims
10 be a newspaper man and book
keeper, well-known in Richmond. was
arrested az Brandy. Culpeper County,
Va, yesterday at the request OF CHIEF
Of Police Werner and held on a charge
OF bigary. He will be brought here
for trial. The police claim that while
he has a wife and six children at
Brandy. Blake welded Miss Grace
Mayre Brown. daughter Of George l.
brown. an optician. OF sos East Grace
Street. BY means OF a mock marriage
ceremony in Hyattsville. Nd. on March
80. 1912.
When the father Of wife No. ?
learned OF her marriage IN Maryland
within the past month he forced Blake
10 have second ceremony performed
by a priest OF the Catholic Church.
The local marriage record shows that
this ceremony was performed on Jan
nary : by the Very Rev. J. :. Bowler.
at ST. Peters Church. a few days
later Blake left the city. and Mr..
Brown received information that the
Eagi's "Iscrd" had a wife and family llv
ing in CulPeper- He took up the matter
with Captain OF Detectives Mcmahon.
and from the investigation which was
~ once begun. q mass OF discriminating
evidence has been found against him
According TO Captain Mcmahon. Blake
has third wife in this city. but she
mas not so far come forward 20 prose-
cute him.
Takes News Calmly.
When wife No. , Learned that Blake
had a wife and six children al Brandy.
she took the news calmly. and is. IL Is
understood. read yto testify against
him.
The fact that Mr.. Brown did not
learn of his daughters marriage IN
I'll recently was cue 10 his absence in
North Carolina. where he spends the
larger portion o. his time carrying
on his profession as an optician.
From the information gathered by
the police. Blake met Miss Brown more
than a year ago while she was en-
ployed as a stenographer al the Rich
mond Hotel. and ne was employed in
the stewards department of the same
hotel. He persuaded her to marry
him. and last March went 70 Wash
ington He tol@ the girl he had OBJ
tained maria &c license in Washing
ton, but would go TO Hyattsviile 10
have the ceremony performed Ac-
cording TO her story. she accompanied
him 20 a house adjoining an Episcopal
Church. and a man clothed in frock
OF a rector married them Captain
McMaFhon asserted that this cere-
mony was bogus
wanted Certificate.
Wren the couple returned I, Rich
mond the bride told Blake she would
like to have 4 marriage certificate.
and he promised 10 get one for her
The certificate which he gave her Is
now in the possession OF Captain Nc
Nahon. II IS about 2fxls incAes and
liihOgraphe6 IN gaudy colors- X pur-
ports that the couple was married oy
a. c. Carr. rector Of Christ Church
Hyattsville-
When Mr. Brown returned from his
trip through North Carolina and found
his daughter had been married he sum
moned Blake He informed the latter
that he had no objection 10 him as his
daughters husband. but in view of
the fact that she was a Catholic. he
would like TO have a second marriage
performed by a priest Blake was
forced to comply with the request and
the father accompanied him TO the
clerks Office OF the Hastings Court and
a marriage license obtained and the
second wedding took place
It was a few days after this that
Mr.. Brown learned Of Biakes dual life
Being a native of Culpeper County
himself. Brown wrote friends there
and confirmed hi suspicion that Blake
had another vile:
Captain Mcmahon got into communi
cation with ". z Coons. clerk Of the
Culpeper County Circuit Court and re-
ceived copy Of tho courts record.
which showed that Charles W. Blake
and Nancy =. Faulkner. daughter Of
Charles r and Clara X. Faulkner. were
married on May -. 1894. by Rev. Car
ter Page. Additional information was
that Blake gave his occupation as an
Ens.ish officer. and said ne had been
borh in Paris. In the license which
Bake obtained here this month he
gave his FIRST name as Philip Cowardin
Several years ago Blake was en-
yIoyed on a local newspaper as a re-
Porter lie was noted sor glowing
accounts OF a big farm an dstring
Ct race horses which he owned IN Cri-
pepper. lie posed a. Lord" Blake. and
from his conversation appeared to ',e
an aii-arouud elotc-trotter
Dctectfve-Serccant Wren VIII leave
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