The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-11
Mrs. Walter Porter of MarI-
bOrO in Municipal Court
This Afternoon
THIRD MARRIAGE
IT is UNDERSTOOD
Certificate Said it Was Her First -
Match Was Result of Matrimonial
Bureau-Performed Here Last Au-
gust by Carl S. Hopkins.

Bureau-Performed Here Last Au-
gust by Carl S. Hopkins.
A woman who has been known since
last August as Mrs. Walter Z. Porter,
was arrested at the Porter home in
Marlboro Saturday evening by Sheriff
{. Z. Mann and Deputy Sheriff NJ. P.
benson on charge of bigamy. It is
alleged that she had been married
twice before and had been through the
formallty Of divorce only once She
has one child three years of age, with
her A daughter, IS years old, BY her
hrst husband, has been living with her
the past week. 1t was expected at go
Q clock this afternoon that she would
appear before the municipal court late
this afternoon. Harrie B. Chase of
Chase Chase was assigned BY the court
as her counsel
he case was continued to tomorrow
morning IN the expectation that Mrs War
rens husband would come from Lowell
and arrange for the care of the Young
child
The woman was arrested Saturday
evening by Deputy Sheriff NJ. P. Ben
son just as she was about to leave the
house of her latest husband, Walter E.
Porter. Her belongings were packed
and a team had driven into the ward to
bring her and her daughter and three
year old son to Brattleboro to board a
train
Porter, who had been TO Brattleboro
to lay the ease before State s ATTORNEY
y. b. Hughes, was returning to his
home with Deputy Sheriff Benson when
they overlook team. They followed
II and when it turned into the ward of
the Porter home the deputy sheriff
took action at once and detained the
woman until Sheriff c. z. Mann ar.
rived with th3 warran- She was kept
in Jail at Newfane until this morning,
when she was brought to Brattleboro.
From all the information obtainable
this afternoon the woman has led va
ried life of matrimony. From some
quarter has come the information that
her maiden name was Batchelder, al
though that does not appear on any
marriage license issued when she was
partner to the ceremony
She was first married so far az is
known, to c. E. Wells of Montpelier,
who is a resident of that city today.
He divorced her and obtained the Gus
tody of their two children, a girl now
1S years of age and a boy who is near
ly 2f. Mrs. Porter claims to be only
There appears to be no question but
her first divorce is as she claims She
married Rufus Warren in Montpelier.
giving her name as Couson. This was
June 20, 1907. He was machinist en-
ployed i'll that town and is now of Low
ell, Mass. She has son by this mar
riagc who is three years of age and is
with his mother This second marriage
ceremony was performed by Rev. W.
s. Smithars at the Methodist parson-
age.
Without the formalitv of divorce
from Warren, as she admits, she sought
another husband through the agency of
a matrimonial bureau in which she de-
scribed her charms as follows:
''Miss NJ. f. Warren, Northfeld
Street, Montpelier, 90 inches, 115
pounds, attractive brunette, American,
dressmaking, accomplished in music"
Walter f. Porter of Marlboro, 50
years of age, says he joined the matri-
- Miss Warren He sent her money
before they We're married and she came
here last August and on Sunday, Au-
gust 6, they went to the home of town
Clerk Carl S. Hopkins and were there
Joined in matrimony. She gave her
birthplace az Elmore, Vt. and the
name Of her father as Rufus W. War
ren and her own name as Mary +. War
ren. She said she was 81 years of age
and that it was her first marriage.
Since then she has been living with
her latest husband in Marlboro. In
some way last Saturday he learned of
previous marriage by his wife and
Immediately came to Brattleboro to
complain to State S Attorney Hughes
About the same time that official re
ceived letter from 3 seleetman of
that town to the effect that he under
stood that the martial relations of
Porter and his supposed wife were not
legal.
When she first came to live with
Porter she claimed that her young
child was her dead sisters, but later
revised this and admitted that she had
been married once and divorced.
Her 1S-year-old daughter came here
q week ago to live from Springfield
This girl says sha has always gone un-
der the name of Mildred Wells, but
shat she is the wife of a man named
Richards who is living in New York
state and that she has been employed
recently in Sprin gfeld.