The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-10-09
WIFE NUMBER TWO
VISITS MARRYING
MACH|N|ST' IN JAIL
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bigamy to petty larceny. Three OF
these eleven cases were mol pressed
for one reason or another, the other
eight resulting in convictions.
The records also show that Perry
has spent approximately six years be-
hind the bars since 1901. serving vari-
Gus jail and prison sentences. With
the exception OF the years 1904, 1905,
1908, and 1910. Perry has spent the
entire period from 1901 to the present
time in one conflict or another with
the authorities, the police say.
The Times today presents this po-
lice record, as attested by the files
OF Police Court and the Police De-
partment. ..
Begins In 1901.
The record begins in October. 1901,
when Bernard Gusdorf, OF 1888 Sew
enth street northwest, charged Perry
with obtaining $3.50 son false pre-;
tensees. This case was mol pressed,
evidently for lack of evidence.
In January, 1902, the record shows
that a man named Edward Perry was
arrested for assault and battery on
the complaint OF a woman named
Susie Perry, and that the case was
mol pressed, although this case can
not be definitely identified with Ed;
ward @. F. Perry.
The following spring, however,
found Perry involved in an assault
charge brought against him by John
T. Coghill, OF $50 N street southwest,
49,
named Morris Powell. For this Perry
was sentenced to sixty days in jail.
The assault charge, however. was
not all that Coghill did to Perry.
In May, 1902, Coghill charged Perry
with embezzIIng $3.50 from his milk
collections. This case went to the Dis
trict Supreme Court on a grand jury
Indictment. and Perry was sent away
for a ten-months' sentence.
There 10 q police court record OF a
man named Edward Perich, the name
Perry was using then, being fined 81
for leaving or scattering broken
glass on the street on June 16, 1908,
and, while the case cannot be def1n-
itely credited to Perry, he was at lib
erty at that time, the police say.
EmbeEEIement Charge.
The following September. though.
Perry was ain again." This time It
was< another embezzlement charge.
preferred by a business man named
Thomas W. Schaeffer, of 1888 Four-
tesnth street northwest, who charged
Perry with embezzling 30 cents on
each OF two separate occasions.
For the embezzlement OF $50 Perry
was tucked away in Jail for $50 days.
and was released in the spring OF
1904.
Then for a time he was quiet. the
record indicates, except that he mar
ried Mrs. Kate Grogan Paris Perry
at Alexandria courthouse. Va. In
1904. but in that same year. Mrs.
Perry declares. he was arrested for
getting into a fight with a man.
There is no court record available
that will establish this fact, however.
In March. 1906. however. Perry was
hailed into Police Court charged with
assaulting Mrs. Perry. his 1904 wife.
Her sons came along to help prove
the charge, and on their testimony
Perry was given two months in jail.
Arrested for Profanity.
In october. of the same year-leO6
there is a record OF a man named
Edward Perich, the name Perry was
almost invariably using at that time,
having been arrested with two other
men and fined so for profane Ian
guage and disorderly conduct. but
there Is apparently no way OF con-
cIusively Identifying this case with
the mAchinist.
One year later. though. man named
Perich was arrested for an assault on
Mrs Kate Perich. OF 6lT = street
northwest. The defendants address
was given as 81 Brewers court
northeast. This case was mol pressed.
Mrs. Kate Perry, of II45 Tenth
street northwest, said today she does
not remember the matter. but Mrs.
Perry is still tender-heArted toward
Perry. She admits, however. that
she lived at 6I7 = street at that time.
She also says her husband was llv-
ing at Gil Brewers court northeast
a THAT time. so the police regard this
as rather conclusive evidence that
the Perry in this case was the alleged
bigamIst.
For two years, then. Ferry seems
to have avoided a contentious life.
for he was not arrested again until
June Il, 1909. when Detective O'Dea,
of the Central office, arrested him
Tor larceny OF a CION-O anu oOilc
towels from the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. This offense cost
him thirty days more in Jail.
In October OF the same year, how
ever, a man named Edward George
Perry was arrAigned before Justice
Thomson, at Rosslyn, Va. on a petit
larceny charge and fined So. Despite
the fact that the defendants name
was the same as Perry's, there is no
further evidence that IL was the ma
chinist who was nned.
Larceny of Bicycle.
In July, 1911. a man named Jacob
Seitz. OF Bowie. Md. charged Perry
with the larceny OF a bicycle. Con-
viction on that charge took Perry
to Jail for six months more. That
was his last petty offense before he
hit Richard NJ. Perry, a livery stable
man, with a wrench or an iron In
strument OF some kind and nearly
killed him.
For that otfense. in the latter part
of 1912, Perry was given six years
in the penitentiary. but after he had
gone to prison, a man named Portion,
OF Anacostia. accused him OF obtain
ing money on false pretenses, the
police say. The case had TO be mol
pressed because Perry was then in
prison.
He had been out OF prison only a