The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1917-02-01
MAN Of MANY WIVES AND
FALSE CLOTH TO STAND TRIAL
Man Arrested AtNational Soldiers Home
Says He Will Make Good Money
He Secured

DSeuNO CHTlS .ldH GCleHCt uedlCft
preacher in the Norman Temple al
Salt Lake CITY head of free love
propaganda that had officers in Forty
second street, Manhattan; and insur-
ance agent, aelf-stylcd judgee, re.
, former, total abstinence orator, a real
student in the Columbia University
, law school, Unitarian pastor, per
sistant swindier of women and an
arch priest of cults too many to list
here.
Also a few more wives could be
added to the eight listed in the police
paper, one of whom, known to Pough-
keepsie still as Mrs. Worthington, is
| living there with four children anC
is highly respected. And regions a.
far away as Tasmania, New ZcalanC
and Australia might be added as
scenes of his operations.
His Harvest Of Money.
His harvest of half a century OF
astounding persistent criminaiity has
been placed by investigation IL in
the hundreds Of thousands of dollars
even as high as $1,00000O by some
with only partial returns received
from Dutchess, Orange and other couT
ties it is said authoritatively that tn,
tall slender clergyman" with the
| Southern "Cunnel" makeup had be l.
| depositing several thousand dollars :
year in a local bank on a sa'a"F oi
| only 1000 yerar.
The names of the various women
and girls Crawford tricked into going
| through a marriage ceremony ar
known, but are withheld here owing
to the responsibility of. the dupes, wfO
divorced Crawford in various cities
in this and other staetes as soon as
ehey learned of his perfidy, which il
all cases was just after he hod taken
their money and derseted them.
He came from good people, on the
paternal side at least. His grand
father and great grandfather were
Methodist clergymen, and his father
now dead, was employed in the Ne"
Yirk custOmes service.
He was born at Saugerties, N. w. II
1S48 and therefore is now slXty-elght
years Old. All the schooling he evel
had ended when he left the grammei
,rodos of his native town when six
teen wears old, or in the days OF tht
| Civil War to enter the army. lie
was too young to fight and therefore
served as an orderly until The end OF
the war-the one bright spot in MS
| active career.
Studied at Columbia
After the war he returned TO ne"
York and studied law at Columbia
finishing his studies there with tn'
oloee of 1867. From Manhatten ne
won't TO Albany, where he was sellihi
insurance when he met good LOOK
ing girl working as tclegrapher Il
Albany. He induced her to accom-.
nanv him to Manhatten where ne wa
married in a Baptist church IN 1000
Crawford took his bride to Phliaoei
nhia. where they lived almost tw'
vears Then he deserted his first WI
and her infant daughter and returhe'
,othing daunted, to her home cltv Il
| ALBANY to sell more insurance
He bought home horses there pu
he transaction was so shady Una. ~
was arrested, an on October H. i''V
vac sentenced to serve three years u
he Albany County Penitentiary' Whe!
discharged from prison on Jhe ~
1879 he headeud for Boston where =
he Spring of 1874, posing as pacli
,,or no married the daughter OF
BOSTON clairyovant.
That was a busy material year 10
hin, for in a short time he deserte'
his Boston bride" an went 10 Chi
l,.,o nv this time he had procmote'
,;mself being now known as MaJo
a n. walton, real estate pre-
,otcr On September 3, 1874, he ma
ried the daughter of prominent Chi
ago judge, forged the judge nan,
-he was and is a remarkably api
J rorper-for $4,000, borrowed mohe
right and left from his wires reld
ives and deserted her.
Decame Norman
In 1875 he turned up in Utah whei
no smoke in The Mormon Temple &c
s5 900 out of the mormons ana Ne
rom the state with the money. II
c then landed at Kansas City Mu
" where in 1S77-1S79, under the nam
d of Eugene Boners he got into mar
l. cial mix-ups that caused the kanss
r Citv police to offer the magnificeI
Il reward of $50 for his arrest.
S. Bu he escaped to Detroit, Join'
e. the Ellen Blythe Theatrical Compar
,e as an actor in 1878, under the nan
A., Of Bonnateau and married girl
le the company while playing in Toro
"a to December 26. 1878. With his a
to tress wife he went to New Lsbo
ell Wis, in the spring of 1879, "bough
fine house and persuaded a loc
as lawyer Of standing to annex him as
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