Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-28
ALLEGED B|CAM|sT HELD
FOB POLICE IN new YORK
Frank III. Gibson, Aged Fifty, Said
to Have Been Married
N3S Five Times.
BROUGHT NEW BRIDE HERE
Indicted by Jury in White Plains,
and Followed to Richmond BY
Sleuths and Salvation Army
Prison Workers.

s, Alter having threatened TO commit
q, Gibson, nifty years old. is today be
station because II is alleged. he finally
persuaded Miss Ida listed 10 become
his bride while HIS legal wife, Mrs.
14essie Gibson, is still alive in New
Not until yesterday was Gibson ar
rested. although the police OF several
for some weeks. and he has narrowly
escaped their clutches on several oc-
casions. He was taken into custody by
tective department. at a rooming house
on Leigh Street charged with being a
Fugitive s from justice from White
ph,ains' \: r; He declared last night
New York.
Gibson is. ,vireinian by birth. He
was born In Louisa County. but has
Married Five TImen.
Miss listed is the fifth woman whom
Gibson has married. ii is said. His
nrSt wife died. the second was divorced
from him and the third is said to be
his legal wife, Mrs. Bessie Gibson. For
marrying the fourth time Gibson is
said to have served sentence Of three
and half years in the New York State
penitentiary at OssininE, \. Y. His
victim was . young girl in Philadel-
shortly after his release from the
penitcn;iary Gibson is said TO have
married Miss listed. who is twenty FIVE
being held as 4 material witness in
the case against Gibson. Miss listed
married Gibson with full knowledge
XrmY so2Eers Sho Iaxe
helped the alleged bigamist since his
release from. prison.
Three weeks after he met Miss listed
he proposed to her, il is stated. She
consulted Salvation Army officers in
ossininE. It is understood, and they
marry him. When it seemed that she
was about to refuse him. Gibson Is
said to have told her he would take
TO become his wife. The marriage
ceremony took place in ossning re-
Gently.
Two officers in the Prisoners Aid
Department OF the salvation Army
line bo a 5sied M Hd hsE were
10 marry him. Both OF the officers,
CAPTAIN Thomas Anderson and Envoy
ster fooas are 9e% in heTe rom
captain Anderson and Envoy Cope
mond hat O GIBSON onef had SOUGHT n 's ala
from -Adjutant Paul Jones. command
ing officer OF the local salvation Army
work here and found that he was
unable to support his young wife.
Receipt OF the telegram from tho
the sheriff Of White Plains yesterday
put the local police and Captain Ander-
once and the arrests followed. A. a
late hour last night Gibson and Miss
aiibson D.nie, Charge.
When seen at ;hS Second Police Sta
he. had been married Ave times. 1T
ridiculed the idea that he had another
wife still living. He Declared that
he might as well be in White Plains
as in Richmond, and that he would
make no effort TO contest cxtradition.
which the New York authorities will
ask. unless he should suddenly change
his mind
High. lights in the life of Gibson
read almost like "A novel. tho police
say. Shortly after his marriage 10
Miss listed he obtained employment in
Garden City, s. Y. at, printing es-
capped capture by Slipping out through
a back entrance while the police were
searching the front of the building il
IS alleged. He then went to rhila-
delphia and from there came to Rich
mond about two weeks ago