The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-16
MANILA MAN IN
TOLLS OF Law
Leslie Anthony in Jail at Council Bluffs
Charged With Being Fugitive
From Justice
HE HAS HABIT OF MARRYING
Had Married Two Manila Women
and Third Wife Was Red Cross
Nurse From Quincy, ILL.,.

| The following article concerning
Leslie Anthony, former resident OF
Manila is taken from the Omaha
World Herald of last Saturday.
Leslie E. Anthony, formerly a ser.
geant in the Three Hundred and
Eleventh Sanitary Train, is in jail in
Council Bluffs, charged with being a
fugitive from justice.
The story of Anthony's alleged mis-
doings reads like series of climaXes
I in modern problem play, with one
exception-the ending is not happy
one. According to Chief of Police
Eberstein, Anthony has wife and
three children in Minneapolis and a
second newly married bride in
Quincy, Ill.
This is the story as it is pieced
together by information received by
Chief of Police Eberstein.
Several years ago, Anthony lived
in Manila, la. There he wooed and
welded a Miss Behsie Brown. But
Mrs. Anthony lived only short time
after the wedding and Anthony mar
ried again. This wife also was Man
lila girl.
They lived together in Manila sew
eral years and he became the father
of three children. Then they sepa-
rated and Mrs. Anthony took the three
children with her.
Married Red Cross Nurse.
Then came the war and Anthony
entered the army. He was stationed
at Camp Grant, Ill. There he met
Miss Grace McWilliams, of Quincy,
III. Miss McWilliams was Red Cross
nurse. ,n..
Anthony became devoted to Miss
McWilliams and paid her marked at
tention. They became engaged. =
Then Miss McWilliams went to
France as nurse and a week later
Sergeant Anthony went as member
of the sanitary train. ..
Miss McWilliams returned from
France one week before Anthony.
On February IA, following their re-
turn from France, Anthony and Miss
McWilliams went to ST. Joseph, Mo-,
where the marriage ceremony was
performed on February 13. On .Febru-
ary IA, they went to Quincy, the home
|of the bride. ~ Y ~ g# aE#mf,
But Anthony stayed in Quincy. only
one day. He told his bride he had to
20 to Omaha, but that he would re-
turn in time for her birthday, March
|16. F' l..s's -: ''t'h
Reports Self Killed. .y... p,
Between February IA and February
21, the second Mrs. Anthony received
several letters from the discharged
soldier. Then came a message signed
by H. w. Ways. 1t said that Anthony
had been killed in an automobile acci-
dent about thirty miles from Omaha.
Efforts to locate H. w. Ways proved
of no avail and the bride, of few days
became suspicious. She consulted a
Quincy attorney who began to make
investigations. The attorney wrote to
Chief Of Police Eberstein and the Oma-
ha police officer took up the trail.
S Eberstein found Leslie E. An
thony living in Omaha at 1924 Maple
street who worked for Hooven and AL
lison. This Anthony proved to be
a cousin OF the Leslie E. Anthony, WHO
originally came from Manila. Through
the Omaha paper, Anthony and rela-
tives in Iowa, Eberstein learned the
Anthony who had married the Quincy
girl already had wife and three chill
dren. He also found that Anthony
had made out his army allotment to
his children and had taken out army
insurance for them. The wife and the
children are said to be living in Min
neapolis. -
Here in February.
Inquiry at Omaha hotels showed