Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-04
RED CROSS HALTS
HER FIT TIL WEDDING
Girl Who Married Four Service
Men Held for OBJ
serVation
LOOKED FOR HONEST MAN

Private James *. King, of Galveston.
Texas is bpck in the base hospital at
Camp Dix today without the bride to be
who wanted to make him her fifth hus
band in year.
That he did not get a marriage Ii
ccnsc and add himself to the list of
soldier sailor husbands boustcd by a
| young woman who describes herself as
Mrs. Regina Sawyer, of Filbcrt street,
near Seventeenth. is due to the vigilance
| of the Red Cross, which sent the soldier
back to camp and had the woman held
| by the Municipal Court for hearing
next Friday.
The story as brought out by Red CroS,
| Investigators is super romance of 8
young woman who claims she was i
nurse in the war. Belgian refugee, ar
cx German captive, and, according tt
| her confession to Detective Mcfarland
the wife of four other service men,
Suspicious of the Red Cross were
aroused when Private King. who was
wounded in the ankle with shrapncl
and machine gun fire. limped into
headquarters at 1917 Walnut street.
and asked for transportation for him
self and his bride" to the hospital at
Dix.
They gave him money and then in
vcstigated his story,
Will Appear Against Her
They learned. according to Mrs.
Blanche Thatcher, of the American Red
Cross. that the young woman he said
was his wife really only planned TO
become his wife \ marriage license
was to have been issued yesterday, This
the Red Cross prevented. Today the
young womnn's landlady sworc out a
warrant under which the Municipal
Court was able TO hold her as an idle
and disorderly person, while the sol %
/ der. after having been brought before
| Magistrate Grelis at the Fifteenth and
! Vine streets station. was turned over to
the Red Cross and sent back 10 Dix.
He is to appear against Mrs, Swayer'
next Friday.
Mrs. Thatcher said today the 'ref
ugcc nurse" had marriage certificate
showing she was the wife Of Henry
| Spilski. a Russian sailor in the Amer
| lean navy.
The woman had drawn $50 Of his
| back pay" said Mrs. Thatcher, land
came to Philadelphia. | do not believe
| that she was refugee. Her marriage
| to the Russian was real enough. how
ever, and girl who came up with her
from Norfolk told us that She tore NJ
three other wedding certificates,
Says -Four Deserted Her
According to the story which Mrs,
Sawyer" told the police, she was look
ing for an honest man. She tried
four. but they all deserted her, accord
ing to her story. All four were service
men.
The first was Henry Spilslu, tho
Russian sailor. They We're married
in November last at Newport News.
Ruben Sawyer. whom she liked wei
enough to retain his name, succeeded
to her hand in April, at Elizabeth City
y, &. Ruben is in the army, and yes.
! tcrday she received a letter from hiu
enclosing a $50 pay check.
Next came Frenchman, Jules Tusk
ihana. whom she married in May a
Newport News, In July she became
the bride of Robert Taftin. This wa
her fourth venture and was made il
| Baltimore.
\ week ago she met Private King
/ hobbling along Market street on hi
/ crutches. He looked honest to her AM
she asked his hand in marriage. Tha
is Kings version Of it, told TODAY he
fore the magistrate.
II didn't consent, though, Judge,
said King. II put her off and would
| mt say yes -