The evening world., 1922-04-06
ALTON INDICTED
ON BIGAMy CHARGE;
WARRANT ISSUED
Son Of Pittsburgh Millionaire
Nay Have Had 8 Wives,
Inquiry Reveals.
ANOTHER FOUND HERE.
License Issued 10 Months Be
fore He Married Peggy
Davis, FollieS Girl.

An indictment charging higdmN
was handed up TO Supreme Court
Justice Finch to-day by the Grand
Jury which has been considering the
alleged matrimonial ventures oi
Joseph Donald Grafton. son of q
wealthy Pittsburgh merchant Thcs,
forays into The field OF matrmony
and alleged to have been so fire.
quent that Grafton's brother has lost
count, satisfying himself with say
ing the indicted man was married
-four, five or six times"
A bench warrant was issued for
the arrest of the alleged bgamist. 1t
is not known where Grafton has been
staying recently.
What seems to have been a third
attempt at rimony-preceding the
two of which record has apparently
been established so far-was I'M
covered in the Marriage License Blu
rcau here to-day. a license was
issued Feb. l, 1921, which antedatcs
the other two by ten months.
Mrs. Capitola Laird, mother Of
Peggy Davis, the "Follics" girl. yes
tcrday presented evidence to District
Attorney Banton tending to show that
Grafton had married Ellen Curlcy
Mcintyre in Youngstown, o., Nov.
%. 1921. and then came on 10 New
York and married the actress Dec 10.
The license found day was issued
Ey Edward w. Hart, Clerk of the
Marriage License Bureau. on Feb !,
1921. to be used thai day. The pros
poctve bridegroom gave his name as
Joseph Evans Grafton, forty six, an
advertising writer, of No. 336 West
18th Street. The girls name was
Charlotte Goodc, twenty-thr of No.
295 Lebanon Street, Maiden, Mass
Mr. Grafton declared he had been
born in Glare, Ireland, his father was
George r. and his mother Ida Evans
Grafton. THIS. ne said, was his second
marriage, his first wife, "Lotta
Faust'-the name is indistinct and
may have been Ganst-was dead. Miss
Goode had never been married, she
said. She was born in Cleveland and
her father was Joseph c. Goode. 1t
IS understood that Miss Goode was an
actress known as "Polly Lorayne."
This may be he.chorus girl whom
both Peggy Davis's mother and Mrs.
Ellen Curley Mcintyre Grafton are
seeking. The Youngstown bride Is
said TO be in a sanitarium at No. 15G
West 74th Street as a result of a
nervous breakdown induced by the
complications which have arisen.
Both the Youngstown and New
York brides made formal complaint
against Grafton yesterday to Assist
ant District Attorney Murphy, who
Immediately went before the Grand
Jury with the case. Ellen McIntrye
rCferred TO by him as wife No. I, is
"a Pittsburgh girl who met Don" as
Grafton is called, while she was EN-.
rIoyed by his brother. David r. Graf.
ION, a furniture dealer, at No. POLL
Jenkins Avenue, Pittsburgh.
He swept me off my feet with his
ardent woong," she said. land wor
my consent despite my better judg
ment."
Mrs. Laird described the wedding o
"sI uauS ,,.t ltei SHS I' -, -, ~ VI,
5, mon d'.nSo o rtp,'tpp"I ~, .up W. ~" ~ ~
','r n'o.,oiI -,,eHrs WA s ny .t we i'o, 20 I,,ir
No. ! to see the actress in q hOspita
,uer an operation. wife No.
failed, said Mrs. Laird, and decided t,
htv gt,pZ a tho f1Ipt her
mo c',,rr,os of ,yire No iDcIud
...,f,,n,s d,r,ord. fo, none. on ~,
,l,a b., rf.. 'gatnor was Lo,di,a. ~,
's ,IIoyonrc sro said she 1ay
af,, Sq9o on which tho lived ro
.,-crnI v.ci,. potb wives are seek
mo arruln,,nts mai divorccs
"Cr,,ton's name snould have bee,
bon Juan. not Don Joseph" sal
,nss Davis when seen i'm her tin
,aom at 40. 2I7 West ll6th Street
He was sn,u AN ardent woorr h
u.st rushed me Off my feet. I love
I'M very much and wc were yer
.-ppy While We were living i'm FRO
ny husband received letters n"arI
every da} with "a I,tHrn address, Mls
ellen Mcintyre, langwild Hotel Nc'
YORK. Suu NOW lives al No. 81
81 West "ith Street
Il bear o." mnllco toward Mr. Graf