The Washington times., 1922-04-12
DESCRIBED
HIS HEART.
C0N()UESTS
Much Married Adysnturer
Wrote Burning EpistIes of
Sentiment to Flames.

NEW YORK, April 12.-That
Joseph Donald Grafton. bigamist
son Of Pittsburgh millionaire.
has as many as twelve wives scat
tered throughout the United
States and its possessions was the
belief expressed today by Miss
Peggy Davis, pretty Follies' dancer
and movie star. who is Mrs. Graf
ton No. 4.
Miss Davis. recovering from a seri-s
Gus operation in a lodging house at
2f7 West One Hundred and Sixteenth
street, said that Grafton told her
after their marriage that there were
"a dozen or more women who are
Mrs. Graftons." She said he men.
toned several times girl in, VIII
mington, Del.
Don often told me that IL he ever
was in trouble, he would go to Crystal
Beach, Canada, where the authorities
couldn't get him. He said that the
. Grafton money would always get him
out of any scrape," said Miss Davis.
While the police In Albany. Troy,
Buffalo and other upstate cities
were diligently running down every
clue In the hope of bringing the
bigamist TO justice, further evidence
OF Grafton's susceptibility came 10
light in the form of his last and ir-
revocable will," which. in July, 1919.
he made out in favor OF Miss Ethel
Muir. vivacious young specially
dancer.
Written on Hotel Paper.
The win is dated July and is
written on stationery of the Hotel
William Penn, Pittsburgh. In part,
II reads as folloYs;
II. Joseph Donald Grafton. being
OF sound mind and memory, do here.
by make, publish and declare this,
nv last will and testament.
II do hereby give and bequeath 10
my dear friend and companion. Ethel
Muir, of Ridgefield Park, N. j., all
my real and personal property OF
which I shall die possessed. as
token of my affection and apprecia-
tion for the companionship and loN-
ing relationship existing between US.
II do hereby declare this 70
be my last and irrevocabIe will and
testament"
The witnesses TO this document
were the beneficiary. Ethel Muir.
and her sister, Nellie Muir, to
whom Grafton twice proposed. The
instrument Is now In the possession
OF Mis- Muir and, according to her
attorney, Is valid. In the event OF
the Pittsburgh millionsire,s death
Il may bring the dancer several
million dollars.
A verse written 20 Miss Muir
after Grafton had been refused for
the fourth time and. according TO
the dancer. had threatened suicide,
speaks OF his affection in glowing
terms.
No lesser love could spoil its Iustsr
IsssTd love .aieusly to keep ,;l,.s !, Sr.sht
AS Indicative of the fact that
Grafton had spells of deep depres-
sion and contrition Is another stan
va in his Tomorrow 1 Might DIE"
10 Miss Muir:
"'cut OFF. in the Prime OF a Useless
The Iurid headline says,
or, 'snatched by Deaths Grim Reaper,
He has crossed life's last highwayA
They bury him deep while Few
! And the insanity man is forgotten
Even as you and l."
Peggy Davis, Grafton's last wife,
win be unable to take an engage
ment for two months. Her mother,
Mrs. Capitola p. Laird, said today
she was attempting to get work In
a department store in order to keep
Peggy Davis and herself alive until
the young actress RECEIVERS.
The love letters of Grafton give a
novel twist to the character OF this
masculine vampire. fascinator of a
dozen women, most of whom he led
20 Hymen's altar, blissfuIly uncon-
scious. they were the dupes OF a male
siren.
Nation RaISed For Him. :
Illustrated by himself with no
mean artist touch, supplemented
by poems OF passion that Ella Wheel
er Wilcox herself might have PEN
ned, these romantic epistles throw
a searchlight upon the wiles and
ways of man with maid.
business man and poet. song
writer and hunter, woman chaser
and fashion designer, playwright at
times when he was not adventuring
in Alaska as Government runner,
Don" as he loved to be called by
whoever was his inamorata of the
, moment. has achieved a disappear
anoe quite as complete as that Of
Conan Doyle's Prof. Moriarty.
A hundred Sherlock Holmeses are
searching for him throughout the
length and breadth of the United
States and Canada, eager to bring
him 70 book for the heart wounds he
has inflicted on his damsels fair.
Tried Cohan's Stuff.
"1'd Give Lot for Just a Look at
Broadway" a song Grafton wrote
four years ago. may express his
sentiments now, but Of II then he
v.,rota ~ Misc Muir.