The Washington times., 1922-04-23
TO Him
Was Time to Write
Burning Love Notes
to Girls He Hoped
to Wed ''PleaSe
Mother First" Was
His Motto.

sealed such a missivs he was sc-
customed to sit down and write
half a dozen others in the same
strain TO other girls, Ethel and
Nell, Polly and Esther, and as
many more as he might fancy.
He conducted what might he
termed a correspondents school
and he was the schoolmaster.
All the wives and fiancees OF
Grafton declare that they have
letters by the trunkful from him
and many Of them bear postmerks
Of the same day and hour.
wHIRLwIND LOVER.
Consider the case of Mrs. Ellen
.Curley Mcintyre Grafton, second
OF record of the multiple spouses.
She had seen and admired him in
his fathers Pittsburgh office sew
eral years ago and never suspected
that he even was aware Of her
existence. But after a whirlwind
courtship they eloped and were
married on November 20. 1891.
just seventeen days before the
bridegroom had led Peggy Davis
to the altar. Hark ye to the his
tory Of Ellen's romance, as she
herself tells Il:
Ever since have been married
to Don have suffered one shock
after another. I sometimes won
der II II isn't all a dream. He just
swept me off my feet into mar
rage with him. He was always
getting into trouble with women.
Last November-the month OF our
marriage-he had a terrible row
with his father over Polly Jorayne,
who ssia tsat he had promised to
marry her That was a fine start
for courting me, wasn't it7
But suddenly he began to make
love to me. consented to marry
him against my viii and we went
to Youngstown and were married
by a Justice of the peace. I think
he must have hypnotized me. He
outdid himself with protestations
Of affection. But a week after we
were married he bounced off to
New York, sending me a stream Of
letters and kilograms on the way.
1 got two letters and a telegram
every day and sometimes more.
Mrs. Laird, Peggy's mother, has
shown me the letters she got. Don
certainly was wonder to send out
love letters every day to different
women. .... ...
GAVE PEGGY LOVERS RUSH.
And all the time that he wss
writing me how much he missed
me he was giving Peggy the lovers
rush. 1 guess he swept her along
the same as he did me. He evon
stole time off when he was with
her in his little love nest up in
Troy to write me letters and teie-
grams every day.
When we went to New York
to live with Mrs. Laird and
Peggy. he kept up this letter
writing and had me send my an
swers to the same house whers
Peggy lived. Nerve7 Wasn't il?
"HE is A BLUEBEARD."
But ] guess he had Peggy
fooled the same as h7 deceived
me. Just think of II! was mar
ried to him on November % and
on November 26 I read an ad-
vertisement in weekly publica-
ton of a woman in a New Eng
land town advertising for her
missing son-in-law, Joseph Donald
Grafton, of Pittsburgh. Don's e1-
act name, and saying that his wife
was dying. Don told me 1t was
Just a coincidence. He hypnotizsd
me into believing II.
Don is nothing more or less
than a Bluebeard. 1t makes my
blood cold to remember that after
he put Peggy into a hospital for
an operation, which the doctors
said might cause her death, he
bombarded me with letters. tele.
grams, and telephone messages to
go with him on his trip to Wilkes
barre. Here is an extract from
one OF the dozens of letters he
wrote me when he was on his
honeymoon with Peggy at Troy:
"'I haven't got paid yet, but
borrowed q couple of dollars to-
day, 30 here's ONE for you. Gee,
dear. / wish It was a thousand.
Don't worry now. honey, every
thing is going TO shape up right
in just few days. We're
through all the worst OF II. and
from now on wen save our money
30 that there won't be chance
Of another fizzle like this.
"T wish that l could come to
New York tonight, but I can't.
couldn't afford to spend the