The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-22
PASTOR CHARGED WITH
BIGAMY SAYS PUBLIC
WON'T LET PAST DIE
fRr Associated Pressl

LOS ANGELES, Calf, June %
Donald D. Stewart, the unfrocked
clergyman who is held in the city Jail
awaiting the arrival of officers from
Boston, where he is wanted on charges
Of bigamy, grand larceny and conspir-
.acy has met interviewers with this
comment:
81 can't live down my past; the pub
lie won't let"
With Stewart when he was arrested
Tuesday night was Mrs. Ethel Turner
| Osbaldeston Stewart the second of
the four wives he is said to have mar
ried and who also was taken into
| custody. She is charged with having
| conspired with him to effect his alleg-
ed marriage to Norma EhrenselIer OF
| Boston from whom he is said to have
f.! stolen $4,000. Reports of operatives
of the private detective agency which
| arrested the couple were incomplete
! 1t was said as to the charges said to
! have been placed against Stewart in
various sections of the country, but
! they listed his alleged marriages as
| follows:
First, to Mary Mitchell at Whining.
ton, Del, In 1918. A child was born to
them and Stewart is alleged to have
| deserted his wife and baby.
| Second to Ethel Turner Osbaldestor
| at New York, in 1920.
Third, to Bertha Ellen Grannis, al
| Indianapolis, in 1921.
Fourth. to Norma Ehrenseller al
Boston in 1921, with alleged conniv
ance of Mrs. Ethel Turner Osbaldestor
! Stewart, with whom he is alleged t
have effected a reconciliation shor
time before. He disappeared shortly
after the marriage to Miss Ehrenseller
Charges Fraud
In addition to these marriages, the
detectives charge, he obtained $1,26(
through the endorsement of a checl
by Bertha Ellen Grannis Stewart, anC
that when he deserted her left in he,
brothers automobile; that he stol.
$1,000 from Norma Ehrenmeller Stew
art, and that through an alleged court
ship of Miss Gertrude Van Lopik, al
art teacher of Detroit, in 1921, he de
frauded her relatives of $3.50.
Stewart, 81 years old and nativ,
of Scotland, attained considerabl,
prominence a few years ago through
his work as a vice crusader and TEN
perance leader and as the author O
prohibition campaign song, "WeJ
Make California Dry" After Mrs
Maud Hendricks committed suicide a
Hayward, Calf, near Oakland, Dec
80, 1914, when he refused to MARI
her and he was arrested for a statu
tory offense, he was unfrocked, a.
/ lack of evidence.
;c oT.o
Allister Stewart and as Robert ALA
McLaren Browne. The latter is sal
: to be his true name He has file
pastorates in Dundee Lake, N Y.
Paterson, N. j.; Sanderson. Texas
Douglas, Ariz., and Chico, Calf
: DETROIT, June ga charge Q
conspiracy to defraud brought her
against Donald D. Stewart held on
fugitive warrant, but authorities G
: Massachusetts, New York or Indian
!, probably will have first claim to tn
!, prisoner, a private detective agenc
, announced here today The conspi
acy charge is contemplated, it was sal
by Bruce Grannis, who claims Stewal
defrauded him of $1,000 in a stoc
deal in 1920
Nld dHulS SISTER, b6IIud Ellen GTdl
mis-, was one of the four women I
: whom Stewart is alleged to have bee
married within the past four year
His lawful wife, Mary Barbara Jane
Mitchell, also resides here as doe
Miss Gertrude Van Dopik. to whol
I Stewart was engaged to be married
; but who broke with him after sever;
Z of her relatives endorsed allege
worthless checks issued by the forme
Q minister