Evening star., 1922-10-08
CHARGES HUSBAND
HAS THREE WIVES
Rockville Woman Asks Re-
lease From Former
Army Engineer.
BIGAMY WARRANT ISSUED
Petitioner Says Fiance Ready to
Adopt Her Child and Wed Her
When First Marriage Voided.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ROCKVILLE Md, October =
Three wives. all living and undi-
vorced is said to be the record of
Shady Combs, also known as Shady
Henry Newcomb, who is said to be
making his home just now in Breath
lit county, Ny.
Such information is disclosed in a
bill filed in the circuit court here
today by wife No 2, who was for
'mcrly Miss Nora Edna Stevens,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles f.
Stevens of this vicinity. who asks
the court to annul her marriage to
Shady Henry Newcomb. to whom she
was married in Rockville on Febru-
AIRY % 1919. The young woman
states in her bill that Newcomb Is
none other Than Shady Grove. who.
on April 10. 1917, was married in
Rockville to Beatrice McGreeney.
The plaintiff further represents
that while living in Richmond, Va.
the defendant deserted her on July
26. 1920. and that on the same day he
married a young Richmond woman.
with whom he is now living in Ken
lucky According to the Dill, the
man has a three-year-old daughter
by the first marriage and a two-year-
old son by the second.
COurtship Was Brief.
1t seems that Miss stevens mar
riage to Newcomb followed very
brief courtship. At the time the
Young man. it is said. was in the
engineering branch of the United
States Army and had been spending
Il few weeks in and near Rockville,
part of the time at the Stevens home.
According to the young woman, the
young soldier was kind and at
rractive and the type of man almost
any woman would fall for. She
asserts that he never mistreated her
and that when he suddenly disap-
peared from Richmond. leaving her
without funds. she was heartbroken
because she feared that something
"dreadfur' had happened to him.
While cndeavoring to locate the
missing man. the young woman says
she accidentally learned of his mar
riage TO the Richmond girl. Further
investigation by her developed the
informal tion that he had still another
wife living in the person of former
Miss McGreeney. who is said to be
living with her little daughter at 205
North Horton street, Vest Philadel-
phia
Wife No. l had a photograph of the
man she married under the name of
Shady Combs, and wife No. > had a
picture of the man she married under
the name of Shady Henry Newcomb.
These photographs We're exchanged
and Combs and NeWcomb were, so
1he former Miss Stevens asserts, found
to be one and the same man.
Ready to Remarry.
The young woman let it be UNDER
stood that a worthy young man stands
ready TO make her his wife and to
legally adopt her little son just as
soon as favorable action on her bin
is taken by the court.
Deputy Sheriff Stanley Gingell ap-
peared in the police court here today
and sWore out warrant charging
combs, which is said to be the mans
correct name. with bigamy. The pa
Yer Will be sent to Kentucky for
service. and it is said that every ef-
fort Will be made to have the man
brought to Rockville for trial at an
early date.
In d letter to the plaintiff. wife No.
l states that even after the mans
third marriage he wrote her. asking
her to take him back.
But never" says the letter. Il do
not want him near me. He is a snake
in the grass and the worst is too
good for him