New Britain herald., 1925-03-21
FIRST MARRIAGE A FRAME.UP, HE SAYS Crowley Kept Two Wives Short
 Distance Apart BOTH LIVED IN SAME CITY
Alleged Bigamist Admits Going Through Ceremony With Louisa Kasparack of Farmingdale, L. l.. and Catherine Madrick.

and Catherine Madrick.
 Working at the state hospital in Morristown, N. J., with one wife while another wife was living in the same city in a two room furnish ed apartment was the position in which Francis Crowley found him. self according to revelations in po- lice court this morning when Crow ley was arraigned before Judge William c. Hungerford.
 Crowley's attempt to live in such proximity to both wives lead to his undoing and arrest on a charge of bigamy when he was released from the county jail at Mineola, L. l., yesterday, having completed a 90 day sentence for non-support of his first wife and ten months old son.
 The start of the enternal triangle was in the fall of 1922 when Crow ley was employed at the Corbln Screw corporation and met Gather inc Madrick. They kept company for some time and were making plans for their marriage when Crowley lest his job at the factory and left the city fin search of employment.
 Elopement After Brief Courtship
 Going to Long Island, he met Louisa Kasparack in the town Of Tarmingdale and after brief court ship, they eloped to New York city where they were married at the Municipal building. Returning to the brides home about two weeks later. they were remarried in St. Killian's church on November 1Sr 1923. After a week more of honey incoming, Crowley decided that he would have to go searching for worR and he failed to return until the following February, when he asked his wife to go and live with him She was agreeable if Crowley would furnish a home for them, but al this Crowley baked and disappeared again. Shortly afterward, the wife re- ceived a letter from Crowley, telling her that he was employed at the state hospital in Morristown ant asking her to go there to live. ShF did so and he rented & two-roon furnished apartment. He wa forced to live at>the hospital be ! cause of his duties. All went wei for two weeks and then one da! Crowley failed to appear at th' apartment where his wife and iDGan son awaited him. Thinking tha perhaps he was working overtime Mrs. Crowley did not become alarmed until 1t was apparent tha he was not coming, so she decided to call and inquire.
 He Had Gone Away From There Calling the hospital she was in formed that Crowley had left thu employ of the institution and lief for parts unknown with his wife who had been employed there witt him. This was the first intimatior she had that her husband was alst the husband of another and sh' started an investigation.
 The investigation revealed tha when he left Farmingdale abou three weeks after the marriage a the New York city hall, Crowle! had come directly to New Britain where he sought out his old sweet heart and went through anothe marriage ceremony in St. Mary church, the late Rev. John T. Win ters performing the ceremony ol November 27, 1924. Crowley ant his second wife lived as man ant wife at various state hospitals, wher they were employed.
 Not until after Crowley's arres and sentence to the Mineola jail fo non-support of his first wife and hi child was Catherine Madrick Crow 1 ley aware that she was the secont wife of Crowley. She visited him a the jail upon learning the news an there Crowley admitted the othe marriage.
 4 short time ago. wife No.
 brought the situation to the atten ton of Prosecutor Joseph G. Wood and an investigation resulted in tn sending of Detective Sergean George C. Ellinger after Crowle with extradition papers for his re turn here on charge of bigamy When put to plea on the charge thi morning. he pleaded guilty to marry ing Catherine Madrick and nc guilty to marrying, Louisa Kaspar ack, claiming that the first marriag was not a legal one bacuse he wa drunk at the time and had bee framed"
 Judge Hungerford reserved de cision in the case until Tuesday un i'll Crowley's affairs with Probatio Officer Edward C. Connolly ar strengthened out. The probation of ficer told the court that Crowle still owes the court about $40 on fine and costs that were impose last fall when he was arraigned 0 charge of rIfins a cash register i