THE CHAMPION BIGAMIST.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 230, 29 September 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE CHAMPION BIGAMIST.

'^ '• KoW'tho1 Biisbanii^ot :H?w6nty-t]iu't3e ■»•*. . .Wives Camo| to Grief.

A;GHICAa<J. despatch, ; :|t|i)eH:;--^J. :Aldrich ! Brovvn, the bigamist, was taken ,fco, Detroit yesterday afternoon, He Jhaving boen cofi-1 vinced tfiat he would stajid ad goodi.n that i city'» 3 here: One of his['wives, 'Miss Bujk;i nell, told him yesterda^she would fiend hithl to! the penitentiary suje^ana^S he knew her to b,e a wopian of her Ayord, he thought he would take Ma "chances in Petroit. iVlary Benj^piin was tho >yife ran him down. She had a neat'4ittle dress-1 making business, ; and supppr|ed him well. He i|yed with he? several weeks. Then ho left,"and LJar.y found that he 'had: taken'-.' with^Kim allher hard-earned savings v Her | house and stock ho had mortgflged,i;apd she i was^cptiiplotely rpoed. Inst|i|d of jgivirig up in despair and, throwing herself ;,in go the; river,4hkpluckyilittle woman1 starred on a! search for her villainous husband." B$M took ~the;> , agc,ncy for^,, patent! corset and pleating machine, and, selling her goods as sh;e w;ent, fpiloted Brown from dnetowjv; to'another ."kl^yays^on,his, crack, sometimes1] for lac^; of funds unable to go wljere sfte',. co;uld find h?m:, but-always following himi ■ with'the persistency:bf a;grained detective. At Alpena, Michiy- she 1 met him- on the street, but he jan.; away. In, near^ every place she visited she; found a wife whom Brown had robbe.d and deserted. JS* ;■ -Miss Benjamin;,, after-followingi several I'false clues, gave theui.upland started'on a new theory. She knew that Brpjy-n was aflicted with,: rhpj*matiam, and had heard j.him speak .'pf frying" tho waters at Mount 'Clemens;- "iSlie thought/she mighj; find I him- there^ and on going to the^sp/iriga, learned thai.K^had been there and;ordered his m^l forwarded to Chicago* at the; general delivery. It was this information tliat enflef in! Brown's capture, Benjamin informed the police of her discovery, and: Officer Tutlull, who was sent here on. business^ -lyas -told to lS3k out for Brown. Aletter had"'feeen forwarded from Mount 'Ciemensi and T-u thill was, Jo wait v ntilßro wn called for itC In some \^y the man. got the lle'tter during.the"detective's abse'rice, and I Tuthill went home, 'r Then a decoy letter was sent, /and Officer Myler sw told ;:to, watch it; • The plot succeeded -and Myl^r.' ■caught'.Brownas>/was reading the decoy.: 'Miss: Benjamin was', notified by tgl^graph. at Mou:nf plemena, and afc once Rignined hprintOTitipn of gping to Detroit aM prose, ciiiting;the' prisoner, f ": \U