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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVII, Issue 8198, 10 August 1895, Page 1

A MUCH MARRIED MAN.

SJXTV XINK UNHAPPY WIVES.

The champion marrying man is also claimed for America, as w'ell as the champion; cyclist. His name— or liis last one was .Tames Clark, and he has bnfc one arm but that one has circled the form of many a wife of his own. He was arrested and charged in Baltimore a few days ago for his last matrimonial venture or rather for the theft of the baggage of a .widow whom he had married after a" few days acquaintance. He holds the marriage record up to date,' and he has been credited altogether witlx G9 wives, someof whom he married within a few weeks of each other, and generally with an acquaintance of loss than a week, sometimes of only a day. .In addition to the 69 with which lie is credited, there are, as the ejection returns are sometimes reported, many other countries to be heard from, and it is quite probable that the fellow has made a century rnn in matrimony. His marriages seem to have been dictated by the sense of acquisitiveness rather than by the pure passion of love," as it doesn't appear to make any difference with him whether a spouse is young or old, native or foreign,' Catholic cr Protestant-all is fish that comes to his net. His honeymoons are always brief, most of them not more than 24 or 48 hours, as lie tatas.the first opportunity to steal away not. only him* self but, his late-fc wife's baggage, jewelery, and money. Sometimes delay is necessary to get the jjroperty converted into cash, but he usually gets there all the same. One of the first eases in which he figured as far as the police are concerned was in this city eight or ten years ago, when he married a newly ianded Frenchwoman, and . started with her for the West, where tley were to live on a "farm," which had no existence. The couple reached Niagara, and the bride up to that time was very happy. The next morning, when she found that her* busj band had decamped with jewels and money io the value', .of JOOOJoI. | (£200), she was not so happy; He was captured by detectives within a week, but in the meantime he had got to Boston and married another woman. His story of love desertion was published, and then came deserted wives in platoons aud in companies. The place where his last' wife was stopping' was . given out in the. newspaper and several days the door.bell of that ho.use ..was on a lively jingle by women who all .asked for a onearmed, cleaned shaven, sixty yesr old man lover with a cast in his starboard eye. The place, was full ' of wives, wives Ion?, short and stout, hideous, wives beautiful. Tbey talked- loud and long, and one of ttem suggested they form a club. . "Aud hedeserves a club too." He is pining in prison just njw and will probably be convicted aud sent to the State-prison, where they, neither marry, nor are given in marriage, nor are they -altogether like the kingdom of heaven,