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"Brides" to Press Bigamy
Charge at Chicago.
THIRD WIFE ANNOUNCED
Toe Dancer of Seattle Claims to R
only Really, Truly Mate; En
dearing Letters Given Out.
Still sullenly silent concerning his
tangled marital affairs, but confident
that his father, a rich packer of Ne
braska City, Neb., will come to his
assistance in a financial way. Glen
T. Aldrich, ex-ensign. United States
navy, announced his readiness yester
day to return to Chicago to meet his
accusers without further delay.
John Cartan. detective sergeant of
the Chicago police department, ar
rived in Portland .yesterday armed
with extradition papers for the re
moval of Aldrich to Chicago. Aldrich
assured the Chicago detective that he
would return without trouble. They
will leave tomorrow.
With the arrival of Sergeant Car
tan, further interesting insights into
Aldrich's romantic career during the
last few weeks were brought to light.
Two angry and heart-broken brides
are awaiting his arrival in Chicago
in order that they might have him
prosecuted for bigamy.
AeciiMTB Are Many.
Numerous Chicago firms, including
department stores, taxicab companies,
hotels and cafes, also are ready to
appear against him for passing bad
checks, which Serjgreant Cartan says
aggregate more than $4000. Aldrich
admits passing the bad checks, but
insists his mind is still a bit "hazy"
concerning his bigamous marriages.
While the Chicago police have lo
cated two brides whom Aldrich mar
ried within nine days of each other,
another woman has just stepped for
ward to present herself as the only
really, truly" wife of the dashing ex
naval officer.
Toe Dancer Alleged Ilrlde.
The woman who says she is the
third wife of Aldrich is Kathleen Els
mere, a toe dancer, now playing a
cabaret in Seattle. She told the Chi
cago police that she married Aldrich
back in 1914. just before he went to
war.
"I first met him in the orient." the
Seattle "bride" is reported to have
told the Chicago police. "We became
friends and then sweethearts. Great
heavens, how that man could love!"
Sergeant Cartan yesterday revealed
a few high lights of the whirlwind
courtship which Aldrich prosecuted to
win the hand of Lillian Dombrow, 18-year-old
society girl of Oak Park. 111.
He had known the girl but a week,
but by wearing the uniform of a lieutenant-commander
of the navy, and
with glowing stories of his bravery
during the war, he won the love of the
girl and the confidence of her parents,
and the wedding took place at the
"bride's" home on September 28 last.
Letters Reveal Confession.
Although Aldrich. since he has been
in jail in Portland, has consistently
denied knowledge of his marriage to
Lillian Dombrow, which took place
nine days before his marriage to Es
ther Carlson at Great Falls, Mont..
Sergeant Cartan brought with him
copies of letters which Aldrich had
written to wife No. 2, or Mrs. Esther
Aldrich. since he has been in jail in
Portland. In these letters Aldrich
makes a full confession of his mar
riage to the Dombrow girl.
The letter, written from the Port
land city jail to Mrs. Esther Aldrich,
began. "Darling Star of my life." and
then launched into 14 pages of en
dearing terms. Toward the end it
contained a repudiation of his mar
riage to Miss Dombrow. The letter
reads:
"I do not love that girl. She was
but a nightmare in my life a figure
in a drunken revelry. T met her one
night at a party. I had been horribly
lonesome for you and drank rather
heavily.
Meeting at Midnight Frolic.
"We first met at the Midnight
, Frolic, then Oolosimo's, then the Mari
gold i.araens. as we entered tne lat
ter place the spotlight accidentally
fell on us. 1 happened to be at this
girl's side.
"The orchestra struck up the wed
ding march. Everybody in our party
laughed and looked at us. The, whole
room looked and laughed. We laughed,
too.
'Tons of champagne followed. Then
I recall somebody saying'How about
a wedding breakfast?' I don't re
member what happened next. But
when I awoke 1 found I was married
to this girl I didn't even know her
first name."
The letter then goes on to tell the
"bride" that he was "fired" from the
Allied Packing association under a
cloud because of alleged padding of
accounts and falsification of records.
Accountability la Denied.
"But I don't know anything about
those charges." he states in his letter.
"1 was drinking heavily and a man
under the influence of liquor is not
accountable for his actions. But as
soon as I get straightened out here
I'll make good on that."
At the close of the letter, Aldrich
pleaded with bride No. 2 that she tel
egraph him $250 at once.
According to Sergeant Cartan, who
interviewed both wives before com
ing to Portland. Aldrich sent them
letters and telegrams by the dozen,
always protesting his undying love.
and always asking ror money.
It also was learned that even while
Aldrich was en route to Montana to
marry his second wife, he was writ
ing to wife No. 1. whom he left in
Chicago after a two-day honeymoon
which was paved with bad checks.
Letter 1 Produced.
Just about the time he was getting
a marriage license in Great Kalis to
marry Esther Carlson, he wrote a
letter to Mrs. Lillian Dombrow-Ald-rich.
A copy of this letter, was pro
duced yesterday by the Chicago de
tective, and reads as follows:
"Dear Lillie: I am deeply in debt,
more than $12,000 in the hole. Our
marriage was a terrible mistake.
Please have it annuled. I am not
worthy to see you again. Perhaps,
some day in the 'Great Beyond' we
will mrjet again. Do not expect to
aee m far at least four or five years,
lours. Olen."
Although wife No. 2, whom he
married at Great Falls, at first an
nounced she would stay by her hus
band through all his trouble and in
spite of his dual marriages, she has
since suffered a change of heart and
will assist wife No. 1 in prosecuting
him for bigamy, said Sergeant Cartan.
Fnthrr'i Aid Looked For.
In another letter to wife No. 2,
also written in the city jail here,
Aldrich expresses hope that his
father will assist him in straighten
ing out his tangled affairs.
"I wrote dad and asked him for fin
ancial help ar.d figured I could get
my financial affairs straightened out
without having to worry over them,"
he wrote her. "I have not yet gotten
into close touch with him, so do not
know Just how far he will go in help
ing me. Until I can get lined up with
him I am lying low, dearest, and
not communicating with anyone in
Chicago.
"As to the photo which was pub
lished, you know, honey girl, where
everyone of those pictures went, and
that I had none left. I don't know
where the photo came from. I surely
would not give one of yours and
they are yours, sweetheart to any
one without vour TiermiKsion. Now
dearest, as to that alleged marriage.
i guess, toney, it is true.
Marriage Held Forgotten.
"But on my love to you, at the
time I married you I had no idea or
recollection of ever having gone
through the ceremony.
"I met a Dombrow but it seems to
me her name was or is Louise. As
near as I can recall I met her on a
wild party one night just a few days
two or three before this wedding.
The whole thing is hazy to me."
The letter closes in this manner; ?
"Now, honey girl, all this happened
before that wonderful September day
that I married you I I love you I With
you, anything! Any place! Anywhere!
Without you, nothing!
"Your broken-hearted but still hope
ful husband, dearest, and I am your
husband yours and yours only
CLEMENCY
REFUSED
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Governor Olcott Declares
None Will Escape Gallows.
MINISTER'S PLEA FUTILE
Chief Executive of Oregon Says In
Justice to People of State Sen
tences Must Be Carried Ont.
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SALEM. Or., Oct. 13. (Special.)
Neither Neil Hart, James- Owens nor
Jack Rathie, who are in the state
penitentiary here awaiting execution
for the part they played in the mur
der of Til Taylor, former sheriff of
concur in this, ray personal request.
"Thanking you before God for your
clemency and if I can reciprocate this
kindness to myself I shall feel obli
gated to your command."
16 SCHOOLS TO DEBATE
Students Will Discuss Strikes and
v Arbitration. ,
CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct. 13 (Spe
cial.) Sixteen high schools in south
west Washington have entered the
league for a series of debates to be
held during the coming winter and
spring. - The subject to be debated
this year is stated as follows:
"Resolved, that as a prerequisite to
the right of strike or lockout, em
ployers and employees should be re
quired to submit industrial disputes
to arbitration, the - machinery for the
purpose to be provided by the na
tional government."
R, E. Cook, superintendent of the
Chehalis schools, is manager'for the
series of debates. The home team
has the affirmative and the visiting
team the negative on all debates and
the schedule arranged is as follows:
November 5. Goldendale at Camas;
Yacolt at Ridgefield, Winlock at
Castle Rock, Rochester . at Oakville.
Centralia af Raymond. Napavine at
Mossyrock. Boistfort at Lebam, Che
halis at Olympia.
December 19, Goldendale at Rldge-
DASHING EX-NAVAL OFFICER AND TWO BRIDES WHOM HE MARRIED WITHIN NINE DATS OF
EACH OTHER.
sends all his love and carresses. Al
ways and for always, yours."
Drunkenness Is Denied.
According to Sergeant Cartan, wife
No. 1 registered deep, indignation
when she read this letter which Aid
rich had written to wife No. 2.
"She told me that he was not drunk
when he met her and married her."
said Sergeant Cartan. "She told me
that he came to her house frequently
during that week's courtship and met
her parents and friends and seemed
every inch a gentleman. They were
married at her home."
After the two "wives" began to
compare notes and missives, they both
decided they would assist in tne pros
ecution of the handsome ex-naval of
ficer. It was wife No. 2 who swore
out a warrant charging Aldrich with
desertion, while wife No. 1 first gave
the Chicago police the information
which led to his arrest in Portland ten
days ago.
While Aldrich is to be returned to
Chicago tomorrow, the Chicago police
are still investigating the claim of
the cabaret dancer in Seattle that she
is the first and only legal wife of the
much-married young man. .
1912 Marriage Reported
According to statements she is said
to have made to officials, she was
married tp Aldrich on February 11,
1912, at the Sacred Heart church, San
Franeisco. She also says that she re
ceived his allotment while he was an
officer in the navy during the war
and kept getting it until last De
cember. The Seattle "wife" also v says that
her husband was always in need of
financial assistance during the time
they were living together and that in
dulgent parents always answered his
appeals for funds.
"They never failed him when he
called on them for funds," she is re
ported to have said. "While we were
in the orient he would cable again
and again for funds and always got
what he asked for promptly."
Although Aldrich has consistently
denied that he wore the uniform of
a captain or lieutenant-commander
while in Chicago, Sergeant Cartan
says it was the uniform of a lieutenant-commander
which lured the Dom
brow girl into marrying him, and a
picture of him in this uniform was
published in Chicago newspapers at
the time of his first marriage. While
in Portland he made himself a cap
tain in the navy by the simple process
of changing the bars and other insig
nia of the uniform.
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Re-ad In from left o right Mrs. Es
ther Carliton Aldrich, wife No. 2;
Ulen T. Aldrich, In uniform of lieutenant-commander.
United States
INavj-j Mrs. Lillian Dombrow Aid
rich, IS-year-old Chicago aoclety
erirl, whom he married after a whirl
wind courtship paved with bad
checks.
FIE TRUCK BID HELD UP
RECOMMEND ATI OX OF COM
MI SSI OXER BIGELOW FOIGHT.
Delay Caused by Request for More
Thorough. Investigation; Two
. Companies Make Offer.
Opposition to the recommendation
of City Commissioner BIgelow for
the purchase of an American-La
France type of aerial fire truck, in
preference to lower bids offered by
the Campbell Fire Equipment com
pany, yesterday caused a delay in the
award of the bid. A meeting has
been called tomorrow to settle the
controversy.
City Commissioner Mann urged
that a delay be caused in order that
a thorough investigation be made.
Mr. Campbell contended that his
truck conformed with the specifica
tions in addition to being offered at
a lower bid, whereas the truck of
fered by the American-La France
company did not conform to the spec
ifications. Commissioner Bigelow
contended that Mr. Campbell misin
terpreted the specifications and also
contended that his recommendation
for the American-La France product
was upon the solicitation and rec
ommendation of seasoned fire of
ficials, who handled the equipment.
The question of a new aerial truck
for the Portland fire bureau has been
a source of worry to Commissioner
! Bigelow for several months. The
money for the purchase was appro
priated almost a year ago.
Umatilla county, will receive any
clemency at the hands of Governor
Olcott.
This was made plain here today i
following receipt of a letter at the
executive offices from Rev. W. H.
Cox, a Baptist minister at Pendleton,
urging that Hart be spared from
death on the gallows.
"I wish to advise that no clemency
will be extended by this office to
Hart. Owens or Rathie," said the gov
ernor's letter in reply to the commu
nication received from Rev. Cox. "I
sincerely appreciate your attitude in
this mater, but in justice to the peo
ple of the state these sentences should
and will be carried out according to
law and the verdict of the juries who
sat in the cases."
Life Term Is Asked. A
"I am writing ypu to know if you
can and will reverse the sentence of
Hart to a life sentence." wrote Rev.
Mr. Cox to Governor Olcott.
"I know he and he alone murdered
our good friend Taylor, but the man
is a mental -defective and has been so
fjom boyhood. Secondly, he is not
physically sound, his anatomy is in
complete, so our present sheriff tells
me, and this condition alone would
affect him. Then again, I am diamet
rically opposed to capital punishment.
'Thou shalt not kill' is as true to a
nation, a state, a county, a city, a
town, as it is true to a person.
"Then again, our city was bo in
censed and infuriated and somewhat
intoxicated with the frenzied condi
tion that there is every reason for me
to believe that had this case been
tried by another county nothing
more than second degree would have
come against Bancroft, alias Hart. ;
Prejudice Is Charged.
"I believe that grand jury, prose
cution and judge all suffered from
this condition, and probably did
not realize that they were in any
way under its influence, but I feel
sure they were. Now do you ask, how
did I escape it? Well, I was in Can
ada when it all happened and left on
the Wednesday before it happened
and did not return until August 2 and
did not hear of it until I returned, or
I perhaps might have gotten the same
condition.
"Til Taylor was- a personal friend
of mine, and on Sunday, July 18. I
sat in his office chatting with him.
ana i reel i interpret him right when
J say 1 tninn ne could
field: Camas at Tacolt, Olympia at
Centralia, Lebam at Raymond, Boist
fort at Rochester, Oakville at Mossy
rock, Castle Rock at Chehalis, Win
lock at Napavine.
February 4, Ridgefield at Camas;
Chehalis at Centralia, Napavine at
Boistfort, Lebam at Castle Rock, Ray
mond at Olympia. - Mossyrock at
Rochester, Oakville at Winlock, Camas
at Goldendale.
March 4, Castle Rock at Goldendala,
Camas at Chehalis; Raymond at Win
lock, Mossyrock at Boistfort, Ridge
field at "Napavine, Olympia at Oak
ville. Centralia at Tacolt, Rochester
at Lebam.
ANDERSON TRIAL DELAYED
Alleged Wife Murderer May Face
Jury Some Time in Xovember.
ASTORIA, Or., Oct. 13. (Special.)
The date for the trial of Olaf An
derson, under indictment charging
him with the murder of his wife, has
not been definitely fixed, although it
probably will be during the Novem
ber session of the circuit court.
Some weeks ago the trial was set
for November 1, but that will be the
day before election and as the jury
in a murder case, when sworn in,
must be kept together until the trial
ends, the hearing was continued. - A.
W. Norblad, attorney for the defense,
is endeavoring to procure information
from an insane asylum in Sweden
where a brother and a sister of the
defendant are said to be confined
with a view to showing that the de- '
fendant s family carries a strain of
insanity.
Anderson, who tried to commit sui
cide a short time ago by cutting his
throat, has been removed from the
hospital to the jail and is fast recov
ering from his wound.
Albany Officers Installed.
ALBANY, Or., Oct. 13. (Special.)
Albany council. Knights of Columbus,
Installed the following officers last
night: Grand knight, M. C Miller;
deputy grand knight: Eugene S. Shea;
chancellor, Joseph Taucher; recorder,
Leo J. Krppp; treasurer, W. A. Bar
rett: financial treasurer. J. F. Dolley;
advocate, T. B. Riley: warden, Ben T.
Sudtell; lecturer, William J. Tyrrell;
trustee. Rasper Kropp; chaplain,
Arthur Lane. -
Churches to Entertain Students.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu
gene. Oct. 13. (Special.) For the
purpose of holding open house for all
university students, the churches of
Eugene have united in plans for Fri
day night, October 15. All the
churches intend to throw open their
doors to the students, and every ef
fort is being made to provide live
and would programmes for their enjoyment.
Rebekahs Meet at Bucoda.
CENTRALIA. Wash., Oct. 13. (Spe
cial.) A district convention of Re
bekahs will be held Saturday at
which a big delegation will be in at
tendance from Centralia. The lodges
in the district include those in this
city. Chehalis. South Bend, Raymond,
llwaco, Toledo, Bucoda. Tenino, Napa
vine. Littell. Dryad. Pe Ell, Lebam
and Riffe. New district officers will
be elected Saturday. The present of
ficers are Mrs. Ada Patterson. Che
halis. president;. Mrs. C. E. Prince.
Centralia, vice-president; Lena Mas
ters. Raymond, secretary, and Jose
phine Lund, Littell, treasurer.
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