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IN THE TERRIBLE TOILS.:rank Certer Wanted by the Authorities on a Serious Charge.US NAME NOT RENO CASINO ANY MORE, BUT DENNIS, WITH A BIG “D.in Officer With the Necessary Papers and Party to Identify Him, on Their Way to Sturgis, Mich.Vliorc They No Doubt Captured film This Morning.Nearly everybody wlio has lived in Ll-onicr the past ten years knows Frank arter, sometimes known as Arthur. JIo as recently got into a little difficulty ont which lie is not likely to extricate imself, and it look9 very much as if the :nrs of the Michigan penitentiary would ving open to receive him before the iscs bloom again. lie was a resident of Ligonicr for a amber of years, but last spring removed ' Kendallvillc and accepted a position ith A. S. Parker in the News office, uring the fair therc.somc of his young Hints introduced him to a young lady siding near LaOtto, he passing under ic name of Francis Reno Casino, and presenting himself as a singlo man, lough he had a wife and two children, ic aged about seven years and one two, ring in Kendallvillc, which fact those ho were acquainted with him well row. The young lady was captivating appearance, handsome and vivacious, chly clad, only 18 years old, well collided, a graduate of the Kendallvillc hools, and Carter was “stuck 011 her .once. lie sought further acquaintance, sited her as often as ho could, but as sc-etly as possibly of course, having, how-’er, sent his wife and children 011 a visit I.tgonier,To make the story short I10 sought the rl’s ruin, and, according to his own infossion, accomplished it under a prom-3 of marriage. in due time the girl as in trouble—in serious trouble, and cn Carter induced her to go to her into. Ilo sought to relieve her, but the rnedy did not work, and, to use a street imsc, they were both in the soup. The in young lady had been warned and vised but she would not listen to the ' treaties of friends, who informed her the situation. Carter denied all and gcninusly invented an excuse for the I * dements of his being a married man. |1 ) went further and secured the services ‘ his wife, who wrote to the young lady !1 d claimed to lie a widow, that Frank 111 ,rter was her brother, nnd that his real | * me was Re.110 Casino, and that she had 1 ^ pt house for him, advising the young!’ ly to pay no attention to the “slander-1s s rumors. She gave as a reason for 1 i being called Frank Carter that he had |' itcp-fathcr by that name. Several let- * * s passed between them, and the young * ly was thus allured to her ruin, no v llht. *“arter found himself in a box with but c way out, and he concluded to leave : state. This he did something over a ek ago, going to Sturgis, Michigan, icre his wife expressed a vnlisc tot appears that I10 suddenly deyiscd an-icr scheme, however, and that was to 1 is ve his wife get a divorce, ho would 11 in marry the girl, and in dne time (so n led his tyifc to believe, no doubt,) he uld get freed from the girl and re-rry his first wife. To carry out this etno lie would need have the willing istance of his wife. This lie no doubt urcd, as she took steps tins week to tire a divorce, alleging as sufficient Hinds the crime of adultery, i’or some reason, however, ho could , wait for the slow movements of the irt, and was induced or compelled to I' •ry matters with the girl ho had rnged. It is stated that he married in Michigan anil they were quietly nting in Sturgis, where the officers, no ibt, found the object of their search 1 morning.'he oarly north bound train on tlieG. I. road boro an officer, a relative of wronged girl and Mr. A. S. Parker of Kendallvillo News, as a committee on ntiUcalion, in pursuit of Carter, taav-him spotted, and no doubt ore this 'o the young man in limbo. Uo will tried in Michigan for his crime for the son that the laws of that state are ro stringent anti inflict a groater pen-r for the crime of bigamy than is probed by tbo statutes of Indiana. Wo pi lerstand the penalty is from five to et mty years. litbould Carter meet bis just dues in tbis V Iter lie will no doubt have ample time tli ollect anil ponder oyer bis fool isli and in iked career. la
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Ligonier Leader
Ligonier, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 12, 1889
Page 5
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Sarah C.
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