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A MUCH MARRIED MAN COWOMEN OF FOUR STATES TESTIFY AGAINST EX-LOVER.Lticltn Picketl on Trtsl for Obtaining |1000 from Cripple Under Promise to Wed.Cleveland. O.. Nor. to.—Loclen Plrkeit of New York. Springdale. Pa., and some other cities. la on trial In federal court for persuading a crippled woman lo rive him S 1.000 of her saving*. Pickett has Ove wires. Moat of hla large and peculiar family waa 1n court November P— ft waa a gathering of the wives. There were also two women who were on the proapertlve Hat. Pickett had not married them, bat he had. they testified, accepted money from them—1700 In one Instance, f 1.000 In another.The wives and those who were to be testified. As they took the witness stand, one after another, some wept, some, not too grieved to see the humor of the story, smiled; some were gayly dr aw ad. some were fireside women; one Is a school teacher: some were pretty women; some were not.They came from four states—-one was lame, she walked haltingly with her cane to the witness chair, but couldn’t climb (he three steps. It ♦ as a family reunion extraordinary.Pickett Is an accompllehed letter writer. He has a broad, free hand and spells correctly. He draws on the beauties of nature for bis allusions— prose poetry ever and anon crops Into the lines. Most of bis wives and flanrees received heaps of these letters; In court the tender missives, collected. made over 100.Wife the first wa§ Mm. Georgia E. Pickett, nee Walther of Ostia. Pa., whom he married six years ago; then came Mrs. Ellen E. Pickett, nee New-ton of Albany. N. Y.j then Mrs. Lulu Emrlck of New York City, then Mrs.Elma Miller of Maron. III., and so on.In the Intervals between ceremonies Pickett courted others, among them a school teacher at Chicago. Mrs. Gertrude Ifcmtnlngcr of New Kensington, Pa., and Miss Allle Grensley. who lived on a 111 tic farm, alone with her mother, and who was lame, of 8prlngdale. Pa.One, according to postoffice Inspectors, gnvo him $600, one gave him $700, one was coaxed unlll she turned over $1,000. one gave lilm $2,000. In many cases he gave his benefactress es notes, and when he offered to pay the Interest (hey refused to accept it. I telt;.tTRAPPED IN MINE BY FIRE8lr black bospl came of n Dr. C els Ills n man.
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Canfield Mahoning Dispatch
Canfield, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 12, 1909
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