A MATRIMONIAL MONSTER

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 404, 28 September 1875, Page 3

A MATRIMONIAL MONSTER

The American papers state that there has bsen arrested in Cincinnati a matrimonial monster named David W. Buck. He is only thirty-five years old, and has half-a-dozen more wives than he knows what to do with. He first married Elizabeth Blaine at Greenfield, Ohio, and had four children. He left that family and married Anna Kerr at Danville, Mo., and left her in a few weeks. At that time he was in the army and had to march away. Before the war was over he married another woman somewhere on the march, but was soon divorced from her, and has now forgotten even her name. He then went to Cincinnati and married a young lady of good family in that city. _He got work in Chicago at house painting, and sometimes visited his Cincinnati wife. While on one of his visits to her he met Miss Hannah Seckatz, of Lawrenceburg, and soon after married her in the regular way. He had so many wives now that they began to trouble his mind, and he finally confessed to his Cincinnati wife what he had done in Lawrenceburg, and offered to go to the police office, and charge himself Avith bigamy. She would not hear of it, and he went to house painting again in Chicago. But the Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg wives got togetr er, and upon comparing notes resolved that Buck ought to be stopped. They went to Chicago with an officer, and had no difficulty in finding and arresting Buck. On the train he told his own story of his life. Among other things, he said he had five separate .and distinct wives living in Chicago, and was very glad to get anywhere out of that city where he could be boarded and lodged. He dreaded, above all things, a family difficulty in Chicago.