Amazing Duplicity.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 93, 19 December 1913, Page 5

Amazing Duplicity.

A MAN OF MANY LOVES.

SHUNTER V.ITH TWO "WiVES" AND THREE SWEETHEARTS.

Courtship on a wholesale plan has for a few years, apparently isays the News of the World) been the principal occupation o!' Isaac Thomas Graham, 'U, a shunter. The story bf his amazing duplicity was unfolded at Chester Assizes, when he was charged with biliously marrying Margaret Day. at' Birkenhead, in May. 1010. His record is as follows :-

1890.-Married to No. 1, by whom u> had two children.

1910.—Bigamously married to No 2 bv whom lie had one child.

' L913.—1n January met No. 3, to whom he became engaged to be married. While courting her he made love to No. 4. who lodged with No. :',, and asked her to marry him, but she refused. In August, while courting No. 3, and living with "wife'' No. 2, he "kept company" with No. 5, and they were to have been married in December.

It was stated that. Graham represented himself to Day as single. In January of this year it was stated he met, Lucy Pickering, 20, to whom he described himself as a bachelor. He i,-ppt company with her. and was to have been married to her at St.Clary's Church, Birkenhead, on the 25th inst. He told her that the banns had been called for the third time, and, under his promise of marriage, betrayed her. Miss Pickering resided with a Miss Kauny Gould at Camperdown-street, rVrkenhead; and when calling there, it was said, prisoner; sought to make love to Miss Gould, offering to throw over Miss Pickering if she would marry him. About August of this year, while courting Pickering and living with his second "wife," he became? acquainted with Agnes Head, 23, and promised her marriage in December. Judging by the number of letters and postcards they found, the police believe that other women had dso been victimised and ruined by

prisoner. Prisoner was sentenced to 18 months hard labor.