A DOUBLE LIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8104, 8 May 1906, Page 4

A DOUBLE LIFE.

BAiWtKii WHO POSED AS HIS OWN BKOTIIEK. New Yobk, March 22. Strange disclosures concerning a Brooklyn millionaire baukcr's double life were made tj-day in the course of legal proceedings winch have resulted from his disappearance with a lady iwhoiii i.c bigauiuusly married. Mr Thomas \V. iCiley was a hardwire merchant, and President of the North Side Bank. He enjoyed a high financial reputation, and was of some social sanding, and prominent in religiouslud philanthropic work in the locality. He is sixty-live years of age, and has suave manners and a grave appearance whijh inspire confidence. The disclosures nave come as a great shock to his neighbours in Brooklyn's most select quarter. Not half a mile apart he maintained two handsome houses with a wife in each, dividing his time between them without either wife or the neighbours discovering his secret. Each of his victims is a widow with a grown up family. He luiriiud first his own brother's widow, but, strangely enough, this marriage was always kept secret, eyen from his frit-mis.

The second marriage took place in 1903, when he perniutlud a wealthy widow, Mrs Colt, to • accompany lain to Indiana, where he went through the marriage ceremony with lior, and uU> persuaded her by plausible pretexts to keep the marriage a secret. These facts were disclosed through a lawyer employed to adjust his financial affairs sning for an exorbitant fee. Affidavits were filed, and the banker's double life was exposed. It appears that his dual occupations enabled him to sustain a dual personality. At one home he was Kiley, the merchant, and at the other Kilej, the banker, representing himself as two brothers, and inventing an elaborate fiction of family difference to explain why the two never met, Confronted with the exposure, Kiley admitted all, and said in exti-nuuiinu that he believed his first wife tu be dying when he married the second, and quite expected on tKe return -from his honeymoon to find her dead. However she recovered. The children of both wives disclaim any intention to prosecute, but Kiley and his second wife have both disappeared.