Blarcum Again In The Limelight

Wants to Get Govenor to Aid Him in 

CORRALING "HIS WIDOW" 

Says John Duffy is No Good--Will Try to Get a Warrant for Her in Wayne County

George Van Blarcum, he of Augusta township and one-time deputy sheriff of Washtenaw, has made another appearance in the ring as can be seen from the following, which appeared in Saturday's Detroit Journal:

George Van Blarcum is a guileless son of rural toil from Stony Creek who is in town hot-footing it about public buildings in search of Gov. Bliss.

George has a stern duty for the governor to perform, in comparison with which the Freeman-Sayre case is but as an "A. B. C." book to an advanced course in rhetoric. George wants the governor to set in motion the machinery to mete out justice and punishment to a pretty and vivacious young widow who, he says, has trifled with his affections and incidentally touched him in installments for about $400.

She got it all from me on a promise to be mine," said George pathetically, "and if that ain't getting money under false pretenses, I'd like to know what is."

George was on the hunt for the governor in the county building during the morning. He had read that his excellency was due in Detroit, had heard there was a big law suit on between the Michigan Central and the state and logically concluded that the circuit court rooms were the apartments in which to look for the chief executive. 

"She got most of the money from me out in Washtenaw county," explained George to a sympathizing group, "but I gave some of it to her in Wayne county, and perhaps the prosecutor here will give me a warrant. I don't know what's the matter with John Duffy out in Ann Arbor, but he won't give me any warrant. Why, he even told me that it wouldn't make any difference if I brought my own lawyer and showed what all the facts and the laws are. I don't know what to make of John Duffy. I'll go to the prosecutor here and then I'll go to the governor. There's got to be something done."

George said the lady had repeatedly promised to be his'n, and finally backed out because he was too old for her. How owns up to 46 and she is but 24. There was another husband in the way until the last year, when a decree of divorce was granted. 

"I was fair and square all through," said George. "When she left her husband I went to see him and asked him if he intended to live with her again, and he said he didn't. And I asked her if she intended to live with him again, and she said she didn't. I started her divorce suit for her in Ann Arbor, but she couldn't get it there and came up here to Detroit and got it."

George says the cruel lady is now working in the Ypsilanti woolen mills, after having traveled extensively about the state, apparently indifferent to the aching voids in his heart and pocketbook.