He Had Thirteen Wives

Los AnsdoB, Be.'. 8.- A Btranger as íound dying yesterd ly in hij toom m a lodging house. A meerly empty vial Iabsled "sr.lphate oí ínorphine powders, H. Wightman, I-hiladelphia," Íound ín tire room. betrayed the cause of his death, but all clues that could establfeh his identity liad been destroyed. One of tlne letters said : "Forty years oíd and a native boni Amerh-an. I llave a estrlng oí aeflumed ñames almost as long as the moral law, and have operated from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I have crossed and recrossed the Atlantic severa] times. "I am a member of one of the 1 irgest and most prominent families of United Statee. My nneestors were among the first settlers of Jamestiown, N. Y., and so far as the family record shows I am the only traitor to the name. "During a period of about twentyone years I have been married to thirteen different women. In every case except tlie first, my solé motive was to secare money, not lovc or affectdon. I have three children ly tlie first, and one by all tli ;■ rest except tlKW. One of the women to whom I've been married h-ad $300,000 in her own riglit, three others had irom $150,000 to $200,000 and none oi the others w&a worth lnss than $10,000. "My rule generally was to live with my wife uintil I got the money in my control, aml tiren I was off for new iields to win another fair bride. "Jly vain and giddy victims were easily captuTed and it was often a case of 'love at first siight' with them. 'This confess'on may be a warninn to some good women, who too often ready to receive and entertain transe men of whom they know nothing. "I have often seen a poor, dirty and ragged tramp dragged to jail whose only o."f.jnse was to beg a quarter or a dime to buy a mullí needed meal, while perhaps half a dozen of the worst crimináis in the country, like mysel!, were lockers on, but in the guise of gentlemen whom Mr. Offit-er wonld scarcely dare to look at, mmh li -ss attempt to arrest.1'