Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — ONLY 27; HAS FIVE WIVES [ARTICLE]

ONLY 27; HAS FIVE WIVES

Spokane, Wash., Man’s Latest Venture Leads to His Arrest for Bigamy. V Portland, Ore. —A deputy sheriff Is on his way here to take George R. Carr, twenty-seven, to Spokane to answer to charges of bigamy. His reoord to date is: May 18, 1904, married Maud Rafferty, Lanesboro, Minn. Date unknown, married Ernestine Levert, daughter of a rich Baton Rouge (La.) sugar merchant. November 7, 1911, married Margaret Barclay, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. February 7, 1912, married Ruth Allen, nineteen years old, daughter of a wealthy Colfax (Wash.) fanner. Mfrs. Ruth Allen Carr, started proceedings against him.