Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — ALLEGED BIGAMIST CAUGHT [ARTICLE]

ALLEGED BIGAMIST CAUGHT

Man Arrested In Indiana la Also Said to be Forger and Swindler. Richmond. Ind.. July 21. After a search of sex era! weeks Peter F. Apkins, aged thirty-three, was arrested here charged with being a bigamist, forger and rcbber. His operations, according to Superintendent Gorman of the local police department, have extended over tb« eastern and middle western sections of the United States. Last May Apkins married a widow, Mrs. Bertha Coler, in this city, and. It is said, deserted her two days later in Paris, 111. He then went to Nicholasville, Ky., and soon married Miss Elizabeth Young in Lexington, Ky.. the police assert. The couple went to Cincinnati and the first night Apkins, it is alleged, drugged and robbed his new wife of S2OO and jewelry. From Cincinnati Apkins went east, and, it Is alleged, operated In Hartford, Conn., and Boston and returning west was heard from In Chicago by Qis’ wife here, who turned the letter over to the police. He was arrested as he stepped from the train. Apkins’ suitcase contained hundreds of love letters written by women all over the United States, and checks on more than sixty national banks of the coun try. - .