Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — A MAN WITH MANY WIVES. [ARTICLE]

A MAN WITH MANY WIVES.

A'man who may justly lay claim to the title of the champion bigamist, iLthe stories told of him are true, now occupies a cell at a Chicago station house. He says his name is J. B. Aldrich. H,e has been living under the name of J. B. Willington, at No. 6288 Wentworth avenue, with wife No. 23. At least a police officer from Detroit, who was in Chicago a few days ago looking for Al- ’ drich, said that the latter had twenty-one wives living in different parts of the country besides the one at Detroit, and the one with whom Aldrich wassupposed to be living in Chicago. He is known in Detroit as J. B. Brown, and is supposed to have a wife living in Baltimore, Md. Almost nothing is known by the Chicago police of the story, Aldrich is a carpenter, forty-two years old. He is a tall, finely formed man with a very intelligent faee and prepossessing appearance.