Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1902 — Still Working the Vick Sensation. [ARTICLE]

Still Working the Vick Sensation.

The Chicago Ameican is another paper which works the Charley Vick bigamy sensation for all there is in it, and a good deal more. lt devoted a column of space to it, Thursday afternoon on its front page, half of a hioh space is in head lines, reaching half way accroas the page, in the American’s genuine horse-hiHstyle. Judging from the subject matter of the article, onr young townsman missed his calling when he went into painting and paper-hanging as a vocation, and the marrying of women as a side line. He ought to have been a novelist of the the modern romantic school. The following is the article:

Again the public is brought face to face with a story of man’s perfidy and woman’s credulity. The man, Charles L. Vick, of Rensselaer, Ind., is due at the Central Precinct Police Station in Chicago tomorrow. The women are many and scattered. Three are known, however, and by them especially by Miss Emily Winifred Miller, 229 Wood street Chicago, who no longer claims to the name Mrs. Vick—the polios have been inspired to arrest the man. Miss Miller is now a saleswoman in a State street store, and is not grieving. Another wife, Mrs. Charles L. Vick No. 1, and her child live with Vick’s parents in Rensselaer, Ind. She was Minnie Summers, sixteen, and a farmer’s pretty daughter when Vick married her. He was then twenty years old He is now twenty-three. Mrs Vick No. 3 lives in Sumner, Ind, When Vick met Miss Milter, a girl of seventeen, a year ago at her home in Harvard, 111., he was "strikingly impressed” he told her, “You know, Emily.” he said, “there is something distinguished about you.” At the house of Jameslianraban Miss Miller’s brother-in-law? in whose family she visited while in Chicago, Vick renewed his acquaintance with her.

Miss Miller says be baa tbe Rift of eloquence and made her think that he was a decendent of roj alty. “I am from an old Southern family, descendants of George 111. Why, Vicksburg, Mies., waa named after my grandfather.” Thia sounded good to Miaa Miller.

“Yea,” he continued, “my father is a wealthy physician in Rensse* laer. He never leaves his office. When people cannot oome to him he lets them alpnef Then Vick told'Mias Miller that he had studied law and that he was only looking for a large build* ing to purchase, in order to go info the wholesale grocery business. Vick had a very affectionate manner of winding up his letters to bis sweetheart. One written from Brook, Ind., where he was supposed to be putting In a street railroad for the city, concluded: - "My dear, I am your own loving boy, Charlie. “Al, Tbhis the rise of the kiss I send.” And underneath his signature was a big circle, ’ IJhaiVick added another postscrip sayfag: “And 2,000,000 Finally,Vick 4* T plri w - he wanted- to keep the marriage sestet on the account of the pwjacrewof hU Umily, the thooouple left tha-aupper table at Mbs Milterto 'riStotf r hunse last Net Year and Wsremmrted. J The' family’<rn dfarifcundpd when they retdmed WWK A noanoedno Hiniratnm that she hadh new hmth«n|]^^ t pcfr during the marriage certificate. After that Vick lived with his

young wife for three weeks at her sister’s house. Then he disappeared.