Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — MRS, ALBERT PATTEE WAS A BLUEBEARD [ARTICLE]

MRS, ALBERT PATTEE WAS A BLUEBEARD

A Letter From One of Her Husbands So Alleges and He Asks About Her Marriage In This County.

Readers of the Republican •will remember of the rather romantic marriage almost two years ago of Albert E. Pattee, of near Newland, to Mrs. Sadie Selle Monroe, which took place at the court house one stormy afternoon after Jhe prospective bride and groom had missed connections after her arrival here, and she had passed him en route to town as she was being taken to his home by a liveryman. They will also remember that Albert decided after a few months of more or less harmonious married life that Sadie was not just the sort of a female that he cared to tie to for the rest of his life, and along in December of the same year he was granted a divorce. In the mean time Sadie and her little son had taken their departure, they having mutually agreed that marriage was a failure, as applied to them.

Pattee was soon married again, this time to a Virginia lady with whom he still lives. Recent developments tend to show that Albert was not to blame, but that he was mistaken when he undertook in an article sent to the Republican, Just after his marriage, to prove that Sadie was a pearl

of uncommon brilliancy. The matter was again revived this week when County Clerk Warner received a letter from a man named M. R. Potter, residing at Irwin, lowa, who claims to be one of the woman’s several husbands. He Seeks information about the marriage of Sadie to Pattee, and says she has married several men, and has gone by several names. According to his letter she is now held at Irwin, lowa, on a charge of bigamy, having a husband in that place. He says she has gone by the name of Miss Belle Pattee, Miss Sadie Shannon, Mrs. Sadie Stoker, Mrs. Sadie Monroe, Mrs. Sadie Potter, and now by the name of her latest victim in lowa.

Sadie seemed like a very meek little woman, but according to Pattee and his father she was a veritable wild cat when she broke loose, which they said was at very frequent intervals. No other crime than that of poliglmous marriage has been charged against Sadie and it is supposed that she is' just slipping around the country trying a husband here and there until she finds one that suits her, when it is expected that she will settle down and live happily ever afterward.