Breckinridge-Hancock County KyArchives News.....Jesse Marlow accused of Bigamy January 9, 1907
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The Breckinridge News January 9, 1907
Mr. Jesse Marlow, a former citizen of Patesville, this county, is in jail at 
Vanburen, Arkansas, charged with bigamy and perjury. The latter charge, it is 
said, is in connection with having obtained the license for the alleged second 
marriage.

Marlow left Hancock county about eighteen months ago, and went to Arkansas to 
work in timber with Mr. L. S. Powers, a former Hawesville citizen for the St. 
Louis Stave & Lumber Co. Before he left this county he was connected with the 
Cincinnati Cooperative Co. and is regarded as an excellent timber man.

When he departed from Hancock county he left behind a wife at Patesville, who 
was a Miss Lamb before marriage, and he was never divorced from her, and now 
it is charged that he was later married to a Miss Smith at Chester, Arkansas. 

It seems that Mr. Marlow is addicted to the "dope" habit and some years ago he 
attended a place in Ohio which professes to cure such afflictions. 
Complications with one of the nurses at the institution, it is said, was a 
sufficient ground for his Patesville wife to proceed for a divorce, and she 
did so, with the result that a legal separation was granted her at the recent 
term of Hancock Circuit Court. However, the charge of a second marriage was 
made before this divorce was granted. Marlow we are informed, had returned to 
the Ohio sanitarium, and was there caught recently and returned to Arkansas 
where he is now in jail. The authorities at Vanburen are in communication with 
parties here, in order to procure proof of Marlow's first marriage which will 
be used in the prosecution of the case against him.

In the meantime his friends are free to say that his mind was affected, and he 
is not wholly responsible at times for his conduct.  Hancock Clarion.

Additional Comments:
He apparently was acquitted, as he married Mayme L. Woodson 6 Oct 1910 
Campbell County, Tennessee. It is presumed he acquired a divorce from his 
first wife, Etta (Lamb) Marlow.

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