Holly Springs Gazette

REMARKABLE CASE OF BIGAMY.-Milton, N C. has been the scene of a most remarkable case of bigamy. A young fellow of good address, named Edward Boling. son of the Rev. Mr. Boling, minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in Milton, married about three years since a young lady of high respectability, with whom he lived two years.- About twelve months since he left Milton for the avowed purpose of studying law in Greensboro; N. C. On his arrival there he changed his name, and introduced himself to the inhabitants of that town as Sidney T. Smith, of Alabama Other lies he told without number. and so obtained credit to a large amount. He pretended to learn that his father was dead and wore crape on his hat for his loss, and soon succeeded in becoming acquainted with a Miss E.B-. an accomplished young lady of Guilford county, and daughter of a gentleman of high respectability and large property. He married Miss B. and by the aid of a series of lies, succeeded in borrowing $3,700 from her father. After a little while he left his second wife and remained from her so long that she went in quest of him-to his father's house, not knowing that fact, where she met his first wife. The two ladies remained together for several days, and mutually expressed anxiety for the return of their husbands, never once dreaming that they were wives of one and the same man! Mrs Smith, alias Boling, finally returned home, as did shortly afterwards her husband, who told a smooth tale relative to his absence. We must pass over many events of interest that subsequently transpired, and conclude with his arrest at the instance of his first wife's father, and of his commitment to prison in default of $5000 bail. This story should operate as a caution against too readily making the acquaintance of strangers and adventurers.-N. Y. Mercury.