The Archive · 1921

The Susceptible Heart of Man

Weds Women to Save Them From Themselves

Altruism and a heart overburdened with kindness are blamed by John William (Jack) Murray of New York for his marital and legal troubles with three wives he admits having married in an incongruous mixture of the Great White Way and the Church Around the Corner. Murray at the Hotel St. Francis has discussed his predicament.

Nothing but sympathy for the women he married, and the instinct to protect two of them from threatened disaster, brought about the triple marriages, and nothing but their materialistic ambitions brought on trouble, Murray says. He asserts that of the three women, two were married' when they married him, hence his first two mar-nages were illegal. All were pals until after the ceremony, when they turned to vampires, Murray as-

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