FULL TEXT: An attractive brunette admitted to Secret Service agents yesterday that she is married to two service men, one a soldier, the other a sailor – and has been drawing allotment checks from both of them.
The woman was booked by Federal authorities as Mrs. Doris
June Shensky, 21, who was originally arrested for allegedly forging a check on
the West Coast but who, with her admissions, faces still more trouble.
~ CROSS-COUNTRY SEARCH
U. S. Commissioner Norman J. Griffin yesterday held her in
$1500 bail for a further hearing next Tuesday on the forgery charge, but
Federal agents indicated that her marital mix-up will, in all probability,
produce additional charges.
Federal agents traced her across the country, believing that
they were merely after a forger until Mrs. Shensky, who was arrested at the
home of her mother, on Eastwick ave. near 87th st., signed a statement in which
she disclosed her double marriage.
Her first husband, Arnold Sidney Shensky, is an Army private
stationed at Woodbine, N. J.
The Shenskys, according to the woman’s admissions, were
married in Wilmington, Del., and since last November she has received a monthly
allotment of $50 from the Government.
Early this year, her statement continued, Mrs. Shensky met
Seaman 1st class Russell E. Tracy, of Barre, Vt., while he was on a tour of
duty in this city.
~ BOMBARDED WITH LETTERS
Tracy went to the West Coast, bombarded Mrs. Shensky with
letters until finally she followed, her statement added. Finally, on April 24,
last, they were married – apparently with Tracy in the dark about his wife’s
previous marriage.
Federal agents said that while living in a rooming house in
Los Angeles, Mrs. Shensky-Tracy “lifted” a check from the mail, forged the name
of the owner and cashed it.
The check, for $170, had been sent by the Government to Mrs.
Ida L. Coleman, wife of a Marine.
With the money, Federal agents said, Mrs. Shensky came back
East and in the interim had received three allotment checks from Tracy.
Federal agents said that she freely admitted that she
acquired husbands at faster than the legal pace and that she had been looking
forward to a steady income of allotments until the law stepped in.
[“Army-Navy Bride Admits 2 Marriages,” The Philadelphia
Inquirer (Pa.), Sep. 3, 1943, p. 1]
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