FULL TEXT: New York – Julia Pearl Davis Steele, of Hopewell,
Va., 19-year old WAC [Women’s Army Corps] who the FBI says has been AWOL
since Sept. 1, is under arrest, charged with illegally receiving allotment
checks from two of three service men she married.
E. E. Conroy, in charge of the New York FBI office, said the
young woman was married Dec. 4, 1940, to Seaman James Clayton Steele, assigned
to the Norfolk Navy Base. On Nov. 16, 1941, she married Corp. Frederick George
Brown, of Camp Barclay, Tex.
Husband Nov. 3 was Pvt. David Laub, on Jan. 16, 1943,
Augusta, Ga., Conroy said.
FBI agents said that when arrested the girl was a
longshoreman, in whom she is not married. She faces a possible four years
imprisonment and $9,000 fine.
[“FBI Seizes Wac With 3 Husbands,” Plainfield Courier-News
(N. J.), Feb. 17, 1945, p. 1]
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For more cases of this type see: “War-Marriage Vampires”& “Allotment Annies"
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