FULL TEXT: For a 19-year-old girl, Mrs. Ann Ambra, of
Sarasota and Bristol, has had her quota of husbands but the F. B. I. and the U.
S. marshal’s office yesterday put an end to the series by placing her in the
county jail under $500 bond pending final hearing before U. S. Commissioner
Pinkerton.
Mrs. Ambra, alias Mrs. Leslie Capers, alias Mrs. Aline
Palmer, was only 13 years old when she married Leslie Capers in Appalachia in
1938. She lived with him for only a short time and then in 1941, without
benefit of any known divorce or annulment, according to arresting officers, she
married again, this time to a soldier, Joe Ambra, of Carrabelle.
She lived with him for six weeks and in November of 1943
married another soldier, Bryan Palmer, of Monticello. She only lived with
Palmer for 13 days, she said.
~ Got Two Checks ~
Picked up on a morals charge in Sarasota three months ago,
authorities soon noticed that allotment checks from both Ambra and Palmer were
forwarded to her. This led to her arrest yesterday by a deputy U. S. marshal on
a charge of fraudulently obtaining and cashing government checks.
Under questioning, she said her aunt told her several years
ago that her marriage to Capera had been annulled and that was why she thought
nothing of marrying Ambra.
“I still go by the
name of Ambra because he is the only one I really love. Just as soon as he gets
back from overseas and I get out of this mess I’m in, I want to go back to live
with him again,” she said.
~ In Good Humor ~
Throughout all her questioning, she remained in good humor
and did not seem to realize the seriousness of the federal charge lodged
against her. She was glad to let a Tribune photographer take her picture, and
as she drove off to jail in an officer’s car, she had the driver stop and
requested an extra print of the picture “if it is any good.”
Going down the elevator on the way to jail, she saw a
soldier and his wife walking down a hall of the federal building.
“If these girls only knew what trouble they could get into
messing around with soldiers, they wouldn’t do it,” she said.
Final hearing will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock
before Commissioner Pinkerton.
[“Woman, 19, Arrested By U. S. On Fraudulent Check Charge,”
Tampa Morning Tribune (Fl.), Aug. 5, 1944, P. 6]
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