FULL TEXT: Cincinnati, Aug. 28 – A bond-haired, 34-year-old
mother awaited extradition to Arizona today after admitting to FBI agents she
was married to seven soldiers “without bothering to divorce any of them,” Alan
H. Belmont, district FBI chief, disclosed.
The woman, Vivian Eggers, was being held in the city prison
at Columbus, O., following her guilty plea before U. S. Commissioner Robert
Newton on a charge of feloniously obtaining a soldier’s $50 allowance check.
She is accused of unlawfully representing herself to be the
wife of a Phoenix, Ariz., soldier, Gordon H. Campbell, was not one of her
husbands, the FBI said.
Belmont said the woman told FBI agents she married five
privates, a sergeant and a lieutenant from May 1935 to June, 1943.
“You just get to drinking and having a good time, you meet
some one that’s kinda nice – and that’s the way it happens,” she was quoted by
the FBI.
[“Weds 7 Soldiers But Divorces None,” The Star (Marion,
Oh.), Aug. 28, 1943, p. 7]
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FULL TEXT: Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 13 – An 18-month prison
sentence today lay ahead of Vivian Eggers, 34, who fell into the hands of
federal agents after relating in Columbus, O., that she had seven soldier husbands.
She received the sentence in federal court on an indictment
charging that she accepted a $50 army family allowance check while posing as
the wife of Pvt. Gordon H. Campbell.
Although Miss Eggers said she married Campbell Dec. 17, 1942,
a federal grand jury charged she was not his legal wife because she
acknowledged that she had not been divorced from any previous husband.
[“Girl Who Married Seven Soldiers Goes to Prison,” The Salem
News (Oh.), Oct. 13, 1943, p. 5]
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For more cases of this type see: “War-Marriage Vampires”& “Allotment Annies"
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