Crawford Alridge, Who Abandoned Wife, Also Faces Bigamy Charge for Marrying Second Woman, April 9, 1926

Man Returned Here to Face Abandonment Case. . . Crawford Alridge Returned to Concord After Absence of More than Two Years

Crawford Alridge, white man, was brought to Concord Thursday from Martinsville, Va., by Chief of Police Talbirt and Patrolman Baxter Robinson.

Alridge, it is charged, abandoned his wife here about two years ago. He has been gone two years and three months, to be exact, it is said. Police officers have been looking for him most of that time.

Officers returning with Alridge state that he has another wife in Virginia, having married a young woman from Fieldale. It is probable that he will be turned over to the Virginia officers after local officers are through with him and that in that State he will be tried for bigamy.

From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, April 9, 1926

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