Commonwealth v. Ross

This is an indictment for polygamy. At the trial the case was submitted to the jury on the following agreed facts: The defendant, under the name of John Rosbrough, was married on February 5, 1905, at Boston, to Bessie Robinson, who obtained a divorce from him in Chicago in the year 1911; they were remarried at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912 and lived together for a short time. The defendant was married to Gertrude Traynor on January 11, 1916; they lived together as husband and wife in Boston until some time in August, 1922, when she learned of his previous marriage to Bessie Robinson and left…