Rather Spotted Career of John E. VAUGHN, Soon to be Tried in Montreal for Bigamy--He Did a Number of Friends Here and Elsewhere John E. VAUGHN, who was so badly wanted in 1885 by A. J. MONTGOMERY, of the Red Lion sales stables, and other Pittsburghers on the charges of embezzlement and fraud, turns out to be the gay Mr. MELBOURNE, who, on Saturday, was committed for trial before the court of queen's bench at Montreal on the charge of bigamy. Detective G. B. PERKINS, who pursued VAUGHN until he reached Canada, describes him as a desperate character with a passion for horses and women, that circumstances were never allowed to interfere with. About the time VAUGHN was wanted her for embezzlement Sheriff John H. CARNEY of St. Joseph, Mo., was offering big rewards for his apprehension. He had by some clever ruse defrauded his partners in the livery business out of a large sum of money. One day he dropped a letter, which his partner picked up and read. It was from a man in the employ of a Kentucky horse breeder, who purported to be a friend of VAUGHN, giving him "pointers" on a horse which was about to be sold for $1800, and worth more than double the money. This was in confidence to his friend VAUGHN, advising him to get the horses, as there was big money in him, not known to the owner of the horse. The partner called VAUGHN's attention to it, but was answered by saying, "Oh, that is a private letter; there is a horse I could make money on if I only hand the money, but I have not got it, and so it makes no difference; it is no account to me, and probably no one else is prepared to believe my friend. I never mentioned it, be cause I had not enough money." This very thing was the means of interesting the partners, and they proposed to him to let them in on the deal , and they would furnish the money. They gave him $1800 and expense money. He took it and started to Kentucky after the horse, and is still after it. Subsequent events proved that VAUGHN himself had written this letter, and dropped it on his partners as a decoy. VAUGHN first showed up as a liveryman at West Elizabeth, 20 miles up the Monongahela river. He married Annie DAVIS, the daughter of John DAVIS< of Camden, Rev. SHRIVER, of Lebanon, performing the cemetery. The couple lived happily together for a year, when VAUGHN suddenly disappeared, leaving in the lurch a number of friends from whom he had heavily borrowed. His wife was true to him during his absence, for she eluded the deceives sent from Pittsburgh to ascertain the whereabouts of her husband by watching the mail. Mrs. VAUGHN would always walk to the train with her letters and hand them to the postal clerk, thus keeping them away from the eyes of the detectives. She was at this time supporting herself by running a small grocery store. After being worsted in a silver mine scheme at Ottawa, Canada, VAUGHN turned up at Alexandria, Ontario, as coachman to a rich family, going under the name of MELBOURNE. The first intimation his wife, Annie DAVIS, had of him was in a letter written in Phillipsburg asking her to sell the store and give him the money to take some fancy teams he had to Australia, where everything promised bright, and that as soon as he was settled she could come to Australia, and the would begin life together again. There was something in this letter which aroused the wife's suspicion, and she put a detective on his track. It was soon developed that he not only had no teams to take to Australia, but that, as he could not well rob anyone else, he was now trying to rob his wife. Likely she would have let this go, but when she found he had another wife living with him, that was more than she could stand, and the bigamy suit now on trial is the result.