Grad Student Arrested, May Have 3 Wives

A 40-year old student at the Graduate School of Education, reported to have been married to three women at one time, was released on $5000 bail yesterday afternoon after Boston police, acting on orders from Tacoma, Washington, officials, arrested him on charges of perjury.

The man, Bert MacLeech, is a graduate of Occidental College, California. He has been attending the Graduate School of Education steadily since the summer of 1948. Previously he had been enrolled during the spring term of 1946, and before that, had attended Columbia Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary, and Stanford University.

MacLeech was arrested at his Beacon Hill address yesterday by Boston police. He was charged with perjury in conjunction with testimony given at a divorce action in Seattle while still allegedly marreir to three women. MacLeech states that he will oppose any attempt to extradite him.

Washington Report

County Prosecutor Patrick M. Steele in Tacoma reports MacLeech is also known as Burt S. Leech, and that he married in Bulgaria in 1936, in Arizona in 1940, and again in South Carolina in 1943. While still married to all three, Steele states, MacLeech started separation actions against his first wife in Seattle, at which time the alleged perjury was committed.

MacLeech married his first wife while teaching at an American university in Bulgaria.