Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-07-11
PRESENT,
The hon, 3. LIvINcsTos, Esq
J.B. PREvosT, Esq. Recorder,
IAcoB MoRFoF Esq. AID.

CURSES Ilier4StSo WI N''sNs ~
Thomas RoaS, = Thomas Hoag, late
alias di;ctus NIof Haverstra~trin the
fosebh Pta'ker. county of. Roekland,
labourer, otherwise called Joseph Parker,
now Of the cityof New-York, eartaan, OIL
the s,h of May, 1897, at the SAID city OF
NeW-Yogk, was lawfully marriedlto Susan
Faesch, and thesaid Susan then and there
had for wife, and that the said Thomas,
alias &c. &c. &c. afterwards, 10 wit, on the
25th day Of December, 1900 at the ceuu-
ty of Rocklahd, his.said wife being then in
full life, feloniously did marry, and to7wife
did take one Catharine- Secor, &c. &c. Sc. :
To this tae prisoner pleadec net Gull-
'sgy. .'ta
Mr., Riker, District Attoraes, peosecat.
ed on the part Of the people:
Washington, Morton, and. z4'F
Daniel D.. Tompkins, Esqs. were Of
counsel Tor Prisoner. @
The testimony in the cause was as fol-
lows: The FIRST marriage was admitted By.
the counsel for the prisoner, tobe as stated
in the Indictment, and that the Wate was
still alive. 81
On the pert Of the Prosecution.
Beujcmin Goe testifed-thathe was enc
of the Judges Of the Court. of Coamaoa
Pleas, in the County Of Rockfand-that he
well knew the prisoner at the bar, that ne
came to Rockland in the beginning ofSep-
tember in the wear 1900, and there. passed
by the name Of Thomas Hoag, that there
/ was a person with hin who passed fer his
brother; bat between those two persons
there was no sort Of resemblance, that The
prisoner worked for the witness about I
month, during which time he eat daily a
witnesses table, and he OF course saw, bin
daily. that on the 25sh day Of Decesnber
1900, witness married che prisoner to on.
Catharine Secor, that witness is conhden
of the time because he recoliected that q
that very day, one ofhis own children wa
I,christened, that during al the time srisessf
Iremainedin Roekland county, WltnesssJssa1Fs
him continually; he was therefore as h4uai
satisfied that prisoner was Thomas Hoa,
as that he himself was Benjamin Coe.
John Knapp testified, that he knew te
prisoner in 1900 and 1901, he was then ia
Rockland county, and passed BY the. maze
of Thomas Hoag, that 5he saw him GU
stantly for FIVE months, during the timehe
prisoner was at Eoekland; that he wa at
prisoners wedding; that Hsag had FAR
uader his fat; the way that witness k ew
it, was: witness and Hoag were ieatng
together, aad witness o0t-leaped Hog
upon which Hoag remarked, that he Guild
not leap IS well now as he formerly cluld,
before he received a wound in his <fot by
threading on a drawing knife; that Ioag
then pulled off his shoes and shewedwlt-
ness the scar under his foot, occasional by
that wound the scar was very percepible,
witness was confident prisoner at til bar,
was Thomas Hoag. s
'Catharine ConkIin formerly Caaarine
Secor, but since married to one CokEn,l
testified, that she became acquainted with
prisoner in the beginning of September,
1900, when he came to Rockland; hefthen
passed>by the name of Thomas Hoag, that
witness saw him constantly, that prisoner
shortly after their acquaintance, pad his
addresses to her. and finally on the 25'h
DecembeF, married her; tina, he lived with
her till The latter end OF Msroh 1901, when
he efther; that she did notsee him again
until two years after, thas7on the morning
of his leaving her, he appeared DESTROYS OF
communicating something OF Importance
to.her, bns was dissuaded fror, It by a per-
son who was with him and who passed for
his bro,her, shat Hoag until his departure,
was kind, attentive and afectionate hps-
band, tina, she wassas we'll convinced as she
could possibly ne.of any thing in This world
Chat the prisoner a. the bar was the person
;who married her by thu name Of Thomas