Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-28
sULLIYAN,s TROUBLE.
He is Accused of Being Too Much Married
His Case Continued Until the First Day
0f the State Eo;r

He is Accused of Being Too Much Married
Ills Case Continued Until the First Day
of the State Fair.
James B. Sullivan. arrested in Chippewa
Falls, Wis., FOR bigamy, by Deputy Sheriff
Harrison, as already detailed in the GLOBE,
was arraigned yesterday in the municipal
court, being defended by w. W. Erwin, ESQ.,,
County Attorney Rogers being the prosecut-
Ing attorney.
The prisoner is quiet-looking individual,
with nothing displeasing in his appearance,
and is far from presenting the idea ofa man
who could BIO guilty Of the
alleged offense. The case was
especially interesting from the meeting be-
tween the prisoner and his daughter, a young
woman of between Is and 16 years of age,
as she stated in her evidence. She kissed
her father on her entrance into the court
room, sat beside him when not giving her
evidence, and the sad expression in her dis
| ingenious face was evidently caused by the
| sympathy she felt for him.
Documentary evidence was produced and
| admitted by the defence that James
Sulliyan-in the complaint he was cited
as James 3. Sallivan-was married
to Margaret Hogan on Ang. 10, 1860, in Mil
waukee, Wis. James O'Brien the assistant
clerk of the district court of Ramsey COUNTY,
produced and swore to the issuance of a
marriage license on July 10, 1877, for the
wedlock of James B. Sullivan to Ellen Nc
earthly, the license being directed to Justice
Bernand. That magistrate testified that he
married a couple of the names indicated in
the license on the day named therein, the
testlfying parties being man and woman
each surnamed Mulligan. Beyond that fact
he had no recollection of the parties at in
terest.
Minnie Sullivan, the daughter of the pris-
oner. having been sworn, said that their fam
lily had lived in Eau Claire, Wis, for several
years. The father, the prisoner, had been
absent for some time, but had returned
about three weeks ago, when this trouble
commenced. There was another child by
the marriage, boy aged about II years.
She had heard of the marriage of her moth
er to her father, the defendant, whom she
recognized. She acknowledged to having
talked to her father OH his re-
turn respecting his alleged second
marriage. She had told the defendant
that her mother had record of the second
marriage. He had at first denied it, but
subsequently said that, il such a marriage
had been accomplished, it had taken place
when he was drunk, and he was in no sense
responsible for it.
| Mrs. Ellen Holinda-such was the wav she
spelt her name-was the next witness sworn.
Size was presented on the pert of the prose-
cution as the Mrs. Sullivan No. .. She is
an angular woman, of dark complexion
with little that is attractive about
her. There was great difficulty in inducing
her to be sworn, and it was not until an
officer of the court had exercised his per-
suaslve influence that she was induced to
submit to the oath and tender her evidence
She averred she had known the defendant
since 1866, when she met him in Cincinnati.
She was widow, and was engaged in the
laundry business in Minneapolis, having one
child aged about four months. The
| witness confessed to have lived with
the defendant, and was with him
| in st. Paul in the early part
of July, 1877, but she positively and dis
tinctly swore to not being the ''Ellen Nc
Carthy'' alleged to have been married to
''James B. Sullivan by Justice Burnand on
July 10, 1877. In fact, she was, according
to her sworn statement on which she was
cautioned, entirely ignorant of the Justice
and the two 'sMulligans," the attesting wit
nesses to the marriage. AS know-nothing
she was perfect success, but confessed
that she and the defendant had occupied fol
four OF five days the same room in this city
just about the time of the alleged second
marriage of the prisoner.
At this point the prosecution desired g
postponement, when the defendant arose
and said: ~ am prisoner all this time
and this man, pointing to gentleman
from Eau Claire, VISITS here to prose
| cute me, because of a hubbub there'' The
case was continued until Monday, the cour
observing it was due to all parties concerned
that the matter should be cleared up. The
prisoner was remanded, his own recognizanc,
for his appearance being denied.