The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-06-16
WAS SHE MARRIED?

SUIT WHICH INVOLVES QUEER CEREMONY
AND SEVERAL PECULIAR SITUATIONS.
Mr.. Rufus Y. Andrews has been engaged referee
Tor past in taking testimony rather OK.
Haordinary case Tho plaintiff one Marceila &c.
Court and The defendant Alfred rogs.mecr, clerk
q well known BANGING house Of this city. The plain
iii alleges Ia her testimony that she mot
Tegetmo,sr In a house Of questionable rcputs in
Thirty-sccoud street; that he ut fell In
love xith her THAI alter meeting her there several
times subsequently he ob,alnsd from her name
and address In Third avenue, whore he fr.qucniIy
called her and That about tho evening OF
LIST OF April, 1876. no said 10 her, "Marcciia, you
know lovo you and 10 yos viii DO true TO
viii get married right on" She replied,
"Why, Alfred, how can We get married without u
IN ,uister 7" ~ winch no answered, II dislike pub
e,ly tber. IS no need Of munster II We only arre,
be wife and live together" 70 this she
assenisd aud regetmsisr sad sass your right ba nd
and look straight IN The eye,' which she dad
no sdmi mustered the ALLOWING oath Swear TO be my
true ana ianbiu! vile ~ long as you iise." sho
pcatcd the words aud he tncn raised ps right nand
and said IL to-bc your true ana loving husband
as long M | snail ave" Aher this he placed his
will sec wha, . iond aud good husband
you viii have in me- He then residing ~ Tenth
street, anu hiking DIE ne'ghborhood vi THIRD
enuc he hired HAT A. No. 10 West Eleventh street,
where they went 10 reside sue assuming his namr.
They nved there unuiJuy, 1876. wnsn he was taken
sex anu MS physician ADVISED RIP 10 Europe ana on
tho 9th OF JAY no embarked for Himburg. Mrs.
Iegetmscr, Ia the mtnntue, going TO stay IA nus ab
scnce with some fricsds Troy. While absent nis
letters TO her were tnosr she claims, OF yoaDg and
LOVING husband. lilo returned from Europe IA Septcm
Der ana went TO Troy swi brought the paintf 20 New
YORK. They rcsided tult = short tmo alter that
Eleventh street., aud thOn thcy wons TO live ia West
twenty MIN street ontser the name of srnsr They
vniy lived there one moath when they moved 10 No.
800 west Twenty second street, wssre tncy lived
Ar and Mira. Taylor tse that no gave nor Tor
living under ialsc namc beng that he dd not
wish hls friends employers To know tina. he
was married and that by chaugias their names
pcr. could About April 1877. they left
Tw.nty. second street and hired "a house ut No. 2l5
bergen street, Brooklyn where they lived untii sep
tenbcr VI that ear, when usnt he said her
"Marcels, you know We nave never been lawfully
married; you sign this paper Showing her docu.
mel releasing IRON all vaths, VOWS and prom.
ises and will give you 81 900 and the furniture in
tho housc' Amer stormy scene she says she
seuted he giving as reason Tor the separation that
no was AFRAID that bis employers suspected that he
was married and that ne had 10 i've Tor "a nttlo
while single man. that their separation
would only be temporary, and he sug-
gcsted that she should remove 10 New York,
hire rooms and live widow and ne would ire.
qusn y call and her. She then NOV West
street. and he called there Tour
times a week until about the lat Of Novem Der, when
he informed that no should visit more and
that tho rclssse she had gwen him absoIved him from
ali opiIgations. She consuiscd lawyer, and tho ra-
suit - the present suit
The de dapt makes general denial, bis defence
beng very much ike the Brinckey case some years
ago. He declares that she his mistress ANA not
his vile.