The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-23
A QUEER CASE.
a Young Han too Muchly Mar
ried for His Own Good.

county, the ceremony being pc
formed by Judge Harrison, justice
a. the peace for Sandy Precinct. II
- complaint alleges that Frederic
O5 Chandler on the 29ih day of Fet
81 ruAry, 1880, at Tooele, had also ma
N ried the complainant, Roseina Char
dler, the ceremony having been Pc
formed by Mr.. GoWan, justice of th
peace Of Tooele, and the certificates {
both marriages, signed by the justices
being filed with the complaint. Sal
urdsy afternoon Chandler, who work
at the Germanis, Was arrested an
remained in the Penitentiary 81
] night, Sunday and until Monds
msrplng.
A few minutes after the appointed
hour Chandler and tine latest addition
to his family came into Judge
, Sprague's room and the examination
commenced, Arthur Brown Esq.
appearing for the defendant and AS
sistant District Attorney Beatty, 70
. the prosecution.
Judge Harrison, OF Sandy, vas thl
first witness: Reside at Sandy; am
Justice OF the peace of that precinct;
have seen Chandler and Minnie
James; saw them On tbs 18th of o.
tober; they came to get married; she
gave the name OF Minnie James;
married them as F. Chandler and
Minnie James; each answered to the
Questions, made the vows and l pro-
nounced them man and wife; did
not issue q certificate; 1 did issue a
paper to another lady.
CToss-exsmined: l married them
about noon; I had seen Chandler be-
fore; never had eeen the girl; did not
ask either if they had been married
before; they did not remain long; he
said he was in hurry TO get back
to work; my wife WAS in the room,
going in and out; | don't know
whether she saw the ceremony or
not; there was no other person pres.
ent; this certificate, or exhibit, gave
10 another woman; did not give q
certificate to either, but promised il
to them when l got blank; l had
made memorandum at the time OF
the names and dates; l had this
memorandum before me when |
gave the strange woman this cerrif-
cate; it was on q loose piece of paper;
perhaps marry ten CT fifteen couples
in a year; l believe l could recollect
all the persona | have married during
the year; | can remember this person;
Iif | am not mistaken l have seen
him going south some time ago, with
team and SONS of Geo. Ohandler's
family; it might have been q year or
eighteen months ago; could not be
certain that it was him; | believe the
fellow married on that day had On
bis working clothes, but 1 could not
describe them; my impression is that
he had on overalls, but | AM not
certain; he had on clothes and was
not naked; 1 could not tell how the
lady was dressed; think she had on
dark clothes; until to-day, l have
never seen her since the marriage;
the lady here came with me; no
conversation passed between US re-
garding her identity; ! picked her up
at Erickson's store at Cottonwood.
At the conclusion of the examins-
ton CT Jndse Harrison, an adjourn
meut was taken until next Tuesday,
November Both, at 8 O'Clock. His
bail was put at 81. 900. The adjourn
ment was taken because of the |
absence OF witnesses, not only for the |
defense, but for the prosecution also.
Chandler is q young, green-lookIng |
fellow, about % or % years Of age,
snd seems to be one of the last per-
sons in the world to get into such
scrape. He does not deny both mar
risges. but states very peculiar case.
His story is: He was engaged at work
down on the Sewer. A man who had
G wife and children living there, the
children being grown up, went to
Bingham to work. He sent word TO
his wife to come up and see the place,
and il she liked it she might make it
her home. Young Chandler WAS en-.
gagged to take the woman from the
SEWER to Bingham. They started up.
and both being poor, had to sleep out
at night. The first night, he states,
it was very cold, and she slept in and
be under the wagon. The second
night it was also cold, and showed,
and they slept the same. On the
morning of the third day she asked
him if he did not find it very cold |
sleeping out. He said he did. She |
then said he must not do so again; |
that he must sleep in the wagon. He
laid her husband would object If he |
knew it; but she answered, objection |
Or not on the part Of her husband, he
must not sleep out again. That night
they slept in the wagon together,
which WAS the beginning of their
relationship. Like the Adam
OF old, he states that it was all her
fault. The remainder OF the way
they maintained the relationship
without restraint. Arriving at Bing.
ham, che decided to locate there,
and the husband told her TO 90
back, settle their affairs, and that
she could then come aud remain.
Young Chandler wal engaged to
make the trips to the Sewer and
back; they still maintained the rels-
tionship spoken OF. On arriving at
Bingham the second time, be also re-
manned, and frequently went to see
the woman. The husband and vile
fell out, and she claimed to have OBJ
tanned diverse. She took 10 wssh-
ing for q living, and Chandler took
his washing 10 her, all the time being
guilty of the ofense stated before.
Some time after this divorce, she
came to Chandler. told him she was
enciente, and that he must marry her.
He accompanied her 10 Tooele, where
the ceremony was performed. He
went to work, and left her at Tooele.
Some time later che returned to Bing-
ham, and going to see her he learned,
IS he states, that she had 8 reputation
for being loose. Upon hearing this,
he would not so TO see her. In the
meantime he obtained work at the
Germania Smelter, and met this other
girl, with whom ne also had Illicit in
tercourse. Ths result was that she
told him matters bad arrived at q
crisis when he must marry her to save
her from disgrace, and he complied.
This is his story.
Judge Harrison stated that the