The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-10
A WIFE THAT'S NOT A WIFE.
HOW LIZZIE BAKER WAS BEGUILED
INTO A MOCK MARRIAGE

! INTO A MOCK MARRIAGE.
A Jersey City shop Girl ON whom a
Boatman fixed his evil eye. His ver-
sion of a Singular Affair.
The arraignmsnt in Judge McGill's Court
on the Heights one day last week, of Purdy
futile, on a charge of having been party.
to conspiracy to lead Miss Lizzie Baker
into mock marriage. uncovers an inter
esting story. Tuttle is man of perhaps
thirty years. He is fat and ford, and
makes his living on a tow boat that lies in
the harbor. Miss Lizzie Baker is a pretty
brunette of vivacious manners. She has
brought her case to the notice of the courts
heretofore, in one form or another, but
singularly enough the story has never
leaked out. Recently, however, she went
before the Grand Jury with babe in her
arms and made all the facts known. They
are given by the SUNDAY TATTLER to its
readers at second hand. It was said that
Miss Baker lived at the house of man
named Glasby on Grove street, but when a
reporter went there last evening to learn
| the story from her own lips, he was told
that she had moved elsewhere-to what
place they were unable to say. Glasby
said, however, that she had been living at
his house with a man, and that they lived
there as Mr.. and Mrs Baker
! Miss Baker has father living in Greg
DRY Street. Her mother died some time
ago, and she was not pleased with his Sec
ond marriage She left home, and seeking
| employment, found it in store in New
York City. She was boarding in house
on Warren street, when she became ac-
| quainted with Tuttle. Her brother-in-law
is captain of the tow boat in which Tuttle
| is employed and it was through him that
she made Tuttle's acquaintance. He pre-
sumed on his brief friendship, and when
he found her proof against all his advances
this is the story she tells-he made a
proposition of marriage to her. she was a
Barkis in petticoats -" wlllin' and
tims was appointed for the ceremony. One
evening soon afterwards Tuttle called upon
her with man she did not know. He
introduced kthis stranger as Rev. Mr..
| Smith, and said that the gentleman of the
cloth had come to perform the nuptials.
She stood by the side of her chosen lover,
and " Rev. Mr.. Smith went through the
form of ceremony. She had no brides
ceremony was unwitnessed save by her.
self, Tuttle. and the officiating clergy
man" When the knot had been tied, the
"Rev. Mr.. Smith handed her a piece
of paper. 1t was proof of the wedding He
explained that he had neglected to bring
blank marriage certificate with him but
that when she desired one, she might call
at number he gave her. The ceremony had
been performed, and as she had no notion
that 1t would ever be called in question she
did not take the trouble to go for the doc
ument that usually goes with marriage
Things went along pleasantly enough at
first futile was all that girl in her ST.
ton could expect of husband. He was
kindly and attentive There was half
| hearted reconciliation between her step-mo-
Their and herself. and the old lady went to
take tea with her. But the prospect of
her becoming mother changed the pleas
antness of ner domestic relations Her
husbandIwas violently opposed to children.
He wanted none of them. To such q
degree was his opposition in this respect
manifested, that he supplied her with medi-
cines. She pretended to take it at first. but
finally undeceived him. Then he became
angry and abused and beat her.
In one of these quarrels he tainted her
with being no wife
"We were never married." he sh outed;
s'the ceremony was mockery."
And, at the end he neglected her, so
steadily that the neglect became positive
abandonment. After the child, which had
been the cause of the separation, was born,
she busted herself looking up proofs of her
marriage The first person she naturally
sought was Rev. Mr.. Smith, by whom the
marriage had been solemuized. She went
to the number he had given her, and
found vacant lot. Enquiries for the Rev.
Mr.. Smith were fruitless and slowly the
truth that she had been the victim of
mock marriage, dawned upon her.
The result of this narration was the in
dictment of Rev. Mr.. Smith and futile
for conspiracy and of Tuttle for having
lived with the woman without marriage, and
for assault and battery upon her. He is
under heavy bail to appear for trial.
Prosecutor Winfield. when solicited for
information as to the time when the trial
will begin said the day had not yet been
fixed. The case would however prove, he
predicted, an unusually interesting one.
He had understood from Norman L. Rowe,
counsel for futile, however, that the
marriage would be proved, and the minister
who performed the ceremony would be
produced
Tuttle is not however disposed to admit
the marriage. He denies that he ever was
party to q mock marriage, or that he ever
lived with the prosecuting. he says that he
sstrayeled" good deal with married wo=
man named Wilson. He knew of her as
Mrs. Wilson's friend. But before he had
eyer met her, she began sending him letters
to call upon her. She was at that time
boarding on Warren street. La answer to
her episbolary solicitations he finally called
at the house, The boarding mistress told
him that she was out, though nov she says,
| he declares, that the prosecutrix had
! closeted herself with married policeman,
with instructions to deny to callers for her
| that she was in. He met her, on q night
| when Republican parade filed he streets
last Fall, With Mrs. Wilson, and took her
| to saloon for oysters, and afterwards
| went with her to one or two houses. He
never had any thing more to do with her,
but the first thing be knew, she had sued
out warrant for his arrest before Justice
Stils;n0 Before the suit for Abandonment
had been disposed Of she sued him for the
support Of the child but Judgment went
AGAINST her, and the city, which by tlction
of law figures as the complainant. appealed
from the verdict Thep, through Coun-
| selor DAILY she commenced proceedings TO
secure divorce from him, and those too,
| ale still pending