The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17
TWO WIVES. TWO HusRANps
one Apiece is Not Enough for Daniel
Spellman and Adella Carroll

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Spellman and Adella Carroll
Yesterday afternoon Trial Justice II. l. P.
| boiRer performed pleasant duty by joining In
wedlcck Mr. Daniel SpellmAn of Yemassee and
Miss Aaeiia Carroll II Wilmington, n. @. They
| arrived In the city yesterday morning and left
Ior farnaSsee last night. This is the second
marriage ceremony Justice Bolger has per-
formed since his appointment
| The above item appeared in the Charles
ton Neios and Courier one day last week,
a. no II sent sting Of almost desperation to
tne soul OF quiet, inoffensive little woman
in this city. Thereby hangs tale, a true
story OF criminal desertion. The item that
commenced this article read wrong. Dan
lei Spellman was not of Yamassee, and Miss
Adella Carroll did not hail from Whining
ton They are both Savannah people.
inc man has a wife here, and
the woman has a husband here.
they went over to Charleston Sunday. a
week ago. together, ostensibly on an excur-
sion trip, where, in truth, they went to get
married. They returned and remained in
Savannah until Wednesday, when they left
the city and have not been heard of since
In her quiet little home at No. Walnut
street Mrs. Rosa Spellman, wife of Daniel
Spellman, told the story to a MORNING
NEWS reporter. An air of sadness pervaded
the room as she related the circumstances
OF her desertion. Her two babes lay sleep
Ing on a lounge at her side, and her eyes
were red and tear-stained,
HE Is my husband" she said, In a sob.
HE was good to me, and we have lived
peacaoly together eleven years as husband
and wife. Why he treats me like he has,
GOD only knows. Sunday, week ago, he
told me that Appel Il Schaul had reduced
his wages from SIS to $50 and that he
thought he could get more wages in Charles
ton. de said that an excursion party was
gong over that day, and he was going over
20 see II he could get any work. / did not
tell him not to go, because believed he
would do what was best for me and my
children. He had always done so and I
placed the utmost confidence in him. He
went over Sunday and did not get back
until Monday. He came home and told
me that he could not get any work.
wednesday, he said that Mr.. Gassman
received telegram from tailor in CharleS-
ton wanting a workman. My husband said
that he believed that he would go over. He
put me on the car to go to Tybee, and said
that II he did not come down at o'clock
that might know that he had gone to
Charleston. When l returned Wednesday
night about IL o'clock he was gone, l sup.
posed, to Charleston. l saw that he had
taken all his clothing, and his trunk.
His Knights of Pythias uniform
was gone and his sword was
missing. l thought strange of this, but 1
was not alarmed and l waited for his re-
turn. Friday morning one of my neighbors
came to my house and said that 1t was re-
ported that my husband was married to
Adella Carroll, marred woman whom he
employed to help him do work, at Appel g.
| SchauPs. My friend advised me to go to
| see Mr.. Gassman, and when l did, was
told that no such telegram as my husband
| claimed had been received, and Mr. Glass;
man said that he had not seen my husband.
hn ..f
shown me in the Charleston paper gave up
then, because knew he had deceived me.
He was married to this woman when he
came to the house Wednesday,
Spellman's friends read the account of
the marriage in the Charleston paper, and
the afternoon before he left the city Mr.. s.
Steinman met Spellman on West Broad
street and asked him what it meant. SPELL
man replied that he was not guilty. He
said that it was somebody else. Mr.. Stein
man insisted that it was a queer coincidence
that parties of the same name should
meet at the same place at the same time.
Spellman grew Indignant and left. That
afternoon he left the city. 1t was after
putting his wife on the Tybee train and
telling her that he thought of going to
! Charleston, that he is supposed to have
taken the woman to whom he was married
Sunday and left the city. 1t is reported
that he was seen in Brunswick, and that he
| purchased tickets at Brunswick for st,
Louis The matter has been reported to
Solicitor General Fraser, and he is giving
the matter his attention.
Spellman came to Savannah four
years ago from New York, and worked
short while at NJ Levy's. He then secured
employment at B. Brady's, and remained
there over two years. For the last year he
has been tailor for Appel & Schaul. He
was member of Teutonia lodge Knights
of Pythias. In his employ has been
the woman to whom it is alleged he
is married. She Is the wife of a
seaman named Balcony. He ran on a
sail boat in and out of Savannah for a long
time, but several months ago he became
heir to neat sum of money, and he has
not been in Savannah recently.