Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-10
ALvA UDELL.
He Is Arrested for Bigamy-What He
Has to Say About 1t.


He is Arrested for Bigamy-What He
Has to Say About 1t.
The Los Angeles and bay papers during
the past two weeks have had several items
concerning Alva Udell. stating that he had
married two women inside of one week al
Los Angeles.
Tuesday Chief Lee received the follow
ing dispatch
Los ANGELES, January s, 1889.
10 CHEZ Lee, Sacramento: Arrest one Alva
Udell age IS, medium hight, sallow com.
plexion, dark hair, side whiskers. You will
find him at the Capitol trying to pass bill.
Charge, bigamy. H. s. CLEMENT, Constable.
Chief Lee wanted more authority, and
in reply to Lis telegram the following mes
sage was received.
Los ANGELES, January 9, 1882
To Chief Lee, Sacramento: In the Justices
Court Los Angeles City Township, in the county
OF Los Angeles, State OF California, Theodore
Savage, Justice of the Peace. The people OF the
State of California to any Sheriff, Constable,
Marshal or policeman of the county of Los
Angeles. Information on oath having been this
day laid before me by Matte Udell, that the
crime of bigamy had been committed and ac-
cusing AIva Udell thereof, you are therefore
commanded forthwith to arrest the above
named and bring him before me forthwith at
LIS
Angeles, or, in case OF my absence, or inability
to act, before the nearest and most accessible
magistrate in Los Angeles county. Dated at
Los Angeles, A. P. NJ, on the Sth day OF January,
A D. 1889. THEODORE SAVAGE.
Justice of the Peace.
On receipt of the above, officers Airing
ton and Farrell went out and arrested
Udell and took him to the city prison.
He was interviewed at the station house
by representative of the RECORD UNION.
Mr.. Udell and his wife were seated in
Chief Lees Office and neither seemed in
the least worried at the situation, saying
that it was a persecution and would be
readily cleared up. Mr.. Udell said: "On
the 18th day of July last a divorce was
granted in the Superior Court Of San Fran
cisco, dissolving the bands of matrimony
between myself and Mrs. Matte Udell.
She remained in the city some time and
About the 23d of October, went to Los
Angeles. On the 9th of October she
AYERS, that marriage ceremony took place
between Us, or in other words, that we were
married. | was married to my present wife
six days prior TO that date, or on the
2lst of October. She has since that time
been making statements to the effect that
we were married on the 9th of October.
The truth of the business is that l will
have no trouble in proving an alibi, for on
the 9th of October [ was some hundreds
of miles away from the city of Los Angeles.
l did meet her in Sacramento and she
asked me to re-marry her. l refused, of
course, and at the same time told her had
married another lady. She then left Los
Angeles for San Francisco, and l supposed
to her former home in Solano county,
where she still continues to assert that |
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brought civil suit a bill in equity, in
Solano county, to compel her to come for
ward and show why she claimed to be my
wife, and to present proof of that fact, if
she had any. l have heard she claimed to
have marriage certificate signed by Rev DIR.
Cantine. | have never seen the document.
proposed to compel her to deposit that
or any other proof she had in Court, so that
l could have chance to defend myself and
compel her to quit circulating stories CAL
culated to injure me. The papers in this
suit were served on me in San Francisco
one week ago. I'm arrested on a warrant
sworn to by her in Los Angeles before a
Justice of the Peace V, sterday. l have so
far endeavored to keep this matter out of
the public press, and have refused TO be in
.terviewed by reporters. l think man is
no man at all who will say ought against
the veracity or character of woman with
whom he has lived, ard SO far l have been
Iclose-mouthed. However, l shall not al
low this persecution to go too far, and if the
worst comes to the worst, she will be sent
across the Bay. Here is half a dozen
anonymous letters which you can inspect.
You see from them that for weeks l have
been threatened, and it looks as though
they wish to drive me out of the State.
am here and l am here to stay. To do
otherwise would amount to almost an ad-
mission that l am guilty of the crime
charged. l am land lawyer, have an Of
flee in San Francisco, have good practice,
and | assure you that what have stated is
the facts which will be proven at the trial.
which am glad is to take place.