The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-13
GOLD HIS YoUN WIFE.
-,,rof Divorce Laws, She Marrisd
~ after I igainR a separation

p =. Fnglewood. n. j., has sensation.
--;5onr has sold his wife to his step
80 in consideration OF $50, and the
E''I L-,+ber and wife, without the formality
81 5;vorce. have got married and are
70 together, innocenuly believing that
l'--Sscti9ns were perfectly regular.
bsL Tinken, a comedy German girl, was
A---- in BROOKLYN six years Rgo, when
ss.,arr,ed Charles J. j. Witt, who pro-
- n be a carpenter, but VAS really
fsssI ali trades. Anna had saved money
-ng her five years of service.
a| III was devoted while the money lasted,
y occaslonally made picture frames. The
49, lived first in Second avenue, New
Init finally moved to Fort Lee, where
w rife took in washing to support herself
N 5I,7v husband, who spent all his wife
AD-i5 1--WE him on sprees in New York.
We TLi,Ss went from bad to worse. and Witt
,In+sd himself from the house for days at
s;r1s After one Of these prolonged trips
.. Nav York he told Mrs. Witt that un-
"; ~ sbe assisted him he would be lost. He
- bean too attentive to Maud Boothwlck
IN EN- II or q First avenue, and her father
Saj threatened to kill him If he did not pro-
tsct the girls good name.
SHE PROVED HER DEVOTION.
Mrs Witt loved hsr husband. She
.,,raad 10 help Witt, and as result Miss
p5ssotbvick was AIKEN into the Witt house.
"a and cared for, as was her child until it
las a month old by Mrs. Witt. Then Miss
R1othwick patched up matters with her
1arents and returned home.
ccon after this Ferdinand Thoms, Wits
stsn-hrotber, went to board with the Wits.
Ea was a hard working young carpenter,
aarning good wages, and by boarding him
and others Mrs. Witt supported herself and
Witt for nearly year. Less than year
.go Thoms got work at Englewood, and as
he had become the main support OF his
brorber's household, Mr.. and Mrs Witt
rnoyed into quarters over Smiths store, in
Vordhoff. so as to still retain Thoms as a
bOarder.
Several months ago Witt stopped working
,spuarly and Thoms supplied the money
RIM the household. Rece Itly Witt told
his wife he did not love her and that he had
bscome infatuated with dis lpated young
woman of Newark. He would get divorce,
Ia said, and she must marry man who
would take care of her. Witt wouldn't
consent that this should be anybody but his
step-brother, Thoms.
TWENTY DOLLARS FOR WIFE.
Two weeks ago, during visit to a neigh
boz. Witt told Thoms that he was tired of
his wife and wanted to get rid of her.
IRONS, WlOu oNCT yOOuJ III anu
Englewood calls Fred, ventured the opinion
that there was nothing wrong with Annie,
and added;
"Tll take her."
"How much will you gives" asked Witt.
81 said $50" Thoms, who was repeating
the conversation, told me last night, "and
Charley said:
"'Al right we'll go to Hoboken and fix
it. I'll be free man, and you can then
marry Annie.'"
Mrs. Witt didn't take kindly to the idea,
but she had become so used, as she expressed
it. to obeying her husband in everything
that when he commanded her to 90 with him
and Thoms to Hoboken on New Years day
she did not demur. Justice Ruch of Ho-
boxer. made out a separation paper in which
Mr.. and Mrs Witt agreed to live apart and
have no further claim upon each other. The
dollar which Witt gave his wife TO bind the
bargain was furnished by Thoms.
Then Witt was very anxious that Thoms
and his divorced wife, as he termed her.
should be married at once.
Neither was particularly anxious for a
ceremony SO soon, but Witt told them 1t
was necessary, and so the next day Thoms
and Mrs. Witt came over to New York and
were married by the Rev. Francis J.
Schneider Of No. 100 Second avenue, who
charged Thoms So % for his services and
big marriage certificate made out in Mrs.
Wits maiden name.
asked Mrs. Witt last night if she told
the Rev. Schneider she had been married
before She said she had and produced the
separation paper, after reading which the
minister said it was all right and performed
the ceremony.
WITT RUED THE BARGAIN.
Mr. and Mrs. Thoms, or Mrs Witt
rather, returned at once to the house in
Nordhotf, and were little surprised when
witt came 10 drunk about bedtime and
boasted that he would have them both ar
rested for bigamy. Witt remained until
the next day, when he removed his goods.
he returned, however. on Wednesday.
during Iaoms' absence, and begged his wife
10 lee with him, assuring her that her mar
rage to Ihoms was illegal and protesting
tnat she was the only woman he had ever
loved.
But Mrs. Witt, or Thoms. simply said:-
You sold NE to Fred against my wishes,
aad now | am his. I never want to see you
any more"
Witt has not been seen about his old
haunts since.
Mrs. Witt. who is 80 years old and a
larry good looking woman with gray eyes
ana brown hair, cried most of the time that
was at her house last night She pro.
tested between her sobs that she had not in
tended to do anything illegal or
wrong, and if she had done SO it was be-
ca Sc she and Erred" were so green.
!, Now" she SAID, 81 don't know what to
10 Fred only married me out of pity, and
now am liable to be arrested for bigamy.
harder. wy '-A WIG
Fred, tall, broad shouldered young fell
low, Tour years his "wife'sn JUNIOR, with an
honest u. smooth face and big blue eyes, tried
to console her.
!. DON'T cry any more about that worth
lesS man, Annie" he said. 81 work steadily
aI ~. make 81 rs day, and soon we'll have
Atde home of our own better than Charlie
ever gave you"
PITIED AND MARRIED HER.
Thoms. ''"eO
!, Partly through pity for the way my
u "a !, brother treated her." he told me.
bd Ike Annie, was green, although l have
b bUeu nine years in this country. Ny STEP
r utgther told me that everything was all
,,snt, and believed him. If we have done
N'it IN lung wrong it has been innocently done
- NOW that it has been done, am going
w axe good care of Annie and her boy and
~ hon On Just as we have been doing. 1 could
r na,e married several rich girls, but when
rHu. marries young girl he don't know
a "nat ne is getting. Now, l know Annie is
ro Wonan aud good cook, and that she will
-la az me good wife"
Iuons will move his little household to-
u uay TO Engewood, so as to be nearer the
huge, ne explained. 10 case Witt comes