Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-04
STORIES OF HARRIS
The Murderer's First Wife
 Said to Have Been Found.
SHE WAS ALSO A SCHOOLGIRL.
And Was the Victim of the Praotics He
 Made Common With Women.

Her Name was Lulu Van Zandt and She
 was but Fourteen Years Old When She
 Married Him-The Discovery of an In
 trisue With Another Girl Causes Her to
 Leave Him, After Which an Operation
 Instigated by Harris was Performed
 Upon Her.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The alleged first wife of Carlyle w. Harris, who on Tues day night was declared guilty of deliber- ately murdering his second wife, Helen Potts, has at last been discovered At least so thinks Assistant District Attor- ney Wellman. Search had been made far and wide for such person, but with out avail.
 One day, about the middle of the trial, a man living in Connecticut wrote to Mr. Wellman, telling him of 8 case of secret marriage in which he believed Carlyle w. Harris to be one of the principals This man, whose name is withheld, was telegraphed for and came to New York.
 He told MT. Wellman that about seven years ago he was acquainted with a young girl, Lulu Van Zandt, who had been married at the age of IA to one Charles Harris, who was then 16, and that the marriage took place at the house of the pastor of the old Asbury Church on Washington square Within two weeks the girl discovered that her hus- bands name was Carlyle. He took her to Brooklyn to live. Her parents were residents of Plainfield, N J.
 The pair left Brooklyn soon afterward and went to Connecticut to live, where the young wife soon detected her hus- band in an intrigue with another girl
 In disgust she left him and returned to New York, where afterward a criminal operation was performed on her at her husbands instigation.
 It was discovered that she had been living with her mother for three years in East Ninety-second street, but had left there about a year ago. It was also found that other parties had been look ing for the girl few days previously These are supposed to have been emissar- ies of the defendant on trial.
 MT. Wellman and the Connecticut gen tleman then called on Inspector Byrnes, who detailed several detectives on the search for the girl, who was finally found at South Amboy, N. J. She was there visited by the gentleman from Connecti- cut, who found that she had become a physical wreck as the result of the al- legged operation. Nothing, however, could induce her to come to New York to testify against Harris, who had threat ened her so that she lived in perfect terror of him.
 She, however, examined pictures of Harris, and declared it was the face of her husband, grown more mature. Her uncle, who is wealthy and has a great deal of inguence over her, positively forbade her to attend the trial on pain of his lasting displeasure. This was on Sunday last, and there was no time to make further efforts to get her to appear on the witness stand before the close of the trial.
 There is also positive proof that Harris wronged a servant in Brooklyn, who, in 1890, gave birth to a child in one of the hospitals in this city. When she got well enough to leave the institution she was penniless and appealed to Harris, who was now secretly married to Helen Potts. Harris gave her d trihe and told her to ''get rid of tine brat" by leaving it on some doorstep.