The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-05
THEY'RE NOT HEAVENLY TWINS
The Marsh Boys Figure in a Queer
Matrimonial Tangle.
One in Jail for Bigamy Declares the
Other Is Guilty.

NEWARK. y. j., July 5.-The Marsh
boys oI lrsngton. a suburb of Newark,
are anything but heavenly twins, accord
ing to the expressed opinion OF several
people related TO them or in state OF
uncertainty as to their relation to them.
One of them is in the Essex County Jail
in this city. and the other has skipped
to parts unknown.
Two women claim Edwin, in jail as
their spouse and Il third one admits re-
.uctantly that he was her husband once,
But Edwin says that while he made
love 10 both of the claimants he mar
ried only one OF them, his twin brother
and counterpart. Charlie, now absent.
relieving him OF the other by marrying
her. The father of the unheaveny twins
old John Marsh, who made half a mill.
ion in the fruit b.'sin'cs in Fulton Ma
ket, insists that Char!i. mar..ed the
other girl too.
Edwin and Charles Marsh we're born
twenty eight years ago in Brooklyn.
They grew up together, and were just
alike in looks, manners, tastes and dis
position. They were 40 much alike that
they got married together, became the
father of two babies each, and separat-
81 from their wives almost simultane-
ously.
There was a little deviation in the
iikcnesses at this point, a divorce being
granted separating Edwin and his wife.
t.rnestina Schaffer Marsh. while Charles
and his wife are still legally bound to-
yethcr.
OLD John Marsh retired from bust
ness to enjoy his half million in a
beautiful home in Irvington, and Edwin
and Charles went along to help him.
Edwin's two children were put to
board with Edwin's young and prepos-
sesslng aunt. the widow Of his mother S
brother.
The bays have record as Washers,
and this widowed aunt, Mrs. Mary Hill
lis. was soon plainly much impressed BY
H." nephew. Edwin.
Edwin shined up to Lottie Courier
his rather the ,Wo OF old erGhy
Young folks when they appealed for
their paternal blessings on their mar
ding day had been fixed for July 4, and
the interesting ceremony had been pre-,
cipitated by Edwin's going on bat"
last Saturday in the course Of which he
coaXed Lottie to the minister's.
Everything seemed to be just too love-
ly Till Aunt Hills appeared on the
scene. When the marriage OF her inter
promptly went into Mysteries, Shrek
ing that Edwin was her husband.
She produced marriage certihcate:
signed by Rev. Dr. f. l.. Stoddard. OF
St Johns Church, Jersey City. last De-
cember, to prove 1t, and then there was
row.
old man Marsh tried to compromise
things for Edwin, but old man Courier
was full of wrath. He posted off to the
office OF the Public Prosecutor and made
complaint, and Edwin was arrested and
hurled into Essex County Jail to await
trial for bigamy.
Edwin SAYS that his ungodly twin
brother Charlie went to the parson s
with Aunt Hills and married her in his
name. or course Aunt HILLS Is sure
that the eyes OF love could not be de-
ceived by twin-brother resemblances
She says Edwin is a scoundrel and
Charles IL a fool.
But Lottie Courier clings to Edwin,
ard believes his story that Charles took
Aunt Hills on his hands and married
her in his name.