The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-02
MARRIED BY A TRICK
Mrs. Pinkwater Says Her
Husband Enticed Her
Into a Wedding.
THE RABBITS SERVICES TOO DEAR
Max Insists That Marriage by a.
Magistrate Only Binds
the Man.

Mrs. Max Pinkwater, a refined and beauti-
full woman, living with friends on Central
avenue, Jersey City Heights, is plaintiff in a
suit Ct unusual nature. She wishes to have
her marriage annulled because her husband
''willfully, knowingly and fraudulently de-
ceived herr Before the marriage she was a
Miss Esther Goldsm ith, whose parents, once
upon time were extremely wealthy and
moved in very exclusive Jewish socia cir
cles in New York City. Some time in 1891
she met Mr.. Max Pinkwater Of Newark, who
paid her great deal of attention
In fact" she says, ~ could see that he
was head over ears in love with me-"
Gradually Max's attentions became 80
marked that their friends noticed it and he
summoned up courage to pop the question
and afterwards question the pop.
Il was only nineteen then," said Mrs.
Pinkwater with q most bewitching smile,
one of the kind which transfixed Max's sus-
ceptible heart of forty-fve years of age.
Max asked her to marry him, but she re-
fused to- as the did not relish the disparity
of age. Just think of it. In twenty years
hence she would be in the prime of her beaute-
Gus womanhood, while Max would be de-
crepit old man with one foot-perhaps both
feet-in the grave.
Now it is a Jewish custom, first practised
in the days of Moses and continued by the
reverend patrierchs who followed him, that
when two people contemplate entering into
the holy estate of matrimony, they should
first be betrothed The parties enter into
civil contract in writing for a limited time
Tor the purpose of ascertaining whether or
not they are suited for each other.
All this betrothal ceremony is observed
with poHlp and publicity and is a most inn
portant Hebraical civil custom.
If at the expiration of the time mentioned
in tho written agreement the man and
woman are devoted to each other and wish
GUS wedding ceremony before the Rabbi.
MAx'S PERSUASIVE ARGUMENTS.
'sNow meine leber lof," pleaded Max,
while pressing his suit (of marriage, not
clothes), "dot betrothal ceremonies was ex-
pensive alretty." and told her that If she
would go with him before civil magistrate
and go through the GENTLE form of marriage
it would avoid the betrothal.
"But," argued Miss Goldsmith, 81 don't
want to marry you now and the Jewish
faith does not recognize marriages by magls-
trates."
Max reioined that it was precisely on ac-
count of this that he suggested the mar
riage,
eff you don't lof me, why, mein dear, we
can't go before the rabbi, and our marriage
is not binding"
And with such specious arguments he pre-
vailed upon the unsophisticated Esther to be
married before a magistrate, adding that
such ceremony is only a matter of form, a
betrothal, not so expensive as that observed
in the Jewish Church, and finally that it
bound the man only and not the woman.
Believing all this Esther consented and on
August s, 1891, they were married by Judge
J. n Mccarthy of the City Court, New
York,
81 was totally ignorant of the nature of
this ceremony said Miss Goldsmith, s'and
understood it was not bindiag on me-"
Immediately after this wedding, Max pro-
posed to take his bride on brief wedding
tour but she refused because they were not
married.
''Not married." said Max in surprise,
''Mein Gott what more you want"
Do you mean to say we are man and wife
under the law of Americaa" cried Miss
Esther, now thoroughly alarmed.
"Yes," said Max, "You never would
see you to have you for meinself, und | have
got you. You did not know you are mar
ried. Heb? You are bound fast to me mein
DEAR
Esther instantly left him and returned to
Central avenue in deep despair. Max re-
peatedly tried to see her, but she would not
look at him and whenever he called she was
eout.n
WANTS THE MARRIAGE ANNULLED.
He persisted in calling her his wife, and
she as persistently denied it, and to settle
the matter once and forever she has,
through Counsellor Linn, Drougn6 suit TO
annul her marriage.
Max Pinkwater has disappeared from his
haunts in Newark, and all attempts to reach
him by personal service of a citation in the
suit have failed
His friends maintain that Esther knew
all about the ceremony, and what it meant.
"Nineteenln said one of the above, need
less to add it was a woman; ''yes, if you add
ten years to her age. Why, | knew what
marriage meant before was half her age.
Nineteen, indeedl" this with sniff and
loss of the head) ''The whole thing is
shameful my DEAR
George Bunner. undertaker and Embs liner.