The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-24
MARRIED FOR SPITE.
Old Mr.. Volk Says He Tired
of His Daughter Beat
ing Him.
so PROPOSED TO MRS. WAGNER
Took Place in the Back
Room Of a Saloon-The
Honeymoon.
so PROPOSED TO MRS. WAGNER

Last night about ten O'Clock, a marriage
occurred in the back room Of a saloon at
Griffith street and Sherman avenue. The
saloon is known as Dolphin Hall, and is
owned by a German, Hans Dietzman. The
contracting parties were Jacob Volk, seventy
two years OLD, of No. Jos Sherman avenue,
and Barbara WAGNER, sixty-two years old.
a woman who, it is said, has been married
four times.
All hands present except the minister, the
Rev. R. A. Haafer. who performed the cere-
ated. Mr.. Haafer, however, told a
NEWS reporter this morning that he first
asked the couple and witnesses if they were
perfectly sober and aware of what they were
doing, and they all said they were. and, as
he knew of nothing to prevent their uniting
in wedlock. he performed the ceremony.
When / asked him who the couple were,
however, he refused to divulge their names,
saying that he would not give them a mar
rage certificate until the ''old man" paid
him his fee.
WHAT PASTOR HAZE sAYS
Pastor Haafer, during the interview,
seemed to be anxious that the matter would
be kept quiet, and it was only after great
persuasion that he admitted marrying them
at all, and told of the asking of above ques-
lions.
How the marriage came to take place is
learned indirectly through a GAR. man
named Walters, q younger brother Of the
bride. Old man Volk's daughter, with
whom he lived, made things so disagreeable
for her father that he decided to get mar
ried.
He told the above to me this morning
when I interviewed him in regard to his
marriage. He was not at his hone when l
oo1ioJ +l1-n L,,% II fA.,p4 hira ~ Mrs.
Ziinmernan's saloon, nearby. He did not
object TO talking, and, in fact, seemed rather
glad to do so. He is a rather pleasant look
ing old man.
He was enjoying a glass of wine and did
not look anything like a bridegroom of one
night, in his old flannel shirt and feathery
trousers
THE BRIDEGRooM'S STORY.
When I asked him some questions about
his marriage last night be evaded them by
saying
Yves, I got married last night to Barbara,
Barbara, Babar-oh, / dunno, oh, yes | do
too, Barbara Wagner, I think that's it; you
see she had four husbands before, and l
think that's the name of the last one"
well, how did you come to marry her,"
then asked.
ssW ell . he replied, ~ was taken sick two
weeks ago and my daughter who lives with me
treated me bad, and / decided to get a nurse,
anu BllS 1iidii w dlUSIS S0nJ iS oloOSi W liz.
She was a nice woman and treated me good,
and | told her she could be my housekeeper.
Well, yesterday morning my daughter
fired her outs of the house, while
/ was away, and so I determined to marry
her for propriety's sake, and then she would
have a lawful right to the house. Well, !
didn't say anything to my daughter all
day, and last night I told Barbara
to get a couple of witnesses
and we would get married. She got her
brother and another man, / don't know who,
and we went up to the saloon above here
and sent for a minister, who. as you know
already, once at came and married US. Now
that's all there is about it,
sssVell, Mr.. Volk, how about last night,
when you and your bride e home and
your daughter would not let either one of
you in, and you had to to send for a police
man.
sob, that's all right, l got n"
eyes, but your wife didn'U, l understand,
or rather, she was put out afterwards"
sob, she said she would go to a friend of
hers, and stay the rest of the night. and I
let her 60"
Have o heard from her yet this morn
ing" I then asked.
"Only through this lady, he said, point
ing to a lady sitting in a chair near him.
A RAPID TRANSIT TALKER.
I turned to the lady and asked her what
she knew of the case.
Il don't know anything about the mar
rage" she said, but this morning about
one o'clock Mrs. Wagner, as l knew her by,
came to my house. You see she lived with
me once before for five weeks and never paid
me one cent board, and asked me
to take her in for the night. Well, I takes
her in; of course, and when she came in she
tells me she's married to a Mr.. Volk OF a
hundred and five Webster avenue. l hardly
believed her, and SO while she
was still sleeping this morning /
comes to this old gentleman to make sure,
and sure enough it's true too. isn't it a
shame, and she never paid me a cent until
she went to live with this gentleman"
Whoever the lady was hat did the above
talking, she had an excellent pair of lungs,
for I don't think she paused once during the
whole time she was talking.
TIE BRIDE STILL SLEEPS
Up to twelve o'clock this noon Mr.. Volk
was still slipping wine in Mrs. Zimmerman's
saloon and his wife was sleeping serenely at