The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-29
MRS. GRAHAM AGAIN.
Once Arrested for Bigamy
She Is Now Defending
Her Husbands Will.
A STEP-SON,S VENGENCE
He Finds the Woman's First Hus-
band and Produces Him as
q Witness.

Testimony was taken in the Orphans
Court yesterday afternoon on the caveat
of the will of James B. Graham who died
about two months ago at the age of sew
enty- The case possesses some very re-
markable features. The caveator is
William Graham, a son of the testator,
and he is trying with the assistance of
Lawyer John Graham, to break his
fathers will. which bequeathed his entire
estate to his widow. The contest of the
Will is based on the ground that at the
time the woman was married to Mr..
Graham she had a husband living up in
New York State. The contestant fur
nished indisputable evidence of the fact
yesterday by producing the living husband
in Court and putting him on the witness
stand.
The widows maiden name was Mary
A. Sears. She was married to William HI.
curry, Jr., in Monticello, Sullivan county
N. T., in 1867, when she was nineteen
years old. They went to live at High
Fails, Ulster county. N. Y, and remained
there until 1888. when Curry abandoned
his wife and started life anew under the
name of Gilbert Craig He said that the
reason he left his wife was because he
came to this city after making pro-.
longed but fruitless search for her run
away husband. Subsequently her half
Drother met Curry, who was then living.
IN Midd1etown, N. Y, under the name Of
Craig, and sent for her to go to Middle
town. She went and her half brother
took ner to where Curry was living. She
recognized him at once, but he refused
TO recognize her and declared that he had
never seen her before. He refused to
live with her again or have anything to
do with her.
Mrs. Curry came back to this city and
Decame acquainted with James B. Gra-
nam, who was q widower. She posed as
a widow, and the old man fell in love
with and married her, notwithstand-
ing the strenuous opposition of his
son, who believed that the woman was
an adventures
Young Graham learned from some
source source that mis- stepmother's first hus-
the name OF Craig, and sent an agent
there to lind him. The agent succeeded
ana an: Craig or Curry was hired to come to
TINS city and confront his WIFE He was
taken to the Graham house and there
recognized Mrs. Graham as his wife. She
admitted it at first, he says, but she af-
terward, declared that he was an impos-
tor and that he had been produced for
the purpose of alternating her husband S
affection.
OF ibigamy against his Wife and she was
arrested Curry, being a nonresident
vas, detained as witness. The elder
but he afterwards withdrew from Currys
bonds. The Grand Jury failed to find
an Indictment against the woman
Grahafny had akens her back. and it was
about that time that he made his will
in her favor and disinherIted his son.
About the same time Mrs. Graham
lied a bill in the Court of Chancery for
divorce from Curry. Why she did that is
not clear as she had previously declared
that Curry was not her husband but an
imposter, who had entered into a con-
spiracy with her stepson to turn her
husband against her. While the suit was
pending the elder Graham died
Curry was subjected to a severe cross
examination yesterday by Lawyer FIavel
MCGEE who is taking care of the Widows
interests, but his testimony was not
shaken. The hearing will be continued
next Tuesday.