The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-18
SEVERITY and MERCY.
Bigamist Who Deceived No
One Gets a Year and His
Wife Grins at Him.
PAuLlNEoRLosE's PRoTEsTATloNs
Judge Hudspeth vindicates the
Honored Name of Cicero-s1O
for T~hrashing Women.
PAULINE ORLOSE'S PROTESTATlONS

When James Meehan, a truckman, was
called in the General Sessions Court yes
terday afternoon, to be sentenced for
bigamy, he attempted to justify himself
on the ground that his legal wife was
a worthless, dissipated woman, and he
married a second time to make a home
for himself and his children. Meehan
said that his first wife deserted him thir-
teen years ago. She was addicted to
drink, and in order to get money for beer
and liquor she pawned her clothing and
even the bed clothes. He left her three
or four times, but gave her another
chance at her solicitation and on her
promises to reform. A short time after
ward she disappeared and did not return
for thirteen years.
In January last she had him arrested
in New York for non-support, and again
in February she had him arrested, but
could get no satisfaction. She knew at
the time that he was married again, but
said nothing about it. He said that
Miss O'Rourke, the young woman whom
he married in this city, knew at the time
they were married that he had a wife
living. She had known his wife for
twenty-five years. He thought that I'M
0SA tAAO u Az was I'll
titled TO max a home for himself and
he got married again. Judge Hudspeth
said that Meehan's first wife had in
formed the Court that she had been
obliged. during all the years her husband
was away from her, to earn a living for
herself and her six children by washing.
Miss O'Rourke, the woman who mar
ried Meehan, knowing that he had
n xrsfo ,xysr - IT. -EM -.
Court, Judge Hudspeth said, and ought
to be kept there until something was lone
with her. One thing in Meehan's favor
was that he had not deceived anybody.
Meehan said that when he married Miss
O'Rourke he did not know that he was
violating any law. He said that his first
wife had him arrested for spite. She
doesn't want me-" he said, "and she would
like to send me away for ten years. I
am an honest men, Judge, as my recon-
~mendations show, and I pleaded non vult
because l had no money to hire a lawyer"
Judge Hudspeth said that the Court had
a duty to perform, and although his feel
ings might prompt him to let Meehan go,
he must punish him in the performance
of his duty. He sentenced Meehan to one
year in the Penitentiary. AS the prisoner
was being taken out of court his first
wife, who was sitting in one of the rear
seats, grinned at lin.
"Oh. yes, you may well laugh" said
Meehan, you have accomplished your
woman removed from the court.
Pauline Orlove, the young Polish girl
h was convicted of stealing dress
Louis Lazaras' store in Bayonne. where
she was employed as a domestic servant.
was sentenced to the County Jail for
SHY Gays. Sne persisted In her declara-
Frances Cosier. an old woman. was sent
to the Penitentiary for one year for keep
the foot Of Eighteenth street, Wee.
hawken. Her seventeen-year-old daughter
was one of the inmates of the house and
Judge Hudspeth scored the old woman
Cicero Foster, a co1ored youth, was sem
fenced to the Penitentiary for three
months for stealing s28 from behind the
speth that there was something wrong
with his head when he took the money.
You were suffering from mental aber-
ration and pressure?' said Judge Hud-1
Yes, sab; dat was it, replied Cicero.
Well Cicero" said Judge Hudspeth.
tinguished name and must pay~the pen
atty"
Tn much obliged, Judge he remark-
ed, ~assscntence was -pronouncods
John Mclaughlin, q tramp, was sent
to the County JAN for thirty days FOR
window Of a saloon Ii Mon rs5laSs
street. He had been elected from Jack,
sons saloon for refusing to pay for al
drink and IN revenge threw the stone.
through the window of another saloon.
thinking it wa Jackson's.
Thouias Raney was sent to the County
Ger. He a~ffernpted ia fake = dr1,, Ear