The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-25
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EDWIN y. MARSH ZEN ROUTE FRO2I
DAKOTA TO NEW JER-
SEY.
QUEER MATRIMONIAL MIX,
ENED OUT BY A DAKOTA d.
VORCE DECREE.
One of Marsh's Several Ventures in
MatrimOny Which Caused
Trouble and Expense.

The guests Of the Metropolitan hotel
had very happy man in their midst
all day yesterday. He was happy all
the way through and he did not try
to conceal the fact from any one. 1t
was apparent in his every act. This
man was Edwin J. Marsh, of Irvington,
N. j., and the cause Of his happy state
of mind was a small legal document
which he carried in his inside pocket.
Mr.. Marsh had been to Dakota and he
had been there more than ninety days,
too, for the document in question was
decree which had been granted by a
Dakota judge giving him an absolute
divorce from Mrs. Nellie Marsh, of Jer-
sey City Mrs. Marsh is, strange to re-
late, Edwin ]. Marshs aunt The two
We're married in secret and out of that
secret marriage all kinds of trouble
have fallen to the husbands lot He
became entangled in another matrimo-
NAL venture, and when discovered, de-
clared that it was not he who had mar
r1ed his aunt, but twin brother, who
bears a great resemblance to him. He
disappeared from his home a short
time after that and no one knew where
he had gone. But Mr. Marsh was wise
He had been beaten so far but he held
a whole fist full of trumps and he has
played them well, for, it is said, that
ne is now on his way back to Irvington
where he will wed Miss Lottie Courier
the lady to whom he thought he was
married after his marriage with his
aunt. Miss Courier has been a much
interested person in the obtaining OF
the divorce, and, it is said, has made
several trips to New York in behalf
of Mr.. Marsh during his enforced resi-,
dence in Dakota. 1t is also said that
she gave testimony in his behalf.
Mr.. Marsh obtained his decree ON ev-
idence that he was intoxicated at the
time of his marriage to his aunt
The story of Marsh's matrimonial
venture is interesting, for it runs way
back to the time when he was still a
mere boy. His father was then a.
wealthy fruit importer in the City or
Churches, and Eddy, as he was known,
as married when he was seventeen
years old to Brooklyn girl. He lived
with her for nine years, and then Sc
cured divorce in 1893. A week after
the divorce was granted Marsh was
married to his aunt, Mrs. Hills, who
then lived at Ivy place, Jersey City.
he told her to keep the marriage
secret as his father, intending to start
him in business would withdraw his
favor if he learned of the marriage.
Marsh told his aunt-wife that as soon
as he had secured enough money
from his father to start him in the
grocery business in IrVingtOn he would
announce the marriage, and then Mr.
Marsh senior would be unable to insist
upon his marriage to young woman
of lrVingtOn.
Mrs. Marsh No. 2 was surprised to
learn on June 25, 1894, that her hus-
I band had been married again. this
time to Miss LOttie Courier, Of Irving
| ton. The ceremony had been per-
formed the day before in Newark,
and when Mrs. Marsh heard about it
she lost no time in going to IrvingtOn
and declaring to both the Marsh and
the Courier families that she was Mrs
Marsh. There was a stormy scene at
| the Marsh homestead, but Mrs. Marsh
said what she went there to say. Mrs
Marsh said afterward that she had
| heard her husband intended getting
married to Miss Courier, and she de-
clared that she warned the Young
woman that her intended marriage
would make Marsh a bigamist
Finding that her warning was not
! needed, she denounced Marsh as a big
amist and caused his arrest He was in
jail month, during which time he said
his twin brother had married the aunt
After a months Imprisonment, how
ever,he pleaded mon vlut" to a charge
of bigamy and was sentenced to a fine
of 81 ,000 Then he left the neighbor-
hood of Newark and it was currently
reported that he had gone to Cuba
But, instead of going to Cuba, he went
to Dakota and established a legal resi-
dence there.