The San Francisco call., 1898-08-03
HE NOW HAS TWO WIVES Rev. Hughes Wanted to
 Answer a Divorce.
 
 IA YOUNG PASTORS ROMANCE THOUGHT HE WAS FREE WHEN HE WEDDED MISS TABER. 
A YOUNG PASTORS ROMANCE
His First Wife Now Anxious to See
 =; That He Is Punished for Not Being More Careful. =
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

SUS. BEOaQWay, Aug: C.
 Rev. U. s. Hughes, formerly of San Jose and more recently of this city, is somewhere in British: Columbia, and If he can be reached with legal papers he. will have to answer. a divorce suit brought by his first wife, and which may possibly lead to his being charged with bigamy
 Last April Rev. Ural Summer Hughes married Miss Lena L. Taber at her mothers home on Hobart street. At that time he was the husband of Mrs. Mabel Hughes, whom he married at Chi cago:in, March, 1894. It was. While at school at Evanston. H., that Hughes met Miss Mabel Tyler, whom he married when he. was under age. He lived with her for couple. of years and then de- serted her, saying that he had to go to Pennsylvania to settle up his father estate. He never returned, and since that time Mrs. Hughes has been trying to. ma him. Hughes. came to Calltornla, ana OH the showing that he was under. 19 years of age when he was married and that the ceremony was performed without the con- sent of his parents and: that he had meyer lived with his wife, Judge Troutt set the marriage aside.
 At the hearing. of the suit 3. deposition was read from Mrs. Frances Hughes, the she testified to her sons age and, to meet ing him and his wife in New York. where cretly married. She also testified that owing to false representations by Miss Mabel Tyler. she induced her. son to marry her. The marriage. was set aside in May 1896. When Mrs. Hughes learned that she twas divorced she at once communicated with attorneys in San Francisco and told her story. She says that Hughes induced her to marry him and secured the license by swearing that he was 23 years of age. She met his mother and lived with him at her house until he deserted her Proceed ings; were commenced in San Francisco to have the decree of annulment set aside on the ground of. fraud Before Hughes ha wit he "bA 1 tS- appeared, and was later. found at the Pa .cific Theological Seminary in this city. As result of the suit. Judge Trout in Au- gust of last year set aside the decree an- nulling the marriage.
 Last April. while pastor of the Metho- dist church, in San Jose. Hughes married !: Miss Taber and a notice of the wedding appeared in an Eastern newspaper and was seen by the first Mrs. Hughes. She then filed a suit for divorce in Chicago and sent papers out here to be served on her husband. He offered to make a cash settlement with his first. wife, but she wired: back to her attorneys that he was a bigaTntSt and money. was no ob- ject to her, and she wanted him arrested. Without permitting his wife to call on ! her parents in Oakland Rev. Hughes left ffEss church. and headed north. He has been seen in Portland and British Co., lumbia, but 1t is not known where he. is at present, although should a warrant be issued it Is said the detectives employed by the first Mrs. Hughes will have no trouble In finding. him.
 Mrs. Taber, the mother of the second Hobart street Tt would have been bet ter,' she said to-day, ito have investi- gated the standing of MT. Hughes before I let my daughter marry him, but I did not notice how far the courtship had pro- gressed until 1t was impossible to stop it. When he asked my consent he re- ferred to Rev. Dr. Dille, and told me to ask him about his previous marriage He acted in a very straightforward manner and impressed me with the idea that the other woman was an adventures. I do not believe he tried to conceal. anything from my daughter ana he read to her the papers annulling his. first marriage. He believed he was entirely free from the other woman, and as far as I can see he was at liberty to- marry again.
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