The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-24
Woman Who Once Gave the Po-
lice no End Of Trouble.
FRANK W. HALvEY THE GROOM.
This Time She Is Not Welded Behind
Prison Bars, but Boldly Asks For
mer Prison Keepers TO Witness
Issuance of Licenxe-Her First
Husband was a witness Against
Her on a Charge of Larceny.

An innocent looking marriage license.
issued at the county auditors office
granting permission to Frank w. Hal
yey and Mary McDivett to become man
and wife. caused a ripple OF excitement
to yibrate through the ordinarily staid
and solemn court house corridors yes
terday. Essie Winters, who is known TO
the officers Of the law in every city OF
consequence on Puget Sound. was one
OF the contracting parties. Shortly before
the noon hour the woman appeared in
the sherifTs Office and requested Deputy
Pyle to assist her in the furtherance of
her matrimonial inclinations to the ex-
tent Of signing the marriage certificate
az witness to the transaction, and a few
moments after the request was made Es-
ste left the auditors Office equipped with
the instrument which entitled her TO once
more embark upon the sea of matrimony,
which in her particular case has proven
a stormy voyage
The woman's first identity with police
circles in this city was in the fall Of
lsss, when she was arrested on a charge
OF grand larceny, preferred by con-
fiding acquaintance who said she had re-
lieved him OF a considerable sum OF
money. She was arrested and taken to
the county jail to await trial on the
1t was there that Miss Winters first
pitted her natural cunning against that
OF the officers OF the law In well plan
ned effort to circumvent the prosecuting
attorneys Office In an attempt to convict
her Of larceny. Shortly before she was
10 have been arraigned on the charge
she procured a marriage license to wed
the man whom she was alleged to have
robbed. When the trial took place the
defendants attorneys objected to the in
PRODUCTION of the evidence of the states
main witness on the well-known common
law principle that husband cannot
give discriminating evidence against his
view Of the contention OF the prosecut-
ing attorney that the crime was commit
ted prior to the contamination of the
marriage. Miss Winters went to jail un-
der a sentence of twelve months. Suisse
quently she was released upon a certin-
cate OF two physicians that she was In
delicate health.
When the woman obtained her liberty
she forthwith renounced her spouse.
whom she had married behind prison
walls, instituted proceedings for divorce
I'm the superior court and obtained "a
decree. In June last she was again ar
rested on a charge of shoplifting and
languished for "A term In the county Jail.
II was at that time. attaches OF the sher-
became enamored of her. He was un-
ceasing In his attentions. and the license
issued yesterday bears witness that his
courtship, extending over a period OF ten
months. has at last been rewarded.
The groom gave his residence as Seat
tie. and told the register clerk In the
auditors Office that he was q years OF
age. Mrs. McDivett frankly admitted that
she was two years the senior OF Hal
vey She also impaired the Information
that she was at present resident OF
Tolt.