The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-11
Time UP 4 TREE.
His Christmas Eve Purchases
Reveal His Second
Family.
WIFE NO. / INVESTIGATES
Plying No. 2 She Refrains
From Denouncing Him
and Tells Her Tale
to the Chief.

Herman lime, forty-three years old, OF
No. so Wayne street, compositor, en-
! ployed in the job department of the New
York Evening POST for years respect
| ed citizen of this city, is today a prisoner
at Police Headquarters charged with
bigamy. He was arraigned before Police
Justice Hoos this morning and held for
further examinations While his first wife,
the complainant, was in court determined
to press the charge to the utmost, his
second wife was at the home from which
ne was taken on Saturday night pros
trated and in nervous condition.
Wife No. I makes the charges of big
amy and abandonment against lime. She
says, and produces certificates to SUBJ
stantiate her statements, that she married
lime on September u, 1883, in Brooklyn.
She was then Miss Jane Breisland. She
and her three children, two boys and a
girl, live at No. q Prospect street, Brook
lyn. The children are Herman, eleven
years old; William, ten years old; Ludo-
vica, nine years old. Another child died
seven years ago when it was a year old.
When lime was arrested, at $3.50 o'clock
Saturday evening, at his home No. 81
Wayne street. he was taken from the side
of wife No. 2 and their two-year-old child.
Wife No. 2 was Miss Anne Chatburn, a
teacher in Public School No. up to the
time of her marriage to Time, on Septem-
ber IA, 1898, in st. Matthew'S Church, in
Sussex street. Both marriages are re-
corded. that of 1883 in Brooklyn and that
of 1898 in this city, with the Hudson
County Board of Vital Statistics.
Mrs. lime, wife No. l, says in substan-
tiation of her charge that she was en-
ployed in the "Evening Post" job depart
ment nineteen years ago when lime first
went to work there. For six years they
worked together, business relations grow
ing with friendship and then to love. In
1888 they were married. They lived to-
gether until 1894, when lime left her and
did not return. She knew that he con-
tinued at his old position and she says
he knew how and where she was living
all this time. The last few years they
lived together their domestic happiness
was not all that could be desired, and
Mrs. Time did not regret very much the
separation. They never saw each other
during those eight years until today,
when they faced each other in court.
1t is unlikely that lime would now be a
prisoner had he not met an old friend
who was at his wedding in 1885, This
meeting took place few days before last
Christmas. lime carried a large Christ
mas tree. He saluted the friend and they
parted. The friend thought it strange
lime should find use for a Christmas tree
i'll view of the fact that the little group in
Brooklyn had seen nothing of him for
many years. The next day, Christmas
Eve, Time again met his friend. This time
ne carried large bundle of presents
Questioned he said
"They are fo rmy little tot"
The friend went home and told his
wife, who is an intimate acquaintance of
Mrs. Time. Mrs. lime began an investl-
cation. She learned of lines marriage to
Miss Chatburn and last week located him
at No. 80 Wayne street She imagined
that perhaps lime had been divorced from
her without her knowledge. She had the
Chancery Court records searched for the
years back but there was no record 0
such divorce.
Wednesday she and a friend called at
No. go Wayne street They were de-
termined to know the truth. Mrs. Time
No. came to the door. She was in
d uSilCdlG anu lue WTOuSGQ Wlle
decided to simply establish Times identity
as her husband and not speak to the wife
with whom he was then living Having
satisfied herself, Mrs. lime went to Police
Headquarters and related the facts to
Chief Murphy. A warrant was sworn out
for Times arrest and Saturday evening
att $50 o'clock Detective Lee went to the
house and took the man to Headquarters.
Mrs. Time. nee Bleisland, says that Time
was widower when he married her. His
first wife died in Mt. Sinai Hospital. New
York, in June, 1887.