The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-08
FOUND HUSBAND AT ALTAR.
Was About to Be Married to Another
woman.
From the New York Herald.

Before the altar of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church of St. Stanislaus a pros
pective bride and bridegroom were
kneelng yesterday afternoon. I The
priest was already speaking the words
that in the eyes of the world would
have made them man and wife when
two policemen hurriedly invaded the
sanctuary and arrested the bridegroom
on a charge of attempted bigamy.
In the vestibule of the church, two
little children clinging to her skirts,
stood the woman who for twelve years
had believed herself to be a lawful
wife. One of the carriages engaged for
the wedding party took away the wo-
man and children. In another the pris-
oner was taken to the station house.
Then a witness came forward and tes-'
titled that the culprit had a wife and
children living in Poland. Should this
be substantiated there will be charge
of bigamy, as well as one of attempt
ed bgamy, to answer.
Anton and Louise Kavieskin were
married Oct. 49, 1889 Anton is a Polish
piano maker, thirty-eight years old, He
is intelligent, and used to be thrifty,
but his wife says he has fallen into
evil ways, finds diversion in gambling,
and affects the companionship of sport
ing men, whose friendship does him no
good. Four children had been born to
them, when, two months ago. they
separated, Anton going to No. 1856 Mad
iscn street and his wife and children
to No. 1877 East Third street to live.
Her First Suspicious.
Not long ago the woman heard ru-
mors that seemed incredible. but she
investigated them, with the result
that she appeared yesterday afternoon
at the East Fifth street police station.
Accompanying her were her two
youngest children. girl four and
half years old and a boy of three, and
Leon Wazeter, trustee of the Church
of st. Stanislaus, in Seventh street
The anxious wife told Sergt Schulum
that she had received no money from
her husband for two months, and had
been living upon the charity of friends
She had just learned from Mr.. WAGE
ter, the church trustee, that Anton
was to marry Sophia Dulapa in the
Church of st. Stanislaus at g. o'clock
She begged him to do something to
stop the wedding.
Sergt Schulum sent Roundsman
Schneider and Policeman Burke with
the trustee and Mrs. Kavieskin to In
vestigate the womans story, and the
two children toddled along behind the
policemen, clinging to their mothers
hand. q"
Four carriages stood in front of the
church and the roundsman, as he
opened the door and glanced down
the center aisle. saw that about 500
persons occupied the pews. and that
before the altar were kneeling a man
and a woman. Above them the Rev.
Father Strezelicki, arrayed in his
priestly vestments, and with arms
outstretched in benediction, was about
to place upon their union the holy
sanction of the church.
Caught mt the Altar.
Bidding the mother and her children
remain in the vestibule, the two uo>
licemen and the church trustee walk
ed down the aisle toward the altar
There was a general craning of necks
as the uniformed men entered, but a
word from the roundsman to the
priest explained his painful errand,
and Father Strezelicki stopped the
ceremony and held up his hand in ad-
monition to the congregation which
showed some tendency toward a panic
In few words the priest dismissed the
wedding guests, telling them that the
ceremony could not go on at present.
Slowly and with many misgivings the
friends of the pair filed out. The
roundsman explained to the would be
en- from his kneeling posture and had
assumed an air of nonchalance A
word from him to the bride caused her
to sink half swooning into a chair.
Then the accused man accompanied his
captors to the church door, leaving
Miss Dulapa to the care of her friends.
Passing his wife and children in the
vestibule with a cold look of uncon-
cern,7 Kavieskin and his guardians en-
tered one of the bridal carriages, while
his family were driven away in an
other.
Prisoner Upbrnided by Bride.
At the Fifth street police station the
prisoner calmly admitted that he had
wife and four children. He said he
was fond of Miss Dulapa and under
stood that she had some means. When
he was searched a 81 bill, the only
money found, was promptly claimed
by one of the hack drivers. to whom
1t was given. AS he stood before the
sergeant's besk, Miss Dulapa, accom-
panied by many of her girl friends, en-
tered the station house, hysterical and
fearful. In broken English she poured
out a. torrent of entreaty and upbraid-
ing, through which the man whose we'd
ding had been interrupted stood, SEEM
ingly unmoved.
After the piano maker had been COM
mitted for a hearing Abraham Kali.
zinski of No. 617 East Ninth street told
Sergt. Schulum that he had witnessed
Anton's marriage to a woman in Pol
and years ago. and that she is still
living, with three children. When ask
ed about this Mrs. Kavieskin said she