The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-13
Young Repudlales Woman Who
Says She Is His Spouse.
EVANGELIST IN JAIL AT NEWARK
Charge Against Hin Is BIgamy-GIl Hs
Married on March ! Clngs 10 Hin
In Tine Of Trsuhs.

Newark, n. J., March 13.-Clarence
Young, the Methodist Evangelist and ex-
horter, presents a defiant front 10 the ac-
cusation OF bigamy on which he is jailed
I'm this city.
His COUNSEL yesterday declared that the
woman who claims TO be his first lawful
wife labors under an halluclnation. said
the lawyer:
.'She must be crazy. Our first move will
be the appointment OF a commission 10
determine her sanity.
But Mrs. Young looks and talks like
anything bat a crazy woman.
" An haliucination,' eh y' she repeated.
There's no haliucination about this. IS
thereY' and she produced what she said
H. "a transcript OF the record of her mar
riage 10 Young.
WHAT 1T SHOWS.
Ii showed that the ceremony was per-
formed in St. Francis xaviers chErch in
New York city on october 10 last The
knot was tied by the Rev. j. r. X. ocon-
nor, and the witnesses were Francis Ber-
liner and Margaret Martin. The maiden
maine was Mary Cruise. land she lived then
AZ No. o2 East Fifteenth street.
foungs second wife implicitly believes
In his truth and affection tor her. When
he was taken To the Essex county jail
she embraced him and wept. She passed
hours with him yesterday, and was more
than ever certain that the woman who
Claims MIN is insane.
Wife No. was Martha Snyder. but IL
years old, who worked In Ciark's thread
mill. and sang hymns at Youngs mission
az night They We're married on March
last, by the Rev. Mr.. Morgan. pastor OF
the Central Methodist Episcopal church,
Newark
Although Young calls himself 1.-The
Rev., the woman who claims him as
husband declares he was naval clerk in
New York city when she met him "A year
ago. This Is the story she tells. and with
After the marriage they went 10 Bos-
ton and remained a month. From there
they went 10 orange, ana later 10 New
ark, where they boarded with Mrs. Maria
Clancy, No. Orange place.
Early in January Young told his wife
he had a chance TO preach In Memorial
Mission II it was not known that he was
To help him she consented TO keep IN
the background. He took the position and
went 10 board with Mrs. Elizabeth More.
house. whose husband also preached at
the Mission. However he daily visited
wife No. l at Mrs. Clsncys.
While visiting her on Wednesday last.
she alleges. he choked her and chased her
all over the house, trying to get the trans
cr1pt Of the marriage record from her.
His last visit was on Saturday.
HEARD OF SECOND MARRIAGE.
That night Mrs. Young heard of Young $
second marriage. She Immediately went
10 Justice Fred G. Oehring, who issued the
Ralph French went to the whitehouse,
where Young and his younger wife Mo-
had gone Saturday night on a visit and
brought him back at midnight Sunday.
He was committed in default OF $1,000.
Mrs. Young No. / vows she will pro-
duce In court the witnesses to the mar
rage. possibly the priest who performed
the ceremony and the persons with whom
the couple have lived.
II will then let Mr. Young and his coun-
sci know ] am perfectly sane" she sig
nificantly said yesterday.
Mrs Young No. l is waiting OUT at
Mrs Glancy's boarding house money
which shS received as advance salary.
She declares she gave Young a certain
amount recently when he demanded II
under a threat of leaving her IL she failed
TO produce IL.