Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-07
Ceremony in Which the Iowa Woman
Took Part Appears to Have Been
Under Assumed Name Without Her
Knowledge = Hazard a Deserter
From the Army.
;peeiaI TO Times Republican.

DIR. Linda BurHeld, Whom i1dZHaiu
claims is his only legal wife. made the
following statement today
81 am the only wife of Mr.. Hazard
II was divorced and then remarriea
him. was called into the house where
he lived with ano Their woman to treat
him for an Hines S, and l fell in low
| with him and he, With me. He WIS
| not married TO the other woman, but
she followed him about. and, to pro
tect her, he said she was his Wife.
II shall do all in my power to help
him.
Agnes HaGey II azzard of New York
] Instituted divorce proceedings in the
| supreme court of Suffolk county, New
York. April {, 1903 The divorce gives
I! his frs. wife the right to marry, but
explicitly prohibits Hazard from re-
marrying until she does.
| Dispatches from Washington yester-
terday stated that the news OF HaZ-
Yards arrest was the first news the
war department ha had of him since
he was dropped FIR ON the army rolls
In May. 1900, as a ieserter.
Hazard graduate ID from West Point
in 1889, and wa: stationed at the
military academy S instructor of mod
ern languages from 1895 until 1898. He
served as adjutant Of the academy un-
til 1900. He served II an artillery regi-
n,ent few months at Fort Barancas
Fla, and then sud. ienly disappeared
Later he was drop ped as deserter
His home was in p. ottsville, Pa.
Samuel C. HazZai d. In the Henne-
pin county Jail. ava iting trial on the
charge of bigamy, adj nits that he mar
ried Agnes Stagg Had ley In New YORK.
Oct. "a. is.t, .-.:a In answer to the.
question as To Wnethe. y he WAS legally
married TO Mrs. Vivs f. Everhari.
formerly Miss Fftchps trick, OF Neva
da, Iowa, in st. Paul, March Z. 1903
says:
Il supposed that the decree hal
been entered some time at go in the ac-
ton for divorce brought by my first
wife. / had letter fro m my sistar
telling me So
Yesterday he claimed Il lat his mar
riage to Mrs. Everhard was at best
but a common law m arriage The
records obtained by tn, county at
torney's office show that Eugene
Vandien and Alice Stensrude were
married by Court Coz ,,nnissioner Ca
lick of st. Paul. Marcel Z, 1903.
Attic Mrs. Everharl d was not per-
mitted to see the n, .arriage license
which the husband took charge Of
and altho she did not know under
what name she was being married, 1t
SO happens that tn e license for the
marriage OF Mr.. v, andien" and Miss
Stensrude" was tn, 4. only one taken
out in the office oil + the clerk of the
RAMSEY county courts on the date
that AIRS. Everharei will swear she
was married TO Haz .zard. or Hargrave.
as he was known Il /, her. II also hap
pens that Mr.. Call ok picked out Mrs.
Hargrave in ROOF n full of people as
the woman whom + lie married to Van
dien" on March /, 1903.
Records IL the Case
1t Is matter I record in Suffolk
county. New York, that Hazard.
first wife institute ID divorce proceed
ings on the groune; of deser,lon. ApriI
| 4. 1908, and that ,an interloeutory de-
cree of divorce was entered in the
case Oct. $. 1903. giving the plaintliY
"A final Judgment to be entered thrae
months after the interlocutory order.
which would be Js.n o. 1904.
| According to this record. Therefore
Hazard or Hargsrave married Mrs
Everhard month before his first wife
| began action for divorce in the Nav
| York state courts.
In the matter OF Hazards marriage
to DR. Linda BYurfield the records
show that Hazard or Hargraye mar
rier her at Fowler ~ T.. church IN
either Nov. IL or ~, 1903. Harry
Gressang, 81 Twelfth street N is men
toned as one of those who can iden},-
fy Hazard and Hargrave as the same
person.
Mr.. Grassangs says: He and wife
No. visited OUR home as husband and
wife, and whatever may have been
wrong or irregular in the ceremony of
marriage. the wife apparently knew
nothing about 1t and always treated
him with great affection"
After being graduated brilliantly
from West Point in 1892 and studvtpp
European military affairs for two
years Hazard returned TO this com
try. was married in New York ana
was assigned to barracks duty AZ Tam.
pa, Florida
Deserts His Wife.
4 In February. 1900. while first lien.
tenant of the First artillery. he de-
serted wife and army and fed to Brit
ism Coiumbla where he changed his
name to Samuel G. Hargrave. He an
peared In Tacoma, Wash, in 1901
where he is supposed to have married.
again. He was employed in Chicago
during 1902 and until he came 10 Min
neapolis last year.
He was dropped from the roll of the
United States army as deserter in
1900 and hence is not wanted by the
war department, which has no further
jurisdiction over him. The presen.
grand jury OF Hennepin county is sit
ting on his case.
Hazard was visited by his lates
wife Yesterday and is as cheerful as
any plsoner recently brought In. He
has retained Frank NJ. Nye and Henry
Deutsh as his counsel and says he
expects to get BAIL