The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24
CITY NEWS
MAY CLEAR HUSBAND
OF BICAMY CHARGE
Last Wife Does Detective Work
to Prove Hazard Was Not
Married as Alleged.

The recent efforts of DR.. Linda Bur-
field Hazard, in the role OF femaie
detective, may result in the liberation
of her husband, Samuel G. Hazard,
who is now in the Hennepin county jail,
under indictment for bigamy.
Mrs Burfield, who was the latest
woman to become the wife of the debo-
nair West Pointer, has been devotlng
much of her time in securing evidence
which will liberate her husband, and
it is now stated that she has been sue
cessfuI in securing proof which will
show that Hazard was not married
to Mrs. Viva E. Everhard by Court
Commissioners Gallick last March, as
has been asserted by Mrs. Eyerhard
and also by the prosecution in the case.
Disguised as newspaper woman, DR..
Linda Burfield spent day or two in
st. Paul looking up the records OF the
alleged marriage of Hazard and the
EVerhard woman, and as result OF
her labors 1t is contended that she has
not only ample proof that the parueS
who were married by Court Commits
sioner Gallick on March Z, 1903 were
not Hazard and Mrs. Everhard, but
that she will be able to produce the
parties who We're married when the
proper time comes.
Should the gay and handsome Mr..
Hazard be able to show that he had
legal right to marry DR.. Linda Bur-
field, to whom he was wed in Mime
apolis, Oct. H. 1903, he will in all prob
ability escape conviction upon the
charge of bigamy.
1t can be shown beyond dispute that
he did not marry Mrs. Viva E. Ever
hard in st. Paul last March, under the
name of Eugene Vandrin, as is charged
by the Everhard woman.
Married Too Soon.
The divorce secured by his New York
wife was granted Oct 8, three days be-
fore he married DR.. Linda Burfield, but
an order of the court, of which Hazard
claims he knew nothing, provided that
the divorce should not become effective
until three months later. The illegal
ity of this marriage is said to be the
only grounds upon which the Mime
apolis authorities can proceed against
Hazard.
County Attorney Boardman has an
nounced his intention of showing that
Hazard was married to Mrs. Everhard
in st. Paul last March, and upon evil
dence of this marriage it was constd-
cred that it would be an easy matter
to secure the conviction of the alleged
bigamist without resorting to the latest
marriage.
Court Commissioner Gallick was
supposed to have performed the mar
riage between Hazard and Mrs. Ever
hard Mr.. Gallick went to Minneapolis
and identified Hazard as the man who
was married by him in st. Paul March
Z, 1903, under the name of Eugene Van
drin, and he is also said to have iden-
titled Mrs. Everhard as the woman
named in the license as Alice Stems
rude. Upon Court Commissioner CAL
lick's ability to identify the parties the
county attorney depended much, but it
now appears that Mr.. Gallick was
wrong in the matter.
Eugene Vandrin, who was married
by Court Commissioner Gallick last
March, and who was supposed to be
Hazard under an assumed name, is an
entirely different person, and Miss
Alice Stensrude, the girl to whom he
was married, was a siXteen-year- old
girl from Sacred Heart, Mimi, and not
Mrs. Everhard.
Hazard and Vandrin Not the Same.
A reporter for The Globe was a
witness to the marriage, which was
an elopement. Vandrin, who is slen-
der youth, was at the time of his mar
riage a train butcher" on the Omaha
road running out of Minneapolis, and
he became acquainted with the Stems
rude girl in that city. Paternal OBJ
lection to their marriage on account of
the girls tender age, induced them to
elope, and they came to ST. Paul on
March Z, and We're married by Court
Commissioner Gallick on the afternoon
of that day. They were accompanied
by D. E. Nash, who was Vandrin's
roommate in Minneapolis, and who was
a witness to the marriage along with
Il h G o b e reporter
The Glo b e, the morning following
the marriage. contained an account of
the elopement of the youthful lovers.
The discovery of this story, Haz-
Yards friends contend, does away with
all doubt as to the probability Of his
having been the person who married
under the name Of Vandrin, and the
charge of bigamy against him will now
be fought on the ground that his mar
riage to DR.. Linda Burf1eld in Mime
apolis, Oct. II, was illegal.
Hazards trial on the charge of big
amy comes up in the Hennepin county
courts a week from next Monday.
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