The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-06
HE
HAD DIVORCE
SAYS HE SUPPOSED
HIMSELF A FREE NAN.
Alleged Bigamist Explains His Sec
Ond Neutrality-suspicious. Indicate
That He Was NIistaken-Did DR..
Burfield Know of His Second Wife's
Existence?

Samuel G. Hazard in the Henne-
pin county Jail, awaiting trial on the
charge of bigamy, admits that he mar
ried Agnes Stage Hedley in New York,
Oct. "a, 1894, and in answer to the
question as to whether he was legally
married to Mrs. Viva f. Everhard,
formerly Miss kirkpatrick of Iowa,
in ST. Paul, March 7, 1908, says:
II supposed that the decree had
ton for divorce brought by my first
wife. I had a letter from my sister
telling me So"
Yesterday he claimed that his mar
riage to Mrs. Everhard was at best
but common law marriage. The
records obtained by the county at
torney's office show that Eugene
Vandien and Alice Stensrude were
married by Court Commissioner Gal
lick of st. Paul, March 7, 1908.
Altho Mrs. Everhard was not per-
mitted to see the marriage license,
which the husband took charge of,
and altho she did not know under
what name she was being married, it
so happens that the license for the
marriage of "Mr. Vandien'' and Miss
Stensrude'' was the only one taken
out in the office of the clerk Of the
Ramsey county courts on the date
was married to Hazard, or Hargrave,
as he was known to her. It also hap
pens that Mr.. Gallick yesterday
picked out Mrs. Hargrave in a room
full of people as the woman whom
he married to "Vandien" on March 7,
1908. " ~
Records in the Case.
1t is matter of record in Suffolk
county, New York, that Hazzard's
first wife instituted divorce proceed
ings on the ground of desertion, April
I, 1903. and that an interlocutory de-
cree of divorce was entered in the
case Oct. 8, 1908, giving the plaintiff
final Judgment to be entered three
months after the interlocutory order,
which would be Jan. 9, 1904.
according to- this record, therefore,
Hazard or Hargrave married Mrs.
Everhard month before his first wife
began action for divorce in the New
York state courts.
to Dr.. Linda Burfield, the records
show that Hazard or Hargrave mar
Fried sher at Fowler M. e. church on
either Nov. II or -, 1903. Harry
Gressang. "a Twelfth street N is men,
toned as one of those who can identi-
ffy Hazard and Hargrave as the same
person. .' -sf ssr -
~ Mr.. .Grassang 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 it and always treated
him with great Affection
After being graduated brilliantly
from West Point in 1892 and studying
European military affairs for two
years Hazard returned to this coun-
try, was married in New York, and
was assigned to barracks duty at Tam
pa, Florida.
Deserts His Wife.
In February, 1900, while first lieu
tenant of the First artillery, he de-
serted wife and army and fled to Brit
lsh Columbia where he changed his
name to Samuel c. Hargrave. He APP
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 to Min
neapolis last year.
He was dropped from the roll of the
United States army as a deserter in
1900 and hence is not wanted by the
war department., which has no further
jurisdiction over him. The present
grand jury of Hennepin county is sit
ting on his case.
Hazard was visited by his latest
wife this morning and is as cheerful
as any prisoner recently brought in.
He has retained Frank a M. Nye and
Henry Deutsch as his counsel and
says he expects to get bail this after
noon.