The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-12
MARRIED BUT ONCE,SHE SAYS.
MAN THINKS HE'S HER FATHER
IN-LAW AND CHARGES BIGANY.
Mrs. Ellicott's Husband started Trouble
When He Called WIN Sleuths at Fox
f1at-FON. Sr., Won't Believe Woman's
Confession TO POllce-NOt Beautiful

'irh' fllcolls HUSBAND NtArteu IrOuDle
When He Called WIN Sleuths at Fox
F1at-FoN, sr., Won't Believe woman's
Confession TO POlice-Not Beautiful.
William H. Elioott OF SO East iIsth street
called at the Alexander avenue police sta
ton early last night and asked to see Capt.
Ward When he got the captains ear he
told him he wanted TO have his wife ar
rested
She ran away from me said Ellicott,
-and discovered to-day where she is l
want her arrested
Capt Ward suggested to his caller that
the proper thing for him TO do was to go TO
police court and consult a Magistrate.
Ward said that the police would have their
hands full if they attempted 10 corral every
runaway wife.
But my wife has married another man. $
said Ellcott She Is living with that
other man now az his wife"
viii you prefer charge of bigamy
against her If she is arrested" asked Capt
Ward.
Ellicott said he would do so II he could
be satisfied that his wife was really the wife
Of another. Capt Ward told Detectives
BucNidge and Gof to go with Elioott and
see what they could learn.
E'licott took them to the home Of James
Fox, fat house at 623 East i39th street.
They found Mrs. Eilicott, and the detectives
told her they We're going TO arrest her on a
charge Of bigamy preferred by her husband
But he is the only husband l have the
woman declared.
There was no one in sight then TO dis
prove the woman's statement, but while
the detectives we're still there James Fox
senior, came in. He arrived in time TO
join in the talk. When he found what It
was about. and that the woman denied
being married to his son, he got hot the
detectives say, and said that she was iibbng
Fox said that his boy had brought her home
and had announced that she was his wife
The family accepted her as such. and Fox
was so sure that his son had not de-
ceived him that he expressed his willing
ness TO 60 along 10 the police station and
substantiate Ellcott's charge Of bigamy
Fox, junior, was out and could not be
located.
At the police station, the woman gave
her name as Mrs. Josephine ELLIOTT, and
she solemnly declared that William Ellicott
was her only legal husband She gave
her age as p years, and while she evlnced
a strong desire not to say anything before
the men in the police station. she said she
would tell Capt. Ward her story if he heard
her alone. This he did
Capt. Ward says the woman told him that
previous to marrying Elhcott she had lived
with James sullivan, boss plumber at
az East Forty-el ghth street. She declared
that abe had lived with Sullivan for several
years and that when she found he was tirinp
of her she ran away from him and took IN
with Elhcott Elhcott married her, abe
says on July %, 1903, at the Church of the
Holy Rosary in East 10th street. She said
the rector the Rev. +. II. Wall, performed
the ceremony.
She said she had lived with Ellicott bur
a month when he began TO i'll treat her
Then she ran away. While she was stand
ing in a doorway crying and wondering
where she would spend the night, she saws,
Fox came along and asked her the cause
of her tears. She says the young man offered
to provide place for her and did A few
days later he took her 20 his fathers house
and introduced her as his wife She stoIitly
denied that she ever married Fox. Fox
senior, when he heard this story. said no
was willing 10 be a complainant for he
knew his son had told him the truth.
After Mrs. Ellicott was locked IN Cant
Ward sent for Sullivan. He went 10 he
police station and verified the woman's
story as far as he was concerned He said
be had never married her
Mrs. Ellcott If rather stout and NOT 81.
all prepossessing She was held on a charge
1f bigamy.