The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-11
MARRIED The WRONG LAWSON.
BRIDE REPENTS AND TIE YOUNG
BRIDEGROOM ~ JUGGED.
h says Her Husband Told Her He Was the
son OF Thomas W. He says He Didn't.
hut That He 10 the aOn Of Another
Boston LAWsOn Jailed for DeseFtiRD.

h says Her Husband Told Her He Was the
son OF Thomas Vile says He Didn't.
but That He 10 the Non Of Another
Boston Lawson Jailed for DesertiGB.
Jackson Willis La wson, who said he/ was
10 years old, had no occupation and lived
when at home at l44 Longwood avenue,
Boston, was locked up in the West Sixty
eighth street police station last night.
charged by his wife, who was Alice Carda
BOuQuin, with desertion and non-support.
The young man said he was the son Of
Wilson Henry Lawson Of Boston. Mrs.
Alice La wson declares that he wooed and
won her after a short courtship In this
city. telling her that he was a son OF Thomas
w. lawson OF Boston. She declares that
she has letters from her husband which
assert that he is a son OF the Boston stock
broker.
Mrs. Alice Lawson, who Is the daughter
OF a Montana ranchman, says she is %
years old. She said that she had been in
New York for about a year visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Amos Jones Of 2lS West Eightieth
street, which is a five story double apart
ment house near Amsterdam avenue.
The Joneses knew lawson, who says he was
born In Brooklyn. He was in the habit,
apparently, Of running down from Boston
Just to see them.
He met Miss Bouduin FIRST on July 23 Of
this year and apparently became very fond
of her. The Joneses mentioned in a casual
-ay that young Lawson had told them that
he was a son OF the well known bostonlan.
On the night Of August Q the two left the
house in West Eightieth street TO go out for
an automobile ride. Thew went down TO
the Joy Line pier and took a boat for Provl-
dence, X. l..
white and gold, bears witness to the TACT
that on August 7 the Rev. j. A. Haynes
united in matrimony jackson Willis Lawson
and Alice Cardas Bouquin, in the presence
of Helen +. Potter and Theodore W.. Potter.
These witnesses were acquaintance OF the
Rev. j. A. Haynes. a Baptist minister. The
little booklet with the wedding certificate
and some texts from the Bible was a GIT
from the pastor, apparently.
The next day Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson came
back to New York city. 1t was a brief
honeymoon that they spent in Wes1
Eightieth street. Three days after =
marriage the youthful husband went aW11.
He said he hadtO go back to Boston in NV
nection with some matters brought rrtIy
the death Of his mother. That was $3.50
after the time that the wife of 4. Nj ,hat
died. Mrs. Lawson of this city ~ '""'
he carried the deception even tK, 10 una
1t wa not until a week ago he met him
seen by mis- wife in New York. ba mattar
OH ~ HNICCl III Wbd IL NAIN |
with him and where hc had zen en- roa n
her that his father. Iearningn tne una noIS
had cut OF his allowance o aso was so =
TO send him to Europe o uip Taantime
he ga " Law,5n was going to a k
a,ona 10 have thafnaA1age annulled. MRS.
Lawson was oppoeCto that very much;
she had been Hseching him to take her
up to DreamwoI cue aSd IN xonted
- he ;ntroduJh to her father-in-law and
the other mhbers Of the family. Her
hrahand contued the same line OF excuses
he furnishedSefore they were married. In
some sort q way they made It up TO live
tooether Mil the relentless father could
So1get abT it, and he went back to the
West EigEeth street house that night.
The MT day he went away again and
onlv care back for a few minutes the after
noon flowing. Since his father cut of
biS alWance, as he old IL, he could not
~nendno the way he did. In fact, he
was Toke. The Joneses say that he bor-
rowa money from them and from his wife.
1t vAs only on Sunday afternoon mar ne
care there and, the Joneses said, borrowed
SIsfrom them to make a trip to Boston
;rbrder to get money to pay his debts. He
IT it. He arranged that he would be back
4 New York last evening about I O'Clock
With one OF the Lawson automobiles and
would take his wife out for a ride.
Mrs. Lawson Of New York was getting
tired of it about that time. She went down
the West Side Police Court yesterday
afternoon and asked Magistrate Wahle to
give her a warrant for the arrest OF her nus
band on a charge OF n~on-support she
told him her story. that the man that she
married had told her that he was a son Of
The Boston ~financier.
The Magistrate, after looking at some
she had, gave the warrant. The
hat Mrs. Lawson Of New York had
turned over to her lawyer, Jacob
.ebulsky Of l57 East Broadway, and he says
that they will be pead in court this morning:
Most Of them began. My dearest Babe,
and ended, Your affectionate husband
James Glennan, a court officer, and
Taggart Of the West Sixty
eighth street police station went up TO the
Jones apartment just before 7 o'clock.
When Lawson came the policemen let HIM
into the parlor to talk with his wife. Then
they came in and arrested him.
After he was locked up III the West sixty
eighth street police court he got a door
man to telephone to a lawyer named MELON
willis l.. is in West Sixty-eighth street
police prison. Come down and bail him
He will be arraigned in the West Side
this morning.
Thomas W. Lawson Of Boston has six
children. two being sons. One OF them,
Arnold Lawson, recently married the for
mer wife Of Herbert Barnum Seeley. The
other son, Douglas Lawson, is a little boy.
BOSTON, Sept. IO.-The names OF jackson
Willis Lawson and OF his father, Wilson
Henry Lawson, are not in the Boston di-
rectory. The young man under arrest IL
a relative of Thomas w. Lawson. Some
weeks ago the young man applied for a
license in Providence and an
nounced that he was the son of the Boston
broker. Previous to that time letters were
received by the financier which were
apparently intended for the man Who figured
in the Providence wedding. Lawson of
Boston disclaimed all knowledge of him at
that time.
IMMIGRATION CONSPIRACY.