The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-17
Ruins Two Homes and Leads
to Jail.
AMAZING MARITAL IANelE At BROOKLYN
REVEALED BY ARREST OF PLUM
Der WHO HAD MoTHERiNLAw
FOR NEMESIS.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 17.-Trial mar
riage has landed William E. Blauvelt
in Jail to await sentence for bigamy
It made two marriages Illegal, one child
illegitimate and placed twice-mar-
ried wife in danger of prosecution. fol-
lowing her husbands plea of guilty.
1t was Mrs. Mary Fitzgerald. of No.
27O Jay street, mother of the girl Blau-
welt took for a second wife, who dis
covered the illegality of the marriage
and bounded him for seven months I'M
til he was arrested. She will ask
Judge Dixie to give Blauvelt the max
imum penalty, and then, she declared
Yesterday, her eyes flashing. she will
do all she can to nave Mrs. Blauvelt
No. / punished for bigamy.
Rualvelt, a plumber, ambitious and
Industrious was barely twenty-one
when he married Sarah Amelia Smith
at Rockville Centre, l.. l., on April IL,
1905 Their parents were respected
residents of LynnbroOk, L. l. They
lived happily together nearly a year.
Then appeared Grover Cleveland
Cammer, a B. r. T. inspector, young
and handsome. According to both nus
bands of Sarah Amelia Smith Blauvelt-
Cammer, she confessed to Blauvelt
that she loved Cammer, and Blauvelt
declared he loved her enough not to
stand in the way of her happiness. He
signed a paper releasing all his claims
upon her as his wife, and on March
! 8, 1906, Mrs. Blauvelt became Mrs.
Cammer. The new bridal couple rent
ed half of a two family house, No. 652
East Third street, Kenwood, and Blau-
Welt went to live with them as board
! er. The three were happy family
except that Blauvelt pinned for home
Of his own.
| The lovelorn plumber met Florence
| B. Fitzgerald, a pretty girl of twenty
| last spring and after a short court
snip married her on May 10. Mrs
Blauvelt No. /. then believing herself
legally to be Mrs. Cammer, was brides
made and Cammer was best man, in
fact, all the circumstances were known
according to admissions yesterday, tc
everyone of the four mismarriei
young people, whose defense is the
profession that they did not know ar
agreement of separation did not con-
stitute a legal divorce. Albert w
Thompson, a notary at No. 21O Cres-
cent street, performed both bigamous
marriages, but supposed there had been
| a divorce.
gether. 1t was all joy for five weeks;
| then Blauvelt was introduced to his
new motherinlaw, Mrs. Fitzgerald. She
asked so many pointed questions that
Blauvelt left
Mrs. Fitzgerald went to Lynbrook
and learned all about the previous
| marriage. Then she found Blauvelt
! who promised, she says, to assist in
annulling the illegal marriage.
This did not satisfy Mrs. Fitzger-
aid. She had ner daughter swear out
a warrant, and Brooklyn detectives
since last June have been trailing
Blauvelt, the motnerinlaw assisting.
THAT scoundrel,' said Mrs. Fitzger-
aid yesterday, went to Atlantic City
as William Edwards, skipped to Allan
tic Highlands, then to Jersey City
Heights as Edward Williams, and then
back here as William Edwards He'll
know the law before I get through
with him.
Mrs. Fitzgerald's lawyers began
proceedings to nave the marriage an
nulled. Florence Fitzgerald was hid
den from reporters. Her mother said
she had been almost insane since dis
covering that she was not legally mar
ried.
Mrs. Blauvelt- Cammer is the mother
of baby two months old. A bulldog
and revolver have protected her, in
her husbands absence, and no one has
been admitted to the house since Mrs.
Fitzgerald camped on the Cammers'
trail.
Cammer visited the Jail last night,
hoping to arrange to release Blauvelt
on bail, but was refused admittance.