Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-05-15
GRAND RAPIDS (WIs.) CASE 81
TIED ON A WRIT OF IA.
BEAS CORPUS.
HUSBAND NO. 2 MADE CHARc
Violet De Camp Married at Ace If
and Later Took Another Spouse
Thinking Herself Free
SHE WAS IGNORANT OF THE T A,


Especial. 1-Considerable local jntarJ
has been manifested in the case If n
state OF Wisconsin VS.. Violet P. Levl
on the charge of bigamy. which cauo
set for trial at the spring form "f
circuit court for this county. wIioT
vened today. The defendant tbro,,
the efforts of her attorney, Goorr0o
Hambrecht, was brought IN for
ing on habeas corpus proceedings Snt
day, and was discharged from cnStoi
and she Immediately left the city y
California, where she will make her
ture home. N0A 1
The case is the result of a nAon,;l
matrimonial tangle and was s1arted ii
december, When Sheriff WEIGH If Il
county, went to GAINESVILLE and arroS+j
the defendant, who was known haro
Mrs. George G. Payne. 1t seems I'll
Mrs; LEVIN Tor Payne, who was Fl
meriy Violet DeCamp, was married
faul Levin IN the city of Chicago soI
htteen years ago, when she was inst nal
IT years Ola, and he not quite Is. SboT
Iy after this child marriage" LEVIN
sad to have left his wife and drjfteJ
Wisconsin, where ne got into trouble a1
was arrested on serious charge, 4
was trled ana convicted to a term
years in Waupun.
Her Second Courtship.
In the meantime, his wife como
this city, where she met Gaorgo
Payne, and after a short corrtshin wa
ried him on May 30, 1902, without fra Gr,
going through the formality of a divnrt
proceeding from her former husband
sister of the former husband told Mr.,
Payne, it seems, that her first marriou
with Levin was null and void on q,
count OF her youth at the time she can
tracted that marriage, and without seel
ing further advice she believed herse
free to marry again, and innocently Ia;
herseH open to the charge now preferre
against her
It seems that Levin heard of bf
marriage to Payne, and he managed /
communicate with her, and told her tbe
she was still his OeVin's) wife An i
vestigation followed and it proved to h
true. so In September last Mrs, Pawn
sued for and procured a divorce froI
husband No. l, thinking thereby /
remedy, so far as lay in hel power. til
wrong she had innocently perpetratet
The whole affair caused so much tai
and trouble in the Payne family tina
MRS. Payne, or Levin, decided to leay
husband No. 2 last December and 60 t
see husband No. 1, who was still
Waupun, serving time, and when sh
saw No. l., their old difference
were patched up and it was decided tina
the wife should go to GAINESVILLE, see
employment there and wait for her frs
husband to be released from the pen
Tertiary, from which he was released o
April 20, just past.
No. 2 Swears to Warrant.
The actions of his supposed wife S
weighed on the mind of Payne that h
sWore out warrant for her arrest o.
the charge of bigamy, and he had tn
sheriff sent after her. When the sherii
returned with the wife to this city, Payn
tried to overcome her infatuation TO
LIE Vim, but failed. Payne said that h
brought back for a reconciliation wit
him. and would then like to drop tn
case against her, but the wife decided
not to have anything further to do wit
Payne, and he learned in any event tina
the case was then in hands of the stat
and not in his power to drop. At ne
hearing last December before Justlc
Brown of this city, she was bound owe
to the spring term of the circuit cour
to stand trial, under 5000 bail. Payne
thinking thereby to win back the won
ans affections, Immediately turnlshe'
the necessary bonds for her appearance
SO that she would not have to stay II
Jail in the meanwhile.
Husband No. was released from ID
penitentiary April 20 and came to III
Wife's assistance soon after, with TN
result that he and Payne had consider
able trouble, and Payne, fearing that TN
defendant might jump her bail bond, de
cided on April 80 to deliver her over u
the sheriff, and was thereby released
from her bonds. and she was then, anl
up to yesterday, confined in the count.
Jail, Payne claiming that rather than SCI
her become reconciled to her first nus
band that he would prosecute the charS,
of bigamy to the end that the suppose
wife might be sent to the penitentlary'
Leaves for the West.
Attorney Hambrecht secured her RE re-
lease on habeas corpus proceedings Ins
writ was asked for, and was granted on
the theory that Payne was not the P!:o op
er party to institute the criminal acl io
there being an equal presumption OF law tho
in favor of the legality OF each Oh lno
marriages, until the first marriage Wa. M"4
proven by competent evidence, ana tn i;t
neither husband was a competg!i. WIN W.,
ness to question the legality OF MS Wv" Nn
marriage. The point was well Ia, ta1eh H.
and the writ granted, which resulI!eui ~ ~
her release from custody. ImmediIat1gbes
after the defendant was discharged S obe
left the city for California, Wne[e ,o ia.
expects to make her home among 4'''