The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-24
WHO
CHARMED LOCAL
GIRL IN PRISON
Sidney L. Welsh Said to Have
Married Trenton Woman
Without Legal Right.
Welded MISS WOLF
HERE FEW YEARS AGO
Mother Says Daughter Was
Mesmerized When Severn
teen Years Old.

Developments in the case Of Sidney L..
vincent, or Sidney l.. WEIGH, a hyno-
list, who a week g ran off and mar
ried Miss Elsie Diusmore Cornell. a
Trenton school teacher, and who Is now
spending his honeymoon in the Mercer
county jail, because he did not pay his
hotel board bill. revealed the fact thai
he was married three and a half years
ago In this city to Miss Elizabeth Maud
Wolf, then living at rs Barclay street.
1t Is said that he did not go to the
trouble of getting a divorce before con-
Trenton authorities declare thai If this
is so they will prosecute him on a
charge OF bigamy.
1t was against the wishes of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Il. Wolf,
who now live at IS Monmouth street,
that Elizabeth Wolf married Welch, as
he then called himself. She was only II
years OF age and had not known him
long, but the couple decided not to let
a little thing like parental refusal stand
oio iapHillCSS, allu I'll
December II, 1905, they were married at
Grace Episcopal Church by the Rev.
Il $. Edmund, who was then the rector.
For a time they remained in Newark,
WEIGH getting a position with a tea
company. but afterwards they went to
live with his mother, Mrs. E. j. Murray,
a wealthy widow, who lives at 2107
Crotona avenue, the Bronx.
WEIGH was unfortunate in his efforts
to get work and what employment
he succeeded at times in securing never
seemed To suit him, for he quickly gave
1t up. At last. five months ago, his
mother gave him several hundred dol
lars and he returned to Newark. He
started a laundry at 201 West Kinney
street and lived with his wife in the
rooms above the shop. All went well
for two months, when WEIGH sold out,
took his wife home to his mother and
then disappeared.
A couple of weeks ago, the police say,
he turned up in Trenton under the
name of Everton, and said he was a
hypnotist. He had a little ability in
that direction and used to delight In
putting his friends under a SPELL as
he called it.
Met School Teacher.
1t was while filling a theatrical en-
gagement as ~hypnotist in a Trenton
theatre that he met Miss Cornell, schoo
teacher and daughter of General James
Cornell, manager of a wholesale gro
Gerry in that city. Miss Cornell became
fascinated with the young man, who
rave his name as Sidney L. Vincent.
and at last they ran off to Jersey City,
and when they returned they said they
were married. After the ceremony the
W returned to Trenton and put UP at
the Windsor hotel. They remained
there until a bill was presented and
being unable to pay it Vincent, alias
WEIGH. was arrested and thrown into
jail.
Wolfs Learn Of Arrest.
When the news that her husband was
a bigamist was broken to Mrs. Cornell
Vincent, wife No. 2, she refused to be-
lieve it n said that she would have
to see the record of the marriage. That
record is on file at the City Clerks
office mere.
Christopher f. Wolf, father OF wife
No. l. is a retired army officer. He
lives with his wife and family at 50
Monmouth street, and it was there that
a reporter for the STAR saw Mrs. Wolf
today.
Charmed Fowls.
Il believe WEIGH put my daughter
under a hypnotic spell when he met
her" the woman declared to the re-
porter. And | believe he hypnotized
Miss Cornell, too. He was simply crazy
about hypnoti5m. and would place anil