Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-18
AGED Bride of Yale Student
True to Troth.
HUBBY LANGUISHES IN JAIL
Arrested for Swearing Wife's Age at
Only Thirty-six Years.
HER BAIL BOND Is REFUSED
Seeks Another Bondsman, While Her
Relatives Get Busy to Have
Conservator Named.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, September IAN
other chapter was added today to the
romance that made twenty-one-year-oio
Charles r. Goddard, a Yale law student,
the husband Of seventy-year-old Lucinda
M. Treat, September 1. The young bride
groom was arrested by Detective Sergt.
Hart for perjury, it being alleged that IN
securing the marriage license from M. b.
Yaw, assistant clerk Of the board OF
health, young Goddard swore that MS
bride-to-be wes only thirty-six years oio.
After his arrest the aged bride. dressed
In brown, went to police headquarters
and begged the officials to take her bond
for her husbands release, but it was re-
fused.
Permission was given her to see her
husband In his cell, and she went into
the prison.
Charlie" she said. as she approached
the cell door. Charlie silently got up
from his bunk and putting his face be-
tween the steel bars. kissed his bride.
'-rhey won't take my bond. Charlie she
said. Isn't this dreadful?" The luck.
less bridegroom seemed to think that II
was, and asked her to hurry up and get
some one else to furnish the $1,000 bond
II love him and I will stick to him
until DEATH" said the aged bride as she
left the prison. With that she left the
station in quest Of another bondsman,
and the bridegroom Of three weeks re-
manned in a cell on the THIRD tier OF the
police station cell room.
Bride Wore Heavy Veil.
Although the couple were not married
until September the license was obtained
August "A. They were married by Rev
DR.. William Love. who says that the
couple came to him In tho evening and
that the prospective bride was wearing q
heavy veil, so that he could not see her
face and he did not have any reason TO
doubt that her age was thirty-six, as the
license stated. Had he known the facts
mony.
Mrs. Treat Goddard is worth about $40.
CO., having inherited q snug fortune from
her late husband, who was prosperous
farmer Her youthful husband met her
while he was trying to earn money enough
from house to house with household arti-
Giles.
He had gained q reputation for being a
money-getter from the time he was a spe-
cial delivery messenger IN the local post
Office until his marriage.
Courtship Short and sweet.
The courtship Of the couple was short
and sweet, and members Of the brides
family knew nothing Of her love affairs
until after the marriage had been per-
formed. Her son. e. A. Treat, who is in
the insurance business in this city. and
older than his stepfather. was sure that
something was the matter with his mother
when. at seventy yeers, she would marry
boy of twenty-one on such short ac-
Stoughton Of East Hartford, who. Sep
tember 8, made application to the probate
court to, have a .conservator appointed for
Mrs. Goddard. 80
It is alleged that Goddard appeared be-
fore NJ. B. Yaw, the registrar. August "a.
and "wilfully, deliberately and corruptly''
swore that the brides age was thirty six
years when he we'll knew she was seventy
years old.