The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-19
CHANCE NAY AENUL MARRIAGE
FIRsr HUSBAND FOUND IN AN
ISLE OF WIGHT MADHOUSE.

Isls ExaNtemee Discovered % q Casual I'm.
counter en- Q railway Train Besweoa
q Lawyer % Tmas cry ana q aea
CamaAm-WetsdlnG PsesngN Figures.
Mcclure jacques. a lawyer % this city.
and Christopher Willis. q sea captain
Of Southampton. England. met by chance
On q train between London and south
ampt6n In 1908. and AZ a result Of their
cOnyersation q referees report was fled
in the County Clerks ONCE yesterday
recommending the annulmsot Of the
marriage Of the lawyer's brother. DR..
Schuyler Clinton Jaquss Of West Eighty
ninth street. To the sea captains sister.
Alice Ann jacques.
On this accidental meeting the sea
captain dropped the remark that he had
formerly lived on the Isle Of Wight and
Mr.. Jaques asked him II he had ever heard
Of Joseph George Clements. the supposed
deceased husband Of DR. Jaques's wife.
Capt. Willis. who did not know his ques-
TONER. promptly replied that he knew
Of Joseph George Clements then In the
Cane Hill insane asylum on the Isle
u Wight. Mr.. jacques reported this oon-
Versation To his brother and AIRS. jacques
got permission from her husband to go
20 England to try to get n trace OF her
husband. When she came back here she
refused to tell her husband what she
had found out and the annulment action
followed. The wife denied that the
man In the asylum h her husband.
J. Sidney Bernstein. appointed referee
In the case. said In his report that Joseph
George Clements q zino merchant. aged
e. married Alice Ann Willis. 10 years old.
on the lslo Of Might April ~. 1884,
and ak weeks later was taken 20 an In
sane asylum suffering from religious
mania. His wife returned TO her parents
and had not Seen him from that day
to this except once. in 1880. when she Wis
ited him at the asylum. She later became
a trained nurse and came 60 America
in 1888. She was nursing a boy patient
Of pr Jaa,isa about nine years ago when
she got scarlet fever from the patient.
DIR. Jaaue-, who treated her. married
her March 20. 1909, believing her 20 be a
widow.
Charsss Frederick B@lcher. a nsphew
of Clsme0ts. who had pat him ia the
uncle and his father and mother IN a
group pilot ograph showing weddtng
party. He bad never seen his aunt but
once or twice when he was very young. |
but believed Mrs. Jaques 90 he the same
the wedding picture. Alma Becbman, a
maid in the Jaques home here. testified
that Mrs. Jaquss had told her how the |
brsd@sma ids were dressed at her nEst |
wedding and said thoes In the photo |
witness picked out Capt. Christopher
Willis in the picture. Mcclure jacques |
also recognized Capt, willis an the man |
he had met on the train;
Mra Jaques testified about her trip |
to England to So her relatives and try to |
find Clements. hut said she wrote no |
letters 90 her husband. She said her
meinory had been poor since she had
scarles fever. and she couldn't recognize |
any one in the wedding picture.
On the statement Of the superintendent |
Of the asylum that Clements could under |
stand questions put 10 him. his deposition |
was taken by the plaintiff. He ldentsned
n picture OF Mrs. jacques an picture OF |
MS wife and said he had married hor IN
1885,. The only witness for the defendant
was her brother. Capt. Willis. who said
he had visited the Clements IN the asylum
and failed to recognize him "a hts brother
in-kw. I
The referee remarks that the evidence !
IL largely circuFnstantsal- hut that the
coincidences are convincing. The referee |
points to this letter declared by Dr: JaqneS
TO have been written from England by |
has wife when she was look King for Clements
This A. NJ got AN answer from the |
asylum and J regret 20 say that there u
l. not known. 80 IL IL my misfortune not |
To have known before and 10 rests with |
You what you will do
The position Of the defendant ~ a |
pitiful one. concludes the referee. and
whatever there 10 Of sympathy must be |
hers The plaintiff. however, 10 entitled |
Ia the remedy which the law In u strict : |
Ness az ords him. decree OF annulment.