Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-05
B|GAMY CHARGE
HANGS OVER GIRL
ONLY IS YEARS OLD
Catherine Cohen Welded Twice,
but Mother Pleads for Her
Maynard Child.

Held for the grand jury on u charge
of bigamy in $1,000 bail is h plight
Of ~1S-year-oid Catherine Rolph Cohen,
who was arraigned before Judge Hahn
in the First Precinct Court today.
While yet a child in short dresses n
shortly after her 14th birthday she
married Philip Cohen, of So South Or
ange ayenu without her mothers con
sent, and, her mother says, after she
had known Cohen for but Il few days.
Her mother Mrs. Reidle, of 33hk FIT
teenth emu has had a great deal OF
trouble with Catherine since she mar
ried Cohen and though h insists that
she is a good girl and willing to do
right, her pretty face, has brought
her into the way of temptation.
For only six months the girl lived
with Cohen and then returned TO her
mother, charging her husband with
cruel treatment. On November 16 she
| was arrested on a charge laid By
Cohen she was arrested with Joseph
Traveskis, who was sentenced to six
months, while she was placed on pro-
baton for two years and sentenced to
pay Is cents a week.
On January Is she applied for d.
vorce from Cohen and on the same day
disappeared. Her mother was dis
tracted, and was on the point of ad-
vertisins for her whereabouts, think
ing that she had met with some acct
dent, when the girl was placed under
arrest by Probation officer John J.
Gascoyne, who had learned that on
Thursday afternoon she had again been
married by Justice of the Peace 'Spiegel,
of West Kinney street, and who pre-
ferred a charge of bigamy against her.
The second marriage was with Will
lam Major, % years old, OF 301 Fair
mount avenue, who paid 81 on account
of the certificate which is now being
held for the other SO by the justice.
The mother of the girl a y that
Major is a respectable young men, and
that he is willing to marry Catharine
after she has obtained q divorce from
Cohen, and she thinks that Catharina
will become q good wife If allowed her
liberty and the chance to marry Major.
After but four months acquaintance
Major o her from her place of m
ployment in Il shoe store. and be-
cause she pleaded with him and threat
ened to do herself bodily harm unless
she was taken from the city, went with
her to New Haven, Conn 1t was then
that she failed to appear to make her
weekly payments tc the probation Of
flcer and was missed from home.
Major Yves a peddler and sold every
thing he owned, including his horse, and
with $3.50 got along all right in New
Haven until he was robbed of $40 at
his boarding house. Sending TO his
mother for the money. hi returned to
Newark with the girl, and. on the
pleading of his mother, married Cathe-
rine ON Thursday, while ignorant of the
fact that there had been q previous
marriage. Mrs. Mary Kefer, OF So Quit
man street, a sitter of Major, and An
drew Keller, of South Eighth street,
were witnesses.
Major was in court this morning with
GATHERINGS mother and old the proba-
ton officer that he was willing TO pay
twenty-five cents a week.. even fifty
cents a week, for the rest of his life, if
she could get a divorce and marry him.
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