Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-31
MUCH MARRIED
WOMAN IS SUED
FOR A DIVORCE
Vice. e.ChancellOr Howell Hears
Tales of Weddings and
Old Separations.
DEFENDANT UNABLE TO BE
PRESENT, OWING TO ILLNESS
Husbands Attorney Claims That
First Matrimonial Tie Was
Never Severed.

Five marriages, several divorces and
a suit for bigamy are credited to Mrs.
Hattie Sipp. from whom her husband,
John Milton Sipp. of 25 William street,
Is seeking a divorce on the ground OF
desertion.
Part of the story of Mrs. sipp's
much-married life was told before
Vice-Chancellor Howell IN chancery
chambers today. The rest may be told
March "a, when Mrs. Sipp, who was
unable to be present, may have an op-
portunity to defend herself. She is
supposed to be in Rochester, and as a
deposition was read In court from a
physician of that city, showing that
she was too III to be in Newark and
stand the ordeal of a divorce suit, her
side is undisclosed.
stories of Marriages Told.
The story of the many marriages was
rehearsed on the witness-stand by Miss
Julia r. Hoch, who Is employed in the
office OF John F. Cahill. counsel for
the husband. Miss Hoch went to Roch-
ester recently, and in working on the
case, learned, so she swore, of four
marriages following that to Mr. Slpp.
With this information. together with
report In the Rochester newspapers
showing that she stood trial for bigamy
in February, 1907. Miss Hoch fired her
ammunition at the woman in the case
for the benefit of the complaining hus-
band.
1t was charged that the defendant
was married to the man from whom
she has not yet been divorced July 2,
1883, by the Rev. George Schambach,
at that time the pastor of the German
Lutheran Church In Mulberry street.
She was then 23 years old and her first
husband is about the same age. They
lived together until July. 1895. when
she deserted him. returned to the fold
afterward, and. so II was alleged, re-
peated the operation twice, finally 60
ing to Rochester.
Mnrries in Rochester.
They had no children. Soon after
she got to Rochester. SO Miss Hoch's
record showed, she married man of
the name of Derby. A few months
later he divorced her. Then, II Is said,
one Lorscheider came down the matri-
monial pike and Mrs, Slpp became
Mrs. Sipp- Derby householder.
After a short honeymoon 1t Is charged
that DR.. Decker, a dentist, became en-
tangled in a like matrimonial mesh.
and she became Mrs. Slpp-DerbyL Lor-
scheider- Decker. DR.. Decker followed
suit In the divorce courts and Mrs. Sipp,
1t Is alleged, sought consolation in one
Brayton, of Avon, N. Y. thus evolving
into Mrs Sipp-Derby-L -Lorscheider-D Deck
er- Brayton. She is still supposed to be
linked with the Brayton fortunes, and
1t was as long ago as April Z. 1909. that
she married him.
Couple Go to Europe.
It was during her life with DR..
Decker, according to Miss Hoch, that
the couple went to Europe and almost
Immediately after their return the dem
tist got busy on his action for divorce.
1t was the only one that she failed to
defend and he was freed from her by
default.
Other witnesses heard today were
Michael Clark and John Davidson,
friends of Sipp, who testified to some
OF her desertions and to mis- good char.
acter.
Sipp. whose much-married other half
was represented in court by John A.
Bernhard, is a worker in celluloid