Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-27
ALLEGED BlGAMlST
 MUST STAND TRIAL. Stacey Bound Over from City Court Two Wives Unite With Him in Statement.

Edward F. Stacey, the former Bridge port man, arrested here on Wednesday evening on the charge of bigamy. upon complaint of his first wife, was held for the May term of the criminal court after trial here in the police court on Friday morning, Judge Brown finding probable cause and placing the bonds at $500
 During parts of Friday afternoon the complaining wife, Mrs. Olive sherman Stacey was out looking for bonds for her husband, but without success, and the rather peculiar spectacle was pre- sented of both wives spending q large part of the afternoon together before their mutual husbands cell door, where l they discussed the case apparently with the greatest harmony among all | concerned. and no rancor or ill feeling | towards each other or the man whose name was written on both their mar riage certificates. Here they united in a triangular statement given by the | aggrieved wife and punctuated with approving mods and exclamations from 1 Sarah Palmer Stacey. the second wife, and from Stacey himself
 Stacey Taken to Jail. 1 Failing to get bonds, Stacey was | taken to jail about 6 o'clock to await i his appearance in the superior court l In the police court Stacey had At l tOrney Douglass as his counsel, and 1 the aggrieved wife was the first wit 1 ness. She cried at first, but was en- l couraged by the court to give her tes- l timony, and told of living in Boston, 1 Bridgeport, New Jersey and other places She acknowledged that she was the woman named in the marriage certificate which was showed her, and | that she had called upon City Attorney | Hall and asked to have her husband arrested, and had accused him of marrying another woman.
 Attorney Douglass objected to all her l testimony and quoted law to show that a married woman cannot be compelled
 to testify against her husband.
 AqorieVed Wife Wanted to Withdraw. 1 City Attorney Hall said that on 1 Thursday afternoon Mrs. Olive Stacey had called upon him nd had wanted the case withdrawn, but that he had told her he did not see how it could be withdrawn now.
 Town Clerk Holbrook testified to giving the license to Stacey to marry Sarah E. Palmer of this city, and that John II. Barnes, J. P, united the two n marriage OH ddTCu Q.
 MT. Stacey swore it was his second marriage and that he had been di-
 vorced.
 Attorney Douglass argued that the marriage to Olive Sherman had not been proved nor the identity of the parties established And he claimed
 that the accused looked upon his mar riage to Olive sherman as illegal, so
 that he was at liberty to marry Sarah Palmer. since the prisoner married Olive Sherman when he supposed he
 was divorced, but later found 1t out not to be so.
 After Attorney Halls brief argument the judge found probable cause and
 bound the accused over.
 Statement by the Complaining Wife
 The the bringing of the bigamy charge found it's motive in another man who is infatuated with Sarah
 Palmer. was the basis of a statement
 made during the afternoon by the l complaining wife. as she stood before
 the cell of the prisoner at police head quarters with a friend of hers Mrs
 Louise NJ. Ranger, and Sarah Palmer
 Stacey, where the three were in con-
 versation with the prisoner
 The man she charges with this, she
 said. was Alfred Cleveland of Boston
 who had designs on Sarah Palmer himself and when he learned tha
 Stacey had married the Palmer girl notified Mrs Olive sherman Stacey fl New York, and offered to finance hel attempt to get Stacey convicted fol
 bigamy. Cleveland, she says, is { married man, and but does not live l with his wife, who is an actress. Here Sarah Palmer Stacey added the charge that her sister, Mrs. Lur; Palmer Agard of Bridgeport was il
 league with Cleveland to get Sdral
 away from Stacey so that Cleveland might marry her as he is particular friend of Mrs. Agard.
 f Stacey an Expert, He Claims. g Stacey put in an assenting word t l the statement of the two women, an, 3 said that he desired one point cleare
 Eup as to his occupation in Bridgeport
 which had been misstated in all tn
 printed reports of the alleged bigamy
 Instead of having been a foreman a
 the graphophone works, he was tb ! gnal inspector, and considered an eX 3 pert at the job.
 l In reply to questions. Olive Sherma'
 Stacey said she was born in MissCur
 had lived in Ohio and New fork, an