Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-22
WIFE NO. z STILL
BELIEVES IN GIBBS
Throws Herself in His Arms
as She Greets
Him.

METUCHEN, June 22.-Fyler M.
Gibbs. who married Miss Delaph1ne
Corrtlandt Bennett, the 17-year-old
daughter of William H. Bennett, June
/. only to be dragged from her side
thirteen days after on a charge of
bigamy, drove to the Bennett home
lin an auto with his lawyer, Frank
McDermit, of Newark, and asked to
see his bride yesterday afternoon.
Before he appeared at the house
Gibbs. who is nearly three times the
age of the Bennett girl and VINO IS
alleged to be a former convict,
though in late years he has been a
most successful builder in New York
and New Jersey. went before Justice
IF the Peace Weber in Metuchen and
requested that his hearing be set Tor
July ..
Mcpermit asked that bail be re-
duced from $4,000 to $1,000, The JUS
fice refused to reduce the bail, put
fixed the hearing for the date speel-
fed.
When Gibbs walked into the Ben
nett house he had a smiling air OF
confidence. .,
. ~ want to see ne sa'u
to Mrs. Bennett.
VIII Prove innocence
It was the second meeting
the mother of the girl n Glpos
since the couple were parted, follow
Ing his arrest. Last Tuesday, at
midnigh Gibbs drove up to the Ben
nett house and asked to see MISS
Delaphine.
"I simply came to tell her that we
will nrove that | am not married TO
Edith M, Sammis Gibbs he said TO
Mrs Bennett, land will prove the
charges made against me by the
woman who started all this trouole
are untrue. | am awaiting copies OF
the divorce records from Texas, whicn
will show that 1 am not guilty VI
bigamy." 9th.
After that visit to the house Glpps
!, triod hard TO get into communication
| with Delaphine by phone. ;.
! .He wanted her to meet him IN
!. Newark Mrs. Bennett said yester-
dav. .but Mr.. Bennett and nave
NOT deemed it wise to permit such
meetings. MY daughter " tha'
man, and III tney Weie
together / am afraid there woulo DC
/ an elopement.'
In receiving Gibbs on his seeono
visit the BENEFITS acted against the
; advice of Rev. James g.. Mason, pas
tor of the Metuchen Presbyterian
Church.
Pastor Against Gibbs.
at have received reliable informa-
ton" the pastor said yesterday
(which prompted me to advise Mr'
and Mrs. Bennett not to lilo Glpps
IN their home. I do not believe q d.
vorce was obtained by him. If he did
get one / am sure it was not legal.
At all events Gibbs lied to me. l
asked him If he had been married n
he said he had not. When he OBJ
tanned a license from Registrar
Crowell he swore he had never been
married.
apr. Holloway, the Presbyterian
minister who married Gibbs and MISS
Edith Sammis in New York IN l9oo'
is a personal friend of mine. the
evidence against Gibbs is piling up
and is In the hands Of Prosecutor
George s. Silger."
Although the clergyman q repent
ed all this to Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett
and to their daughter, Gibbs ala not
anpear to be an unwelcome visitor
| nj their home this afternoon, at least
as far as Miss Delaphine was con-
cerned.
Girls Love Still Supreme.
A moment after Gibbs and his at
torney had been ushered into the par
lor Delaphine hurried down stairs ana
threw herself into the arms of the
man the legality of whose marriage
IN her is questioned. Her actions
showed clearly thai she is deeply In
love with him..
Gibbs and McDermit spent the late
afternoon and part of the evening IN
the Bennett home, Gibbs explaining
at great length that the bigamy
charge was all a cruel mistake and
that the woman he had met in Can
ton, o., who said he was the father of
her small son, had lied. The woman
herself has admitted that she lied
about the child.
AT the hearing before Justice We
Der in July Mrs. Edith Sammis Gibbs,
who lives in White Plains, will be one
OF the principal witnesses against
Gibbs. Miss Bennett also will be called
TO testify by the prosecution, though
II is expected she will be a most I'M
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