Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-28
GIBBS AGAIN
in CUSTODY
Indicted for Bigamy, Is
Arrested on Broad
Street Here.

METUCHEN June 2~S.-Trouble
multiplied yesterday for Tyler M.
Gibbs. who was torn from the ! CT
his bride of thirteen days by the local
authorities in Newark on June IL
and placed under arrest on a charge
of bigamy.
Yesterday the Middlesex county
grand jury indicted Gibbs for
bigamy and ten minutes after the
blu was found Chief of Police Fla
herty and Justice of the Peace
Charles c. Weber started for New
ark in an automobile with a capias
, issued by County Judge Peter F.
Dady to. arrest Gibbs, who Prosecu-
tor Silzer has found was released
yesterday on a bail bond alleged TO
be worthless,
Gibbs was held in $1,000 bail by
Judge Weber when he was first ar.
rested. A bond was furnished by
Frederick C. Van keuren, of Newark,
and two unsuccessful attempts were
made to have it reduced to $500.
Yesterday Mr.. Van Keuren sur
rendered Gibbs, who was then re-
leased by Judge DAILY in $4,000 bail
furnished by Vincent Delaporto. of
Newark. 1t was this bond which the
authorities say investigation proved
worthless.
Chief Flaherty and Judge Weber
found Gibbs at 1903 last night at
1911 Broad street, Newark. where he
had a furnished room. They called
him out of the house by strategy and
- nafaNfsto 60 fr,n.. 80 tho NaNyarly
bureau, arrested him. He was taken
TO police headquarters, Newark, where
he was given over to the local men.
who brought him back here in their
automobile.
Mrs. Delaphine Courtlandt Bennett
Gibbs. the pretty 1~9-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Henry
Bennett, whom Gibbs married here on
June /, was in court with her mother
while the Grand Jury vas in session
yesterday, and both of them were
exceedingly surprised when they were
MOI called on to testify.
Mrs. Edith Samrnis Gibbs, of White
Plains, y. y, exhibited a marriage
eertificat> and testified that she and
Gibbs had been married at the home
of her sister. Mrs. j. H. Schnepel.
West 1esth street, New York, June 80,
1906. The ceremony, she said, was
performed my her uncle, Rev. MI.
Holloway, Of Dover.
The jury called only one other wit
ness, Rev. James G.. Mason, of
this place, who said that he had mar
ried Gibbs and Miss Bennett at the
home OF the latter's parents on June
!. MIR. and Mrs. Abraham Van Sickle,
the girls grandparents, he added,
were the only other witnesses.
Hearing both witnesses consumed
only six minutes and four minutes
later the jury brought in a true bill
against Gibbs.
While the proceedings were going
on the former Miss Bennett and her
mother were waiting with seant pa
thence in an anteroom. Several
times they asked court attaches IL
they were not to be called and were
not satisfied until Prosecutor George
s. Silzer informed them that their
testimony was not needed. A rela-
tive offered to AXE them into the
courtroom and present them to the
supposed first Mrs. Gibbs, but both
women turned the proposal down
hard.
Finally, however, the daughter
found it impossible to resist the temp
tation to see how matters were pro-
crossing in the courtroom. and enter
ing, seated herself in a chair just
across the aisle from Mrs. Edith
Sammis Gibbs. The two women
gazed at one another for fully five
minutes, until somebody told the
Metuchen girl who the other woman
was. When she heard young Mrs.
Gibbs jumped from her chair and
hurried out of the room.
Later Garfield Clifford, of Newark,
Mrs. Sammis Gibbs's counsel. tried
unsuccessfully to bring the women
together.
Mrs. Sammis Gibbs was asked by
a reporter for The Star about Gibbs's
statement that he had secured a di-
vorce from her in Texas.
"That's absurd" she said; II never
heard of him starting divorce pro-
c~eedings. Why, I've had lawyers
hunting for Gibbs for two years so
: that I could sue him for divorce, but
he's always managed to keep out Of
sight
Gibbs was committed to Jail in New
Brunswick this morning. He will be
srraigned in court later.