Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-21
BOTH WIVES TELL
HIS SWEET SAYINGS
nsweetums". and Lotus Bios
soms" Sorry, but Think Hubby
Better Be Prosecuted
THEN WIFE NO. ] FAINTS

"svcetums" and Lotus Blossoms y
.uooorod against William Jerry Swart-
sI ubcn he was arraigned on bigamy
.nJ roriury charge before Magistrate
ponshow. in Central Station today.
"Swcctums," who says she Is wife
No I was Mrs. Ethel Victor Swartzcl,
=, Brooklyn, y. Y. Lotus Bios
.oms" or Mrs. Alice Stycrs, Of 3S
y,rtb Paxon street, this city, is said
- bo wife 40. .. Swart2cl was held
rndpr $500 for court.
u" "Swartzcl is n first class fireman on
navy tug stationed at the Philadel-
at;a Eovy Yard. He is said to have
ipnorripd Miss Ethel Victor in Brooklyn
nn lime % 1911. She was sixteen
vSars old at the time. Later Swartzel
q said TO have been smitten by Miss
Alice Stycrs, twenty three years old,
rbile he was buying O ticket from her
~ the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
station. and Is declared TO have married
SSr on February 10. 1910. The clergy
nan who performed this ceremony is
aid 70 be the Rev. s. w. Purvis, Of
Tho Thirteenth Street Methodist Eps-
eopal Church.
Both Young women are blondes and
nrptty. Wife No. | is tall and stat
nssGup, while wife No. is petite. They
took the witness stand, testified as to
tb . marriages, and then Swart2el was
hold under bail.
Wife No. Eahts
When the hearing was over, Swartzcl
xos taken to the indictment clerks Of
sce, While there wife No. l tainted.
This caused the greatest confusion. She
was finally revived and led away by wife
No, 2, who sought to comfort her.
Swart2el was then hustled to his cell.
An Indictment will be asked today, and
his case will be hurried along as an ex-
ample.
Both wives were shocked at the up
nearance of the prisoner when he en-
tered the hearing room. His appear
ance. they said afrerward, wds always
ypry sporty. but several days growth
Of beard and runplCd clothing entirely
changed his looks.
"Oh. don't he look awful they ex-
claimed when they first saw him.
Swurt2cl was originally arrnignCd
last Saturday, but the hearing was
postponed 80 wife No. could be
brought hero from New York. She told
her story today.
"Ho called lac swoptums." ahc said.
"IIc called me Cherry Blossoms, "
tad wifi" 40. =.
"Well. hr called mo 'BcsL Beloved,
TOO" said No. |.
"Ilc called me Water Lily and
Lotus Blossom GIso." said No. ..
II first found cut about his second
marriage when he wrote Inc about it
himself, said wife No. I. "During the
w0r he sent me his allotment. and then
il suddenly stopped. wrote and asked
him why, and he said he had supposed
! was using it TO yet divorce with.
tnd had received enough for that pur-
IUse SO lie changed it. BcsiGpS, Il"
said, he had married the sweetest little
girl ever saw in my life.
That was me-" said wife No. =.
"Ycs, that was her." said No. I.
~ had been told by my husband about
a girl he knew in Easton by the name
Of Alice Styers, 50 / went there, came
back here, went to six different ud-
dresses and found her on Paxon street.
She declared then she refused to ap-
pear against him. She cried and
cried, and she then appeared against
him last Saturday. We agreed we had
better see the thing through, for we are
afraid he may have other wives or may
marry again.