The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-10
ANDREWS IS BRAVEST
But of Long List of Bigamists
There's Church Treasurer
Who Stole for Waitress
BY MARGERY REX

ldNf N'A' ~ W. - 49, ~ - ~ ''
(Ngamy unless me contracting
parties I'VE together IN tho s,a''' -,
Governor Lake mas S'sHSd on,
amending the mar iabe anu o'sa,ly
laws m his state' "h're so many uIs-
satisfied huspands lea 10 TAX" an
other partner. ieGVing the'r perfect
ly good wives az hoine' ~
Idi'!e was known OF t1's legai
looph0ie LOT intIlta' t',u"tIny untl'
F.c,- hancel'or joseph Mtrrilt Lane,
OF New Jersey TOOK advantage or II
in september ISl9--to nave TWO
wives and Net escape ihlprlSph mont
since that tiine we nave hLd the
cases or lh' oroher' heIoert morn
ton Andrews OF jersey Cl'y, ana th'
e.oplhE cnurcn tredsulGl' SHuDeI ~
Sivcr ot Now hruhsWIcN,
Andrews the bras'st.
or all thcs" Andrews was hravest.
He not only ran away from his first
wife to marry a younger and moro
comoly woman, but he brought the
second wife Esther Tatnall An
drrws, back home TO dwell in pence
and unity with his first choice, Mrs.
Maud Andrews.
Not until the ncighhOrs began to
take notice and complain about the
plural matrimony of Andrews was
any action taken
After the publicity and criticism
that followed wife No. fled. Mrs.
Maud Andrews held the citadel. and
II was reported that a reconciliation
had taken place.
But soon came the news that
Esther and Herbert could never be
parted and that after a divorce was
procured they would marry again
Alas for such plans! Andrews was
threatened with arrest, not only for
biganly. but also on. perjury
charges. Andrews, of course. in
applying in Connecticut for a license
had said he was single at the time.
And all the while Mrs. Maud An
drcws declared she tolerated condi-
tions while wife No. . lived under
her roof only for 'he sake Of her
children.
Merritt Lane had no such fears OF
prosecution He was free from fear
Of bigamy charge. He cannot ever
be charged with perjury for his
higamous marriage, because the
facts in the case were sworn 20 by
Grace Hercht, whom he married in
this fashion, and not by him.
Thought II Herself.
And when Grace Hercht swore he
was single she believed It to be the
truth, so she has said since.
Mrs. llercht-l ane also swore that
lNcN never uNed together IN tNu-
neCticut or anywhere else after the
marriage. But Prosecuting Attorney
keuealy, of Stamford, now state
senator was ready to draw up blll
amending the bisamy statute so as
To make marriage of already married
persons h.gamy whether the con-
tracing parties lived together or NOT.
Meanwhile the chance for another
ty at marital happiness was not
flost upon such anxious observers as
Shubel X. Siver, church treasurer.
OF New Brunswick, y. j., and Ade-
laide Gouin, waitress, of Perth Am
boy. Sivcr had wife and seVera!
children. He is over forty. But he
was strongly attracted TO the young
waitress, Il girl OF seventeen.
Funds a"e necessary even for higa-
nous marriages. Siver had little
money of his own. But for the sake
Of the waitress he left home and
FAMILY and robbed the cashboN or
his church to the sum OF $4,000 IN
liberty bonds
With the liberty bonds In his
pocket Adele at his side, both bound
together in higamy, they sought
freedom and happiness in the Maine
woods.
Investigators caught up with them.
however and brought Siver and his
ogamous bride back to civilization
and court.
Sivcr is now In prison for an In
determinate sentence OF from two