New Britain herald., 1923-12-21
BOY GETS
 MARRIED ALL OVER
Re-Weds Mature Bride in North
 Carolina

Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 21.-Burton s.
 Tucker, Massachusetts boy, and the ] wealthy widow of Joseph Simpson,
 were remarked before Jesse Fry, a
 justice of the peace, at Carthage yes
 terday, according to dispatch to the Raleigh News and Observer from its
 correspondent there.
 l The marriage. it was said. followed
 a conference of the couple with U. L.
 Spence, Carthage lawyer. and took place in his office. Tucker and his wife have been at Southern Pines for | several days. They are under indict- ment in New Jersey for perjury in connection with their marriage in Jer- sey City Oct. 2.
 The license for yesterdays marriage
 it was said, was issued by E. C. Mat theson, register of deeds, and as no statement of permission had been fil- cd by the parents of the young bride
 groom. the Fuckers deposited $200
 with Mfr. Mattheson in case he should
 he sued for the penalty allowed in such cases under the laws of North Carolina.
 In obtaining the license Tucker
 gave his age as IT and his wife gave
 hers as 4s, although the latter, it was
 said. had bobbed her hair and ap-
 peared younger,
 The boy and his wife went to Car thage from Southern Pines this morn ing by automobile and immediately after the ceremony returned to South ern Pines.
 Face Trial For Perjury
 Aloysius McMahon, assistant prose cntor of Hudson county. in which the New Jersey indictments were found, said last night, when he learned that the Fuckers had remarried, that their latest step would not serve to avert prosecution for the Jersey City mar riage. He said that there had been no question Of the legality Of the first marriage and that though it was no new idea of the boy and his bride that a second marriage would wipe out any wrong doing in the first, they were under a misapprehonsion.
 Mir. McMahon explained that Mrs. simpson Tucker leaving her boy hus- | band in an automobile outside, had i visited the town clerk of Gloucester, i Mass. twenty days after the wedding | in Jersey City and had sought to get | a license for second ceremony. | When she learned that tho consent | of Joseph s. Tucker, postmaster Of South Essex. Mass. and father of the | bridegroom. and of the boys mother was necessary she had visited them. | Failing in his mission sho returned 10 Gloucester and induced the town clerk to tear up the application.
 Both Tucker and Mrs. Tucker are under indictment for perjury. it being charged that Tucker gave his ago as a1 when he was i6 and Mrs. Tucker as 4s when she was s6. Mrs. Tucker, John ]. MeInnis, the couples chauf- feur. George II. Grebe, registrar Of vital statistics in Union Hill and John Muller, Hoboken marriage broker also have been indicted for eonspir- acy to violate the marriage laws or New Jersey and for subornation of |, perjury. it being alleged that they in- 1uccd the boy to swear falsely as to his age.
 Won't Force Their Return Now.
 Tucker and his wife must come pack to Hudson County and stanu rial. MT. McMahon insisted last night. but no effort win be made to +orcc their return now. since they ,an not plead before Jan. 3 because of the intervening holidays. and J. Raymond Tiffany Of Hobokcn, their has promised 10 produce hem. The case was presented 10 the 5rand Jury when the boys father ,nnnunnad his intention of forcing ais son 10 free himself from Mrs. Simpson Tucker by having the mar -iage annulled, or to stand punish nont. The authorities have intimated l willingness 10 let the boy escape, he would seek 10 have the marriage annulled. and Mir. McMahon aid that he did not believe the fother would relent beyond that point. or lllow the second ceremony to altar { lie attitude ,