Cumberland County NJ Archives News..... Valerius' Two Wives, February 7, 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nj/njfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Boone silver_lining77@ymail.com July 28, 2013, 7:56 pm Dollar Weekly News February 7, 1903 Valerius' Two Wives Made a Record Proving This Man a Bigamist Lewis Valerius, a glassblower of this city, had a hearing before Justice Smith here yesterday, on a charge of bigamy. So carefully had the State prepared its case that Valerius was confronted with the witnesses to his marriage to Tillie Turner in Millville in 1897, with a certified copy of the return of that marriage as filed in a the office of the registrar of marriages at Trenton; with Rev. J. H. Boyd, who united him in marriage to Miss Maggie Crew, in this city, on the 17th of the present month, and also with each of the two women who claimed him as her husband. Since his arrest and up to yesterday Valerius declared that he was never married to the woman claiming to be his wife No. 1, but when he was confronted with the living witnesses of his marriage and the documentary evidence of the same, he wilted and pleaded guilty. He was committed in default $800 bail for his appearance before the Grand Jury. Valerius was arrested in Bridgeton a week ago at the home of his first wife. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/njfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/cumberland/newspapers/valariustwowives.txt