Marriage: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Auerdick-Knaggs ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, June 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Daily Northwestern March 12, 1890 Wedded a Thief Lizzie Knaggs Becomes the Wife of a Man in the Jail In the office of Sheriff Burgess this morning Justice Oellerich performed the ceremony which united in marriage Joseph Auerdick and Miss Lizzie Knaggs. No invitations had been issued for the event and the attendance was therefore limited to only a few friends, including Henry Barber, the lawyer, who witnessed the consummation of love's young dream, if such is the ceremony, under the most peculiar circumstances which ever surrounded a matrimonial alliance in the city of Oshkosh. No girl was ever more faithful than Lizzie Knaggs to the vows of her engagement, for she married a man with whom she cannot live for 120 days. The state of Wisconsin forbids it for the groom is in durance vile for the theft of an umbrella. Preparations for the marriage were in progress some weeks ago, but they were ruthlessly punched in the head when the groom stole $11 from his employer, John Oaks. For this he was sentenced to thirty days in jail. He was liberated yesterday and followed his release by stealing the umbrella. Miss Knaggs, however, was willing to marry him, nonwithstanding his thieving propensities, hence the wedding at the court house this morning.