lice station and given information, or made statements, which led to
the setting of this latest trap for me. The policeman took me before a
justice who sent me to the Tombs. On my arrival there I managed to pick
up a lawyer, or rather one of the sharks of the place picked me up, and
said that for twenty-five dollars he would get me clear in three or
four hours. I gave him the money, and from that day till now, I have
never set eyes upon him. I lay in a cell all night, and next morning
Elizabeth's brother, to whom the sister in New York had sent word that
I was caged, came over from Newark to see me. He said he felt sorry for
me, but that he was "bound to put me through." He then asked me if I
would go over to Newark without a requisition from the Governor of
New Jersey, and I told him I would not; whereupon he went away without
saying another word, and I waited all day to hear from the lawyer to
whom I had given twenty-five dollars, but he did not come.

So next day when the brother came over and asked me the same question,
I said I would go; wherein I was a fool; for I ought to have reflected
that he had had twenty-four hours in which to get a requisition, and
that he might in fact have made application for one already, without
getting it, and every delay favored my chances of getting out. But I had
no one to advise me, and so I went quietly with him and an officer to
the ferry, where we crossed and went by cars to Newark. I was at once
taken before a justice, who, after a hearing of the case, bound me over,
under bonds of only one thousand dollars, to take my trial for bigamy.

If I could have gone into the street I could have procured this
comparatively trifling bail in half an hour; as it was, after I was in
jail I sent for a man whom I knew, and gave him my gold watch and one
hundred dollars, all the money I had, to procure me bail, which he
promised to do; but he never did a thing for me, except to rob me.

A lawyer came to me and offered to take my case in hand for one hundred
dollars, but I had not the money to give him. I then sent to New York
for a lawyer whom I knew, and when he came to see me he took the same
view of the case that Elizabeth and I did; that is, that the long
separation between my first wife and myself, and my presumed ignorance
as to whether she was alive or dead, gave me full liberty to marry
again. At least, he thought any court would consider it an extenuating
circumstance, and he promise