Alexander Swarts
Detroit, Mich., March 3 -- Alexander Swarts is a pretty good looking fellow of 24, who was clerk of the Tremont House at Mansfield, O. October 25 last he married Violet Carson, of New Washington. After a short time he took her to her father's and set out for Florida to engage in the orange business. At Tallahassee he met at Miss Hattie Baer, of Ashland, O., a former sweet heart, who had not heard of his marriage. He wooed and won her and the wedding occurred in January last. Shortly after, he went to Chicago alone and wife No. 2 got hold of a letter that wife No. 1 had written February 7. Swarts was arrested at the home of the first wife for bigamy. His bond was placed at $1,000, his father-in-law going security. On the day of the trial the old man delivered him up and was released from his bond. Then while he talked to an officer the young woman kept up an imaginary conversation in the next room and Swartz [sic] escaped and fled to Windsor. Detective McGinn, of Chicago, took the case in charge and with the help of some Detroit gamblers decoyed Swarts across the river, where he was arrested and started for Tallahassee to stand trial for bigamy.
From The Mansfield Herald, March 11, 1886