New England Families

Boston Sunday Globe, March 4, 1917, page 125

Wedding Certificate a Fake, Page Admits
Portland, Me, March 3 - William J Page and Miss Delia F Reddy were arraigned before Judge Bates on a serious charge today, and their case was continued one week. The girl was released under $500 bail. Page told Chief Bowen this morning that the wedding certificate, which he had palmed off as genuine, is a fake, and that he had never married Miss Reddy, with whom he lived in her home, 20 Taylor St, three weeks before going to Lowell, where they were arrested. He also admitted that he has a wife and children in Bangor.

Portland Evening Express, March 3, 1917, page 2, column 2
Continue Case Against Page and Miss Reddy

The case against William J Page and Miss Delia F Reddy was continued one week in the Municipal Court this Morning. Bail was furnished for the woman by her mother, Annie L Reddy, and sister, Rose E Reddy, in the some of $500. Page did not secure bail.

Arraignment was made on a serious chrge in consequence of circumstances that led Mrs Reddy to complain to the Portland police. This led to the arrest of Page and Miss Reddy, whom he claims to have married in Lowell, and they were brought here late Friday by Chief Bowen. Mrs Reddy had carried on extensive correspondence and was certain that Page had a wife and children in Bangor. Despite the claim of both Page and her daughter that they had been married, she had them arrested and there was a heart interest conference in the police station last evening at the end of which the daughter agreed with her mother, that she had been deceived.

Page still insists that the marriage certificate he has produced is genuine and that the copy which comes from Victor Brett, city clerk of Bangor, is a forgery. This one sets forth a record of the marriage of William J Page and Miss Margaret L Crimm, sometimes called Christian Jenkins, in Veazie, by Rev E. F. Pember, April 25, 1905.

The Reddy certificate is on a New Hampshire form and sets forth the marriage of Willis J Paige in that town Dec 2, 1915, by Rev Walter M Wilton with A. L. Burpee and C. O. Cotton, M.D., as witnesses. An affidavit from the town clerk there says that these are bogus names and that there is no record of any such marriage in his office.

Both pleaded not guilty this morning, the man by counsel. They were seated apart and court proceedings were brief as the State is to make further investigation to determine who is telling the truth about these matters.

Portland Evening Express, March 10, 1917, page 6, column 3
Page and Delia F Reddy held in $500 Bail Each

William J Page and Delia F Reddy were held in $500 bail each, which she was able to furnish in her own case, until the May term of the Superior Court on a statutory charge. Mrs Annie L Reddy, her mother, and Rose E Reddy, her sister, are her sureties. The case was continued last week and is the result of the arrest made in Lowell at the instance of Mrs Reddy who had reason to doubt the legality of the marriage that Page insisted had been performed.