 Sherman Daily Democrat Friday, July 28, 1916 pg. 5 Clyde Robertson of El Paso and Miss Marie Mayes of Sherman were united in marriage here yesterday. Elder J.H. Baxter officiated.  Sherman Daily Democrat Tuesday, September 5, 1916 pg. 6 AMONG THE COURTS Charged with Bigamy Sheriff Lee Simmons has returned from Okmulgee, Oklahoma, where he took in custody Clyde Robertson, a man about 35 years of age, and he is now in the Grayson county jail, with a charge of bigamy pending against him, filed in Justice C.A. Barker's court. The matter will be taken before the grand jury next Monday. It is alleged that Robertson has a wife and 3 children in Summerville county, Texas, and that he is not divorced from his wife. It is also alleged that on July 27, 1916, he was united in marriage to Miss Marie Mayes of South Sherman. Robertson had a preliminary hearing before Justice C.A. Barker in Sherman this morning and was held to await the action of the grand jury. His bond was set at $1,500. Sherman Daily Democrat
Tuesday, September 12, 1916 pg. 4 Convicted of Bigamy Clyde Robinson, alias, Clyde Robertson, a white man, pleaded guilty in the 59th district court this morning to a charge of bigamy, and was given 2 years in the state penitentiary by the jury. It was set out in the indictment, which was read to the jury, that Robinson married Miss Carrie Marie Mayes of Sherman, July 27, 1916 while he had a living wife, Mrs. Anna Mayfield Robinson, in Summersville county, to whom he was married November 1, 1908, and from whom he had no divorce. In pleading guilty today, Robinson asked for the mercy of the court and the jury gave him the lowest penalty. FELONY Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |