Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — Remarkable Procecdings-Married to the Wrong Man. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Procecdings-Married to the Wrong Man.

The Port Clinton (O) Democrat of the 7th reports the following extraordinary case: “As we have been informed, quite an ex- « citement prevuils at Plaster Bed, in this township, owing to the fact that a young. German girl of that place .was unconsciously married to a young German of that place, on Wednesday evening last, without her knowledge or consent. The facts are these: The young lady was engaged to be married" to a young man whom we will call 8., and the evening set fur the event was Wednesday last. Accordingly B. made the necessary preparations, such as procuring license &,0., and was to come to this place to have, the mater solemnized. But the sequent shows that B. had a rival in the affair, whom we will call C. C. getting wind of what was about to transpire, came t > this place and procured a license to marry the same girl. At an early hour in tin* evening, and before B. made his appearance, some iricnds of C,, who were concerned in the plot, repaired to the residence of the lady, who was attired poind waiting For Iter expected husband, and ; informed her that they were -sent to convey her to Port Clinton, where her husband* in expectation was awaiting her arrival. “She immediately complied with the request, and was conducted to th ‘ •f-huid House,’ where she was induced bv the *'■ nls ot C. to tuke some refreshments in she .- prof wine, when she soon became unconscious of where she was, or what she did. About . tins time C. made his appearance v, itli u justice, arid bat a few moments elapsed ere the ceremony was performed between C. and the drugged female; after which he conveyed her to his own house, where they spent the night (B. in the meantime being unable to lind her whereabouts.) Tne girl in the morning acknowledged the marriage.', • but declaring that she had married B. instead ot C. But the latter remonstrated with her. declaring that she had married him, and was then in hrs hhj e, whereupon she left instantly, and took reluge in a neighboring house, where she stated her case,saying she had been drugged and' made to marry the wrong man, and that she would not live with him. Her affianced 8., so-m came to her relief, and to *k her jn charge. -e came to this place with her on Sunday last, when she commenced suit lor divorce against the said C. These are tire facts as near us ascertained.”