Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — EARL RUSSELL, INDICTED FOR BIGAMY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EARL RUSSELL, INDICTED FOR BIGAMY.

Lord John Francis Stanley Russell, Whose matrimonial troubles have been aired in the courts at divers times the last few years, is face to face at London with probable imprisonment. The grand jury in the Central Criminal Court brought in a true bill for bigamy against his lordship at the Old Bailey, and the historic prison will soon see a nobleman placed on trial charged with having more wives than the law allows. Lord Russell's plight is the result of a woman’s vindictiveness. The

first Lady Russell, daughter of Lady Scott, but who Is now a music ball performer, has hounded her in the courts unsuccessfully for several year*. She tried for divorce, for alimony and to compel her husband to live with her again, but to no avail. Her chance came at last after his lordship went to Nevada, U. S. A., secured a divorce there, and married Mrs. Mollie Somerville, also a Nevada divorcee, and came back to England.