Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — AN INFATUATED YOUNG WOMAN [ARTICLE]

AN INFATUATED YOUNG WOMAN

A Southern Bells Persists In Becoming the Seventh Wife sf a Dashing Bigamist. A Charlotte, N. C., dispatch of the 11th says: Miss Corinne Neister, a young lady prominent in society circles, is just now figuring in one of the most sensational marriages ever known in this country. Last-June Miss Neister, while on a visit to Atlanta, met Charles G. Lamoyne, a dashing young man about twenty years of age, and soon she became ongaged to him. She returned to Charlotte, and the match was bitterly opposed by her parents, but soon Miss Neister was off for a, visit to Ricns mond, where she again met Lamoyne, and an elopement was arranged. They went to Boston, which Lamoyne claimed was his home, and there they, were married. Soon after this Mrs. C. G. Lamoyne, of Cincinnati, came here, and told Miss Corinne she had married her husband, who had deserted her last April, and she had been hunting for him ever since. She said he had had five other wives. When Mrs. Lamoyne left she said she was going to continue her search until she found her husband and brought him to justice. She found him in Manchester, N. H., and he was promptly arrested and jailed. At the trial Lamoyne was held in SSOO bail and wife No. 7 fined S3O and her marriage annulled. Miss Neister returned to her home here, but kept up a daily correspondence with Lamoyne. Wednesday night she received a telegram from him saying that his wife had withdrawn the prosecution, and that he had secured a divorce from her, and his other wives were silent. He proposed that they meet in Louisville, Ky.,and be again united in marriage. This. Miss Neister agreed to and left for Louisville to meet him.