The eastern clarion. [volume] (Paulding, Miss.) 1837-1863, 1858-12-11
Curious Case of Bigamy.

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Curious Case of Bigamy
4 WIFE N PURsUIT OF A TRUANT HIS
BAND UNDER DIFrIcULTIEs-EJadsHi Him after
p Gogf IF Tlreag YcayS-For the last four
years there has resided il this city, with
occasional intervals, one DR.. AshkcnaE,
Hungarian physician. "a small man, of
ill-lagorcd yet strongly marked Jewish
couutenaHce-spe azing English and sew
eral other European languages very bro
kcnlv, claiming TO have been a surgeon in
the hungarian patriot army in 1878. and
TO have come To this country with Kos
-uth. but by his ycrnacular betraying that
he was originally either from Poland or
/ Southern Russia. His mode Of life was in
/ the highest degree parsimonious-occupy-
/ ing generally a small. cheap room, which
4 answered as well for his office "a dormito-
/ ny and kitchen, in which he prepared his
own meals. Among his intimate--who
were very few-he passed as a man Of
great learning. and hy those with whom
4 he practised as physician or surgeon. he
| was regarded rs a man oi great profession
! al skill.
"Dr. Ashkenazi, Hungarian" was thus
/ getting along smoothly and Trosperously,
/ until some ten days ago when his dream
! of gepo.e was very materially interrupted
/ by the arrival of a lady in this CITY. who
/ claimed to be his lawful welded spouse
! who made upon him, in that character,
/ certain wcighty claims and preferred
/ against him certain weighty charges, the
4 effect Of which have been to place the lit
! tie doctor in limbo from that day to
! this The lady, having proved the idcnti-
/ ty of her man. sought e log2i adviser 80
whom shc made substantially the follow
/ Ing statement:
some twenty years ago, being then a
lass Of fifteen summers-the 1avorite Of
| her parents, who were in easy circumstan-
ces, living in the village Of Breena. lKras-
noytl Russia, near the borders Of Poland
"a Jewess-she made the acquaintance
OF Young man-poor, but distinguished
Tor has learning and piety, named Ashr
! Seltzar. He had been educated for a rab-
bl. and had so greatly won the esteem and
confidence of the chief rabbi of the place
that he W frequently entrusted with the
administration of the lJewishl law in his
/ ,the rabbi'sl absence Her parents and
! all parties asserting, she was married to
the learned young rabbi. On their mar
/ riage, her parents gave them q marriage
/ lived about a year at Kreena. when the
1 young rabbi suddenly disappeared. and
was gone some three years before she as
certgincd his whereabouts. Finally She
heard Of him at Dantzic in Prussia, with
er she followed him, found him, and re-
/ turned with him to Serai, in Poland
Here they lived together another year.
during which a child was born to them.
When the child was some two months
old, they went on a visit TO her mother at
kreena-Temaincd there a few weeks.
then started back for Serai. Arriving at
the border, the rabbi, it appeared. had
provided passport only for himself, and
lntimating to an officer that the lady was
none of his, and had no passport, he was
conveyed across the stream, while She was
left behind. This was the last she had
seen OF her loving spouse until She met
him ten days ago in Ottawa
But She was unwilling TO give him up so.
Aiming herself with funds and the neces-
sary papers, She started in pursuit She
found traces Of him in various places
throughout Europe, but was never able to
fix his locality until after some three
years, She learned that he had been to
Jerusalem, had there married a second
wiie-had in a year left her-had thence
been wandering over Europe assuming
Z the character OF a .'Jerusalemitc" beg
ging funds Tor the destitute children of
Israel ar Jerusalem. That he had in this
way accumulated considerable money /:
that q brother oi his second wife had pur-
sued him, found him in Germany. and got
a jewish writing OF divorcement' from
HIM; returned with it to Jerusalem, and
found il detectives followed him a Sc
second time and found him in London.
whore he got another writing that was in
due form. Then all trace Of him disap-
peared, until some two years ago She learn
ed that he had deposited some money
with "a banker in Hanover, with orders to
forward Is whittier he should direct bv let
ter. The banker finally rot a letter di-
rcctlng him to send the money 10 bank
er named Israel, in Kalamazoo. Michigan.
Hither she followed. and there was in
/ formed that the money had been sent to
Ealtlar IN cars. IA Si-l .as,agi.--4 vJt
ptma, ii. SO she came to Ottawa, and
here. by accident, met DR.. A. in the street.
whom She at once recognized as her tIu-
ant lord. The Doctor made feeble ef-
fort 10 deny his identity. but soon caved.
and showed disposition to come to
terms.
Her demands were reasonable enough.
| $500 in money. to enable her to return to
her parents. The first. the Doctor was
willing enough to acccde to, but. being a
great miser, utterly scouts the latter part
OF the proposition, to evade which, he
tried earnestly to persuade her to live
with HIM again. This she peremptorilv
declines. but commences a proceeding in
our Circuit Court for divorce and alimonv.
and for fear her rabbi" may take leave of
her again. she had him locked up on a
writ of yc crCg'.
The Doctor IS known to have some eight
or ten thousand dollars in gold in his pos
session, and could easily discharge the la
dy's moderate demand, but lac is so miser-
ly that lac may lineer long while in Jail
before ne viii do it. The lady is not I'M
handsome; apparently very intelligent,
and evidently plum tull of grit.
-N -s-
GREAT BRITAIN NonFrED.-The report
so prevalent that Great Britain and France
will send a powerful naval force 10 the
| Nicaraguan ports is discrcdited. or rather
is rdiculed. by the Albion newspaper, the
English organ at New York Notwith-
standing the doubts Of that paper. how
ever, the report is confirmed, by positive
information moreover. il is believed these
fleets viii be prepared to land force, for
the promotion of their objects, whatever
they may be- Our Government has re-
monstIated against the procedure as a pal
pable violation OF the Clayton Bulwer
treaty, as well as an inadmissihie inteEfer-
ence with American interests in that quar-
ter What the British Government intend
TO do, or may do. in Central America. we
certainly do not know. One thing is GER
! TAIN however to wit that Great Pritiar