The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-09-08

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o salary Of $40 q week as q grocer's clerk to
pay his passage to his native city Of New
York, where he arrived in August, 1868.
Here he renewed an acquaintance with q
pilot named Hines, who lived in Brook
lyn, and here he married again, this time
to o blonde named Belle O,CSnnor, who
afterward figured in the biga,ny case tried
before Judge Finletter as u sympathizer Tor
the ninth wife. Miss OsConnor. was an in
mate OF q convent during her girlhoo d.,
from whence, as Foster alleges, she was
dismissed in disgrace. and on this pretext
the rascally bigam list lefth e and Was after
forwards arrested in Brooklyn on the charge
Of attempting to + OBJ two married sisters OF
Captain Hines. Miss OsConnor returned
to the nunnery and Foster came TO TINS city,
where he remained q year, supporting him.
self as Q proof-reader in printing offices
In the summer Of 1870 he went
to Boston, and under another alias contract
ed q marriage with Mrs. Fannie Rice, .
petite little widow, and after living with her
for eleven months pretended to have q bet
ter prospect in New York, and went to that
city, and from thence back to Philadelphia,
where he met and married Mrs. Annie Field
ing, another widow, under the impression
that she was worth money: He was de-
ceived again in this respect, and two weeks
after the marriage he fed to Pittsburg. there
to become entangled for the ninth time in
ceeded in having him put bahind the prison
bars for o year.
LAURA FALL MANIA.
Foster kept himself aloof from society
for a year or two after taking up his resi-
dence in the Smoky City, but in the latter
part of 1874 he made the mistake of marry
ing b woman who called herself the widow
Of Colonel John G. Frem ont Lowe, but
whose real name turned out TO be Laura
G. Fall. She was an att ractive woman of
probably 80 years and seemed bent from
the first on capturing the much married
Foster. He processes to have resented her
advances, and once told her that he had a
wife living. Miss Fall courted vigorously,
however, and confessed that she did not
bear the name of Colonel Lowe by lega
right, nor was the colonel in the
world of spirits, but alive and pass
ing well in the state of Califor-
mia. This was proven in rather a startling
manner not long after, when the colonel
arrived in Pittsburg, and, learning the
situation Of affairs, denounced the woman
in the most violent of terms, informing
Foster ct the same time that if he married
Laura Fall he would be the fifth victim of
her husband hunting mania. Notwith-
standing this Foster married her, under
his old alias Of Hogan, and spent the
honeymoon in Philadelphia. The ninth
wife had stated before marriage that her
father was worth $1,000. A trip to the
brides native place in New Hampshire
was proposed, and on the way there the So
called Mrs. Hogan tearfully acknowledged
that she had lied, and that her parents
not worth a %picayune, whereupon the ex-
perienced Foster Immediately deserted
her, and went to St. Louis, and there,
for the tenth, and in oil probability not the
last time, married an unsophisticated Ger.
man maid, Caroline Muller by name. Thu
news of a dying mother in the Fatherland
had the effect Of making the new bride ash
her husband to accompany her to her far
away home, but he artfully pleaded that h
would loose his situation. and sent her t.
Bremen alone in July. 1875. In Septembe
OF the same year his ninth wife discovered
his whereabouts, and after having him ar
rested, the trial followed in October. Up
on his relase in 1876, Foster left Philadel-
phia, and was last heard Of in Nevada, en-
gagged at his occupation of proof reading.