San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-09-29

house 1t Q salary Of t125 per month
and the brides father furnished luxu
rious home for the newly.weddea pair
and after Q bridal tour through the
Western states they settled down to en-
ioy life. Again did Fosters taste fol
The gaming table assert itself, and be-
fore six mont of welded life he was
in debt to the extent Of $4,7OO. 10
satisfy his creditors, Foster, as in q
former case, made heavy drafts on his
wife's purse, and q quarrel ensued, dur
ing which she accused him Of having
married her for her money. The
scamp coolly acknowledged the fact and
q divorce followed shortly after. Foster
compromised with his creditors and with
a capital of $4,000 started for Cincin-
natl, where in FIVE days he squandered
81 800 at the card-table and then began
heiress. hunting.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
He was badly taken.in- in the fifth
venture in the matrimonial market.
Five weeks after his arrival in Cincin.
natl he had married Josephine Dubois,
a French Creole who was reported to
be wealthy, but who turned out to be
as poor as himself. A mutual agree
ment to separate was made and Foster
went to Galveston, arriving there al
most penniless. BY dint of hard work
he succeeded in saving enough out OF .
salary of $40 week as grocer's clerk
to pay his passage to his native city Of
New York, where he arrived in August,
1868. He renewed an acquaintance
with q pilot named Hines, who lived in
Brooklyn, and here he married again,
this time to o blonde named Belle
O'Connor, who afterward figured in the
bigamy case tried before Judge Finlet-
ter as asympathizer for the ninth wife.
Miss O'Connor was an inmate of q con-
vent during her girlhood, from whence,
as Foster alleges, she was dismissed
in disgrace, and on this pretext the
rascally bigamist left her, and was af-
terward arrested in Brooklynaon, the
charge of attempting to rob two mar
ried sisters of Capt. Hines. Miss
O'Connor returned to the nunnery and,
Foster came to this city, where he re'-
NAMED year, supporting himself as
proof-reader in q printing Office. In
the summer of 1870 he went to Boston,
and under another alias contracted y
marriage with Mrs. Fannie Rice,
petite little widow. and after living
with her for eleven months pretended
to have better prospect in New York,
and went to that city, and from thence
back to Philadelphia, where he met and
married Mrs. Annie Fielding, another
widow, under the impression that she
was worth money. He was deceived
again in this respect, and two weeks
after the marriage he fed to Pittsbnrg,
there to become entangled for the ninth
time in Hymen's moose, and with wo-
man who succeeded in having him put
behind the prison bars for year.
LAURA FALLS MANIA.
Foster kept himself aloof from socie-
ty for year or two after taking up his
residence in the Smoky City, but in
the latter part of 1874 he made the
mistake of marrying o woman who
called herself the widow of Col. John
g. Fremont Lowe, but whose real name
turned out to be Laura @. Fall. She
was an attractive woman of probably
thirty 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 wife living. Miss Fall courted
however, and confessed that
she did not bear the name Of Col. Lowe
by legal right, nor was the colonel in
The world of spirits, but alive and pass
ing we'll in the state of California. This
was proven in rather startling manner
not long after, when. the colonel ar
rived in Pittsburg, and, learning the
situation of affairs, denounced the wo-
man in the most violent terms, inform
ing Foster at the same time that if he
married Laura Fall he would be the
fifth victim of her misunderstanding
mania. Notwithstanding this Foster
married. her, under his old alias of Ho-
gan, and spent the honeymoon in Phil
ldelphia. The ninth wife had stated
before that her father was worth 81, 5000.
4 trip to the brides native place in
New Hampshire was proposed, and on
he way there the so-called Mrs. Hogan
acknowledged that she had
led, and that her parents we're not
worth picayune, whereupon the ex-
,erienced Foster Immediately deserted
Ter, and went to st. Louis, and there,
or the tenth, and in all probability not
he last tine, married an unsophisti-
ated German maid, Caroline Muller by
lame. The news of dying mother in