The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-17
A LIBERTINE's DILEMMA
Too Much Married TO Marry Again, yes
anot Enough to Have . wife-Adjudged
to Pay Five Thousand Dollars Damages
and an Allowance.

NEwsBURd, N. Y, Nov. 10. "A breach
OF promse case IN Judge Barnard's cou 1T,
In this city, in which the plaintiff to-day
recovered 5000 presents feature that is
very peculiar, the parties having proved
what Ia believed to be q marriage under
tho law. The plaintiff In the case was a
young woman named Lima Lewis, the
daughter Of farmer at Turner'S, on the
Erie railroad. The man sued was
EUGENE H. eoETscHIss,
OF Rockland county, q cousin of the plaintiff.
From the evidence Of both parties 1t ap-
pears that they had been unduly Intimate
from the fall Of 1880. The plaintiff assert.
ed that the defendant made promise to
marry her when they were In New York
together in February, 1882. In the follow.
Ing July she said they made trip to Elmi.
"a tos ether, when he gave her wedding
ring, Informing her that
IT WAS EQUAL TO A MARRIAGE,
and that as lonY as she wore it she would be
bis WIFE She also testified that Goetschins
told other persons that they were married,
aud visited her at intervals at her fathers
house as her husband. A child was born to
the young woman October %, 1889, aud still
lives, bur upon the birth OF the child, the
defendant ceased to see her and refused to
marry her. Goetsohins admitted the In.
timacy between himself aud the plaintiff,
but positively denied that he ever promised
10 marry her. He was compelled to ad.
nit writing letters to her, which were pro-
duced In court, ia which he
CALLED HER DEAR WIFE,"
and which the plaintiff received In en-.
velopes addressed to "LIrs. Lima Goets.
chins. He declared that he wrote TO her
In this way at her request to make matters
look right to her people. Relatives OF sthe
cir swore that Goetscnins told them he and
plaintiff were married. A brother Of Miss
Lewis said his sister and Goetschins both
said that the Z mira trip was their we'd.
ding tour. the defendant, however de-
cIared that the girl was not his wife. that
he had never expected her to be, and that
throughout their Intimacy she knew
that
he WAS ENGAGED TO ANOTHER GIRL
to whom he was still engaged and who was
Libbe V. Williams Of Brooklyn. In charg.
Ing the jury Judge Barnard said the
evidence In the case was such
that marriage itself nigh be
found, our law requiring the presence OF
no clergyman or priest, but making an
agreement to live together as husband and
wife a legal marriage. However, the Judge
said this was out Of the present case. The
parties TO the suit had made their own Is
sue, Whatever tights the child might have
in the future upon the evidence that has
been given
AS LEGITIMATE CHILD
Of the defendant was another matter. All
that was 10 be decided now was whether
there had been any promise to marry.
Good lawyers endorse the JUDGES opln.
or any otner lady, anu, tney say
that an attempt 10 marry will make him
liable to prosecu don for bigamy. The jury
was out only short time. Icy found
verdict for breach If promise and awarded
s., 900 damages, to which the court added
an allowance. The Judge gave the defense
sixty days In which TO appeal, but
REFUSED TO ALLOW STAY,
40 that Goetscuin IL IN rather tight box.
He will have to give security for the amount
of judgment II he appeals. II he does not
appeal ne will have to pay the Judgment or
60 10 JUL.