A REMARKABLE BIGAMIST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1411, 19 November 1886, Page 3

A REMARKABLE BIGAMIST.

ths Assize Court of the Seine has had to deal with a remarkable bigamist. The eolprlt !■ a Polish Jew, small, 111-nude, •nd ngly—ia short a sort of foreign Quilp His name was Felnstein. Wherever ha vent he got married, becanse, he said, he could not do without feminine society, and fincjnp virtuous women fools, profited by their folly and crednlty. Felnstein’a firsr matrimonial venture was in Russia in 1870. He abandoned there his wife and fonr children, and came to Paris, where he got Implicated In a robbery, and was condemned to thirteen months’ Imprison m«nt. In gaol he fell In with another Polish Jew named Mayer, who died there, leaving a widow la fairly good circumstances; After bis release Felnsteln caliec CD her, and in three weeks they were engaged. She would have married him then jjlil she not resolved t» devote a certain camber ol months for the late M. Mayer. The period she named was too long for him, and under the name of Herzfeld he wooed and won a very decent Jewess, named Bachel Garlinski. In a few days he absconded with his second wife’s jewels and money and wont to Nancy where he beard of a certain Anna Jarewska, wtio had SCQOf, and proposed for her. He was accepted. The bride anj bridegroom were comirg from the mayoralty when Bachel came-ascotted by plocemcn, t forbid the banns at the synagogue. The bride fainted, and the bridal paity dispersed to escape being called upon to pay for the wedding feast that had been ordered. When the antecedents of Feins e'n were brought there was quite a pile of letteta on the Public FroaecnW’s fable from Russian, Polish, Oilman, and other Jewesses whom he bad Imposed npon and swindled. It came out that he six wives, and vras regularly engaged to fourteen singl'd women and widows. The Court sentenced hini to six years’ penal servitude.