A Man of Misfortune.

Hastings Standard, Issue 149, 19 October 1896, Page 4

A Man of Misfortune.

A man of much misfortune was ! recently found in a Paris night refuge. His story is rather out of the common run, and is authentic. Some years :-ince Ito inherited fcI(KX), most of which ho spend on a fascinating woman, whom he married, and set up in business 011 the Avenue de l'Openi. After a few months of marriage the woman ran awav with an admirer, who took her to St. Petersburg, and left her there She next fell in with a Russian oflicer, whom she accompanied to the Caucasus, where he married her, not knowing that she already had a husband. In time she grew weary of this new yoke, and hearing that her first husband had also married again, she came to Paris to blackmail him. He was tried for bigamy, condemned to three years' imprisonment, and 011 leaving gaol sought employment from a banker. The latter asked for securities, and the applicant for a situation gave him all his money—l'2oo. A few days afterwards the banker decamped from Paris, and the twice-married man was thrown 011 the streets a pauper. In these sad circumstances he made his way to a night refuge, where he remained for a while, and has now gone to s L e some friends in the provinces, who may enable him to make a fresh start in life.