PEASANT GIRL’S BIGAMY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 8

PEASANT GIRL’S BIGAMY

FROM .ROMANCE TO RICHES

RERUN'. Jan. 10. Louise tlic pretty daughter of a Silesian peasant, ran away ir.-m home because she did not want t.> many Leopold Wen/. whom her parenst had chosen as a husband for her iiccai.-.a- he had a line- farm. lie was nearly -10 and Louise was only 20. So she came to Berlin and toon a situation. The work was h ir.l, and her only consolation was Richard, the barbel'. win? came evi-ry morning to tiuivc her master.

Richard was handsome and only 21. so Louise- married him. She did not tell her parents about the love match but wrote to ask of .she might come to see them when three months of married life had shown her that some busbands beat their wives.

“Come” was the reply. So Louisepacked uj) and left a note on the table which read: “I am going to drown myself.—Your unhappy Louise,” and went happily hack to the country, where she listened to the addresses of Leopold, the rich farmer, and marrieu him.

Tlyee months later a letter from her husband was icceived by her father who opened if and load: “II you do not at i iicc return i shall divorce you for desertion.”

A FARM AND £1.500.

Eight months later the rich Leopold died and left his farm and £1,0P,0 to his dear Louise, who shed tin- requisite tears. Aml even as she wept she thought of Richard and wanted him to sec how very well she had got on with, out him. So she wrote to him. He cairn- saw—and stayed. One day she learned from Berlin that she and Richard had been divorced, and, as he had taken to beating her again, she once more scut bin: about his business. He therefore, denounced her as a bigamist; and so she appeared m court to-day and asked, when tin- judge told her that she might lie punished with hard labour: “Do they heat one?” But, tiie judge was kind. He sentenced 'her to go to prison for six months if called upon to do so: and Louise lias gone back to the. farm of which she is the mistress.