A REMARKABLE BIGAMIST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1517, 25 November 1886, Page 3

A REMARKABLE BIGAMIST.

The Assize Court of the Seine has had to deal with a remarkable bigamist. The culprit, a Polish Jew, small, ill-made and ugly—in short, a s»rt of foreign Quilp. Eit name was Feinsteln. Wherever he went he got married, becuse he said he could not do without feminine sooiety, and finding virtuous women fools, profited by their folly and credulity. Feinetein'a first matrimonial venture was in Bussia in 1870. He abandoned bis wife and four children, and came to Paris, where he got implicated in a robbery, and was condemned to thirteen months' imprison* ment. In gaol he fell in with another Polish Jew named Mayer, who died there, leaving a widow in fairly good circumstances. After his release Feinstein called on her, and in three weeks they were engaged. She would have married him then had she not resolved to devote a certain number of 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 Baohel Garlinski, In a few days he absconded with his second wife's jewels and went to Nancy, where he had heard of a certain Anna Jarewaska, who had 3000 f, and proposed for her. He was accepted. The bride and bridegroom were coming'from the mayoralty when Baohel came, escorted, by policemen, to forbid the : banns, at the synagogue. The bride fainted, and the bridal party dispersed to esoape being called upon to pay for the wedding feast that had been ordered. When the antecedents of Feinstein were brought to light, there;was quite a pile of letters on the Publio Prosecutor's table from Russian, Polish, German, and other Jewesses »horn he had -.imposed upon and swindled. It oame out that he had six wives, and wus regularly engaged to fourteen single women and widows. The court sentenoed him to six years' penal servitude.