Tuesday, May 13, 2008

A Woman Held for Bigamy

New York, 1895

Eva Kate Schmidt, aged 21 years, was arrested on Bushwick avenue, Brooklyn, Friday afternoon on a charge of bigamy. She was arraigned before Justice Monteverde in Newtown, who held her in $1,000 bail.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Jan. 25, 1895, p. 1.

No comments: