A CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3295, 14 August 1911, Page 2

A CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

MARRIAGE CANCELLED BY CZAR’S UKASE. A charge of bigamy against Alexander Koutouzov, Count Tolstoy, son of the master of the hunt at the Tsar's Court, and now residing in Paris, will shortly come before the Law Courts there. The count urns married 18 months ago at the Russian Church in Paris to a well-known American girl, Miss Frottingham. Miss Flora Coriat, however, says that the count is her husband, and that she was married to him at a Strand registry office in 1893. The Russian count is also charged with having marrieda Miss Julia Jackson at Hull in 1898. In an interview in the “Matin” the Count asserts that the marriage with Miss Frottingham is the only legal marriage he has contracted. He met Miss Coriat at a London musichall one night, and “learned to his astonishment” a few days afterwards that he had married her. But the count says this is of no importance, as it is not valid according to Russian law. “I came to live in Paris with Miss Coriat,” he adds, and after a few months I parted from her. She wrote asking me for money, but I did not answer her. To put an end to it I obtained a ukase from the Tsar annulling the marriage. I have asked the French judicial authorities to annul it also. This is my answer to Miss Coriat’s charge of bigamy. It is also said, proceeds the count, that I have married Miss Jackson under similar circumstances. This lady has apparently forgotten me.”—“Daily Chronicle.”