CLEVER WOMEN.

West Coast Times, Issue 6569, 1 August 1887, Page 4

CLEVER WOMEN.

the Marriage trap for the MALE SEX.

The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald writes on March 26 :— A Paris Police Court decided on Thursday a very amusing marriage agency case, the heroine of which, a Misa Leal, had already exercised the same industry in New York, Boston, and a place called Bethlehem, somewhere in the United States. Miss Leal is a very pretty brunnette, tall and gracefully formed. Her dresß in court was of the latest fashion. FIFTY FOOLS. It appeared from the evidence that Mios Leal and a Mme. Pemortier started a marriage agency in Paris two years ago in the Boulevard Saint Germain. Miss Leal was presented to over fifty different men, of all age 3, ranging from twenty to seventy, to all of whom she becamo engaged, She managed to reap a rich harvest of wedding presents, and when it happened that any of her fiances were unwilling to break off tho engagement, she went so far as to marry them, carrying them over to England for the purpose. Miss Leal afterwards set up another matrimonial agency in the Rue Washington, right in the centre of the American quarter of Paris, near the Champs Elysees. Her partner in the new establishment was a venerable and matron-like looking woman named Leprou. THE CLERK'S TALE. Even the judges burst out laughing in court of Thursday as witness after witness filed up and related their piquant experienoes- The first witness, named Lefevre, was a little red-faced bank olerk from Limoges. The following is Wb testimony :—: — " I read in the newspapers an advertisment demanding a young man, without fortune, to be the husband ot a young lady who had a fortune of 1,500,000 francs, but whose moral character had a petite tache. PBKFfiC'riiY CHARMED. " I at once answered the advertisement proposing myself as a suitor, Mme. Domortier wrote to me by return to post, saying the lady wished to sec me to judge of my personal appearance before marrying me. So I started for Paris, and Mmc, Demortier introduced rae to the pretended mother of the young lady — a respectable looking lady of about sixty. Next day I was introduced to ray fiancee — Miss Leal. I was perfectly charmed with her. LOVE TOKENS. " Mme. Demortier told me I must buy some jewellery for my fiancee as a present. I went at once and bought 300 francs worth of rings and brooches, and returned and showed them to Mme. Demortier, who said that it was very little for a young lady whose dot was 1,500,000 francs. I went off again to the jeweller and bought 4000 francs worth of presents. The marriage was fixed for January 15. PAYING THE PIPER. "My fiancee and her mother meanwhile went to London. Later Mme. Demortier took me over to London, where, for eight days, I accompanied Mme. Demortier, my fiancee, and my future mother-in-law to all the theatres and the most expensive entertainments. Then we all returned to Paris again at my expense. They wished to make the acquaintance of my family. Tat once wrote to my mother and aunt to come to Paris. They did so, and we all met at a grand family banquet, I, as usual, paying the bill. Then my aunt discovered that my fiancee was an adventuress, and after Miss Leal had addressed most violent language to my aunt and to my mother, we three returned to Limogeß." FOUB TO ONE. Another witness was M. Franc. ols Boisseau, a Lyons merchant. He said :—: — " I answered an advertisement in the papers in which a young girl with a dowry of 300,000 francs offered herself in marriage. Mme. Demortier made me pay 150 francß commission to begin with. She then took me to the opera where my fiancee was pointed out to me. She occupied a first tier box, and was accompanied by an old woman, whom I waß told was her aunt, the widow of a Spanish general," Here one of the judges interrupted with the remark : — " The evidenoe shows that on the same evening there were four of you at the opera, all admiring the same fiancee." The next witness was Mr Labsolu, a Parisian hairdresser. He related the same experiences as M. Boisßeau, except that the Opera Coniique was chosen in his case instead of the Opera to give him an opportunity of seeing his fiancee. A DELIGHTFUL HONEYMOOK. M. Desire Dauchot, a stockbroker with a large blonde beard and blue oyes, testified. " Mme. Demortier presented me to Misa Leal as the niece of an English lord and an heiress to 400,000 francs. I wanted to marry her right off. I paid at once a email commission of about 200 francs, and invited the whole party to the theatre. We then went to London, where we were married before a registrar. We had a delightful honeymoon, and in a few days returned to Paria." Judge; You even went so far as to adopt Miss Leal's natural child. Dauchot: Monsieur le juge, I consented to this sacrifice because I believed the mother to be very rich. j LAND OF THE LEAL. Thirty other witnesses followed, all re- j lating the same story with amusing varia- ■ tions, The judge sentenced Miss Leal to four months imprisonment, and Mme. Demortier, in default, as the police were unable to find her, to three years' imprisonment, When sentence, waa had Miss Leal turned pale, and swore at the Judges in English. She was dragged from the courtroom between two gendarmes. _________ During the reign of Queen Victoria there have been erected 6509 buildings for worship in the Church of England as against 3000 by all the other communions put togsther. Seven new dioceseß have been founded at home and sixty-two in the Colonies. Within the last half of her reign £81,000,000 have been voluntarily suscribed for church purposes, and £22,000,000 for elementary education in voluntary schools.

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