CHAMPION WOMAN BIGAMIST

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5961, 12 July 1920, Page 3

CHAMPION WOMAN BIGAMIST

MARRYING MEN A PROFESSION, j CHARM THAT WON MANY HEARTS. To Violet Lyle, who-i* but thirty-four years of age, and who is a native of bourne, Perthshire (Scotland) the police believe belongs the title of. champion bigamist. At a!ay rate, no living woman is known who can claim to have, gone though the marriage ceremony so often. Police information shows that she has been "maiTied" gevca timeis,, and Hhiey suspect that this does not represent anything like th© total number of her matrimonial exploits, attempted or. accorhpjliidied. She has now been deprived of opportunities of breaking more men's hearts for three years by a "sentence of penal servitude for that period at Manchester ou a charge of the.t. In the dock the "professional bigaE b thus ■ described in the ipohce records—wlas quite unceiacerned "when her life story, as known to the police, was related. She smiled a little when she was described as the., .greatest bigamist the police witness had met. . Violet's first "love affair" came to ,iier early in Hife. Born at Doun.e, Perthshire, she was citily /sixteen when she married in Renfrewshire in 1901. A child was born of this marriage, but she left 'her husband soon atlter, arid Jived for a while with another man. Official records show that she relnewi2d acquaintance with marriage jceremonies in 1903 at Glasgow, and on two later occasions Glasgow men were duped. Her last recorded matrimonial exploit took place iU Armagh, where an Irishman fell a victim to her winning ways." " Her Manchester "husband" can tell on amusing story of Violet's convincing wavs. To him she was the daughter of a woll-known Glasgow divine, and was ' heiress to an estate valued at £40,000. The day of full inheritance was at hajnd, pnd it was necessary that she should go to Kilmarnock to settle everything with the family solicitors. The marriage oeremony was hastened, and duly took place, it was also necessary that someonw should accompany her to Kilmarnock in order to see the legal formalities completed. O* the £40,000 the new husband was to have a. big share. The best man at • the wedding was afco made aware of the good news, and in order that Violo* should l)e able, to enter into her own, and to meet the initial expenses, the best man performed his duties properly and lent her £7O. He aJso accepted the pressing invitation to accompany hu* Irmd and wife to Kilmarnock. The party duly arrived atjihat town, » -mid obtained cood accommodation. The following morning certain gold studs u-ero mipsing. This delayed the two men in completing their toilet, and thej were rather late dowi.i to breakfast. Violet was anxiously waiting, anc When her husband appeared, remarked .'You are rather late, dearie." He in formed her of the missing studs, anc R h* then raiid she would make a lev purchases at a shop round the corner e he went round the corner, and wa not seen again by the.two men io V near lv a couple of >' cars - . , f ' Ki.rhteen months' imprisonment Jo k fraud at 'Ayr ibllowed. She was then re arrested and brought to Manchester o a charge of bigamy. The bcr,t man an "bridegroom" then, told their tale. Tpvtho art of breaking hearts, Violc V lded efforts to break up homes. ' The police records show her as a cli jvestic servant in many places In U ca«.cs she interfered considerably wit the 'domestic bliss of her employers. A fter holding situations for son weeks fc he complained to her , h(lt -the heads of each household h£ „ . -Jjj, overtures to hcr—Hoyd'e News