New York Supreme Court June 15, 1880 (People ex rel. Haase v. German Hospital)

Lawrence, J.

This is a most singular case, and is a fitting illustration of the fact that truth is stranger than fiction.

On the papers before me I have no room for doubting that the deceased Hector Carlos was Charles Haase, the husband of the relator, wjio abandoned her in 1862, in the city of Paris, and went to London, where, in 1865, under the name of Fouger, he married another person, whom he