Portal:Ira Lowe

About Ira Lowe

 * Her Husband A Hypnotist (1897)
 * "Two grown girls testified today that, from very soon after the marriage of their mother to Lowe, he had been making desperate love to them, and that he had told them that be did not love their mother, but had married her for their sakes. … The two elder daughters are Rosie, 19 years old; and Lena, 17."


 * Took A Widow And Six (1897)
 * "She alleges that he exerted a mysterious influence over her and that he failed to keep promises made to her and had misrepresented his financial condition, she had six children living of nine by a former marriage, and his promises were to care for all her children until they reached their majority."


 * Hypnotism And Marriage (1897)
 * "A singular case of hypnotism has just come to light in New Jersey. Mrs. Adelheid Lowe, wife of Ira Lowe, says that she was induced by hypnotic influence to convey to her husband a half interest in $24,000 worth of property, and she also thinks that it was some influence of this kind which caused her to marry him."


 * Lost Husband And Houses (1897)
 * "The action of Adelheid Lowe to set aside deeds by which she conveyed to Ira Lowe, on the eve of her marriage to him in August, 1894, a half interest in two houses, has been dismissed without costs by Justice Pryor of the Supreme Court. ... She had six living children when she married Lowe, when she met through a marriage broker, and she was about fifteen years the senior of Lowe, she charged that his had made love to two of her daughters, contrary to an agreement to care for all her children, and that she had given the deeds through undue influence."


 * Ira Lowe Is Held On Bigamy Charge (1903)
 * "Ira Lowe, the tailor arrested yesterday on a charge of bigamy, the warrant being sworn out by Adelaide Lowe, of 171 East 109th street, New York City, who claims to have been married to Lowe on August 30, 1894 was held in $500 bail today."


 * Has Mr. Lowe Two Wives? (1903)
 * "Ira Lowe, a tailor … married in New York City in 1894 … After leaving her, Lowe entered into a marriage, it is alleged, with a woman whom she firmly believes to be Miss Anna Lindauer, also of New York. The Lindauer woman and Lowe have lived together ever since as husband and wife, Mrs. Adelaide Lowe, who says she is wife No. 1, asserts. The real Mrs. Lowe's first intimation of her husband's whereabouts, or that he was again married was a notice of the birth of a child to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Lowe of Cortland, which she says she saw in a newspaper."