The Champion Heart-breaker

WILKESBARRE Pa., July 14.- The champion heartbreaker and female bigamist of the United States has been traced to this city. Her name is Marthina Hart. She is aged 31 years, and it is said, has no fewer than eleven living husbands. Her home is somewhere in the east. For many years she traveled from state to state selling books. While not good-looking, strictly speaking, Miss Hart has a fascinating manner that makes her quite a successful saleswoman, but her greatest success is in capturing the hearts of the opposite sex. As she came in contact with men every day her circle of acquaintance was very large. She had no use for old men, however, for young men with plenty of money found most favor in her eyes. 

Directly after marriage Miss Hart would ask her husband for $100, saying her mother was sick and needed money. Of course, a newly-married husband could not refuse, and the cash was forthcoming. This would be the last seen of the cash or bride. In this way she victimized many men. John Evans arrived and is looking for her. He said he met her about six weeks ago and was so smitten with her charms that he proposed. She accepted him. They had not been married two days before she asked him for a loan of some money to send her sick mother. He gave her $350, and that was the last seen of her. She also forged his name for a considerable amount. Another husband named N. M. Phineo, from the western part of the state, arrived. He, too, gave the woman $200 to send home, but never saw anything of her after he gave her the cash. Phineo has since learned that there are several other men who married the woman and are now looking for her for their money. Miss Hart was here in the early part of the week, but her whereabouts is now unknown.