Charles Horowitz^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]}

1890 -

• Name	Charles Horowitz  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	1890	Russia   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1897  [3]
  Married	3 Apr 1916  [2]
  Residence	1920	Newport News Ward 4, Newport News (Independent City), Virginia, USA   [3]
  	Occupation: Chipper and Corker; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
  Trial of Charles Horowitz for bigamy	12 May 1920	Newport News, Virginia   [7]
  	Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia · Wednesday, May 12, 1920
  Charles Horowitz sentenced to three years in prison for bigamy	14 May 1920	Newport News, Virginia   [8]
  	Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia · Friday, May 14, 1920
  		Charles Horowitz sentenced to three years in prison for bigamy
  Charles Horowitz wins lawsuit	25 Jun 1925	Los Angeles, California   [12]
  	The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California · Thursday, June 25, 1925
  		Charles Horowitz wins lawsuit
  Charles Horowitz wins suit for alienation of affections	25 Jun 1925	Los Angeles, California   [9]
  	Los Angeles Evening Express, Los Angeles, California · Thursday, June 25, 1925
  		Charles Horowitz wins suit for alienation of affections
  Charles Horowitz to pay $7 per week in child support	18 Sep 1925	Los Angeles, California   [10]
  	Los Angeles Evening Express, Los Angeles, California · Friday, September 18, 1925
  		Charles Horowitz to pay $7 per week in child support
  Charles Horowitz bigamy exposed by lawsuit	15 Aug 1927	Los Angeles, California   [6]
  	The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California · Monday, August 15, 1927
  		Charles Horowitz faces countersuit because of bigamy
  Judgment for Charles Horowitz reversed	21 Feb 1928	San Francisco, California   [11]
  	The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California · Tuesday, February 21, 1928
  		Judgment for Charles Horowitz reversed
  Person ID	I122611796943	Martin Rind Tree
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Samuel Horowitz,   b. Russia
  Mother	Feiga Monis,   b. Russia
  Family ID	F614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Nuham,   b. 15 Apr 1875, Moscow, Russia
  Marriage	3 Apr 1916	Kings, New York, USA   [4, 13]
  Divorce	1921  [2]
  Family ID	F888	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Betty Glazer,   b. Abt 1895, New York City, New York, USA
  Marriage	Abt. 1918	Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F790	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

  Family 3	Bessie Sachs,   b. 4 Jul 1894, Illinois d. 10 Apr 1961, Los Angeles (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Feb 1924	Los Angeles, California, USA   [5, 14]
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F756	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Charles Horowitz and his three wives.— In February of 1924, Charles Horowitz married Bessie Sachs of Los Angeles. According to statements made in a subsequent legal process, they were engaged within half an hour of first meeting and were married just six days later, but lived together for only two months. (Bessie's family would later contend that she was of unsound mind.) In January of the following year, Bessie gave birth to their daughter Sylvia. In June of that same year, Charles brought suit against Bessie's family—her mother Olga, her sister Etta, and her brothers Abraham and Ben and their wives—for alienating his wife's affections from him. The court found in his favor, and awarded him $15,000 in damages (called "heart balm"), though this was negotiated down to $5,000. The court also obliged Charles to pay $7 a week to a trustee of the court for the maintenance of his and Bessie's daughter. Two years later, in August of 1927, the Sachs family brought a countersuit against Charles to overturn the previous legal finding. They had discovered that in May of 1920, Charles Horowitz had been convicted of bigamy. It seems that, in April of 1916, he had married Mary Nuham of Brooklyn in that borough. The couple separated shortly after the marriage, and remained apart, despite attempts by Horowitz to win back his estranged wife. ("He was cruel," Mary would say at the time of her husband's criminal trial.) At some point thereafter, Horowitz sought and won the hand of Betty Glazer of New York. He married her in Newport News, Virginia, where he was employed in the shipyards. Not long afterwards, on a visit to New York City, Betty learned of the existence of the first Mrs. Horowitz, and ordered the arrest of her unlawful husband. Charles stated at this time that a cousin of his first wife had told him that she had died. To this, the first Mrs. Horowitz replied: "He was at my house not three weeks ago asking how I was getting along!" Charles was found guilty of bigamy and sentenced to three years in prison. In 1921, his first wife obtained a divorce from him. His second marriage would have been declared void as soon as his bigamy was discovered; thus, he was an unmarried man at the time that he married Bessie Sachs. Nonetheless, in February of 1928, the Los Angeles District Court of Appeals found in favor of the Sachs family and reversed the previous judgment against them, apparently on the ground that the judge in the previous trial had not allowed testimony on the mental competence of Bessie Horowitz, whose relatives contended that she was mentally unsound, and that Charles Horowitz had married her "only to gain possession of her home and property." Members of the Sachs family said at the time of their suit against Charles that he had gone into hiding. What became of him is unknown.

  
  

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