An extract from the Rocky Mountain News (Denver Co.) 27 July, 1888:

HER FAITHLESS HUSBAND
CHICAGO, July 26. - Lizzie Lemur's life romance was told in Judge Baker's court to-day, and a sadder one is seldom recorded, even in divorce annals. Lizzie Lemure was a famous London opera singer, a protege of Lord George Paget, and as a friend and contemporary of Ada Isaacs Monken, the "Mazeppa" of Astley's theatre, she frequently met the Prince of Wales, and her mezzo-soprano voice was well-known to London opera goers. An artist's affections are proverbially erratic. Lizzie Lemure's were entrapped by the Adonis-like person of a private in the British army. There was nothing of Edward Hoare but his magnificent physical beauty and manly strength. In his red coat and "shako" me might have entrapped the heart of a better dowered bride than Lizzie Lemure. A private soldier's pay, however, makes him susceptible to any woman of means, and Lizzie Lemure had �8,000, so in 1870 Lizzie Lemure and Edward Hoare were married. The opera singer gave the soldier $130 to buy his discharge in the army, but she affirms that he did not spend it for that purpose. According to her statement, he deserted from the ranks and came to Chicago. She followed him in six months. With her money a house was purchased at Park Ridge and Mrs. Hoare's activity and energy procured for her husband the position of civil engineer on the Northwestern railroad, which position he has held for fourteen years. The couple's life was commonplace but happy in Park Ridge until eight years ago. In 1880, not having been blessed with children, Mrs. Hoare brought over from England her sixteen-year-old niece, Emily Knibbs. Emily was not pretty, but she was young and vivacious. "She lived with Mr. Hoare and myself as one of the family" said Mrs. Hoare, "and for a long time I was far from accepting that my husband could be so base as to betray her. It came like a peal of thunder out of a clear sky when Emily became the mother of a child. She tearfully told me who was the father. It was Mr. Hoare. I taxed him and he confessed. I was so overcome that I became ill, and when I could do so I took a trip to California. On my return I found that Mr.
Hoare and my niece were living together at my house.. I ordered her out and in a week Mr. Hoare left also. He told me he did not love me any more. He said he was bound to provide for and protect Emily and her child. The brazen girl was ungrateful for all I had done for her. She took all my bric-a-brac and the hundred little articles I had collected in twenty years, but I never chided my husband for his infamy; I loved him very deeply." Mrs. Hoare buried her face in her hands and seemed to be going back in memory to the days of Lizzie Lemure and Ada Isaacs Monken and the Adonis soldier who captured the citadel of her heart.
"Did you give your husband any provocation for this treachery" enquired Mrs. Hoare's lawyer.
Mrs. Hoare arose from her seat with flashing eye and swelling breast. The question dried her eyes. She seemed to be on the tragic boards again as she said, with an intentionally and dramatic gesture that caused Judge Baker to look up in astonishment. "Provocation! Well, yes. If you call taking him to Paris and spending �500 on him in a single month; if you call giving him all of my �2,000 which I made on the stage and �550 left to me by my mother in England; if you call that provocation, why, then, I suppose I gave him provocation. I loved him passionately. I was as true to him as any woman ever was to any man. Everything I had he got. He has absorbed it all, and to-day in the meridian of life I find myself heartbroken and penniless, with nothing but what kind friends give me in charity, while he lives in a hotel at Park Ridge, within a stone's throw of Emily Knibbs, with whom he spends his time and on whom he lavishes his salary as civil engineer. I have often rued the day when his fine form and shallow head lured me to this."
Miss Annie Shurfee said that Mrs. Hoare had only her house at Park Ridge and derived other necessaries for her maintenance from the
lady neighbors. Mr. Bonomy, a resident of Park Ridge, said that Hoare admitted to him that he was the father of Emily Knibbs' child, and told him that he no longer cared for his wife.
Judge Baker heaved a deep sigh as he told the lawyer that Lizzie Lemure's was a sad story, and she might have a divorce.
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An extract form The Daily Inter ocean Newspaper, Chicago Il, 27 July 1888:

AN OPERA SINGER'S DIVORCE.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hoare, of Park Ridge, secured a decree of divorce yesterday, before
Judge Baker from her husband, Edward Hoare, civil engineer for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company at a salary of $125 a month. Mrs. Hoare said she was married to defendant Feb. 27, 1870, at Scarborough, England. About a year after the union they came to Chicago, and Mrs. Hoare obtained her husbands present position. There was one child, born in Milwaukee, which has since died. Mrs. Hoare testified that her husband was guilty of intimacy with Emily Knibbs, his 16-year-old niece, and that he had a child by her. On May 6th last he left his wife and went living with Miss Knibbs, and has since been contributing $40 a month toward the support of his niece and her child. All this time Mrs. Hoare has been on the brink of starvation while Hoare boards in style at Park Ridge Hotel. Complainant said she has been kindly cared for lately by Mrs. W.P. Black, and Captain Black appeared as attorney for Mrs. Hoare.
"I gave him no provocation for his conduct," said Mrs. Hoare. When I married him I had from $6,000 to $8,000. I took him to Paris with me. He was a soldier, and I gave him �31 to buy his discharge from the army. I gave him money and valuables, and I brought several thousand dollars to this country with me and spent it with him. Even the little fortune that my mother left me he refused to account for. The gold watch that he has got in his pocket now I gave him. It cost me $200. It was my handsome gold watch, and he exchanged it for another. When he left he took the furniture and all my little souvenirs that were made a present to me from some of the first artists in Europe. His niece is now staying with a friend of his, a man that is working in the same office, and they are walking and riding together, and I have never opened my lips from the time he left until this moment"
The decree also provides for the payment of $30 a month alimony.
Mrs. Hoare's maiden name was Lizzie Lemure. She was a London opera singer some twenty years ago, and a protege of Lord George Paget. As a friend of Ada Isaacs Menken, the Mazeppa of Astley's Theater, she frequently met the Prince or Wales. Hoare was a private of the British Army.