Ahhh, old newspapers ARE a goldmine! We found a few references to an Alfred Mohimont, who got into a bit of trouble in New York at the turn of the last century. Evidently, he married in 1904 and again in 1905...to different women. He'd committed his first wife on their wedding night because she "became insane", and tried to throw herself from a third story window.... 
Now, we don't KNOW that this man was related to Grandma Elizabeth Sand (Hesch)'s grandmother Angelique Mohimont, but the name is fairly unusual, and the time-frame is right.
By the way, the article under the cartoon basically says the same thing as the clearer article (right).
(left) This was also from November 1905. It made a sensational story, and that sold newspapers then as well as now.
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