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Show DION BOUCICAULT'S WIFE. She Come From Knjrlanil to Obtain the Head Actor' fruJH-rty. Xkw Yi;k. Oct. 2. "I am afraid thai in his later days Mr. lioncicault was mentally iriesjmnsible. so I would rather have the world believe that lie was mad than he was bad, for he had many pood, lovable traits." A little woman attired in mourning spoke these words in a clear, soft voice, with just the slightest suspicion of an English accent. ISho was Mrs. Agnus Robertson Boueieatilt, w ho had just arrived ar-rived from Euglaud on the steamer Servia. she having m.-ulo the long journey jour-ney in order to have, the court hern record and emphasize t'.o judgment judg-ment of thy English courts, which held that the was the legal and only w ife of the dead dramatist. dram-atist. As she spoke she turned to a young lady sitting beside her, who was also dressed in black. This was Linn Tyler, the youngest of Mrs. Boucieault's live children. The other children are Mrs. Eva Everslickl, Mrs. Beatrice E. Pitman and Aubrey lioncicault. all of whom are now in London: and Dion Cienrge lioncicault, or Dot," ns he is familiarly known, who is now ia Australia. ' ' It is really for the. sako of my children chil-dren that I am engaged in the present contort," continued Mrs. ltoucieault, "1 think this is my duty, and I left my bed, to w hich I was coutincd w ith muscular mus-cular rheumatism of tho chest, to start upon this journey. I urn practically without means, for I have been eight years in litigation with Mr.'Boueicault "and I think that I and my children are entitled to whatever property Mr. Houcicatilt Hou-cicatilt left. There will be no compromise, com-promise, for I must bo placed right before be-fore the, world. I have no feeling of bitterness against Miss Thorndyke, who is a young woman, although she was perfectly aware what she was doing when she married Mr. lioncicault uud did it with her eyes open." |