Show what one woman did doul four years ago the taik talk of the town in yeas new a w ato avo york ork was jim fisk the prince of erie and heir ap parent of the realm of speculation on wall street he had fallen in the town of a night how he came his antecedents his hia backers kershis bac his motives were for fon f or a time profound mystery all that the public knew came from the surface he had in his hla favor the incontestable irresistible prestige of success whatsoever he touched turned to gold whatsoever he touched by some means found a new owners ownership all that he baw saw was h his own hZ how U he got it the world for a time took no pains to inquire A boston boy of 0 narrow training he graduated as a smart fellow nothing farther he came into the metropolis with a few lew thousand dollars and in five years those thousands were double as many millions he po possessed himself of the erie rail rall railroad he possessed himself of the magnificent white marble pile built by pike of cincinnati the most spacious and elegant theatre in the world be he possessed himself of lines 9 of colossal steamers between new york boston and jeong branch indeed of his possessions it would require a catalogue more fatiguing than the maritime inventory of homer to give anything like comple compie completeness tene ss with success and wealth he gained all that these irresistible agencies gavela give in such a capital adnew as new york he was wag wai the friend and patron of the president of the united states and speculated on that intimacy as the imperishable record of black friday will forever attest he controlled wall street when he chose and was in his way the most abhor red fedj the most admired the most shunned h ale d and the boat most dreaded and most t courted youth in the metropolis fathers with niarra marriageable age daughters did not court cot A him I 1 nor mammas anxious for matches atch but he was the lord of many a destiny the arbiter of many a fates fate where chance threw iwo two lives in his way which brought him to the end of his career nor is it the romance the picturesque dramatic dra matle matie contrasts which m make a ke the story worth retelling two tw 0 events within ten days of each other th suggest a word of useful moralizing moral ai izing ing upon the v vanity of human wishes s and human achievements it is a more than usually pointed lesson of the baleful ending to mans lawlessness and womans comans it was in the very glory of his political and financial combinations with th the courtland courts court sand and legislatures at his c worn gorn command m and that prince trin ce eile erie met josephine J os ephine mansfield a woman very well known to chicagoans Chicag oana as the wife of abonce a once popular ilar liar actor frank lawlor lawior she LO T i had b been een well reared and accustomed to the modest graces of ilfe life her hen ather was a journalist of limited it d means and her youth was given ewul up to only the simple phases of domestic life ilfe she was educated wel well if not thoroughly and possessed some borne of the charms of manner inevitable to a well s stored mind unhappily for herself hersel f bhe ahe possessed possessed ft A beauty which did not nind find scope in her by no means congenial surroundings she was eager for the world and the thead admiration mi ration which she felt the world was ready to lavish upon her she wits was fascinated with the stage and because be eattie cattie her passion for display could best beat bo be gratified d on it she resolutely pushed hed herself upon it she taw faw and married led lawlor and for a time the devil of unrest was stilled within her bhe she was surrounded by a new world devotion ligde hadeen Hp ilide deen ep and adoration gd oration hollow bollow and an insincere as the emotions she assumed assum eds were hers he rs beyond measure but nut the contented heart which the psalmist sings as a continual feast was not hers she had seen but I 1 little ittig of the world yet she longed forthe for the wider possibilities of he the t great city thither at her desire lawlor took her in the summer of 1871 the woman who cra era craves ves other admiration than that of the domestic circle is en on the high road to ruin to wish for devotion outside of wedlock is wanton and this josephine lawlor lawior soon acknowledged to herself was the secret desire that stung her into unrest the will of a wanton is the inspiration of satan and she soon found jound a way to break from the yoke ok that held heid her the notorious divorce lawyer house whose wife W was midweek last week tried and acquitted for far llis lifs murder was called in and made the manofield mansfield nield field a free woman she obtained a ej presentation to fisk he HO was young susceptible enamored and at once acceded t to berwill her will he bought her a su sumpta ous I 1 broin brofn stone near the grand 0 opera and while ann and rose bose bell beil apera oli oil illustrated ia lust rated the sensuous fascinations of opera gouffe on the stage fiak flak and helen josephine enacted the bouffler of loyes lovers young dream in the sinful relation of concubinage his wife and family lived in boston while this notorious dalliance went on in new york but satiety seems to have been as keen a source of discontent to the fortunate woman as the first meager menger results of the wider field of I 1 life ilfe she had entered with such intoxicating visions of delight though fisk lavished the wealth of indian argosies argo sies upon her her errant heart was untouched one day fask brought a new personage ww upon the scene he came to dlce dice with the prince and his mistress the meeting was an eventful one for the three the comer was edward 8 stokes and he fell as madly in love with mansfield as she foli foll fell feil passionately in love jove with him for 0 r helas he was all that fisk Fis kwas was not A man of singular personal beauty of something above the animal order he had been since boyhood the distraction of heart he had become involved in business and confiding his em barrass ments to fisk had rec received elved prompt assistance from that generous bac bacchanal chinai chinal the mutual passion was soon apparent to ever so dull and unsuspecting an observer as fisk and he made an explosion mansfield unhesitatingly selected stokes and defied fisk but she did not know how much the siy sir sly silky lover could be when aroused he e had the whole judie fudle judicial fai ful machinery of the city in his interest and at once proceeded ed to strip the woman of all that he had lavished upon her and by an audacious stratagem secured a lodge for stokes in the ludlow street jail life in short shorts was made a burden for both the lovers and finally in a fit of ungovernable rage the two men meeting on the great staircase of the grand central hotel stokes shot the stout prince ith deadly effect and the feud that lust began as is always the case ended in ln blood the excitement cit ement and surprise in new york had not been equaled since the nathan or Of burdell murder stokes was of good family A young man of unobtrusive irregularities of ilfe life the husband of a charming wife and tho the th father of a pretty baby his association with anything of the fisk stripe had bad never been generally known and his appearance as the assassin was a shock which did not die out for many a day of course the trial was an exe exciting ring ding one arrayed against each other were the strongest passions which can find their way even eien even tu tv tb the e footstool of justice thousands had bad been corrupted by the glare of diaks career thousands of young men admired him and were eager to emulate him hirn thousands who were not nob you young ng admired him because he made vice so splendid that its hideousness was concealed and other thousands who did not stop to reason admired him because he was a success on the other hand those who measured the debauchery of which he had been the cause caus jo and the misery of a hundred nameless sorts to which his unchecked gave rise were filled w with th a bitter relentless hatred which very likely likel v also found expression at the trial no i jury juny ury co could d be found to acquit stoll stoil stokes the first year and the spoiled darling of wealth and high breed breeding ilIg 1119 grew haggard arld and des prudent in the gloomy cells of the tombs he lay there fully fifteen months bedore before the second trial was concluded and he received sentence for four yearb years ears in sing sing this was in t time me commuted to tn three and next saturday he will wiil will wiil walk out of auburn anburn the wreck of 0 the magnificent manly beauty he pr presented four years ago he has grown arfy grey and bent and his friends frienda will find it biffl c falt fili to recognize him m meantime his father and K mother er have havo gone to their gra ves in h anguish ills his wife cifes s life Is cravea embittered and stained his child an outcast among her equals and her own life but a troubled span h and for what tho the lawless la W less lebs fator favor favor of or a shameless wan wanton t on the loathsome 0 embrace of a crea creature tue who could sacrifice the most precious procious procious gift of womanhood for the gratification of tir a passing whim when will wi w i Is karn it rn t theann ai e ego ean n W when hen aill men learn tho of smiles that are bought in IR the market chicago times oct oot 26 people will laugh on onmon mon day dec 4 while august white a well know new york news dealer was waa sitting in conversation with his wife in their house on broadway his hearty laugh over some joke suddenly changed to a ogk oak ook of agony and he sank bank to the floor dead sir bowland tid iid hill the introducer of penny postage in england is to havela have A statue in his hia native town kidderminster |