Show THE TilE CURSE GURSE OF I GREAT RICHES Tragic Career of Those Who Traverse Great White Way DIVORCE MURDER SUICIDE Thau- Thau Case Caso Cas Is lint But One of or Many Inn Sensations Sellon I in Million Millionaire i llon- llon aire Circles Circes The Thaw Thaw caso case has lias hc been n responsible for calling to lu the light hurled burled memories ics ies of many a a. a similar romance In which the tho chief characters were wore hab hab- Hies of or tho the under world Like Thaw many luau of the men muon and women whose whoso names are most frequently on reminiscent remi lips these those days ar are or wore were Pittsburg millionaires But Bul while the ci city of or PH Pitsburg has hns seemingly fUrnished furnished fur fUr- the majority o of unfortunate at now flow rich men inch or men who arc are unfortunate un unfortunate un- un fortunate through having Inherited riches there Utere axe arc maim mal many other eases cases casES parallel In mal ninny many respects to lo the sad sl Instance of or larr Harry J Kendall C Thaw w and his chorus churus girl wife which have teen boon resurrected d. d. d Probably the most remarkable thing about aboul the present absorbing topic o of conversation Is tho limo un universality I erl t wih with which every ver ever one roue oue and amid ant chaste citizen oll- oll citi zen zon alike alc refers to the tho proverb which states that the time wages of sin Is death Time The lw wages of sin have so often oren resulted re re- ro- ro suited suled In death in In New York and other lar large e cities whore where creators and scions of immense Immo se fortunes find time palling upon their hands and nl are thus forced to resort to questionable and arid deplorable methods to procure the time essential sensations which human nature demands doman s that the time present case while it I eclipses cs all al previous ones one In point of oC Interest is Js nevertheless rendered ren ron dered more Interesting by comparison In the earlier days the tho principals In escapades Calades e that have made tIme the world word shudder have usually been men mom whose sudden acquisition of or wealth has hns turned turn turn- turned ed their heads and caused then them to seek seck el thel tho society of women other than those who fought lifes life's battles with wih them to a successful conclusion The Time country Is not hot yet el so new that this class clas has entirely disappeared But eclipsing the tho new rich In iii point of spectacular dissipation l within the time last decade have come the tIme sn sons o of millionaires million who raised raised rais rals- aires and anI ant multimillionaires ed in the tho lap of luxury luxury and with wih no expressed iv wish Ish then denied led ha have hae e carried CaTlet their devious Inclinations to points which have e caused the tho word to compare compare com con of or America pare the tile wealthy people leople of or a certain class clas to the ancient Romans nomans Ro no- mans ii In a a. a manner which has made nado ma c America su suffer ifer I In ii comparison Fatalities In Iii Great White Way a The sudden Ulden ending of o the thc career of ol Stanford White calls UI up the time ghosts of that have occurred In other tragedies ha e th thi alluring l gleam of tho great white auth th m fascination fascinating glitter gUter o of tho time white whito lights Moralists nod and philosophers who realIze how akin arc are comedy and tragedy ar are pointing point ant The In ing the time heavy linger finger of warning bubble bubblo world has seen seem many tragedies similar to the tIme White Thaw shooting In Tm II the Ow known and unknown heartbreaks heartbreaks heart heart- breaks which have havo dotted the history of oC New Yorks York's theatrical and bohem- bohem lan Inn life lle the double suicide of May Maj Brooklyn leading woman of A. A M M. 1 Palmers Palmer's company and Frederick stage manager of Palmers Palmer's theatre has Its Is suggestion of similar ar it ity I So has tho the suicide of Crissie Carlisle Carlisle Car Car- lisle lc tho time beautiful young actress and amid ant 1 Miss Brooklyn Brook Brook- Charles Chames Rons Hohs her fiance nance of oC A. A M. M Palmers Palmer's lyn lymm was wn leading lad lady 1 company The manager of Palmers Palmer's theatre was mas Frederick and auth the friendship of or the leading woman and d the tho manager soon sool developed Into lute deep love lore loyo One day dy ft committed com corn muted suicide in his rooms Worry over business affairs was said mil to have unsettled his mind Miss Us Brooklyn was sas greatly depressed b by tho time suicide anti anil shortly after she sue was found dead with witha a bottle bollo of or carbolic acid achl by her side II of CI lc Carlisle lc The Tho tragedy of Carlisle Is one ono of ot those pathetic stories moralists loveto lo c love hove to point out with wih many quotations of the time w wages of or sin In Yet tIme the lw greatest reat st stIn sin In of or the tho beautiful young actress who was the toast of ot the UI glided gilded youth In Inthe Inthe inthe the land where the time white l lights twinkle was her love lo of pleasure and the essence of ot life which makes the tho great white wa way Just what It I is Is But the primrose path of or dalliance led lel butto but butto ul to time the suicides suicide's grave gr e One Ome day lay an unrecognizable unrecognisable body bod was found In tho time underbrush tin up UI near neat Fordham The Tho face was wa so disfigured by exposure that no one ono know knew who the time was was Nearby there was an empty bottle boUlc which had contained carbolic acid Carlisle always carried g nn Mays May's nys ny's picture Tho The two girls hail ha hal been cen great groat friends Then rhen the world woman suicide sui sul- knew ineis' that thal the 11 disfigured cide who had ham lain unclaimed In the th morgue for days s 's was tho time once beautiful ful fuh Carlisle la Tho The story was the thu theold old ohl one ono of a favorite fa daughter Ai An Illness she fhe hail had hat ocre overestimated In iii Its Is seriousness had hal made male hot her de do pressed Sho She was out of oC work worl and anO shunned her he old companions companions Two Tm weeks after the death leath of the lie young actress who had hat found life too wearisome some somo at 30 30 the thc hod bod body o of a man man was found foun In Riverside park parI He lie had shot himself and then lien taken carbolic acid acil I Later tel It was wa discovered l coven d that time the suicide sui sul- chIc cide was Charles J. J Hobs a bookkeeper book haole- cle keeper at the A Waldorf lorla Robs Hohs has been engaged the to Crissie Carlisle In love with whom he wa aas s deeply Another Evelyn E E cu Suffered The Tho story stor of or Evelyn Evilyn Granville Gran 1 once a famous Casino Casimio Casino v beauty Js Is even more mOle fitting for tor the pen lien of 0 the moralist morl- morl moral moral- than the tho tragel tragedy of oC Carlisle Eighteen years ago Evelyn Eveln Granville was one of oC tho the most dashing beauties beautes o of New Nev Yorks York's theatrical life le No oung young actress was vas wa moro more photographed than the she Sho She lived like 10 a diva and her and equipages were were- were the time c ally envy o of the working hard chorus girl During her theatrical success q she met me Burton Webster a bookmaker Shortly Short Short- ly after as Mr Mr an and amid Mrs Pc Webster r. r they went vent to live at al a fashionable boarding house In second Forty Fort street Broker Goodwin appeared on the domestic scene one onela day la- la tin and ant as a result resul of oC th the beautiful Evelyns Evelyn's acquaintance Goodwin Goo lost his liP life Web claiming that Good Good- Goodwin Gool- Gool win had insulted Evelyn and auth then hal threatened him hum so he hot shot the tho hi broker Webster was aS sentenced to t twenty years at Sing Sing anti and the famous Ca Casino girl sank ank to the time 10 lowest lowe l depths of tle degradation n. n More 1010 r recently centy I than the tho Webster Webster-Goodwin murder was vas the time shooting of Mrs 1 Rose Hose h b her lter p A. A 1 JJ 1 i t. t t f J iLk Harry HaJT J. J Rose Hose actor and amid nut stage e manager of the theatre And Anil yet more recent was vax the tho uninviting Uninviting un un- inviting case caMO of ur Nan nn tho Flu ol ra girl who was ivas acquitted of th murder murler of ot Caesar Young Youn the bookmaker Time The sordid romance of 1 petty pair Is la still fresh h In the th minds of oC all al newspaper rea readers reader 1 Pil t a t Parallel lel But nut bordering directly on the tho Thaw w ca case is that which resulted In time the murder of Jim Jima Fisk FIRk Not sluice since the killing of ot the time famous financier h by byEd Ed Ril Stokes on the tho stairway o of time tho old Grand Central hotel lintel has there been boen such audi a t sensational homicide In this town as the tIme shooting of oC Stanford White by hy Harry K Thaw To find a parallel in public nubile interest In the tIme tragedy It i is necessary nry to go o back a 0 third of a century On Saturday night Jan 0 G 1872 1872 Edwin Stokes shot hot James Fisk Jr jl The trouble In that Instance arose over a woman The two men immen menIe were weme Ie famous in time tho lt annals annal of oC the time town as White anti and Thaw ha have hae been There however the time similarity between be he- tween the lie cases case seems to lo end en If I young Thaw manages manages to escape the lime penalty of oC his act however on some plea pha whether of Insanity or self self-de e- e fonse he lie will wi add another Item Hem to the likeness between his case c arid antI that 01 or of Stokes Jim Jim Fisk came to Now New York soon after the time thea war var a Later Late Ller he lie broke Into the tho board o of the time gle Emie ro r railroad 11 where ho lie soon became a comrade of Jay Could Gould Together they put down Erie stock In Jim Fisk cornered time the gold gohil goll market running gold old up to 11 0 When President Grant knocked the bottom out of oC the market Fisk re repudiated re- re Ju l tel nil all aJ the tIme bargains he lie had made for fOl the ie sale ale of gold Ho lie 10 escaped the time penally of this thiN action acton through h hl his re relations re- re lations with will wih this lie tw Tweed Tweel ring which was then in ii control of the time city govern gov gov- ern eminent men t Quarreled On Over O r Woman It I was business that lint brought brough ht Fisk anti and Stokes together Stokes was Interested 1 In an nn oil 01 company that furnished furnished fur fur- oil 01 to the Erie Eric Tho rw two men became friends and amid Fisk Invited lell In tim the younger man to dine at the time famous house hou e In ill West e t Twenty third street where the time prince of Erie had set sel u uj up an establishment for fOI Mansfield a woman with wih whom ho lie was wa Infatuated It I was not lon long IJ before fore the woman began e an to show a liking for tom Stokes Fisk Filc realized the tho lon lion but hut ho he c evidently still cared for forand forand and tried to lo win her hor back hack h n this llis proved red plo Impossible ho lie wrote wroe to her You went that road because it looked smooth and pleasant pheasant am ammine anti and mine looked ra ragged gell and amid ant worn I can cam see sec you now as a I saw you ou last night nigh when you OU lal talked ed of this tIlls man Stokes yourself love Do not deceive yourself you you ou him He lie prophesied that she would treat Stokes as she sho did him but was the time womans woman's hold upon him Ilium that tha within a month mouth Fisk FIsI was sending lie her monc money mommy and amid writing to her hm After that there came cammie a definite break breal The Time l ht wits transferred to time the business relations of oC the time two men inca Fisk withdrew the Eries Erie's patronage patronage- of lC it the tho Ii oil I company and auth Stokes lost los heavily hea Each man maim hail had hal the tho other arrested arrested ar ar- rested in turn Josie Mansfield gave her hel new lover the lie old ones one's let letters rs which he lie threatened to publish Fisk bought hought them back for Timer time the Man fell woman began hegan egal a suit sul sui of th time the a against Fisk On Oum time the morning day when the tile shooting occurred thieve was a hearing of this last suit stilt I In I court court Stokes tho time lo woman Under time thc questioning qu o e of Fisk's lawyers she sue broke down do nn aim nHI cried This Pius roused her admirer ti to great anger au I Stokes trailed t 11 ell Fist Fisk l I Itile to tile the Je C Central hotel Ju Jiul was wass going upstairs Stokes Sloko nn fired d tw two shots Fisl Fisk was able ahle get to-get to lo Iet to hi lii his feet Ceet and amid wal walk upstairs Ho lie died th the next morning The town lown was In a an uproar over o er the lw affair Some hothead wanted to 0 mob moh the Tombs where Stokes was confined A guard of 20 policemen surrounded tw lime tho city prison Stokes was wa tried and amid sentenced t to death Ho lie obtained a new trial hmo howe how how- lo teath ground Ihn thui the e e er e or and got free on omi he lie hall had shot got Fisk in iii self sel II le JosI died only a few years ago Mansfield wont went to lo Paris Paris years later she married a rich youn oung man named Read nead Later time they sop set the time wo wc woman woman wo- wo and amid Sever seven years yeah's ago ago man muan was stricken with wih paralysis No Nw Now she too Is death dead Millionaires Unfortunate nut Cut tIm tho greatest wonder of or tho the pc pe- pe cullar misfortune which lies has accompanied cular tho the quest for or the time wages osin o osin sin has hns resulted from time tho the relations of ot PIL millionaire been bce and their them sons sous sons These Those men have unusually unfortunate in ii their mar mar- It I i is doubtful if It any city ely ii In Inthe the tho world o of similar size has been beci cursed wih with more move unfortunate do do- do problems than that has been trim Inn of lf the millionaire sot set of or And these men momi can cn scarcely maki Time The woman Adams Adam's excuse and F say ray thou gayest gavet me mo 0 O Lord Lor for In Jn mos most cases It has hus been the wife who ha has etl J wrong wron at the lie hands of or tin tb husband or 01 at least the time evidence ii In Inthe the time divorce courts COUts seems to lo hav borne e bOI out this theory One of ot the time earlier caller Thaws Thans his narni nam has bos been forgotten just for the time moment moment mo mo- ha ment started the tho list That hat was thi tho famous Indian princess trial Tom Marshall Allegheny county's counts mos most l famous criminal lawyer made mado hi lit his reputation In iii the tho trial of that case Cuba U. U Quit was time the Indian doss cess ces' ces She Sue married maried a Thaw At lens leas the tho world reco recognized them as married and time the man maim never made t denla denia of or Jt She know knew little of oC her husban or J. J his antecedents When hun ho lie tIled died shwas sh sin was teas wa advised to sue for her widows widow's dower owel of or his rich estate Only the lie older l' l people of or time the but It was ivam today that trial tolay r one joe of ot tho time most remarkable ever tried here mere The Thaws won although the tu In favor Cavor of or the tho verdict was popular l wa du dusky tUsk ky Indian girl who had hind pledged bet hei H. H I Ilfe life and her honor bonor to the scion of oC the lit Thaws Thaw All Al that remains ii In Pittsburg today to recall that famous trial Is an am al alley She e named for or the Indian princess al It I was as a rich sc scandal while It I la lasted t Buried In time tho Allegheny county courthouse court court- houe house arc are the time records o fr f the time Quit claims To his dying Jay dar Ia Tom Marshall Marshal maintained the tho Indin |