The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-15
FIsK.ArANsFIELD LETTERS.
They are Published by the New York
HeTald.-Some Account of the Re.
lations That Subsisted Between
HNed,' HJimo and tEJosie.0 "

"Ned," "Jim'' and tsJosie." 's
New YORK, January 14.-The Heult
publishes the Fisk Mansfield correspond
ence. 1t says Fisk and Stokes first me-
In the summer Of 1869, the latter com
paratively poor. A year before Fisk was
introduced to Miss Mansfield at her OWE
request at thC'fesidence of Miss AIMS
Wobd'a, in Thirty.iourth street. She was
poor and told Miss Wood she had not a
decent article Of clothing.a Fisk took 9
Iancyto her and she became his smistress
The intimacy ripehed intoa strong alice.
tion on his side, At this juncture Fisk
and Stokes became intimate. The oil re.
llnery belonging To- the latter's mother
was put into working order at Fisk's ex.
pense and company formed. Stokes
was at first made treasurer Of the com,
pany, but having drawn out over $39,.
GOO in the course of four months, the
company was reOrganized and he was
appointed secretary Of the new corpora.
tion. From the new company he drew
out over $4,000 in the course of six
months, and en- January @, 1871, he
collected in one day $4,000 Of the
COmpany's money, no part Of which
Fisk claimed was due to him, and put II
into his pocket, telling some Of his friends
that he had got $4,000 Of Fisks money
and meant TO keep II. For this he was
arrested in the manner hereafter stated;
but upon his discharge from arrest com.
promise was entered into, by which he
was allowed TO keep what money was in
his possession, and was paid $15, 900 more
for himself, and $4,000 for his mother in
order TO induce him to sell out his interest
and retire from the company. In one way
and another Stokes managed to leave
with $lSO000 more money than he had
when he went into II, all ol which he de-
rived directly from his relations with Fisk.
Stokes, in the meantime, had been intro.
duced to Miss Mansfield, at whose house
he spent days and nights. Fisk grew ieal.
Ous and Stokes swOre he had no cause;
but Fisk was not satisfied, and sought to
break his connection with the woman,
even though he did love her. lie wrote a
farewell letter to Josie, and then she
would write q sweet reply, when Fisk
would repent and send her q present,
and ollcn sum Of money. While
she was thick with Stokes, Fisk
was all the time sending her money.
Soon after, Fisk wrote u parting letter to
Josie, and told her that she must look to
Stokes for her support. This made Josie
mad. She showed all of Fisk's letters to
Stokes. Stokes saw at once that these
were not letters which married man
should write 10 u woman other than his
wife. He saw that there were personal
matters that u man would write only to a
woman whom he loved. lie saw in them
u chance for merchandise opportuni.
ty TO hold Fisk in his power. Stokes now
gathered together ali notes, telegralns,
scraps or cards, and every word which
Fisk had written Josephine Mansfield.
lie even gathered scraps on cards which
Fisk had witten to this woman while sit.
ting in her parlor waiting for her 10 come
down stairs. Stokes then made out the
claim Tor 100000 against Fisk. With this
claim he sent copies of Fisk's letters to
Josie. He said unless this claim was paid ,
the letters would he published to the
world. This demand for 100000 was
made through his attorney, Ira ShatIer,
Mr.. Beach declining 10 be concerned with
the matter. These are the letters which
caused Fisk to get out an Injunction to
prevent their publication. They are not
extraordinary letters, but such letters as u
man would write TO Il woman he loved,
and whose infatuation he had resolved TO
cast oil. No revelations about Erie or
Tammany appear in those published by
the Herald, which are said TO be all the
correspondence now in existence. The
following is the only letter which has any
allusion TO parties connected with Erie or
Tammany:
"No. l7S WEST THIRD STREET, |
Tuesday, October 10, 1853. !
"MY DEAR JOSIE flames McTIenry,
partner Of Sir Morton Peto, tho largest
railroad builder in the world; Mr.. Tweed
and Mr.. Lane, will dine with us at half
past six O'Clock. Iwant you 10 provide as
nice a dinner as possible. Everything
went oil elegantly. We are all safe.
Will see you at six o'clock.
"[Sighedl JAMES" 4
On the 2Sth Of January, 1870, Josie
made big row. She declared she would
leave Fisk il he. didn't make over 10 her
q competency for life. Fisk refused. The
next day Josie wrote him a threatening
letter, saying their relations were ended.
On October 1st, 1870, Fisk, in n long
letter TO Mansfield, says: "But what
think you Of woman who would veil
my eyes first by gentle kiss and alter
ward deceit, and for days, and weeks, and
months, and years, by deceit and fraud 10
lead me through the dark valley Of trou-
bic when she could have made my path.
way one Of roses; committing crime
which u devil incarnate would shrink
from, while all this time l showed TO her,
as TO you, nothing but kindness, both In
words and actions, laying at your feet a
soul, heart, n fortune, reputation,
which had cost, by night and day, twenty.
five years ot perpetual struggle, and
which, but for the black blot OF having
in an evil hour linked itself with you,
would stand out to-day brighter than
any ever seen upon the earth, but
the mist Inns fallen and you appear in your
true light. borrow your own words TO
describe you-'a snake in the grassland
verify | have found thee out, and you have
the audacity to call your. sainted mother
10 witness your advice. A dog bites, &c.,
'&c. How worship right. | said "Gct
thee behind me Satan," the few weeks that
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