Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-24
A SUPERFLUOUs SPOUSE.

The actor Fechter Charged to Haze Been
addicted to a Plurality Of Wices--A Salt
bN. the First Mrs. Fechter to Test Miss
0Ldzzie Price's Title to Bear the Trnqe-
dams Name.
tPhiladelphia Speciall
Mime. R. Feohter, now living in France
the true widow of the great actor, has en-
gagged counsel here to take the necessary
steps looking toward revocation of the letter
of administration upon Charles Fechter'a
estate, taken out after his death by Miss Liz
zie Price, with whom he had lived for five
years previous to his death. AS soon as the
account Of Mr.. Fechter's death and burial
reached her in France, Nine. Feohter
wrote to friend and lawyer in
this city, putting her case in his
hands, and asking him to take such
steps as would be necessary to insure her re-
cognition here as the true wife of the dead
actor, and to have his body removed from
the cemetery here to France. Application
will be filed Immediately in the orphans
court of Bucks county to annul tho letter OF
administration already taken out. Nine.
Fechter will then have only to show the
validity of her marriage and the absence of
a subsequent divorce to realize her wishes,
natural to faithful wife and mother. Any
contest in that case, if one were
possible, would not be for pecuniary
gain, as Mr.. Feohter's lawful heirs
inherit only legacy of debts, which the sale
of all his personal estate and mortgaged farm
would barely discharge. Miss Lizzie Price,
who now dresses in the deepest mourning,
said yesterday: II do not recognize the
woman in France who pretends to have
claims upon my husband. His daughter and
myself thoroughly understand each other.
have letter from her this week, but the
woman do not know nor recognize. Mine
is right and might, and I'd like to see them
take it from me-"
1t will be remembered that six years ago
Fechter denied the report of his engage.
ment to be married to his leading lady, Car
lotta LIE Clercq, in these words, in public
card to the Boston Daily Aduertiser:
Your statement deeply panied me. regard
Mis- LIE Clercq as q dear sister, but have an
afectionate wife and two beloved children in
Paris, to whom I hope soon to return.
He never did, and two years later he took
Lizzie Price, then q beautiful actress, from
her husband, Willie White, who was also q
member Of Fecher's company. In q lette,
to the Times, of this city, last winter
Fecher's wife alluded to his reported mar.
riage to an American as follows:
ALLOW me emphatically to deny this grave
and sad error, which, if it obtained credence,
would injure the reputation left by my husband
in Paris as that of an honorable man, and
would, no doubt, also injure that of his chill.
dren, to whom, until now, honor is the only
pat rimOny.
In letter received by the Times from
Nine. Fechter, subsequent to her husbands
death, she says:
Up to 1873 we hoped for the return of an
honorable man and loving father, of hus
derstandinga in our until then happy home, &
worthy of respect in any sense, came through
the creature who dares assume the honorable
name, dishonored by her above all
in that she has taken from hi,
children the respect, the love and
alteration they bad for theh father; and that
was happy to encourage in them. Mr.. Fechtel
appreciated this, for he thanked me for It il
terms that proved that at times the life he wa.
leading. and from which he dared not break
away, made him very unhappy. will not tel
you, Sir, what think Of that lady, who, aftel
having ruined the life of our two
children, my life and my husbands lift
!shee killed him by all possible means
both morally and materially, had the fright
full courage, knowing him so i'll, to let him die
without calling to his deathbed, if not hil
wife, at least his children. She then dared t.
bury in her family grave the body that belong
ed to us alone, and above all had the cruel au
dacity 20 send, four days after this horribl.
event, this telegram, addressed to his dsugh
ter: f3
Your father died Monday. will write you
the details and those of his property and in.
tention. LrzzH PRICE FIGHTER.