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

The Aotor Fecz.ter Charged to Have Been
addicted to a Plurality of Wives--A Suit
by the First Mrs. Fechtes to Test Miss
Lfssic Prices Title to Bear the TRACE
di0,a's Name.
philadelphia Special
Nine. r. Fechter, 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's
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. Fechter
wrote to a 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 the letter of
administration already taken out. Nine.
Fechter will then have only to show the
validity of her marriage and the absence of
q 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 pecunlary
gain, as Mr.. Fechter'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: 81 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 SEQ 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 AdvertSser:
Your statement deeply panied me. regard
Miss LIE clercq as dear sister. but have an
affectionate wife and two beloved children in
Paris, to whom hope soon to return.
He never did, and two years later he took
Lizzie Price, then beautiful actress, from
her husband, Willie White, who was also a
member of Fecher's company. In q letter
to the Times, of this city, last winter,
Fecher's wife alluded to his reported mar
rage 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
patrimony.
In letter received by the Times from
Nine. Fechter, subsequent to her husband g
death, she says:
Up to 1873 we hoped for the return of an
honorable man and loving father, of hus-
band who had during nineteen years made his
wife both proud and happy. The first misun-
derstandings in our until then happy home, SO
worthy OF respect in any sense, came Though
the creature who dares assume the honorable
name, dishonored by her above all,
in that she has taken from his
children the respect, the love and
alteration they had for their father; and that I
was happy to encourage in them. Mr.. Fechter
appreciated this, for he thanked me for it in
terms that proved that at times the life he was
leading, and from which he dared not break
away, made him very unhappy. will not tell
having ruined the life of our two
children, my life and my husbands life
(she 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 his
wife, at least his children. She then dared to
bury in her family grave the body that belong
dacity to send, four days after this horrible
event, this telegram, addressed to his daugh-
ter:
Your father died Monday. 1 will write YOU
the details and those of his propertyand in
tention. lizzie PRICE FIGHTER.