Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-04
Her Ninth Husband.

TIE MYSTERIOUS YELLED Ir:'Ess OF THE OLIVER
CAMERON SUIT TURNS Up IN san F:sASCISCo-EER
IATRiI0NIAL EXPERIENCES BROUGHT OUT IN
SUIT FOR DIVORCE FROM LAST HUSBAND.
The philosophy OF marriage. says the San Fran
cisco Examiner, is just now receiving curious and
dramatic illustration in the Superior court. Mary
4. Hasaioach agt. Theodore Hasabacl, an action
for divorce, is the title OF singular case which for
Tue past leW Gays has been trial with closed
doors before Judge Edinund5. In Daplr,m No. {.
1t has tran,pi:ed that Mrs: Hssaibacl Is none
other than ''the mysterious yelled woman" who ap-
peared so couSpicuolsiy in the character OF q
witness during the trial in Washington sew
erai years since for damages for breach Of pro-
mise against Simon Cameron. Mrs. Hasalbach
now seeks a legal separation from her hus-
band, Mr.. Hasalbach, alleging that he has been
cruel in his treatment and has also threatened to
shoot her. Mr.. Ea,abach has fled a denial of
these allegations ald a crosS-coinpiaint, asking
Mrs. Hasaibach nat husband living at The date OF
her nuDtiaiS with him, in April last, lie also ac-
she is neither chaste sober. Mr.. and Mrs Has
alDach have been s1ing at 1859 Market street.
He Is ss years OF age, nacve OF Germ my and the
pos5esSor or moderate capital Mrs. hasablch
Claims to be So years DID, but admitted during her
crCsS-eX animation in court thai She WAS born in
1897. which according to the modern principles OF
mathematics would make her but 46 years OF age.
Sne, so IL appears, was an fteneTant vender OF
pOinadeS, lotions. etc.
HER LAST MARRIAGE.
She went one day to the house OF Mr. Hasalbach.
hearing that he was sick, for the purpose of SELL
ing him some pills, and. as she says, being anxious
for 10 take care OF her, and believing him to
be worth $4,000, concluded to marry him. The
courtShlp was OF only few weeks duration. at the
expiration OF which She proposed, was accepted,
ana the wedding, Vas celebrated. Mir. Hasalbach
testified that lad ar different times prior to
her encounter with Theodore. been the pOSseSsOr
OF six husbands. but. When under cross-examina-
tiOG. ADMITTED that OF the lot four had died, three
mad Deen divorced. ana one was among the miss
tng-thus making a total Of eight, exclusive or the
last husband. When asked who tney were Mrs.
Hasalbacn was unable to recollect them all, the
list was SO long, and could name only the following
slx: John T.. Connors, George VI. French, Asa I.
tIrondycke, j. A. Sample, AOram Henriques, Isaac
Lean1er. Mrs. HasaIDach evidently has Il prefer
ence for elderly men, since ali OF her numerous
husbands were much Older than She One Of them
SIX years her senior, and, as has been stated her
present spouse Is Seventy-two years Of age Mr.
Hasalbach is widower, an Old resilient OF Sacra-
mentO, ana CahforEta pioneer, and Mrs. HaSal-
bach has been living In San Francisco for about
three years 1t Is III evidence that she was be-
throthed to Mr. HaSalbacn for three weeks prior to
her divorce from MIR. Leiander. 1t Is also claimed
10y the counsel for Mr.. Hasalbach that the mar
riage Is NOT valid, since at the date OF It's occur
renee In last April the decree Of divorce from Mr..
Leiander had not been filed or recorded.
her APPEARANCE IN WASHINGTON.
Mrs Hasalbach, when defendant In the divorce
suit Of Josiah A. Sample Us. Mary A. Sample, which
was tried some time since In washington, was then
identified as the mysterious yelled witness In the
Cameron case. When called to the witness-bOx she
gave the name OF AirS NJ A. HenriQueS, and in the
course OF her testimony said that she had been 1nt1
mate with Mrs oliver, who cOnfded to her the in
teniion she had OF blackmaiiing Simon Cameron.
Mrs oliver was then told by witness that II she
ever attempted 70 blackmau Simon Cameron she
(the wtneSs would appear and testify against her.
Mrs. Henrtques, alias Hasalbach, also testified on
clOSSexamination that she was born in Maine: that
She left there when sixteen years Of age for Phila
del lphta, IN company with her husband, George N.
French She also lived at later dates In CordOva,
Miss, and Lyons, Iowa. whence she went Chicago
Her maiden name, she continued, was Mary Ann
Prant. Her first husband was living yet, she
having been divorced from ;,im. She next married
MI. Grondycke, who died In 1864 she was averse
to telling people how often she had been married.
j. II. sample, OF North Carolina was her next huS-
band, to whom sine was married IN January, 1868,
and went with him TO Mobile, Ala, in 1874, and az
ter travelling Tor time had returned 70 Washington,
she resided until March, 1875 When asked by
counsel at this stage Of her testimony how she
came by her then name Of MIA Hennques, she
replied: tsThat's my business / came honestly
by it." Then she went on to say that she had mar
r1ed Mr.. Henr1Ques In Phadelphia In 1876 but had
lived with him only for week or so. She had sup
posed at the time she was wedding WELT do
man, but had discovered that be was old poor, and
an invalid, and unable to take care OF her. She
did not know what had become Of Nj. HenfiQueS
since the separation, and declared that she came
by her money honestly and not by blackmaNing.
Mrs Hasalbach woman OF nine husbands II not OF
ntne lives. She takes the world philosopmcally,
and still survives the missing dead and divorced
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