Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-08
EIGHT TIMES MARRIED,
The Mysterious Yelled Woman's
Many Husbands.
Something About the Witness Who Tesi.
fed in the BIackmaiIirg Case
Against Old SIMON
Cameron.

| WASHINGTON, January 6.--The philosophy
of marriage. says the San Francisco Exam.
liner, is just now receiving a curious and
dramatic illustration in the Superior Court.
Mary A. Hssalbach against Theodore
Hasalbach an action for divorce" is the
title OF singular case, which for the past
lew days has been on trial with closed
doors before Judge Edmunds. in Depart
ment No. !.
1t hes transpired that Mrs. Hasalbsch IL
none other than 1.-THE mysterious yelled
woman" who appeared so conspicuously IN
the character of witness during the trial
in Washington, several years since, for
damages for breach of promise against
Simon Cameron. Mrs. Hssalbach now seeks
legal separation from her husband, Mr..
Hasalbach, alleging that he has been cruel
in his treatment, and has also threatened
to shoot her.
Mr.. Hssalbach has filed denial of these
allegations, and a crow complaint, asking
that the marriage be snnuled on the
ground that Mrs. llasalbach had husband
living at the date of her nuptals with him
in April last. He also accuses her of mis-
representation and declares that she is
neither chaste nor sober. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hasslbach have been residing at 1850 MAJ
ket Street. lie is seventy two years of age,
tt native OF Germany and the possessor Of =
moderate capital.
A WOman's Remark able FaIsehood. 7
Mrs. Hasabsch claims 70 be fifty-siH
years old, but admitted during her cross.
examination in court thut she was born in
1881, which, according u the mo !ern prin-
CipleS Of mathematics would make her
but torty.siX years OF age. She, 50 II ap-
pears, was an irinerant yender OF pom ddes,
lotions, etc. She went one day to the
house Ot Mr.. llasalbach, bearing that he
WAS SICK, Tor the purpose Of selling him
sCme pills, and, as she says, being anxious
for a man 10 take care of her, and believing
him TO be worth f3UEO. concluded to
marry him. The oOurtship was of only Q
few weeks duration, at the expiration OF
which she proposed, was accepted, and the
W. ddlng WAS celebrated.
Mrs. Hasa bach testified that she had at
different times prior TO her encounter with
Theodore been the pOssessor OF six hus-
bsnds, but, when under crOss-examnation,
admitted that OF the lot four had died.
three bad been divorced and one WAS
among the missing, thus making a total OF
eight, exclusive OF the last husband When
asked who they were Mrs. Hasalbsch was
unable 10 recollect them all, the list was so
long, and could name only the following
six John I. Connor, GeOrge NJ. French,
Asa Il. GroDdycke, J. 4. Sample, Abraham
Hendrique and Isaac I.slandpr.
.The Ny stertOus SeiIed witness"
I,T,
the divorce suit OF Josiah A. Sample W.
fsiiar6n case. When called to the witness
box, she gave the name OF Mrs. VI. A Hen
riuues, and in the course OF her testimony,
said that she had been intimate with Mrs.
Oliver who COnfded TO her the intention
she had of blackmailing Simon Cameron.
Mrs. Oliver was then told by the wltnes.
that is she ever attempted TO blackmsil
Simon Cameron she (the wltnessD would
appear and testify against her.
Mrs. lIcnriIUes, alias liasslnach, hso
testified on Cross.eXamlnstlOn that she Was
born in Maine, that she left there when
,ixteen years OF age for Philadelphia, IN
company with her husband. Ge0rgs NJ.
French. She also lived ut later dat"'in
Cordova, Miss, and Lyons, IA, whence she
went to Chicago. Her mn-ien name. sne
continued, was Mary hWu lrant. Her
first husband was living yet, she having
been divorced from him. She next married
Mr.. Grondycke, who died in lH"i. She
WAS averse 10 telling people how often she
had been married.
J. II. Sample, of North Carolina, WAS her
next husband, to whom she WAS married
in Ianusry, lSGS and went with him to
Mobile, Ala, lo7i, and, after travelling Tor
A time. had returned TO Washington, r'ni-
ing the house at i25l New York avenue,
whele she resided until March, 1919.
When Asked by Counsel
at this stage Of her testimony now she
came by her then name OF Ms. Henriq les.
she repired: That's my business; came
aon,st by it," Then she went nn to Sty
hat he hsd married Mr.. lisnriqnes III
Philadelphia in 1876, but had lived With
nim Only for a week or so. She had Tup
pny, ui the time she was wedding well
~ 90 man, lut lad discovered that he WAS
old, pnor aud an invalid AID unable to take
n,r., e L,r She did mt ErOw wha! hti
,.cone Of Nr. iIsnrlInes since the septra'
i,r. and dcctsred that she came by her
,r.,l,cy honesty and not hv bIackmiiIing'