St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-03
THE KEslTRAGEDY.
fhe Fate of Certain People Who We're More
or Less Mined Up IN IL.

Stokes may be constantly about the Hoff
man house when he is not out driving of an
afternoon, writes New York correspondent
of the Troy Times. He is still a young man
of barely 40, erect and straight, fine features
without wrinkle in them, and fine head of
gray bair His hair is all that indicates he
had ever any trouble in the world, yet in him
you see a man who lived for seven years I'M
der the constant surveillance of hired detect
ives, ready to do him personal injury, or
even kill him had an opportunity offered.
He was robbed by the man he was compelled
to kill, when accident brought them face to
face, OF the richest oil works in this region
at that time; he lay two years In prison
awaiting trial and retrial; he was once con-
demned to death on the gallows, and when
finally he escaped death it was only to endure
four years of torture at Sing Sing, which was
equivalent to four years Of dying. These are
some Of the reasons for those gray hairs. His
family was broken up before he was released
from prison, and when he came out with
his broken fortune he went TO California and
retrieved 1t in mining operations in about
two years.
1t is curious to recall the fate Of the people
mixed up in the Fisk Stokes tragedy. vii.
liam NJ. Tweed, who watched at Fisk's bed.
side 10 see that in his delirium he did not tell
too much of official crookedness, died In
prison, a bankrupt, tn whom Fisk's partner,
Jay Gould, refused the loan of a few thousand
dollars.
The Morse family, whom Fisk was visiting
at the Grand Central hotel when he was shot,
were scattered after his death. The son be-
came one of the ''5tatues' ut the JardiD
Msbile 10 Paris, employed to stand around
tue edge of the dancing platform with cigar
in his mouth, that the agile dancers might
knock the ashes of with the tips of their deli
cate toes. The woman at the parlor window
of the hotel, whom Stokes crossed Broadway
TO see on the fatal day, Is still in New York.
q fashionable outcast She once was famous
(questionably) in Kentucky; later she went
to New Orleans during the war, and marry
ing a confederate and federal officer, by the
aid OF the two did thriving business In con-
traband cotton. After the war, she was IA
nous at Washington, during JohnsOn's ad-
nnistration, and was u conspicuous figure
In ''the French arms scandal She was
ready to testify in Stokes behalf that she
picked up Fisk's pistol after be was shot, thus
bearing out Stokes assertion that he only de.
Tended himself, but his lawyers would not
ceHefe her, anu htT chaThCttT WAS too uo-
torious 10 permit her in the witness box.
Josie Man stield, about whom all the trou-
bic was, drifted off TO Europe, and was last
heard Of as the companion OF the Russian
archduke who visited America some years
ago. She was accompanied by the famous
Mrs. Beecher, who WAS expelled from Russia
for being the recipient oft the diamonds which
Prince Constantine stole from his mother.
She drifted. after shooting her second bus
band, Lloyd PBnniy. on the steps Of his sis
ter's house on Fifth avenue, to Paris, and
after most eventful career there went 10
Japan. A few weeks ago the astonishing
news reached this city that the Japanese sec
rotary OF state had prevailed upon the mikado
Of the empire TO have Mrs. Beecher executed
for gross irregularities, but the story was sub
sequently authoratively denied