Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-26
sANroRD,s DOUBLE LIFE.
The Strange Career Of . Boston man
who Recently Died.

The Strange Career Oh noS'~" NJ"
who Recently Died.
PHItANTHRoPIsT IN ONE PLAch AN a DA0
PRAYED KEEPER OF BRoTHELS IN ANofhAn-
A SENSATION DEVELOPED By LITIGATION
OVER his ESTATE.
The LITIGATION which is pending over the es-
tate Of Major Edward g. Sanborn, VINO was
buried In Kingston, N. H., on the 7tn i.s'1n''
VIII doubtless develop the greatest soc'al sen."
ton New England has had for many u@y'
The story of Sanborns double career seems @i'
most incredible. He died In o brotnei IN DIS
Ton on the 4th instant, an old man WHO mas
been known to the police for many years as Tic
proprietor Of various houses OF prostltu1oH'
Three days later he was buried at Kingston, n.
H., with the honors due to q public spirited
citizen, who was widely known in his native
state as liberal patron of the cause OF educa-
ton and religion. He was born of good NeX
anPshfre family and was sixty-seven years
DR.. Bartlett, grandson Of Gov. Bartlett, one of
the signers of the Declaration of independence,
sun occupies one of the finest residences In the
to have deliberately determined to live a double
existence. In his own town he has led an up
r,snu me, has supported various pubic IN M
PrOvementS and, in turn, has been honoreo oy
ms fellow townsmen, who, q few years ago, sent
MIN to represent them in the legislature. But,
s.eAOuS II RETAINING his ClLlZeOSuLp III hiusoeOhI
M, Mr. Sanborn has spent the greater portion OF
ms time during these three decades in Boston
ms record in that city has been that OF i1per-
s Ine ana an unscrupulous money getter. an, his
snare of the estate of his father, who died
aoout twenty-five years ago, was some $31 ,OOO.
HIS DEPRAvITY AND PENURIoUsNEss.
In company with various women he began
keeping brothels at the West End. The places
were not of the lowest sort, and he made money
quite rapidly. He increased his Investments
IN the nefarious business, and continued to
grow rich until he had accumulated fully
$25O,OoO He lived most misery existence.
NO one enjoyed having business dealings with
MN, for he insisted on realizing more for his
money than any one else could get. So parsi-
after he became feeble he would walk q mile
and half rather than pay horse car fare. His
last scheme in Boston was undertaken about
most gorgeous house OF prostitution in the
country. The building was erected but before
eoa be to the
was compelled to sellit.
HIS FEMALE PARTNER.
About seventeen years ago Mr.. Sanborn met
in this city Miss Julia A. Hilton, then pretty
girl from Maine, and only nineteen years old.
From that time until her death, in April last
the two have lived together. The most sincere
anectlon seemed always to exist between them,
but they never married. Miss Hilton was q
amour, and during the last few years she has
been the mistress of the house Of i'll repute, 20
Lyman street, which Mr.. Sanborn owned, and
was as shrewd business manager as he, and
accumulated property which has just been
inventoried at over $4,000, After making .
lew thrilling requests she beQueathed the most
of this property to Mr.. Sanborn. Her will has
not yet been proved, aud her relatives of Wells,
Me-, will contest it on the ground of undue in
huence on the part of Sanborn.
SanbOrn in a will made five years ago be-
queathed $4,000 to Dartmouth college, and
made his sisters and their children and a son of
ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, ten in all, his residu-
airy legatees. Gov. NOyes, it should be said
was schoolmate of Sanborn in New Hamp-
shire. Not long afterwards, however, he dis
inherited his relatives because they denounced
his course of life in Boston. To immOrtalize
ted monument in the cemetery of his own
town having her name upon one side and his
own upon tine other, and provided in his will
that she should be buried by his side. Her
relatives, however, took her remains to Maine
for burial
THE SANBORN ACADEMY.
In 1888 Sanborn began the erection of fine
brick and granite edifice in Kingston known as
the sanborn seminary. which he proposed TO
endow literally as 3 non-sectarian school, Miss
hilton presented the library to the institution.
The building was finished about year ago,
and 1t is completely furnished and ready for oc-
cupancy. Its construction was carefully super
intended by both the donors. Miss Hilton fur
nished the library, and in the room designed
cately cut in marble. 1t represents her as a
woman of rare beauty. The features are classi-
cal, delicate and refined. In the hall between
the main stairways is a niche containing a
similar bust OF Mr.. Sanborn. He was small
man, with a narrow forehead, but his gray hair
and long white beard gave him quite patri-
made in April. 1888, and was modified by cod
icii in the following October and December,
sanborn makes the Institution residuary lega-
tee. He bequeaths $1,000 to the Congrega-I
tional church of Kingston, $1,000 to Mrs.
George w. Sanborn, $40 annually to Mary E.
Brickett Of Haverhill, and the income of 1000
to the women of Kin0yrnn wi no
selectmen may adjudge best entitled to the
benefit by their industry and virtue" The
closely estimated. Sanborn has lost consider
able property since he was worth $3.50, 900 In
1888, but the bequest of $50, 900 from his late
mistress Will Also be available If her will is not
broken. The ground for contesting Sanborn's
will is that he was of unsound mind when it
was made in April, 1883.
WHAT HIS TOwNsMEN THINK.
Since the character of Mr.. Sanborn and the
source OF his wealth have been known by his
townsmen there has been q great deal of dis
cussion over the acceptance Of his benefactions.
On various occasions he had literally aided the
CONGREGATIONAL, Universalist and Methodist
cepting his gifts. Mr.. Sanborn, when in town,
generally attended the Congregational church.
He was practically an Infidel. but he believed
boys and girls out Of deviltry," he would say in
his blunt way.
The police Of Boston, in talking of Mr.. San
born and Miss Hilton, relate many queer remi-
niscences of the strange couple. Miss Hilton
was known to them as Annie BickfOrd, and
they are inclined to be quite charitable in their
estimate of her. She was not as bad, they say
as most women OF her class Many times she
has informed the police OF the whereabouts of
hayward girls who have called at one or an.
other of her resorts, seeking for an opportunity
to begin leading a vicious life. She did not do
this, the police believe, to curry favor, but she
was Influenced by better motives.
The King IL Dying.
Fool stand back! the king Is dying
Give him what little air remains
See you not how his pulse is flying?
Hear you not how he gaspS and strains
To catch one other sterterOus breath:
God! how he labOrs! yes, this Is death!
Blow up the fire-his feet cold;
Aye though king, he cannot buy
One briefaSt with all his pynld