Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-08
THE DEATH OF MRS. LANG.
Married Secretly to Banker Fish R'
 fore Her Sudden Taking of.

Married Secretly to Banker Fish Bee
 fore Her Sudden Taking OH. NEW YORK, May 7.-Sallie Reber, the daughter of prominent Toledo lawyer, once favorite in comedy operas, the widow of F. R. Laing, prominent ex society swell, died Thursday, March 12 under peculiar circum- stances at the village of Rutherford Park, N. J. She had been intimate with Banker James D. Fish, and he it was who telegraphed her family of her decease. On the night of her death she gave birth to child, which has been spirited away. Her own body was handled and shipped like merchandise, and left five days unattended to in New York. Dr. J. W. Phelps, the attending physician, got out his removal permit by stating that the cause of death was gastritis, which he since says was induced by over-eating or anges and clams. Mysterious women were with her at the last and all sorts of sensation al stories are in circulation.
 SANDUsKY, O., May 7.-The following is the statement of F. A. Layman, editor of the Evening Journal and brother-in-law of Mrs. Laing, whose name figures in the sensational accounts of that lady's death:
 
 Laing's death am prepared to denounce the statements as false in great part if not in whole. The account is strictly true until it touches upon her life subsequent to the death of her first husband, MT. Laing. At that point the inaccuracies begin Some months after that event James D. Fish, at that time known as millionaire banker began paying her his addresses, which eliminated in May, 1884, about the time he became in volved in his financial difficulties in 8 pri- vate marriage which, in order to escape the notoriety that would ensue, he stipulated should be kept secret until such time as he was free again. These troubles, which at first appeared temporary, became more har- assing as time went by and still insisted upon her original stipulation and did to the hour of her death, which was as sudden and unexpected to her The issue of this marriage with MT. Fish was daughter born on February A at Carlstadt, N J., which is now with friends of MT. Fish under his care and direction. The mother had almost recovered from the effects of childbirth when she was attacked with an old stomach trouble which was chronic in her case, and yielding to 8 morbid appetite for certain food expressly forbidden she ate | inordinately and deed within a few hours on the night of March 10 Her marriage to MT. Fish has been known to her family since last summer, but for reasons stated already, which were satisfactory alike | to her and to them, it was never made pub lie and has not been since her desth because of the attending circumstances and at her express request. In justice to Mir Fish would add that he has been anxious from the l first to make known the marriage and ab- solved by the family from secrecy will do SC | to-day.
 NEW YORK, May "A reporter of the | United Press called to-day on President J. | D. Fish of the defunct Marine bank at his ] quarters in the Ludlow street jail and asked him if he had anything to make public in re- gard to the death of Sallie Reber, the late singer at the Casino. He declined to talk about the matter, saying that there was lots
 of material for the reporters to work oni the story published to-day without troubling | him.