Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-26
HER THEE HUSBANDS.
a Pension Case Complicated BY Three
Marriages and Two Divorce Cases.

In the case Of John III. Fighter, q iunatic SOL
der now in the INSANE asylum, and for whom q
pension has been drawn by Annie Fighter, as
committee and guardian, Gen. j. G. Black, the
commissioner Of pensions, has filed in the
Equity Court q petition asking that her APP
pointrnent be revoked, and that another person
be appointed In her place. Judge Cox, on this
petition. directed the issuance Of a rule requir-
ing Mrs. Fighter 10 show cause, by the 9th Of
July why she should not be removed.
The report In the case, by Special Examiner
J. l. Jacobs, states that Mrs. Fighter, although
she has not been divorced from Fighter, has
to go In the saloon business at Chesapeake City,
near Hampton, Va, and he submits that
s hs Is o9; 'ne cbs to
by former vile. He suggests that Mrs. Emma
]: Frizzei, OF Howard county, Md, niece of
Fighter, be given its custody. He states that
Righter Was allowed a pension OF 500 per
month, and this was paid the committee. az
gregating $2,s5O. and she drew the last install
ment, $3.50, on June 4th, at the agency here,
using the name OF Fighter, and not letting her
witnesses know That she had married again.
he appends TO the report the papers in the di-
that under the maine OF Shepherd she was mar
ried to RICHTER, a: the parsonage of Mt. Zion
lived ON streetbetween 18th ami 10th north
west; that Fighter was u member OF the signal
corps, and u widower at the time with one
child (ths boy row with herr; that May 9th,
1852, he was adjudged insane aud sent to the
insane asylum, where he now is; that she had
one child BY Fighter, vino died u few months
after he was sent to the insane asylum; that she
filed the lunaGy case to collect arrearay Of pay,
&C and was appointed the committee Of RICHTER
February 2Sth, 1854, ana September 9th last,
when living III all 131s street southwest she
died her bill for divorce, setting up Fighters
insanity, aud this bill in which no reference is
made TO the pension) was dismissed by Judge
Hagner December 18th last. He further alleges
that notwithstanding the cOmmittee is still The
legal wife OF Rig hter, that sue has married
again, and having a divorced husband living
she can now boast OF three; that in his invesli-
cation OF the case he found Mrs. Fighter ut
Hampton, Va, and she denied at first that
Mead was more than a bOarder at her house.
When. he produced the affidavits Of her neigh
6ors. that Lney had been informed 10y her OF her
marriage 10 Mead, she admitted ii, and stated
that she was married to Henry 4. Mead, ia
New York city, in March last, by Rev. Mr..
Goodman, and that Sue had since drawn the
pension, using the name Of RICHTER, and kept
the Iact from her witnesses. To this she made
q deposition, which, with those of her neigh
bors, Mr.. Jacobs appends to his report, as also
one Of Edward Howe. The latter states that he
was married to Mrs. Righter Or Meads in Alex
andria, Va, In 1876, aud about 1850 she filed
divorce proceedings against him on the ground
OF non-support. lie states That lie allowed Lie
Case To 20 by default, lie was perfectly will
Ing that Sue should get the divorce.