Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-11-02
CITY AND DISTRICT
WAS DIR. PAyY A BIGAMIST:
Published Statements From the RecOS.
nixed Widow.

The contest between two alleged widows o.
the deceased over the estate of Dr. Pavy, VIII
lost his life on the Greedy expedition. has been
Invested with new interest by positive but very
conflicting reports of the parties directly in
terested as to DR.. PAWS marriage. The ST.
Louis Globe Democrat recently published what
1t called an expose OF the doctors marriage
complications. AS an offset to this, Mrs. Lila
May Pavy, who has been reco. nized by the
Pension office authorities as the legitimate
widow of the deceased, has published a state
ment. The publication in behalf of the French
woman, who claims to have been legally mar
ried TO the late doctor, asserts that the latter
prior to leaving for the Arctic regions acknowi-
edged tn daughter OF the Claimant As his child.
Mrs. Lila May Pavy, in her detailed state
ment of he complication, says that DR.. Pavy,
while u student in Paris from 1866 to 1869,
held intimate relations with one Theresa To-
seau, aud as result of this intimacy a child
was born. Against the advice of his parents
and his friends the doctor made formal ac-
acknowledgement of the paternity Oft the child, and
made provision Tor il 10y appointing "a guardian
ana setting apart money for the Child benefit.
Mrs: Pavy declares that this paper is now nied
in Washington, and that in il Doctor Pavy re-
lers to the child's mother as Mdile. Theresa
Toiseau, "thus, as She contends, giving con-
elusive proof that the Child was born out OF
wediock." Dr. Pavy not only provided for the
child, but supported the mother, and his con-
duct IN this matter offended his iather, who
Was wealthy man. Pavy wrote his last letter
TO Mdie. Toiseau in 1871, and soon thereafter.
having met with Disappointment and financial
rum ny the failure OF his AIcLic expedition, he
Withdrew TO privacy, not even his in
innate friends knowing his whereabouts.
During his retirement he lived in al
most abject poverty. He lett France in 1871,
and never Saw the child or its mother again.
In 1877 the narrator Of these events met DR..
Pavy, and was married To him in New Orleans
10y her father. He told her nothing about the
cniid until alter their marriage, wnen he said
he had mad child by governess in Paris, bui
not having heard from ii Tor several years pre-
sumed i, was dead. Meantime Mule. Toiscau
had been writing TO DR.. PAWS brother, seeking
Information of the doctor, and all ner commu-
nlcatlOns were signed in her maiden name.
Mrs. PaVy declares that the mother wrote TO
her, begging assistance for the cnild, and say
Ing ol uer relations with the doctor: "Belore
God We were man and Wife,"
She claims that in letter written by the
consul general at Paris and on file in the Sec
ond auditors office OF the Treasury, the consul
wrote that Mdiie. Toseau Called on aim al d id.
United that she was never married To DIR.
Pavy: that she mad child born to him, which
t .e father acknowledged. Mrs. Lila May
Iavy also asserts that she has other docu-
Ineuts TO prove that Mdie. Toseau never made
Claim To Tue maine OF Pavy until aIier the doc
tors death. Sae declares tnal tue doctor never
made uut one will and in thai ne Dequeatned
10 her, as his lawlul wife, ali he dieu possessed
oil. she cites other proofs la her possession and
severely arralgns Gen. HaZen Tor having
thrown Il doubt upon her legal claim 10 the
name and estate oi Dr. Pavy.
The ESTATE OF JAMES Y DAyIs-Yes:erday
Messrs. NJ. +. Morris aud l.. L. Phillips, Tor Ed
ward L. Davis, flied "a Diu Ia equity against
james =. DAVIS AID >. L. DAVIS a.id otners to
settle tue estate "a the late james \. Davis, tho
uied In 1871. the real estate re IaiIuIng uuSolu,
l. said, i.inounls ia value DOVER S1UU,uuO, and
there Il personal property the Naiue vi winch
hc l. uniiuIe 40 estate. An account, decree sale
and distribution is asked.
OPENING A NEW CHANCEL.-The members
OF ST. James T. l.. parisn celebrated, SUNDAY,
t"e nitn anniversary vi beginnins Work Al the
PARISH aud the third anniversary of laying tie
Vi Tie cGiurcn eulIlce, =, street