St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-09
MARRIED SIX TIMES.
New Revelations Concerning the Widow
Of Robert Morris.
POOR LAMENTED HUSBANDS.
She Tells Her Life History to Supt.
Campbell---The Suicide Theory
Gains Ground.

Did remorse, aided by Paris green,
kill Robert Morris? asks the New York
Morning Journal.
The problem stands as yet I'M
answered and every new point tends
only to deepen the mystery, utterly
battling the detectives, who have been
at work on the case for four days.
But Mrs. Morris, 'sthe little English
woman" as she has been known
among her earlier acquaintance, is
closely watched. Her life history,
which hitherto has seemed more or
less clouded, was yesterday related by
herself to Capt. Campbell, who re-
quested her to come to the First pre-
cinct station.
Once started, Mrs. Morris proved a
very glib talker, betraying no sign
whatever of embarassment-Whe
her part was studied OF not. The re-
cital of her history kept her closeted
with the captain for almost two hours
and half.
A great deal of the details was irrele-
want, but in the main her admissions
rather tended to strengthen the suppose
ton against her asa woman who had
made it science to capture old men for
husbands.
Her first husband, the woman said,
was George Shaw, whom she married
years ago in England. He was ware
houSeman and his lease of life expired
after five years of wedlock. After re-
naming a widow for some time she met
and married John Lyons, who was in
the coal business in Leeds. At his death
he left her twelve houses. For two
years she remained a widow, and the
next mans heart she captured was that
Of Edward Yates, cloth merchant.
The undertaken removed one day
what remained of Mr.. Yates to the
cemetery.
And next she became introduced to
John Sidney. who was ''clean gone'' Oh
her. Leaving England, he told her that
on his arrival in this country he would
send for her. Sidney kept his word,
forwarded passage ticket, and as she
arrived Oh American soil he married
the woman.
But the ardent old man didn't last
long. He joined the regiment of ''la-
mented husbands" and the knot was
pretty soon tied between the much-wid-
owed Eagiishman and MerWin Lyons,
eighty years of age.
The days of the octogenarian were
soon numbered, and seventy-year old
Mr.. Morris, who died last week of poi
sOning, concluded the list of men this
woman had seen in their grave.
In her statement as to the manner she
and Morris got along, she asserted that
for nearly year they had to exist on
money raised from articles which they
pawned. There had never been per-
formed any marriage ceremony between
them. During one visit he told her he
had just been seeing DoWbean off to
England, and while doing so some one
had robbed him of S12 He asked her
for some money, and she gave him S13.
She never saw any of his legacy
money. She started him in the tailor
drew all her money out of the bank to
keep the shop going. He failed, and
the effects were sold at auction. This
version of their circumstances was
strengthened last night by the following
reply to cablegram sent by Supt.
Campbell inquiring for the address of
the mysterious trustee Of MorriS'S
legacy.
"PELERBoRo, England, Feb. 2S, 1885
-Supt. Campbell, Brooklyn, n. Y:
Thomas Morris knows nothing about
his Uncle Roberts affairs. Neither of
trustees. Robert went to America forty
years ago. His age is about eighty.
Left wife, since dead. d
HURST, Head Constable"
This information rather revives with
the police authorities the suicide idea,
on the theory that Morris had deceived
the woman who had passed as his wife
into living with him and paying out her
money for their support under the be-
lief that he was to get large sum of
money from England. Her money be-
coming exhausted, and he seeing no
prospect of getting any means upon
which to subsist, the theory is that he
took the fatal dose himself to end his
life and his anxiety.