Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-29
ABOUT ALICE sEETENs.
EARLY Career of the Woman Who Killed
Herself Hero Last Week.

Early Career of III Woman Who Kiile
Herself Here Last Week.
The following account Of the early caret
of Alice Stevens, the suicide, may notpros
uninteresting to q great many readers {
The MINER because of the excitement nc
deed caused at the time. The sketch 7
taken from the San Francisco Examiner:
"The woman who was described in til
photographic account Of her death as OF mt
tdium size, with brown hair and gray eye
and OF rather attractive appearance, was
| sister of Martin Stevens, an attorney-at
law. whose Office is at $50 Montgomer.
street. Her father. Martin V. Stevens, wa
| the lessee Of Badgers Park, Oakland, TIVE
or three years ago, and until within a few
| weeks since kept q grocery store on tn
| corner OF Waller and Steiner streets. h.
is now living somewhere near the aims
house in this city.
.tIn 1887 one OF Martin Stevens friends
was Edward A. Willard, who is now type
writer in the snrveyor-generafs office. Will
lard was then nineteen years old and Stew
ems was somewhat older. After leavins
school, Willard took aposition in the nous:
Oh d. e 0rckOIy w. duu ooou niooh
wards wal engaged to act as secretary FOL
the manag OF William T. Coleman & Co.'s
branch house in Los Angeles. He went to
Los Angeles in March, 1887.
"a few weeks afterwards Stevens and his
sister, Alice, went to Los Angeles also, and
about the first of May Stevens, at the point
OF the pistol, compelled Willard to marry
the girl.
.Steyens at that time was a stenographer
and Alice had been an assistantin his Office
here. It was there Willard met her.
1.-THE couple did not live together aftel
being matrimonially united. The young
woman returned to San Francisco at once
and on reaching here in the evening went
straight to the residence Of Mrs. Willard
at 525 Harrison street.
1.-THE Wiliards are rich, and their house
is large and ~luxuriously furnished. Sht
told Mrs. Willard OF the marriage to heI
son, though not mentioning the circum.
stances under which it took place. Despite
Mrs. Wizards pressing invitation the
young woman declined to remain with hel
until she should neal from her son. She
would not ven stay over night.
When Mrs. Willard learned fom bel
son, who soon came home, that the mar.
riage was q forced one, she began proceed.
ings to have it annuled. She procured
proofs, SIS she asserted, that MISS Stevens
had not been wronged by young Willard
to the extent alleged. Another man had
preceded him in her affections, and this
other individual and she were residing to.
gether, the mother averred, at a certain
boarding house to which Alice went the
night she returned from Los Angeles.
"At the time OF the marriage Alice Stevens
was twenty-one years old: She was q little
below medium height, had an exquisite
form, and was decidedly pretty.
mo opposition was made to the suit for
annulment, and it was granted in Novem-
Der, 1887. on the ground OF Wizards mi
nority.
"Alice soon vent to the bad altogether,
and periodically adopted a new
She was recently known as Alice Stewart,
and under that cognomen had a house of
ill.fame at IA Quincy place. On March &c,
she was arrested for keeping a minor there,
but was discharged in the police court, as
the girl in her testimony relieved her OF all
blame. g.
ION April 26, Alice sold out her establish.
and went to Oakland to live.
"She had been ~consorting with a gambler
named Sanders here. His name may be
taken as an explanation of that which she
put on the hotel register"