The evening world., 1889-05-18
TRUSSELL HAS FLED,
A Fact Mourned $4,000 Worth BY
Duped Investors.
His "Patent Ice" Causes q Sufficiently
Cold Day for Eastern Capitalists.
Two Wives left by the Inventor and q
Third Woman Taken Along.
ESPECIAL TO THE EVENING WORLD,

ESPECIAL TO THE EVENING woRLD.J
BosToN. MAY 18.-Habitues Of the Sherman
House. and, in fact, frequenters of Court
Square generally, have during the past six
or eight months became pretty well no.
quainted with Wilbert q. Trussell.
He never succeeded in making himself
popular, however, despite his lavish expendi-
ture OF money.
He was married 80 much as to be worried
ut times.
In the first place, there was wife No. /, who
never called at the hotel, but who says she
never was divorced, N who now resides at
Hamilton, Mass. and goes out nursing thus
Then there was wife No. 2, q rather Hitter
ate woman, the mother of Trusselps two
children-fair-h haired little creatures, who
played with their dolls and pig puzzles in
Room II, and who often went to walk on tie
Common.
Then there was No. 8, not really o wife,
though she has frequently been so registered
At various hotels in Boston, New York and
Thus it will be seen that wilbert @. Trus-
sell was q considerably married man.
When he first appeared at the Sherman
House he hadn't much money, but he had An
invention.
There were g millions in IL I"
He could make a substitute for ice In such
a way as to keep an ordinary family refriger-
ator cool for six months. and all for sixty
Genital
Ten cents a month for ice for O whole
family
That's what Trussell said, and he made
others believe 1t, too.
under the Maine laws and began to dispose Of
shares.
At first he sold no stock.
Boston people bite cautiously, but after
they do bite they hold on gamely.
Trussell got short Of funds.
One of his friends let him have $3.50 and
got in return 200 shares of stocks. Then,
one by one, the fish were hooked, played aud
landed.
The inventor began to frequent the bar
more than before, although he was never q
poor customer.
One DAY his bill at the bar was saS; his
carriage bill the same day was $l6. He
. treated - handsomely and flung money
about lavishly.
These were also flush times for Fannie
Adams. a sharp, good looking and plausible
person OF thirty-fve or forty.
For a couple OF years past TruRsell has been
this woman's devoted admlrer. He installed
her in comfortable quarters, and always
dressed her. well but when money began
pouring in. he hirly avished it Upon her.
He finally established her IN the Sherman
House in q suite of rooms on tho second
floor at $28 per week, without board, while
o single room with two beds In il was good
enough for Mrs. russell and the children.
This woman Joined the Trussells at their
meals, made one in all theatre and carriage
parties, and, veritably. was clothed in pur-
Pile and fine linen and Jared Bumptuously
every day.
Things soon got mixed. however.
Trussell was discovered one day in too in
innate relations with the Adams, aud his wife
could only be appeased by the removal from
he house Of the fascinating Fannie.
Trussell claimed to have been experiment.
inc for thraa wanna and n yvaa about ThrIgk
mas time that be that he had por-
fected his freezer.
Several women were among the purchasers
Of stock: Some paid $40 share: some $40.
others $50, and q few as high as $40.
One West End business man says that he
WINS $1s, 900 worth o stock.
A prominent ice 6rm in Gardiner. Me-. in
vested $40, 900 - for an insurance" as they
should knock the bottom out OF the ice busi-
ness.'
Among those who have invested more or
Dennis W. Clark. Portland. Me-; AshabeI
Chaplin. Portland, Me-; David Deun.s.
President Of the Gardiner National Bank.
Gardiner, Me-. the Clark 4 Chaplin Ice Co.
PortlapS' Me-; Elisha E. CLARK: Boston:
Of this city and PHILADELPHIA.
On Tuesday afternoon Trussell entered the
sherman House office, paid his bill and or
dered a carriage and an express wagon
his UTuukb anu DO1OS were SENT 10 Tue bOb-
ton and Maine depot, and thither followed
the carriage with MIR. and Mrs. Trussell aud
the children.
Trussell remarked TO the hotel clerk, on
going out, that they were about to pay q
short visit to his wife'S father, at Newton.
h. H.
IL now appears that Trussell saw his family
safely of ON the 8 O'Clock train for Newton,
and then quietly slipped away in company
with the fascinating Fannie on the z o'clock
train for Montreal.
The principal stockholders claim that Trus-
sell has not carried away much Of their
money, but tina. their funds have been paid
into the treasury.
tits known. however. that two gentlemen
have paid him Sl0. 900 each within q few days
and that others have given him sums ranging
IRON 81, 900 to IS, 600, which render it likely
that Trussell carried away with him some
$50, 900.
Mrs. Adams, his mistress, was familiar.
figure around town.
She dresses in deep mourning with a long
crepe veil sweeping to the hem of her gar
ments.
Her hair was of a handsome iron gray. and
altogether she was O most attractive person.