The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-01
SIZE WASN'T MRS. BDSALL
The Woman Who Dropped
Dead on the Street Was
Not Married to the
Man She Claimed.
NOT iLL-TREATED BY HER FAMILY.
William Edsall Has a Wife Living,
and Had Married Another Be-
fore He Met sJenny."

fore He Met "Jenny.'
When read that MRS Edsall had died
in the street in Jersey City in d condition
SO far beyond destitution as to be almost
worthy the name Of starv9 lion, all the
sympathy of a nature ordinarily harsh
and unimpressionable came to the surface
and made my very heart of hearts weep
bitter tears.
l read that she was the daughter of
well-to-do folk who had refused to do
even so much as recognize her, and all
because she had married a seoundrel.
Then my wrath arose and / set forth to
find the cruel parents with hearts of flint
who would let daughter starve to death.
But did not find them.
1 did find some people who were said to
be connected with the unfortunate
woman, and from them learned the facts
in the case.
Here are the other details Of the story,
the outline of which was indicated in The
JERSEY CITY NEWS of Saturday.
THE FIRST MARRIAGE.
Some twenty-five or twenty-three years
ago, more or less, William Edsall, one of
those hail-fellow-well-m met loafers who
have smooth tongues and hate work, met
and fascinated Miss Danielson, of Bergen
county.
She lived ON the old Teaneck road with
her father, who was well to do, inasmuch
as he sold meat to nearly half the county.
Williams plausible tongue and insinuat-
ing manner was too much for her natural
good sense, and she married him.
But it was not Mary Danielson, who
died in Jersey City from hard work.
Oh, mol She lives in the old place on the
Teaneck today, and she is the only real
wife William Edsall ever had.
They had two daughters, one of whom
is about twenty-one years old and the
other is nearly twenty. The older one
lives with her grandfather, Peter Edsall,
at No. $50 Main street, Hackensack, and
the other one lives at home with her
mother.
They are the only legitimate children
William Edsall ever had.
And their grandfather is as proud of
them as he is of his daughter-in-law.
But he has never received as member
of his family anyone else who pretended to
be married to his son.
William was bad 1t may be said that
he is bad.
Twenty years ago Joseph H. Dalrymple
lived with his wife, William Edsall' S
sister, on Morton street. New York, and
William lived with them. He did not
work, but they gave him home.
JENNY APPEARS.
One day Mrs Dalrymple gave her
brother q dollar to go to an intelligence
office and get her servant. The dollar
was to pay the fee at the office.
William brought back girl who was
called Jenny No one in the family ever
knew any other name for her. She was, a
and dirty. She said that she was widow
and had child six years old, and had a
policeman for q brother-in-law.
Just before this, William had been
marnied by the Rev. DR.. Reid, of the Mac
dough- street Baptist Church, to some
woman whose name was @ never known oy
the EdSall family, and who was never
seen by any of them. DR.. Reid did not
know that William was already married.
Jenny and William spent a great deal of
time together. At last Mrs. Dalrymple had
a long conversation with Jenny, and told
her that William was married to woman
in Hackensack, and that he had just
welded another in Macdougal street, and
that it would be at her own peril if she
should have anything to do with him.
But Jenny would not take
any advice She spent more and
more of her time with William, until, at
the end of about six months, Mr.. Dalrym-
pie refused to have them any longer in his
house.
From that day to this, with the excep-
ton of the time he has spent in prison,
they have lived together.
But he has been in prison good deal.
William was bounty jumper in war
times, and then, when he was drafted into
the army again, he deserted, and for this
he was imprisoned on Governors Island
for some time.
CONVICTED OF FORGERY.
Soon after the beginning of his liaison
with the woman who has just died he
committed forgery, for which he served
a five years term in Sing Sing. Not long
after he committed another forgery, for
which he was sent to the Kings County
Penitentiary for four years and three
months. Pretty soon after he got out he
was convicted of another forgery and sent
to the State Prison at Trenton for five
years, and he is now in the same place for
o repetition of the same crime serving out
o sentence of ten years.
That is the sort of man he is.
And Jenny knew 1t before she began to
live with him.
His father says that there will always be
O home for William under his roof; and
Mrs. Dalrymple, who, with her husband,
lives with the old gentleman, says that so
far as they can do it, everything will be
made pleasant for him.
A short time ago the woman who was
buried yesterday went to Peter Edsall's
house in HackenSack and asked Mrs. Dali
rymple for help Mrs. Dalrymple refused
it on the ground that it would be sort of
recognition of relationship, and she was
not in a position to help anyone except her
relations. Her father is in rather straitened
circumstances, and has been for some
time He is seventy-four Years old, and Is
growing feeble. Mr.. Dalrymple has been
out of employment some time, though he
will begin again tomorrow to earn good
salary.
TO crown all, old Mr., Edsall is coming
down from Hackensack tomorrow to re-
pay to the Rev DR.. Parmly, who was one
of his boyhood friends, money expended
for the relief and burial of his sons COM
panion.
And so found that my sympathy had
been wasted.
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