The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-23
MASTERSON'S SOLEMN OATH.
BESIDE HIS WIFps CORPSE BE sWEARS
40 DRINK LIQUOR NO MORE

ne DenIes that There, had bees Any Rup-
turo RetNyeeE Them-It was the SernPe
lie Got Iuto that Brought Her North.
The body OF Mrs.. Florence r. Mnsterson. who
came to this city the other day from her homo
in New Mexico, after having heard OF the shoot
ING ARRAY in which her husband, Murat Mas
t,rson. and Mrs. Alice Hopknson figured on
May H. and who died suddenly in the elevator
of tho Grand Union Hotel on Wednesday, lay
all day yesterday Mt the undertaking establish
ment of Patterson. Bevlns & PlowriGnt, on
Fourth avenue. Tn TO last night Judge Mas
,erson had not decided where he would bury
his wife, lie was completely unnerved. He ia
continually trampinR up and down his room at
the Albion, on Thirty second street, and moan
ing and weeping audibly.
Il am ruined. utterly ruined" ho kept ex-
claiming yesterday. THAT affair over Mrs.
Hopkinson was irightful blow, considering
that my relations with her were perfectly
proper. But now. to have my wife die at the
time need her most and in this horrible way
utterly does me UT. What use is money to
man with broken heart, who has lost every
thing that makes life worth having and has
nothing, absolutely nothing, to live f0ri"
takd The WY ia al ssy
difficulty between him and his wife previous to
hiscoming East few months ngo as has s been en-
that anything but the pleasantest relations
existed between them, He said that he had
At nnG tb nai he on brns
fourteen year old son along and show him New
York. Since ho had been last, he said he had
heard from hor u number Of times. Mrs Master.
SON had come East. not to make up any mast
uunrres, but for the same reason that would
take any jealous wife TO her husbands side
upon hearing that he and q woman alleged to
be his mistress had been shooting pistols at
each other in mysterious a rs hoRRE Hsi
ness matters for him, and he had been paying
her $500, year s.Gry bbnS s sopy 81
in all the papers Of the country, and OF course
had come to Mrs Mastcrson,s attention; In Gil
OF these published stories the allegation had
been made, or grounds had been given for in
ssa bS!wesn hin tqns and bt Mrs Srs H0PEnsSP
son had naturally Kew lacked up her sp5 5ePss
s at t6s Grant Ei ni%n and had written hin
letters to his Office In Wall street: put he did
to- him ina at his boarding house on Wednesday
morning looking for him; He, had Iust been
over TO Hoboken to see friend of to Europe
sleep in his room. The. seryaut presently en-
tered and announced Mrs. Masterson: Judge
t. H see her vEi He had imagined his wife in, New
Mexico, OF the interview between husband
and wife SGo s9ys fosnd fSus
with him because he had been drinking. and a
few moments later she left him abrunty With.
out telling him whore she was staying. That
was the last timo he saw her alive.
She went from his houar to see her nephew.
DR. Adams ana they walked together TO the
Grand Union. whore. while she was leaving the
elevator on tho second floor, she fell dead in
! or nephcw's arms. The next news Judge
NIaslcrson got OF his wife after she left him
mat morning WINS that she was lead. Coroner
schulz decided Yesterday that an ,autopsy
was not necessary. us Mrs. Masterson had sui
fcred from heart disease. Her husband will
probably have her body remoyed TO New Mex
leo for burial. Mrs. Alice Honkinson. with
whom Judge Nasterson exchanged pistol shots
IN May ~ in her fiat. and who he says is his
cousin. said yesterday 10 an EvENIHp Sun re-
porter. in speaking Ol Mrs. Mastersons sudden
death, Il did not know OF IT ~ the Judge
called hero last night and informed me. Then
we went around 10 the hotel together. and
there / made him swear. on his Bonded knees
b. the side OF his wife's CORPSE. that he would
never touch another drop Of LIQUOR"