The sun., 1890-05-12
A ROMANCE IN A LAWSUIT.
THE LOVER'S 7RAGIC END AND THE
GIRLS DEATH FROM GRIEF.

A Turk Woos . New Jersey Girl Through
Correspondence and Ia Killed While on
His Way to SEQ Her-SuIta Against a
Railroad and an Insurance Company.
BUFFALO, May 11.-What promises to be
hard-fouGht lawsuit has been begun in the
Erie County Circuit Court. It has underlying It
romance involving the death through grief OF a
young New Jersey lady, who loved and would
have welded TurE she had never seen but
had learned to love through correspondence.
and who was killed while on his way to see her.
The story is not all told in the legal proceed
inGs. but some facts OF interests have been
learned from the prosecuting lawyer, MIR.
Abram Bartholomew OF this city. and from
other sources.
Stephen K. Baba Sinlan, an Armenian OF
pleasant address and courteous manners, left
Constantinople some three years ago for the
New World, and after tarrying for q time in
New York settled In Chicago as a dealer In
Oriental goods. He soon became accustomed
to American methods and prospered unexpect-
edly In business. Baba Sinian was charmed
with the Chicago beauties, but before yielding
to their fascinatons he tried TO learn how they
compared with the girls elsewhere on this con-
tnent. With this end in view he answered
several matrimonial advertisements in Chi
cago paper devoted to that sentimental busl-
ness. One OF fair his correspondents turned out
to be Miss Bertha BeamRn OF Woodbury..
N. j.; another was girl named Florence, who
lived in New York; third was Hattie -
OF Boston. and others lived in New York and
Cincinnati. The last names OF the girls, other
than Miss Beaman. cannot be learned, for they
do not appear in the Turks effects. The cor
respondence with Miss Beaman was kept up
for long time. at first in a spirit, apparently,
OF amusement, but later it developed into SEN
nmentalism' ana S,terwaro INTO ioVe. baoa
sinian was ardent Miss Beoman was coy, and
was agreed that the Turkish lover should ;0pr ;Ss
;ov-nor ,,r,,yed n fatal ono 20 hoth
Journey proved la'a4 one 70 pom.
mn his Oriental travelling rugs and started east
pator. e,oinc, hs nnr,has.d a tw.ntv- fonr.bonr
life insurance policy in the Travellers Com
pany, which was good upon its face Tor $1,000.
This This he ~ sent. with word Of his departure. to
Miss Beaman. telling her that 1t was hers II
anything happened to him. He also wrote to
his Boston and New York correspondents that
he was likely to call on them in the near future.
Baba Sinian was Obliged to stop at Water
60 there. changed cars at Niagara Falls.
taking train on the Rome. Water
town and ogdepsh4rgh Eailroad. After lenv-
car and buried himself in day dream OF love
while smoking Turkish cigarettes. lust before
concluded to return TO the day coach in the
rear OF the train. At the moment when he was
crossing from one platform to another and the
tram was Just over the bridge at Eighteen mile
Creek. the cars broke apart and the untortu-
naie Turk fell on the bridge and was ground to
pieces by the second section Of the train, which
was running fast
News OF the death OF Baba Sinian first
reached Miss Beaman soon alter the accident
She put in O claim for the $4,000, but the lnsur-
ance people refused to ray it; on the Er2und.
the victim" though later it is understood they
have resisted payment, on the ground that
Baba Sinian was killed through his own neGli-
Rence. Miss Beaman Interested herself IN the
case. and found that Syrian b, Costikyan OF
Chicago was relative OF her Iutklsh CORE.
spondent; he was informed OF the iate OF
Baba Slnlan, ana secured letters OF admins
tration on his estate. Ihese papers were taken
before the hon JACOB stern. surrogate OF Erie
county. and proceedings hat SO that actions
could be begun IN the courts here against t3ta
the railroad ana the insurance company. me
Insurance suit is stu untrieI. but IN the rail-
road case the jury returned Nerdlct OF S3;,uO'
including costs. rms ludSment LAWYER Bar
The ofiicals Of the road intend to fight It out