The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-14
4 ROMANCE In ALAWSUIT
LOVERS TRAGIC END AND THE
GIRLS DEATH FROM GRIEF.

Turk Wooes a New Jersey Girl
Through Correspondence and is
killed While on Els Way to See
Her-Suits Against Railroad and
an Insurance Company.
From. the NeLC York Sun.
BUFFALO, May 11.-What promises to be
shard-fought lawsuit has been begun in the
Erie county circuit court. 1t has underly-
ing it romance involving the death
through grief of a young New Jersey lady,
who loved and would have welded Turk
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 proceedings, but
some facts of interest have been learned
from the prosecuting lawyer, Mr. Abram
bartholomew of this city, and from other
sources.
Stephen K. Bahia Sinian, an Armenian of
1leasant addesses and courteous manners,
left Constantinople some three years ago
for the New World, and after tarrying for
a time in New York settled in Chicago as a
dealer IN Oriental goods. He soon became
accustomed to American methods and
prospered Unexpectedly in business. Bahia
Sinian was charmed with the Chicago
beauties, but before yielding to their fasci-
nations he tried to learn how they compared
with the girls elsewhere on this continent
With this end in view he answered several
matrimonial advertisements in a Chicago
paper devoted to that sentimental business
One of his fair correspondents turned out to
be Miss Bertha Beaman Of Woodbury., n.
j., another was girl named Florence, who
lived in New York; a 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 correspondence with
Miss Beaman was kept up for long time,
at first in a spirit, apparently, of anuse-
ment, but later it developed into senti-
mentalism, and afterward into love. Baba
Sinian was ardent, Miss Beaman was coy
and both became SO mutually interested
that it was agreed that the Turkish lover
should journey eastward TO visit the young
lady. That journey proved fatal one to
both.
In August of last year Bahia Sinian packed
up his Oriental travelling rugs and started
east Before going he purchased a twenty
four-hour life insurance policy in the
Travellers company, which was good upon
its face for 81, 600. This he sent, with word
of his departure, to Miss Beaman, telling
her that it was hers if 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.
Bahia Sinian was obliged to stop at Water
town, n. Y, on his journey, and, to
go there changed cars at Niagara Falls,
taking a train on the Rome, Watertown
and Ogdensburgh railroad. After leaving
lewiston the Turk went into the smoking
car and buried himself in day-dream of
love while smoking Turkish cigarettes.
Just before the train reached Newfane sta
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day coach in the rear of the train. At the
moment when he was crossing from one
platform to another and the train was just
over the bridge at Eighteen-mile creek the
cars broke apart and the unfortunate 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 after the acct
dent. She put in a claim for the S3, 900,
but the insurance people refused to pay 1t
on the ground that it was payable ''only to
the legal heirs of the VICTIM" though later
it is understood they have resisted payment
on the ground that Baba Sinian was killed
through his own negligence. Miss Beaman
interested herself in the case, and found
that Syrian S. Costikyan of Chicago, was a
relative of her Turkish correspondent. He
was informed of the fate of Bahia Sinian,
and secured letters of administration on his
estate. These papers were taken before the
Hon. Jacob Stern, Surrogate
of Erie county, and proceed
ings had so that actions
could be begun in the courts here against
both the railroad and the insurance COM
pany. The insurance suit is still untried,
but in the railroad case the jury returned
verdict of $500, including costs. This
Judgment Lawyer Bartholomew has en-
tered at Watertown, and the defense has
stayed its execution by an appeal. The
officials of the road intend to fight it out on
the ground that Babe Sinian had no busi-
ness on the platform of the cars while they
were in motion, and that it was a violation
of the company's rules. On the other hand,
Mr.. Bartholomew sets forth that no rule
prohibited passenger from passing from
one car to another, if he did not stand on
the platform.
Meanwhile Miss Beaman's health de-
clined. She suffered nervous prostration
and this developed into quick consumption,
from which she died in Philadelphia on Feb.
II of this year, Just a few days after Law
yer Bartholomew had obtained from her
full and detailed statement under oath of
her acquaintance with the Turk and a re-
llnquishment of any claim she might have
to the $1,000 insurance.
Miss Beaman was a bright, attractive,
and cultivated young woman" said Law
yer bartholomew TO Une sun correspond
ent. 'She had a more or less romantic
turn of mind, and dallied with the matri-
monial advertising for the purpose of hav-
ing some amusement, though if it resulted
IN securing for her a good husband, that,
too, would be quite pleasing TO her. She
told me that Bahia Sinians letters at first
amused her, but she became much in
terested in them, and the correspondence
took a turn which, should say, augured
matrimony, if anything. She was clever
young woman. with plenty OF common
sense, and would have made him good
wife"
Miss Beamau's illness aud death are
ascribed to the grief she experienced on
account of the peculiar death of Bahia
Sinian while on his way to see her. There
is little doubt that had he lived he would
have married her. 1t only depended on
how they regarded each other after meeting
face to face, which both thought was'the
proper thing to do before venturing too far
In the direction of matrimony.
Maj Bacon on Poetical Quotations.