The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-10-19
JOSIE
Her Notorious Career Recalled by Her Mar.
riage I'm London Last Week.

Her Notorious Career Recalled by Her Mar
rage I'm London Last Week.
New York Recorder.
The friends of Robert L. Reade. lawyer
and man about town, were astOnished Sat
urday to hear he had married the notorious
Josie Mansfield. formerly mistress OF Col.
Jim Fisk, jr. The marriage was celebrated
in ST. Georges Church. London. on Friday,
in the presence OF a few friends and three
members of the brides family. The honey
moon will be spent at Brighton.
The marriage recalls the eventful history
of the woman whose personal beauty led to
the death of her benefactor. Josie Mans
field was married In 1864 to Frank LAWYER,
an actor of reputation In San Francisco.
where she lived with her parents, whose
name was Warren. They lived happily un-
til 1868. when Lawler separated from his
wife and she drifted to this city. In 1870
she met Fisk. who at once fell in love with
the beautiful woman. Sne was then al
most destitute, but Fisk established her in
a house on in West Twenty;thlrd
else that she could desire. He was deeply
enamored of her, and his infatuation was
the talk of his friends.
Fisk introduced his friend and ex-part-
ner. Edward ;. Stokes, now proprietor of
the Hoffman House and a power in Tam
many Hall. to Josie. and from that mo-
ment HE peace of mind was destroyed.
Stokes also fell madly in love with the
WOuidu, lO gully lCtulu LILO pnSolOus
When Fisk. was convinced almost against
his will of the woman's dnplicIty there was
was q scene in the Observation-Disclosures
house in West Twenty-third street. To his
threats Of vengeance the woman replied by
threatening to publish his letters to her.
which were said to contain q full account
of the operations of the Erie ring.
She claimed that Fisk owed her
S40,OO 0 and offered to put the
letters in evidence. Fisk obtained
an Injunction against the publication
of the letters. and charged the woman and
Stokes with trying to black-maIl him. The
examination of Josie on the charge of sub
OrDation of perjury was an extremely SEN
satlonal one, and the woman's feelings
were not spared. After the adjournment
Twenty-third street and thence. to the
Grand Central Hotel. where he shot and
killed Fisk. The public was aroused by
this murder. Stokes was tried and con-
victed, but escaped with o few years in
State prison. The woman fed to Boston
and thence to Paris, where she has since
been living near the Boulevard. She Is
said to retain much OF her old charms of
face and figure.
The bridegroom is a son of Robert Reade,
large fortune to his widow. two daughters
and two sons. Mrs. Reade and her daugh-
tiers have since then made their home in
England. The elder daughter married
Gen. Francis Strachan. Governor of the
Bermudas. Her sister married Captain
Cary, who since then mas succeeded to the
title Of Viscount Falkland. 1t was while
on a visit to her mother at Carlsbad, last
summer that Reade met and fell In love
with Josie Mansfield. He returned to this
that he was going to visit his brOther-in-
law. Viscount Falkland. IN Yorkshire.
Reade is about forty years Of age and of
extremely convivial habits.