Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-11
MAILLARD'S WIFE.
A WOMAE'S SYRINGE CLAIM on l6s OLE
BRATEO CONFg0rIONIR-
Josephine Bell Says She Travelled aud Livld With
Bin and Knew Noihirg q ths Wifsin
Pars-Whsn Be Net Hsr Ee SAID
BE Vas = Whoever.

New YORK, July 1O.-A tall, blonde
woman, rather good-lOoking and OF fine
figure, wearing a navy blue dress, sat IN
Howe s Hummel's law Office yesterday
AFTERNOON, holding dainty umbrella In
her gloved hands.
She was Josephine Bell Maillard, who
says she is the wife OF Henry Maillard'
the New York and Paris confecdoner'
and who is suing her alleged husband In
the Supreme Court for legal separs-
tion on the plea OF abandonment ana
noa-Support.
She lives in handsome stone house
at No. 800 West Seventy-ffth street.
which, she says, Mr.. Willard bought
four years ago, but wyich IS recorded as
belonging TO the candy merchant son.
Henry Willard, Jr. Mr.. Mliiaru i III
Paris. where, LAWYER Hummel says he
is exiling himself from bis client
Whether or not this be true, Mr.. MIL
lard has n wife now living In Paris. She
il a business woman aud has an interest
in the celebrated Au Bon Marche. Her
son now in this city, lives with her, has
also money invested in the bazaar, and
is a stock broker on tho Bourse besides.
~I met Mr.. Maillard In New York in
1878. - sold the fair plaintiff in this suit,
ssand have since that tine lived with
him as his wife. During those thirteen
wears we were never separated longer
than a month at time.
"Our marriage" she explained, or
rather Mr.. Hummel explained for her,
s,was non-ceremonial,b but was, neyerthe
less, marriage under the laws OF this
state"
CAT the time that Mr.. Maillard and
decided to live together" she went on,
ssmv husband told me that his wife and
daughter were dead, but that no had
living a son, Henry Maillard, whom
afterward met. We travelled together
good deal and divided our time be-
tween New York and Paris. Mr.. Mall
lard always presented me as his wife,
and as such / was introduced 10 OK
President Grover Cleveland and Mrs.
Cleveland, ex-Secretary and Mrs. Whit
new. Mrs. George Conant, Mr.. Flagier,
OF Standard Oil fame, and other prom
ipent people. We had no jeal.
ousies. disputes or discussions and
lived together IN perfect mar
mOny. A few years ago Nr. Mallarc
bought the residence al No. 300 WEST
Seventy-ffth street, and We made oul
home there when in New York. Last
winter we spent at the st. Marco Hotel
St. Augustine, Fla, and at the Hoi
Springs. We returned TO New Yorl
about March 90. On March oath, We
went from the Hotel Bartholdi TO the
steamer La Bretagne and sailed for
Harve. Ny husband sent me to Paris
with instructions TO so 10 the Terminus
Hotel. He said he would join me IN
day. but he never came. was tnun
derstruck at his deSertion. ! met hin
on the streets twice, but he avoided
me.
sI can never forget" she said, "thC
last look he gave me. Mr. Maillard,
she went on, after she had Z. .s.,.....a
s.sl.o.ol;ef 20 har -aSSef UnerlRg mt
$500 a month for my support. | go
back some time IN May and went to the
West Seventy-ffth street hO1Se. The
horses and carriages had been sold. The
cOacbman showed me q letter from Mr.
Maillard, dated Paris, on April IL
ordering him to close the sta
bic and sell the effects. Much
OF the household furniture had
been removed by authority Of Charlie:
Bouche, Mr.. Msillard'sneDhew and sup
erintendent OF hiSiactory. Mr.. Boucht
lugged off a Spanish chest of inlaiC
wood belonging to me, and thirty-thret
unopened letters Of mine. He had q
key made TO my private wardrobe, and
from il he extracted a basket OF house
hold keys. But he had TO return my
letters and bric-a-brac."
l asked the woman about story that
Henry Maillard, Jr., had come here and
taken his father TO Paris, and inquired
II she had not heard from young Mr.
MGillard that his mother was alive.
zone can hear good many things,
she said. II only know that Mr.. Mall
lard told me his wife was dead. | GER
tainly did not know that Mr.. Maillard
had wife In Paris. believe that Mr..
Maillard claims to be citizen OF France,
but he voted here at the last Presiden-
tial election for Grover Cleveland. lie
would never tell me bis age. He said
that person had no age and that he
was as old as be looked. thought Mr..
Maiilard about sixty-fve."
''It Is rather late in the day." OBJ
served Lawyer Hummel, "fOr Mr.. Mall
lard to say that this woman is not his
wife. l have thrown down the gaunt-
let. Not let him take II up"
Lawyer Edward Kaufman, Of No, %
Chambers street, is Mr.. Malllard's at
torney. He was rather reluctant TO
speak on the subject yesterday, but
he said that notice Of the suit had sur
prised him. as he understood one was
not TO be brought.
cit will never come to trial" he said.
''Mr. Maillard had tho woman who
claims to be his wife in petty court In
Paris on some legal process. think
likely that he will come here on this
matter. His friends have known for
years Of his coppanionship with the
plaintiff, aud th 1 be has lived with her
is not denied. Hrs Maillard is as we'll
known in Parts as Mr.. Maillard IS In
New York. She went TO Paris in 1875
and has remained there ever since. As
Mr.. Maillard has passed his time prin-
cipally here they have not seen much OF
each other In the past fifteen years"