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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-07
AN IOWA TRAGEDY.
Mary Otto Goes Insane as Result
of the Awful Crime.

Metre or, Iowa, is still excited over
the terri = tragedy enacted near there
a few days ago. Mary Otto, whose
father and brother were killed by her
frenzied lover, Henry aim, has gone
stark mad and has been borne to the
asylum. Meanwhile the murderer is
still thought to be at large. The cold
bloodedness of his crime may
result in "a lynching If he
is captured. He had been paying
court to Miss Otto for some time and
when he sought the young ladys hand
in marrige, he was refused. He was
importunate and con tinuedstO press his
suit, however, until Miss Otta finally de-
clared she would see no more of him.
The day of the murder Hahn drove into
town and bought a revolver and box
of cartridges. In the evening he re-
paired to the otto homestead and
asked to see the daughter of the house.
Miss Otto, through servant, begged
to be excused. Thereupon Hahn
forced his way into the house. In the
hallway he met John Otto, who had
been aroused by the alteration. The
old man ordered the importunate
sutton to quit the premises Angry
words followed. and HMM shot Mr..
otto in the forehead, inhicting a fatal
wound. William Otto, a brother of
John, entered the hallway just as the
shot was fired. Hahn turned on him,
leveled his smoking weapon, and, with
a curse. shot him dead. he murderer
then dased out OF the house, mounted
hls horse and made good his escape to
the mountains.
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No more details were given out and
the young Prince was told to remain
abroad.
In the meantime the masses of Lon
don's population are clamOring for
the truth. The anarchists want to
know if the officials have a right
to suppress the details of n strange
death of one OF their number Just be-
cause she was looked upon by young
man who expects to be King some dav.
Lydia Manton's real name was Lydia
Miller and in her childhood davs she
lived with her parents at Hereford.
There was another sister, Clara, fully
as beautiful as the one before whom
royalty was to do homage The two
were the little bellies of the city.
John Miller was a mechanic who did
fair business with the country folk
of Hereford.
He worked for the Pa ace, and when
Lord Sage and Sele died the new arcL-
deacon sent for him to rcnOvate the
old red brick archdeacOu-h house in the
Close. No builder but he ever entered
the sacred precincts of the Deau"ry.
He fully appreciated the Importance of
his position, and the Here OrdianS who
were not in the 'Catlcura' set ac-
cepted him at his own valuation.
Clara married u respectable trades
man. Lydias pretty face and her
fathers relations with the Palace and
the Close gave her the entree into a
better kind of society than her social
position entitled her to. She had
sweet voice, and that, combined with
her pretty face, attracted the unmar-
ried minor canonS to the Millers'
house at the upper end of Owen street.
The result was that when Lydia was
Is her manners were far superior to
those of other girls of her class.
One thing she lOnged for more than
anything, and that was an invitation
to the annual Hunt pail at the Shire
hall She managed to get it, and the
wife of one OF the smaller clergy Of
fered to chaperone her. Now she was
in her seventh heaven, and very pretty
she looked as She entered the ball
room, dressed in pure white But
Lydia felt there was as great a gulf
between her and the city people
and the small country folk who
danced at the lower end of the ball
room as there was between them and
the county 'swells' who occupied the
upper end, where were the Countess of
Chesterfield, Lady Henry Somerset,
pretty Mrs. SOmers-COcks, the Ark
wrights, the Barnaby- Luttrells, and
the Crofts, and the Brighton Knights
from neighboring Shropshire. She
was almost sorry that she had come,
when a tall, handsome young fellow,
dressed in hunting pink" was
brought up and introduced TO her. He
asked her to dance, and as ne led her to
the upper end of the room among the
great people of the land her head
swan. She was happy, although she
could not help noticing that the county
ladies were annoyed at her intrusion
into their sacred circle. For the rest
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-07
JAMES FISK.

Miss Mansfield would be published.
He got out an injunction to prevent
this. The final scene was on the stair
case of the Fifth Avenue hoIel, when
Fisk was shot by Stokes. 1t was
Stokes passion for Josie that was be-
lieved to have inspired the act.
After his death the woman sued
Col. Flsk's widow for $500, 900,
which she claimed the dead man owed
her, but she did not win her suit. She
went to Boston. The populace hooted
her as she passed through the streets,
and she finally found more congeniaI
abode in Paris. There she still lives
in little house near the Avenue
Perriere. Three years ago it was re-
ported that she was dead.
The announcement of her marriage
at st. Georges church, London, sent
a thrill tn rough those who remember
her as she was in her prime 1t seemed
indeed, one said. as hearing of one
who had risen from the dead. Her
husband, Robert l.. Reade, a lawyer,
having an Office at No. "a Nassau
street, New York, announced to
party of friends before he sailed
for Europe, that Miss Mansfield was
the only person who could save him
from drinking himself to death. His
sister married Gen. Strachan. governor
of the Bermudas. His mother is a
cousin of Mrs. Levi p. Morton.
Miss Mansfield is as much of n belle
to-day as ever. The accompanying por-
trait represents her as she was twenty
years ago. 1t is reproduction of the
famous pictuae taken at the time of
Jim Fisk's death. 1t sale was tre-
mendOus, and the photographer realiz-
| ed 100000 on the sale.
She was first married in 1854 to
Frank Lawlor, an actor of some note.
She was then living in San Francisco
with her parents, whose name was
! Warren. Lawlor declared that he
had married Josie to protect her from
her parents, who tried to blaclxmail a
man named Perley through her.
The fact that the girls maiden name
was ansfeld of course precludes the
possibility of her parents name being
Warren. The name of Josies father
was Joseph Mansfield. She was called
after him. lie was engaged in the fish
trade on Long wharf, Boston, in
which city this remarkable woman
was born. Her mothers name was
Sarah Gannett and Sarah Gannett's
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spiritual mother OF God. Because Of
that relation can see, OF course, many
things clearly that are mysteries to
mankind, and | am the repository of
many awful secrets that are impossible
OF comprehension to the ordinary
human intellect. In one OF his revela-
tions TO me the Lord instructed me to
numb Der the letters of my full name in
accordance with their position in the
alphabet and to get the sum of those
numbers, note the result and proceed
to the Great Pyramid of Egypt The
sum was 244. | travelled to the pyra-
mid as | was directed to, and on meas
uring the height of the ceiling in the
Queens chamber of the pyramid |
found that PA inc hes measured exactly
the height to the gable ridge. This |
take to be an irrefutable proof that |
am the witness described in Isaiah, the
eleventh chapter and twelfth verse.
Her ideas about the destination of
the world are as novel as her concep-
tion of hell, which she says is an earth
and will end simultaneously with
every other material thing. Accord
ing to her idea the beginning of the
end has already come and is made
manifest by the increased number of
cyclones, floods, and earthquakes in
all parts of the world. Tidal waves
will increase and will render the ocean
unnavlgable. A railroad should be
built from St Petersburg to Behring
Strait and from san Francisco to the
same point, because within a compare
lively short time all communications
by sea will be suspended and the two
continents must depend on the rail
roads for connection.
Miss Gordon is a woman of great in
telligence and education and would
possibly become a priestess of theoso-
ply or something of that sort did she
not believe that she-Miss Gordon-is
the most scholarly woman in the
world
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THE FISK-STOKES AFFAIR
RECALLED BY THE MARRIAGE
OF MANSFIELD.
SHE WAS VERY DANGEROUS
WOMAN,
And Left Death, Ruin and Desola-
ton Wherever She Went-The
Fatal Shot at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel Twenty Years Ago.

The marriage of Josie Mansfield in
full of adventure and romance. Josie
Mansfield was an adventures, nothing
more, nothing less. She came of a
sporty family and has associated with
sporty people all her life. She is
known all over America, but chiefly in
New York, Boston and Chicago. A
writer in the Chicago News who was
personally acquain ed with her, fur
nishes some interesting reading rela-
tive to her checkered career.
Her fame, too, extended to foreign
lands. As she dashed, in the later six
ties and early seventies, through Cen
trail park, New York, in splendid
equipage, provided by James Fisk, she
was the cynosure of all eyes. Her
rich costumes were envied by women
who love dress Her faultless taste
was envied even more. Respondent
in diamonds and tinery, the gift of
Fries king, her fame was in every
mouth.
But this seeming blaze of glory was
fugitive and soon passed away. There
was quar'el between Fisk and Miss
Mansfield. Edward S. Stokes, Fisks
eX-partner and companion, was too at
tentive to Josie, and Fisk, who fur
nished the gorgeous apartments where
the woman lived at his expense, be-
came jealous.
He demonstrated, and was answered
only by threat that his letters to
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the shop windows of London anon.
the noted beauties OF the day. rs
chief admirer was Lord Charles MOI
tagu.
During the last of summer she was
at Broadstairs, a quiet seaside place in
Kent. A short time ago she returned
to London, and went behind the scenes
at the Gaiety theater. When she was
asked if she intended to rejoin the
chorus, she laughed, and declared that
it wasn't good enough" and that she
had no need of work. But it was no.
ticed that there was a suspicion of
hysteria in her flow of spirits, and that
there were tears in her eyes when she
babe an unusually affectionate fare
well to her friends. 1t was also noticed
that she wore a diamond bracelet
which it was said had been gi en- to
her by Prince Albert Victor.
Then came the news that she was
deao. The outburst of English in
dignation goes to show that there is a
firm belief that she had been wronged.
But the truth may come to light some
day, even if the result will be like that
which occurred in Vienna few years
ago.
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assaulted THE JUDGE.
A Breach Of Promise Case Comes TO
wild Termination.


When 200 pounds of femininity get
out of gear in a court room during
breach of promise suit something's
gwine ter happen" An instance oc-
Cured at Hamilton, Ohio, the other
day. The case of Mrs. Frances Kim
ball VS.. Harrison Kimball for $4,000
worth of lost affections was in prog
ress. After hearing the testimony
Judge Hume thought he would sub
serve the best interests of society by
dism ssing the case, and so he did.
This made the plaintiff very, very in
dignant. : he rushed to the judges
bench, near where Judge Hume was
standing, and madly Kissed: Judge
Hume" Almost simultaneously she
seized him by the right arm with her
left hand, while with her right hand
she dealt him two singing blows on
the neck The judge, with as much
dignity as the occasion would permit,
made desperate effort to get away
from the Infatuated woman, who
seemed determined to annihilate him
on the spot if possible. The court
messenger seized her by the arm, and
was easily pushed away.
A court baillff finally came into the
room, and after vigorous resistance,
kicking, and scratching by the woman
he placed her in the prisoners box.
She promises to get even in the near
future.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-07

with few houses near by. At an early
hour Mrs. Cholwell heard a noise on
the roof of the piazza that sounded
like man walking cautiously. Her
bedroom overlooks the piazza. She
sprang out of bed and ran to the win
dow.
A man leaped from the piazza and
stood on the ground looking up at the
frightened woman. Mr.. Cholwell was
not at home.
Hearing the noise Clementine, who
occupied an adjoining room. ran to
her and, clad only in her sleeping gar
ments, she seized her fathers loaded
revolver, which was on the mantel,
and cooked it as she ran. A burglar
stood below her as she stepped out
upon the piazza. On asking him what
he wanted she made aim, anticipating
a reply. Then she fred. The burglar
started to run, when another bullet
was sent at him. This time ne an
swered with a shot from his own
weapon. 1t went wide of its mark
and she fired for the third time. The
burglar was evidently hit. He STUN
bled and fell IN the roadway, at the
same time crying, I'm shot, Pete;
help me-" presumably to confederate
who was with him.
In the meantime officers and neigh
bors had been attracted. but before
they could take in the situation the
burg lars had made away. Miss Chol-
well is now the heroine of South Nor
walk
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SHE WAS INSULTED.
And She Used Her Name with =
Vengeance. Indeed.

A sensation has been created in
London, England, by Mrs. Randolph
Churchill. Just at present her hus'
band is travelling in South Africa and
writing adventure stories for Ameri.
can newspapers. During his absence
his wife amuses herself by attending
the London theaters. One night re-
Gently the funny comedian noticed her
in box and sought to amuse her by
singing Randy Pandy Oh" a song
that might or might not be taken as
burle>que on Lord Randolph Churchill
She took 1t as burlesque and left the
theater.
The next day she sent letter to the
chief secretary asking to have the
story suppressed. Her wish was COM
piled with. Now the more refined set
IN England are saying that Mrs.
Churchill is very despotlc for one who
some years ago cherished the honor of
her American birJhright Some say
she has over-stepped herself What
her goou husband will do when he
comes home is question.
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was not dead but clipping. 1t
seems that she had met a ste
nographer by the name of Gc~~ge
Shearer with whom she held secret
meetings. Her parents could never
consent to a marriage so an elopement
wasplanned. On Sept. p Miss Claus
|. left her home ostensibly to return in a
few hours Within those few hours
she met Mr. Shearer AMI they took the
bridge to Jersey City. In New Jersey
a clergyman was found who quickly
tied the nuptial knot. After the cere-
mony Mr.. and Mrs. Shearer cody noti-
fed Mr.. ana Mrs. Claus by mail of what
they had done and started on their
honeymoon. After making a brief
tour the couple returned to New York
and to the House of Mrs. Shearer's par
ents where n reconciliation, that could
not otherwise have been obtained, took
place.
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ONLY A CHORUS GIRL.
YET A ROYAL PRINCE DID HER
HOMAGE.
THE yIRST MEETING OF VICTOR
AND LYDIA MANTON.
IL Occurred at the Hunt Ball I'm
Shire HalI-Then She Ran Away
from Home-why Her Sad Death
Has Maddened the People.

The manner in which they hush
great scandals in England was forcibly
illustrated the other day when it was
announced that Lydia Manton had
suicided. The news of her tragic
death swept all over the English
speaking world in a day. Why? Be-
cause with her name-the chorus girl
at the theater-had been linked the
name of Prince Albert Victor, eldest
son of the Prince of Wales, and who
may yet grace the throne of the Brit
ish Empire.
Afterwardcomes the. story to the effect
that it was not a case of suicide, but
something more serious. Then all
was still. The investigation into the
cause of her death stopped suddenly
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A Stricken Family.

Noah Duckworth's family, living
near Needhams station, johnson
county, Ohio, is severely afflicted. For
several days past six of his children
have been down with diphthelia, and
the neighbors have Stunned the place,
which has compelled himself and wife
to watch in turn over the afflicted chill
dren through the long, weary hours of
the nights. One day last week one of
the children died, and Mrs. Duckworth
was so sick and overcome that she
could render no assistance, and the
father and aged grandfather were com,
PEELED to prepare the dead body for the
grave and then 70 bury it.
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gan to run and ran for two straight
hours over the prairie, with Miss Ar
ledge hanging on to the reins and
three cowboys in hot pursuit.
One of them at last succeeded in
lassoing the frightened animal and
finally brought it to standstill. Miss
Arledge was told to get off, but she
answered that she could not, and jusI
then the horse made another plunge,
broke the losso and started again on
its wild career. 1t ran for over twenty
miles and then dropped dead, and its
daring rider was found unconscious by
its side. Her mind was SO badly effect
that she was taken to Omaha for treat
ment
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THINK THEY ARE DIVINE.
FEMALE RIVALS OF SCHWEIN-
FURTH AND TEED.
ONE CLAIMS TO HE THE MES
SIAH'S MOTHER.
The Other that She Is the Mother
Of the Creator OF the world and
: All Mankind-The wild HaIIuci-
nations of Two Women.

If Schweinfurth, Teed, and other
self-styled Messiahs don't keep look
out, their well-earned notorietv will be
snatched away from them. The coun-
try is now about to be thoroughly dis
turbed by two women who have no
lesser claims than that they are the
mother of God.
One of these claimants is Mary Will
Ter, who resides on Walnut Hill, Gin
cinnati She claims to be the mother
of the Messiah. --F.
The other claimant to divine dis
tinction is Elizabeth Margaret Gordon,
who resides near Coopersto IN, n. Y.
She calmly and without the slightest
embarrassment puts forth the claim
that she is the mother of the Creator
of all mankind, God without a trinity.
If nothing else these women are
strange characters.
: The former was first heard from
through an expose printed in a Cincin-
natl paper in June, 1887. She was
then ~ years old and lived
with her parents in Walnut Hill.
, About year prior to the expose she
gave birth to child. She claimed
that the child was of divine conception.
Many were induced to believe her story
and her boy was worshipped as a
sayfrri He is now more than five years
nd and travelling with his mother in
J1'le South. The Cincinnati exposure
IA. quietus on her preposterous
sclfmAfyr while, and she finally left
Tbs ;,T". Those who have watched
her Or tae past few years say that she
really believes that her son is a re-
deemer.
H
Her followers believe that the world
/. will be destroyed within the next few
wears,
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that there was anything criminal in
her conduct Lawlor left her great
deal to herself. Naturally, a woman
who had no mental resources to fall
back on and being extremely Deauti-
full, she quickly attra ted the local gal
lants of the capital 10 her side One
of these was an athlete who was the
proprietor of gymnasium. His name
was Brady. LawlOr meeting her on
Pennsylvania avenue in company with
this man, the results were scene and
a scandal After this, elimination and
recrimination followed between the
man, who claimed on the one hand to
distribute his favors to other women
with reckless hand and determined
purpose, and woman whose moral
principles and possibly instincts were
not sufficiently potent to restrain her
from a similar course of conduct
At about the time that Lawlor's wife
left him and sought the protection of
James Fisk, Jr., he had conversation
with me on the subject of their dis
agreement. In this conversation he
bitterly spoke of the woman and made
some of the most odiOus charges
against her: and. by the way, | notice
the statement that Lawlor has been
dead for some years. This is an error.
He has only been dead comparatively
short time. He had for years been an
imbecile, his disease being paresis-a
disease which has carried off more
than one prominent actor during the
past few years. 1t was found neces-
sary to place him under restraint in
the asylum in which he died. On
hearing of his death his wife a short
time since sent from Paris for an Off
cial declaration thereof. knew then
that she contemplated marriage.
AN OLD TIMER
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The brooklyn RrIdge Ghost:

New York City has Tr -rted con-
siderabIy of late over an S.pparition on
the Brooklyn bridge. Recording to
. New York paper noca rnal visitor,
of the feminine persuasR n, made its
appearance near the cent? of the span
at midnight, some ten days ago. Every
night since, it has been Walking to the
intense excitement of thousands who
go there to see it, So intense was the
jam one night that the gate of the
bridge had to be closel Nobody
seems able to account for tlis remarG.
able occult demOnstration
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RODE ALMOST TO DEATH.
A wyoming Girl in the Saddle of a
Wild Steed.

Cora Artledge, young girl of IA,
Horn basin, Wyoming, recently. Her
basin, and a cowboy rode up to his
ranch on young horse that he was
breaking. In a spirit of jest he dared
Miss Cora to ride the horse, when,
without a thought, she vaulted into
the saddle, throwing her leg around
the horn, and the horse started in to
bucking and pitching at a furious
rate, but she stuck to him, quoting
him every Jump Then the horse be-
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In ls64-G5 the writer visited Wash
ington where he met Josephine Mans
field, then Mrs. Frank Lawlor. His
family sat at the same table with Law
lor and his wife at the Kirkwood
MOTEL.
She lived happy life with Lawlor
until 1855, when she became jealous of
Lawlor's attentions to certain leading
actresses. He became jealous of her
because she retorted on him by accept
ing the attentions of other men. Not
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mothers name was Mary Gannett
Mrs. Mary Gannett died in the Old Peo-
pies home, Chicago, IN 1884 or 1885.
Josephine Mansfield was the perfec-
ton of physical womanly beauty-all
that could be said in her favor. Men
tally the woman was absolutely color
less. She had no conversational pow
ers. She read nothing. She did moth
ing. save devoting her whole soul and
mind to the adOrnment of her person.
In conversation she violated the plain.
est rules of grammar,
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Bad Lack Runs In the Family.

EdwardP Field, formerly OF Goshen,
Ind, returned home the other day
from thasNest to remain, his wife and
two children having eloped with a
married man. The first wife of Fields
father eloped in the same manner.
The wife 6f George Field, his oldest
b,,u.- did -I,lsesviss, after which her hus-
band drowned himself Since the re-
turn of his brother David to his home
he was nearly scalded to death, and
August Field recently had au arm and
leg broken in Kansas.