The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-10-16
JOSIE A BRIDE AGAIN
The Woman Responsible for
Fisk's Murder Married.
NEW YORK LAWYER THE GROOM
BE Believed Josie Mansfield Alone Gould
Save Him from Drunkennssa

He Has More Money than Briefs-- History
OG the Woman who Once was the Most
Talked Of Person In the Country--Her
Intrigue with the Erie King Recalled.
How She Came to Marry Lawyer Roade
- Now tho sister-in- Law OF a Lord.
LONDON, Oct 16.-Josie Mansfield is
married. The woman who was more
discussed 20 years ago than any other
person in the western hemisphere-the @
woman who inspired Edward s. Stokes
to kill James Fisk, ir.-has again be-
come stsid and demure.
| Mrs. Lswlor, formerly Miss Josie
Mansfield, was married last Friday at
ST. Georges Church, Hanover square,
London to Mr. Robert L. Reade, of New
York. Mr. Lawlor, brother of Lady
Falkland; his mother, and three mem
bers of the brides family were present.
The couple are spending the honeymoon
at Brighton.
Robert l.. Reade, her husband, is a
lawyer, but has always enjoyed too
much money and too merry associates to
become remarkably celebrated at the
Bar He is a short, thickset man with a
rich red Burgundian complexion. He
looks like a man who has seen forty-tve
years or more, but his oldest friends in
this city say he is much younger than
that.
urs. Reade spent last summer at
Carlsbad with her cousin, Mrs. Levi p.
Morton, and her daughters Lawyer
Robert L. Beade went over to visit his
mother in July. There he met Josie
Mansfield, who, in spite of her years,
was as much Of belle as ever. She
called herself Mrs. Frank Lawler and
the number of her devoted admirers was
legion. Lawyer Reade was fascinated
He urged the fair Josie to marry him,
but she was coy. She told him to take
ample time and consider well what he
was about to do. How we'll he consid
cred is told by the marriage Friday.
josie MansfeId's History.
It is not fair even to guess at Mrs.
Robert L. Reade's age. She is as charm
ing to-day as she was when she eusnared
the gallant Col. Jim Fisk, jr., more than
a score Of years ago. Her fame went
abroad, too. Her name was as well
known in every backwoods hamlet as
John L. Sulllvan's is to-day. Bonnets
and gowns and a certain mode of dress
ing the hair were claimed for her.
Then Josie Mansfield and Jim Fisk
quarrelled and parted The King of Erie
was jealous because his handsome friend
and ex-partner Ned Stokes, was too at
tentivo to Josie and spent too many days
and nights in the house Jim Fisk's
money had furnished for her. Then
came chickering's, threat Of publishing
all of Fisk's letters and kilograms to
Josie, an injunction by which Fisk pre-
vented Stokes from publishing them or
any of them, and finally the shooting of
Fisk by Stokes on the main stairway of
the Grand Central Hotel on Broadway.
Josie sued Col Fisk's widow for $780,
600 she claimeG the dead man owed her,
but she did not win the suit. Josie
went to Boston, but she found that city
to hot to live in. Crowds followed her and
hooted her in the streets. Soon she fled
to Paris There she made her home, and
there very likely she will carry on the
good work Of saving her husband
from drinking himself to death.
Josie Mansfield was married in 1854 to
Frank Lawlor, an actor of some note.
She was then living in San Francisco
with her parents. Lawlor and Josie led
a happy life until 1868, when he found
that he could no longer live with her,