Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-16
JOSIE A BRIDE AGAIN
The Woman Responsible for
Fisk's Murder Married.
NEW YORK LAWYER THE GROOM
He Believed Josie Mansfield Alone Gould
Save Him from Drunkenness

He Has More Money than BrIefE--History
of 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 Reade
- Now tho sister-in-L Law of a Lord.
LONDON, Oct 16.-Josie Mansfield is
married. The woman who was moro
discussed 20 wears ago than any other
person in the western hemisphere-the
woman who inspired Edward S. Stokes
to kill James Fisk, jr.-has again be-
come staid and demure.
Mrs. Lawior, formerly Miss Josie
Mansfield, was married last Friday at
St. Georges Church, Hanover square,
London, to Mr.. Robert L. Reade, of New
York. Mr.. LawIor, 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. Readeh her husband, is
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
rich red Burgundian complexion. He
looks like a man who has seen forty We
wears or more, but his oldest friends in
this city say he is much younger than
that.
Mrs. Reade spent last summer at
Carlsbad with her cousin, Mrs. Levi P.
Morton, and her daughters. Lawyer
Robert L. Reade went over to visit his
mother in July. There he met Josie
Mansfield, who, in spite of her years,
was as much of q 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 we'll 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 ensnared
| the gallant Col. Jim Fisk, jr., m ore than
a score of years ago. Her fame went
abroad too. Her name was as we'll
| known in every backwoods hamlet as
| John L. Sullivan's is to-day. Bonnets
and gowns and certain mode of dress
ing the hair were claimed for her.
Then Josie Mansfield and Jim Fisk
uuarrelled and parted. The King of Erie
| was Jealous because his handsome friend
tentive to Josie and spent too many days
| and nights in the house Jim Fisk
money had furnished for her: Then
came chickering's, threat of publishing
| all of Fisks letters and kilograms to
| Josie. an: Injunction by which Fisk pre-
vented Stokes from publishing them OF
any of them, and fin ally the shooting OF
Fisk by Stokes on the main stairway OF
the Grand Central Ho tel on Broadway.
Josie sued Col. Fisk g widow for 5000,
| 600 she claimed 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 an6
hooted her in the streets Soon she flee
to Paris There she made her home anG
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 tt
Frank Law1or, an actor of some note
She was then living in San francisco
with her parents Lawlor and Josie lee
a happy life until 1868, when he found
that he could no longer live with her.