The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-10-19
JOSIE'S MANY DUPES
Some of the Men Ruined by
"The Mansfield"
SHE TRIED TO EusNARE GOULD,
But the Finanoior Was Too Wary, as
Was Also Tweed

nelius Vanderbilt She Has a Double.
NEW YORK. Oct l0-The recent mar
riage Of Josie" Mansfield, perhaps the
most wonderful achievement Of her
most wonderful career, brings to light
the fact that New Workers and the
world at large have really learned com
paratively little of this notorious
woman. Her relations with Fisk and
Stokes are all that she is remembered
by and yet these were only episodes in
her life.
How many, even old New Yorkers,
know that the woman lived a bohemian
existence i'm humble way i'm Fourth
street, Yet she was a finer looking
woman while on Fourth street than
she was later in her mansion on Twenty
third street. Among her early or Fourth
street lovers was one "Ar' Wallace.
He was dapper individual of medium
height, with "a carefully curled mustache
and puir of expressive eyes. Rather
good-lookiug, he was q popular" man
in his day of prosperity and enjoyed a
widely miscellaneous acquaintance.
He knew everybody" aud had ga
pull' In politics. Tweed used him in
several transactions and he was a chum
of "Billy" Cook, one of the most ell
CienJ of the Slaves of the Ring" As
faro player lac Tor years "bucEed the
tiger and came out ahead, and had
quiet, cool way about him that rendered
him a favorita with women and specially
eudlaral him TO "J0sie, who fell "head
over ears i'm love with him--f0r
while
She dotted on Wallace forsome months
and kept % boy iG her ueighborhood busy
carrying messages to- and fro. Wallace
did not care specially ior the woman mt
first, but she gradually fascinated him
till me fell, like Fisk later on, "a captive
90 the sirens wiles. But by this time
she bad tired of her conquest and soon
sought and found higher game.
Wallace had met his fac, He had
really learned to love the woman and he
never fully recovered from her deser-
tion. He lost his head as we'll as his
6c,r, His nerve deserted him. He be-
cnnc r,,,,,,rfy at play, bungled some
political Jobs irtr,.--ted TO his care, in
cured the displeasure OF ere BOSS and
was deserted by his old CYonles. nv took
TO drink and soon became q total physi-
cal and mental wreck and finally dufted
over TO the island and one night,
when Josie was with Fisk at an Academy
ball, cap Wallace died in the poor
house.
A similar fate bofell another Of Josie's
lovers. This was young broker well
known down town as Matt" Bowen, a
little fellow full Of dash and vim, with
curly hair aud a pleasing "olf-hand"
manner. The Mansfield took one of her
"crazes" for him. She was then in the
height Of her prosperity, the acknowl-
edged mistress Of Fisk and the friend
OF Stokes. Aud yet she was willing to
"throw over both of these men for
Matt Bowen. But Bowen had sense
enough TO see that it would never do to
antaB0nize openly the woman's two po-
tenuai admirers, so he cOntcnted HIM
sell with being, i'm the background, the
favored third, He curried favor with
Fisk and for q space all was well. But
the woman became impruden5 and de-
monstrative, spite of Bowen's warnings,
and Fisk's suspicious were excited, He
set detectives to work and soon learned
that he had ample cause for his sus-
picious. Fisk kept his temper and bided
his time, meanwhile prOce eding system
atically towards his revenge.
He bought out Bowen and pretended
60 have taken fancy to him The Un-
suspecting Bowen, lattered at the pref
erence of the great tinanCier, lived in a
FOOLS paradise awhile, At Fisk's sug-
gestion he had borrowed all the money
he could and Hypothetical every share
of stock and invested every cent he had
in the world in a certain speculation
which Fisk assured him would make
him and his friends fortune. Then Fisk
put ON the thumbsCrews. The speCula-
tion proved disastrous and Matt Bowen
was ruined. He took to drink, then tC
the island-like his predecessor, Wallace
But even before he died in disgrace, des
titution and despair, "Josie" had al
ready forgotten him.
But one thing she never forgot-he
own self-interest. Tho real cleverness o
Jay Gould was never shown more con
spicuously than in his determined re
sistance TO the persistent allurement o
Eisk's mistress, lie carefully ayOide
her so far as he could without positivel.
offending Fisk, Her charms wer
wasted upon Gould,
Once when Fisk was called away fror
New York TO Boston ON business con
nected with the steamboats,, Mansdel
took the opportunity to importune Goul
TO dine with her
To her surprise and delight Gould ~
Cspted her pressing invitation. Ever
preparation was made for that Dime
and Josie arrayed herself in the mos
herself in her fond imaginings the mis-
tress Of Fisk master.
But about clock on the aftenoo
of the day appointed for the dinner,
special messenger came from Jay Gould
bearing his regrets that business Of th
utmost Importance prevented him fron
keeping his engagement
From that day she detested the veI
name Of Gould and endeavored to so
dissension between him and his co
league, Fisk
"Ihe Mansfeldn likewise endeavort
to impress herself favorably on Twee
One bitterly cold morning Mansfield,
her sealsNin sacque, rode in her well-al
pointed sleigh from Fisk's house, dow
Twenty-third street TO Fifth avenue, al
then mp the avenue TO the residence
the Tammany Boss, whore she was I
ceiyei by tho Boss himself
Her errand at this time was doub