New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-17
NoTORIo Us WOMAN'S MARRIAGE.
PoBERr L. READE, OF THIS CITY, REPORTED TO
HAVE MADE JOSIE MANSFIELD HIS WIFE.

ROBERT L. READE, OF THIS CITY, REPORTED TO
HAVE MADE JOSIE MANSFIELD HIS WIFE.
Robert l. Reade Of New-York, enioyed yesterday
An experience similar to that recorded Of himself by
a celebrated Englshman two generations ago, when
he said he awoke one morning TO find himself famous
The author Of Childe Harold intrepid and auda
dams Mr. Resde appears to have proved himself
10 be both sudacious and intrepid. His reported
marriage on Friday Of last week In London, TO the
Notorious Josie Mansfield has brought him into
prominence which the practice Of his profession as
lawyer in New York failed to develop.
The simple announcement is made and remains I'M
contradicted that the woman YVES married 10 MI
Reade at St. Georges Church, Hanover Square, Lon
DON. The New-York friends Of the bridegroom were
no+ .asy 10 find He Is a member Of some well known
climbs. among Others the Manhattan and UNIVERSITY
hit those Of his associates who were intimate WIN
him appear 70 be limited. He Is about forty years
old and the son Of Robert Reade who Is SAID 70 nave
made large fortune through the rise In the vaue OF
real estate IN Minneapolis
Mr. Reade It is said. had never
,rorn Jose Mansfield until July Of this year
hen he met her st Carlsbad while visiting his noIhe'
there First came infatuaton. then proposal d
coouettish delay on the part Of the OBJECT Oh HIS
passlon and then consent and finally marriage
Josie Mansfield twenty-years and more ago was one
~ the most notorious women in America. she III :.
came into public pOUcc a an lht4i4NtS
lanes Fisk r. and It IS undeniable that TO Ms
ensnar.ment by her he owed his death at the hahd'
~, Edward 9 stokes The advent OF Fisk IN new
v was coeval with that OF Jay GOuld
who was his intimate friend. The connection Oh uie
two with the affairs OF the Erie Railway Is one VI
the most conspicuous chapters in Will street ms'or
Ios,e Mansfield Warren lived with her parents III
san Francisco when she met Frank Lawlor an actor
who married her in 1864. In 1868 they separa'el'
sbo ,rav1tated 70 New-York and endured many hafH-
sbins She was possessed Of peculiar charms OF person
nd manner and became an object Of admiration hoh'
certain men about town. In 1870 she net ilSA' i'
yas = dashng. generous hearted. picturesque hsure
in New-York at that time. He became il'clha'eu y
the woman who then called herself JOSIE "nai',
field and showered gifts upon her "l''i'u'
stint providing among other things mouse
Cor her 10 dwell in. Edward = S'oAes'
u1o was associated with Fisk In business ventures was
= man ~ attractive personal appearance Ihey en-
counered causes for disagreement and the FskstoAes
war was a familiar headline in the newspapers Oh '-'
perod Fisk suspected the woman OF inuhacy wiz,
stokes and quarrel with her resulted Then ioio'eo
threats BY her Of the publication Of his Ieles 10 7,
and an Injunction against their publication Te,ii',u
Atout this time Fisk and stokes met one night IN the
Grand Central Hotel in Broadway ard the latter man
shot and killed the former on the main stairway
Stokes was convicted and sentenced 70 be hanged anu
the scaGold was already in course OF consIcoh "He
at tho last moment Justice Noah Davis OF the supreme
Court granted stay Of proceedings. new uiai re
suited IN conviction a lower degree. and after
scrying four years in Auburn Pententiary stokes re-
Jle Mansaeld brought suit against Fisks widow for
a Iarce sun Of money which she aileeed "ss o w.
70 her br FISK but Size failed 10 win tie case Aitcr
" h-jnf ,ax in poston she 10 Paris, ard she ms
remained abroad in comparative secluson slnce ths:
4 few wears agO she was erroheousiY FtPDtru ~
a. sbe * csld to have retained her personal
Charms and fasc mating ways 70 remarkable desree;
Her former husband, Frank Lawior' mas peeh ue~"
many years.