Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-08
MRS. WILSON OF SAN DIEGO.
The California Woman Whom
Crandall Married.
Her Life's History and Where She
Was Born.
Where She Has Lived-How and When
She Met Crandall, Whom She Claims
to Have Married Five Years
Ago at San Diego.

Attorney Arthur W. Hickman, says
the Buffalo Times, is of the opinion that
his client, Bryant B. Crandall, will soon
be acquitted of the charges made against
him by the insurance companies and be
a free man.
Mr.. Orandall himself hugs the same
pleasant belief to his bosom and hints
that he will at no distant time return to
the bosom of his family, but fails to say
which one.
Does he mean the wife and children
whom he 80 cruelty deserted in this city
more than six years ago, or the woman
whom he espoused in San Diego, CAL,
five years ago next August?
Presumably Mr.. Crandall refers to his
Buffalo family, for he is alleged to have
said that he would return to his old
home and renew the domestic relations
severed six years ago."
But he may not be able to do this.
The California wife, the woman whom
he married under the name of Wilson,
may not consent to this.
She declares that if Bryant B. Gran.
dali and B. B. Wilson are one and the
same person he is amenable to the laws
of California, and she will see that he is
punished for bigamy.
The day after Crandall started for Buff
falo woman called at the Office of
Los Angeles paper to make statement
in reference to her relations with Gran
dali.
She said "The papers have done me
a great injustice by insinuating that /
am simply the mistress of the man who
was taken to Buffalo yesterday. If his
name is simply Crandall know nothing
of it. I married him in San Diego five
years ago on the 11th of last August. l
had known him but six months when
we were married. He has al
ways been kind husband to me. He
is perfect gentleman, and l cannot be-
lieve he has done anything wrong.
am confident there is mistake of some
kind"
If MRS. Crandall after reading the above
still believes that her husband is and
has been faithful to her, it is because she
has some strong reason for so doing.
The paper from which the interview
was taken was brought to the Los An
geles Jail and given to Crandall by Mrs.
Wilson.
Crandall kept this studiously con-
cealed from the Buffalo officers. From
Crandalls own lips has been learned
the history of Mrs. Wilson and his con-
nection with her.
She was born British subject in Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, forty-Gwo years ago.
Her father, John Shesler, was an at
torney and prominent man of affairs
in that place. She was quite belle
and when hardly more than IL mar
ried a Mr.. Marshell who was, like
her father, an attorney. For some time
the young couple maintained their resi-
dence at Halifax, but finally moved to
st. Louis. There Mr.. Marshall was ad-
mitted to the bar and became one of the
most distinguished of the younger Grim
inal practitioners. While just entering
upon the full measure of his fame and
prospective fortune the husband died of
paralysis, leaving a wife and little
daughter, who was one of the principals
in the famous seduction case against
Taylor, the hotel keeper, and in which
Crandall, then known as Wilson, figured
as witness and as tine stepfather of the
girl and husband of her mother.
| But this is anticipating the story.
| After a widowhood of several years
Mrs. Wilson went to FL Paso, Tex,
and again married. She seemed to
have an especial liking for lawyers, for
she chose another as the partner of her
| joys and sorrows. His name was VIM.
Bostwick. He was shiftess, and when
| he died sudden death years ago from
brain fever, as Mrs. Wilson told Gran
dali, she was left without means of sup
port. Seeing no prospects of obtaining
such in the little town on the Mexican
frontier, she and her daughter moved to
Los Angeles, and thence to San Diego,
where the marriage was entered into as
Mrs. Wilson says.
Crandall also stated to at least one
party in the Jail that he had received
several communications from Mrs. Will
son since his incarceration here. she ad-
dressing them to the care of friend
here.
Crandall says Mrs. Wilson was for
time a resident of this city, but when
he refuses to say.