Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-07
A MIxED-UP FAMILY.
Extraordinary Domestic Complications
that New York Lawyer Ran Against.

Extraordinary Domestic Complications
that New York Lawyer Ran Against:
~ have Heard Of good many singu.
larly complicated family ties" said a
lawyer of this city, but | happened to
be present at a murder trial in Pennsyl-
vania once, in the course of which was
developed mixed-up condition of
Fohlesti; relationship, such as was never
before put on record 4 thsn named
John Lefevre was being tried on d
charge of numbering his wife, The
prisoner was man sixty years of age,
The wife He 'ySs ALLEGED X, hevs killed
was his second one, Twenty years
before she married Lefevre she
had married man named Samuel
Cooper from whom she procured
divorce, SHE took Their three
children with her aid married Andrew
Grade, neighbor. The wife Lafevre
had then was a relative of Grade, and
the two families lived near neighbors.
Not long after Mrs. Cooper married
6rahe Il beea,ue common talk that she
and John Lefevre were tiiiduly ipti'
mate. Finally Lefevre's wife died.
Then Mrs. Grade obtained a divorce from
her second husb&fd and again taking
the three children of her first husband;
Samuel Cooper, with her, married John
Lefevre. SAMUEL Cooper, by the way,
had remarked soon after Ills wife got
her divorce, and he and his second wife
lived within a quarter of mile of the
Hfabes and Lefevres. Lefevre and his
new wife, did not live happily together,
but they were on cordial FORMS With
the Grade family. Andrew Grade
having married again Immediately
after his FIRST wife was divorced from
him, his second wife being sister Of
John Letevre. Samuel Cooper's second
wife Vas sister Of his first wife Thus
Mrs. Lefevre lived with her third fius
band and her first husbands children
close neighbors to her first husband and
her second husband, each of whom had
become her brother-in-law. Samuel
| Cooper had also become by his second
marriage uncle to his children by his
first wife.
''John tefevre lived tnhappily with
his third wife; for he shared the belief
of others that she had become intimate
with Samuel Cooper her first divorced
husband and father of her children.
| At last Mrs Lefevre was found dead
with her neck broken and her skull
crushed, at the foot of a long fight of
stairs ia her house. Her sister,
Susan Habbercorn, suspected that
Mrs. Lefevre's husband had muir
dered her. On her charge Lee
fevre was arrested and placed on trial.
Andrew Grade, the dead woman's di-
vorced second husband, was drawn on
the jury, md Samuel Cooper, her first
divorced husband, was a witness in the
case, but, of course, Grade was not i'm.
paneled. On the witness-stand it was
elected from Miss Habbercofn that she
herself had been twice married and
twice divorced. Her first husband was
cousin of Andrew Grade. Her second
husband was brother of John Lefevre's
first wife. Miss Habbercorn admitted
also that she was engaged to be mar
ried again, that time to brother Of
Samuel Cooper, her dead sisters first
divorced husband. The jury disagreed
on the murder trial, and | don't know
how it resulted finally; but that was q
mixed up family, wasn't it?"-N. Y.
Sun.