The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-12

WIN ucserteu huslin byron DluWcll. tHe
forger, and the widow, Mrs. f. A. War
rem" who married Harry Homans, the
wealthy insurance agent, one and the
same woman: Many thousands of dol
lars hang on the answer Harry Homans
sailed "a dozen years ago for Paris. His
wife, a daughter Of Doctor Palmer Of
Albany, was dead. leaving him three
children He had resigned the agency
of the Equitable Life Assurance com
pany of San Francisco to become the
PARIS representative of the New York
Life. on guarantee Of 10 per cent a
year for two years premiums on all
policies he issued.
a fellow voyager of Mr.. Homan was
Mrs. f. a. Warren" Every man who
ever knew Mrs. Warren uses superlatives
in speaking Of her, but the woman who
have met her during the past ten years
snEuo THEIR SHOULDERS.
Mr.. Homans was completely fascin
atcd, and. four months after meeting
Mrs. Warren. ne married her, believing
implicitly all she told him of her ante
cedents. They entertained elaborately
in Paris. and one Of their guests, a
Lousianan, one evening informed the
husband that his wife was formerly the
proprietress of a gambling house in New
Orleans.
your wife was formerly the proprie
tress of a gambling house in New Or
leans. 1t is impossible for me to be mis-
taken. knew her before / was married.
There is some terrible mistake some
where
Humiliated by his wife's acknowledge
ments, when he reproached her, Mr..
Homans sent agents to investigate her
career, and they learned much more of
her behavior during the five years before
he met her than need be told here. He
offered her $4,000 a year il she would
PERMIT HIM TO OBTAIN a DIVORCE.
She laughed at his proposal, and, per
haps. fearing scandal, the husband con
tinued to live with her in the same
house, but they occupied different apart
mcnts The shame that oppressed Mr.
Homans made him morose. and Mrs.
Homans suddenly sought gayer scenes
and more companionablc partner. She
set off for st. Petersburg with an italian
nobcman whom her beauty and ac-
plishments had ensnared.
Not long after IIomans died. Then
began a contest over his estate, the value
of which is authoritativcly estimated at
( hundreds Of thousands of dollars. The
Il ~ pu in hl
/ eyes of the French ,aw, Or lid her win
ming ways fail to ali her in the fight She
was making against her husbands chnl
drcn. She insisted that her HUSBAND
was citizen of California, where he hat
long resided, and not of this city. Since
by the laws of California she was en-
the laws of New York to only onc-third
THE COURT SUSTAINED HER.
The children appealed The highc
court again decided in favor Of the
widow. One day in the court room al
English lawyer sat studying Mrs. Hon
ans face.
i've seen that woman somewhere.
he whispered to William IIomans. II
seems to me that she was the wife Of
man who committed forgery years ag
and was sentenced to London to Ion,
Imprisonment
1t seems that "F, a. Warren" was Bid
wells alias when he was captured: hi
wife deserted him and he has not see
her since; that wife married the ofiiciu
of the Bank of England who went t
Havana and identified Austin Bidwel
And it is a story of the employees of tn
bank to this day, that the woman's ten
per drove her strangely acquired mate s
near the verge Of imbecility that tn
bank was obliged to pension him.
rHE MISSING EIGHT YEARS.
: Harry Homans' family learned that tn
widow, Mrs. +. A. Warren WAS we
known to men in New York before tn;
unfortunate union. Twenty years 40
a widow. Mrs. +. A. Warren b,
rcaved by law, married Bank ,
England official; twelve years ag
It widow, Mrs. +. A. Warren
! married Harry Ilomans. Ii she on
and thcsamc woman? Then where va
she during those eight intervening year.