The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-21

to circulate that am attempting to OK
tort money from You by Threatened
publication OF your private letters 10
me. You know how shamefully false
this is, and yet you encourage and aid
it.. Had this been my attention, had
a whole trunk full OF your interesting
letters, some o; which ! would blush
to say had received Ii You were not
devoid Of all decency and shame, you
would do differently, knowing, Us you
do, that when your own no.es 20 ny
orders are brought into the courts, your
letters acknowledging your indebted
nos9 10 me, you witt appear all the more
contemplate and'coward!y.
WAS it not only recently you bought
over my servants, a negro boy, Richard
L. King, also my cook, and brIbed
them TO perjure'themselyes to aid you
in your vihaTny? ! have the sworn
proof OF what | tell YOU, and more. You
surely rec0lioct the iatcd Black Friday
the gold brokers you gave orders 10
to buy gold, ana then repudiated the
same, because, rs you said, they had no
witnesses to your transactions. There
was one / reCOliecs in particular, q son
OF Abraham, who had the courage TO
swear out an attachment against the
Grand Opera House for what was Justly
due him, and how YOU rnlncd the poor
victim Dy breaking up his business and
having him arrested and Imprisoned
Tor perjury And nj the time you pre-
mediiated thi. crime you well knew he
held Your written order to buygold and
you were the periurer.
at ia oniyfour yearsato since YOU re-
vea!ed "a me your scheme .or stealing
the Erie books; howyou fled with lem
to Jersey City, and l remained there
with YOU nine long weeks; how, when
yop we're buying the legislature, the
many anxious nights passed with you
at the telegraph wire. when you told
me il was either Fisk palace in NbW
York or a stone palace AZ Sing Sing, and
If the latter would take q cottage out
side its walls, that my presence would
make Your rusty irons gariaHds OF roses
and the very stones you would have to
hammer and crack appear softer under
my influence. You secured your Erie
palace aud now use your whole force oil
Erie officials 10 SANDER and iniure me.
It is indeed heroic and worthy the hero
OF the memorable 18th day OF July last"
JosErHSE CAUSED TIE TRAGEDY.
Fisk became very bitter against
Stokes, and Josephine took delight in
embittering Stokes against Fisk. About
i o'clock on the afternoon OF January G,
1872, Colonel Fisk drove in his carriage
from the Grand Opera House down
Broadway to the Grand Central hotel
lie entered at the ladies' entrance, and
was shot By Edward S. Stokes az he
assembled tine stairs. He was carried to
a bedroom, and after difficult surgical
operation and having made his will he
died. Stokes was indicted on January
II, 1872, Tor murder in the first degree,
and was three times tried for his lie
On January 9, 1873, on the first ami.
versary Of his crime, Stokes was sen
fenced 10 death by Judge Boardman in
the court OF oyer and termiEer, and the
date OF his execution was fixed Tor the
last Friday in February, 1873.
The scene in court when this verdict
was brought in was thrilling to de
gree. Stokes marvellous nerve never
Tor moment seemed to quail or ialter
Stokes got q new trial, escaped with a
sentence TO hard labor in Sing Sing,
served his time, came out aud prospered
and is to-day power in Iammang hal!
second only to Richard Croker.
josie Mansfield went to Paris. On
the witness stand TO save Stokes lie
she had testified that while receiving
the caresses ami money OF Fisk she told
Stokes the secrets Fisk impaired to her.
TlsE's WIDOW.
Mrs. Lucy d. Fisk, who was Lucy D.
Moore, IL siep.siaser OF Colonel George
W. Hooker OF Vermont and the own
sister OF Mr.. John D. Moore. a respected
resident OF New York city, is now living
in little wooden house in a secluded
auurter Of South Boston, once thought
to be the coming residential suburb Of
the Hub, but since the war occupied
almost entirely by tenements and the
humber homes OF those who are able
to live alone. Before moving to South
Boston, Mrs. Fisk lived in North Hat
field, Mass, where the little home she
had learned to love was burned over
her head. Ill fortune seems 10 have
pursued nor, quite undeservcdlY many
think who know her well, and the
strangely significant statement has
been made by friend OF some years
standing that every home Mrs. Fisk mas
known for years has been burned.
MRS. EIsE's POVERTY.
With the enormous sums, including
her hall OF the Grand Opera House and
adjacent buildings, aud a specific sum
Of Sl5. COO year, the payment OF which
was expressly promised with all this
enormous fortune, which those who
knew the fncts best believed and still
believe was due this widow from her
husbands powerful friends and part
ners, this article has not to do. Daring
the lifetime OF Jay Gould'4 wife Mr..
Gould, on more than one occasion, sent
money in sums varying from $3.50 to
$500. After the death OF Mrs. Gould,
the letters that she wrote to Jay Gould
were not answered, evidently never
reaching him" Mrs. Fisk now explains.
SMALLPOX IN PITTSBURGH.
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