The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-29
TELLTALE REGISTER
Coghlan's Appearance in Chicago
with His Alleged Wife.
His New Brides Father Will Investi-
gate-Lived Openly in New
York with No. /.

The Coghlan-Beveridge wedding at the
Bates House last Tuesday at midnight is
developing a great deal of gossip i'm the
big cities Of the country where the actor
Is well known. In Chicago hotel register
has been produced to show where Coghlan
registered some months ago with wife and
daughter" PhIo j. Beveridge, the father
Of the bride, says he shall thoroughly in
vsstigate the stories that are afloat. 1t
seems that CoghIan, while playing an en-
gagement in Chicago last May, registered
at two hotels at the same time, keeping his
alleged wife and daughter at the Great
Northern, while he spent a great deal of
his time at the Victoria, where his name
also appears on the register of that week.
The clerks at both hotels are positive that
Coghlan registered at their hotels the week
beginning May z. At the Great Northern
he paid weeks hotel bill for himself, wife
and daughter.
The last two engagements of Charles and
Rose Coghlan in Chicago were those at the
Schiller in May and October or the present
year, says a Chicago paper. AT the thea
ter and the Great Northern Hotel it is
admitted that during the last two engage
ments neither Mrs. Coghlan nor daughter
accompanied the actor. At the playhouse
Charles Coghlan possessed a wife and
daughter. One Of the young men in the
box office told the following story of the
May engagement of the Coghlans:
mot until we saw Coghlan's denial In the
papers had we the slightest doubt the actor
was married and that the charming young
woman he addressed as daughter was other
than his own child. The woman he called
wife he introduced at the box Office by that
ute, and she was treated by Rose Coghlan
with the courtesy her brothers wife would
have right to demand. The husband, wife
and daughter came to the theater almost
daily during the engagement They fire.
quently got seat checks at the box office for
Mrs or Miss Coghlan. The trio seemed
to entertain that affection for one another
that may be found in all happy families
Coghlan repeatedly introduced the elder
woman as Mrs. Coghlan' and the younger
one as Miss Coghlan.'
A New York dispatch says:
For many years Charles Coghlan has
lived with a woman who has been generally
recognized as his wife. Throughout all his
escapades. and he has had many on both
ly. There is a girl Of eighteen, generally
believed TO be his daughter, who always
called old Mrs. Coghlan grandma" and
last winter, when Coghlan was laid up with
peritonitis, this young girl and her mother
were constantly by his side. In Prince Ed
ward Island, where the Coghlans spend
their summers, this young girl has been re-
ceived everywhere as Miss Coghlan. Her
devotion to him is well known
In March of this year CharleS COShlan,
with a lady whom he introduced as his
wife, rented an apartment at the San Reno
Eighth avenue and Seventy-fffth street.
They were accompanied by a young lady
whom they said was their daughter Ger
trude. The family quiet and refined in
manners. Charles would occasionally so
out with the mother and daughter, but
most of the time the two ladies were off
together-every day going out in their own
trap through the park. The older woman
was q fne-looking person, ladylike in her
manner, and well dressed, and between her
and the daughter there appeared to exist
strong fondneSS.
1.-The San Reno management were greatly
surprised when they heard that Charles
Coghlan had been married in indianapolis,
as they had considered all along that the
actor was already married. taea
I'm 1889 Charles Coghlan, with n lady
whom he introduced as his wife, took apart
ments at the fashionable Rockingham
apartment house, Broadway and Fifty
sixth street. The apartment had been
subrented by Mrs Thomas 70. Tweedy to
Charles Coghlan, his wife and two daugh-
tiers. Coghlan paid the rent regularly for
the place. and at the end of six or seven
months gave up the apartments