The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-20
WHAT WILL SHE Dop
CoRhlan's Other Wife on the Way
From Prince Edward to Boston.

OORn1du OJh6E w lIS on Jn6 way
From Prince Edward to Boston.
From the St. Louis Chronicle,
The woman, who lived twenty-five
years as the wife of Actor Charles Cogh-
Ian, without the sanction of the marriage
ceremony, will be on the soil of Uncle
Sam in few days.
She is now at Souris, Prince Edward
Island, the country home of COghlan. A
telegram from SOuris, received to-day by
the Chronicle, says that Mrs. Coghlan, as
she was known and introduced by the
actor, will leave the rustic home on the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, which she has
shared for four years with her talented
and eccentric companion, who, after leav-
ing London four years ago, purchased the
estate on the Canadian Island and lived
there two long winters, remote from his
legion Of admirers in England and Amer
lea.
The adopted daughter, Gertrude, will
accompany her stepmother, and they sail
direct to Boston.
Manager Jack Sanford, Of the Coghlan
company, said this morning that the Mrs.
Coghlan-that-was comes to New York
every fall to spend the winter, and that
her move to New York is not at all I'M
expected.
Mr. Sanford knew nothing of the ru-
mored proceedings that the quondam
spouse of the actor may institute against
the husband of kuhne Beveridge.
MIR. Coghlan was abcd at Hurst's hotel
this morning when a Chronicle reporter
sought a talk with him.
"Tell the gentleman" said Mr.. COgh-
Ian TO the bell boy, 'that l am awfully
sleepy, and l cannot talk about tho mat
ter anyhow"
One of Mr.. Coghlan's warmest friends,
who refuses to be quoted publicly, says
that COghlan had complete understand
ing with the woman on Prince Edward
Island. who served as his companion for
so many years. and that she was informed
of Mr., Coghlans matrimonial speculation
several weeks before the sensational mar
riage at indianapolis.
AS a diplomatic man Of the world Mr.
COghlan would not have plunged blindly
into matrimOny unless he first unfolded
his plans to his common law wife and
wrung from her a promise to refrain from
an appeal to the lazy.
That is the way Mr.. Coghlan's friend in
St. Louis looks at it. Indeed, he has pos
tive information that leads him TO believe
this preliminary caution was taken by
Mr. Coghlan.
"Coghlan," he says, 'Fhas been freely
denounced and it's about time that some
thing was said in his defense. His mar
IldBC W IlG CHdIuililB SCulpbEGSS ISL inc
result of an ardent siege of Romeo depth.
True, he was infatuated with the girl,
but his infatuation wasn't by any means
discouraged by the Baroness Won Wrede,
the mother of his wife. The baroness
artistic instinct thoroughly appreciates
MIR. Coghlan's splendid attachments as an
actor and playwright, and would not her
ambitious daughters path 10 histrionic
fame be all the more smoother if she had
a great dramatic tutor for a husband, one
who made a capable actress out of that
amateurish dramatic novice, the notorious
Mrs. LangtryI
Baroness Won Wrede, ambitious and
far-sghted, realized the artistic advan-
tage that would occur from an alliance Of
her daughter with Coghlan. And you
can well believe that Mr.. COghlan didn't
have to go on his knees 10 the baroness
for the hand Of her daughter. In fact if
the baroness had been a little less de-
sirous Of furthering the artistic interests
of her daughter the marriage would
never have come to pass
''ln short, Mr.. COghlan's marriage is
the natural consequence Of a fond
mothers ambition, though l have no
doubt he loves his wife as a husband
should"