The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-12-12
nUCHLY MARRIED.
,,ps IRENE CARSON HAS HAD SIX
HUSBANDS,
And She Only Killed One of Them The
Varied Career of Pretty and Inter
esting Woman.


rrervhOfy remembers the sensation
whom Divorce Lawyer Orson A. House of
Now York city was shot dead by his wife
Irene 1t was POLITICALLY just afTair-at
Toast some rovclists thought so-for House
had narrowly escaped the ponitentiary by
reason Of his crooked work in procuring
divorces and had procured one for the
woman who killed him.
We'll, Irene Van Zandt House who was,
Mrs Redmond or Mrs. Carson who is, is
once more in prison, this time in Trenton
and on a bewildering variety of charges
She has borne the names of six men, is 80
years old, almost as pretty as ever and has
most innocent and childish looking face
with soft, appealing blue eyes and lavish
wealth of soft light hair. And her life
record runs thus: Ruin at ii, marriage,
divorce, marriage, murder, insanity, mar
rage, divorce, insanity, and SO on to big
amy.
She has three married sisters in Tren
ton. all highly respectable, who stand by
her in her troubles. To reporter who re-
tently visited her in Jail she said q" sup
pose l was pretty, as every one said SO, but
| had no moral nature or force My moth
er was responsible for that. She knew
nothing of the ways of the world and con-
sequently taught me nothing Of them.
Il was not married when my first child
was born. l was only IA, yet had slipped
from virtue. 1t was easy enough.
Il never bore any real marital relation
to Charles A. Anderson, though perhaps
he would have married me had 1 insisted
t. ,.r+,,a to, fot
was a successful merchant, the winner Of
on Independence and my parents were
people of unquestioned respectability, yet
l did as pleased. l was born on Broad
street, not more than block away from
this prison, in 1914.
Poor Anders0n He went to the war,
and we saw little Of each other. He is
wreck now, feeble and almost blind from
disease. l had him on my farm last sum-
Mer for three days but he was so disgust
ing that / was forced to send him away. |
helped him to secure a pension, provided
him with medicine and clothing and ar.
ranged for him to go to the Soldiers
home. The last ] heard of him he was II
Jersey City "
She supported herself as a bookkeepef
and then married one James w. Denver
but she says she found he had q wife and
two children living and left him. Thus
slc met with Arson A. House. He had
line farm in Pennsylvania, with q palatial
residence on it, and the pair lived there in
summer with a great retinue of servants.
The tragedy she tells thus;
Mr.. House was devoted to me, but he
became afflicted with paresis and abused
me and my boy Willie. On June 80, 1875,
he was about to strike my child, when l
shot and killed him. was tried and ex-
onerated on the plea Of self defense, but
was sent to the state lunatic asylum.
Frank Parker, once famous as a base |
Dali catcher, was her next, and he got q
divorce from her. She next married Paul
n. Redmond because he professed to
De Christian and wished to do better
and thought he would make good MAI
for my farm. "
But he didn't. He would have been a
good man to spend her money, but she
was too smart to let him have it. She is
worth at least $50 600, and Redmond still |
hoids possession of her farm. Then she
married Harry g. Carson, and a little the
qQeerest event in her queer career followed.
her son William Anderson, her only child, |
A+i NASu sic was Ii, nau ner pun III d
luhatlc asylum. Her lawyer secured her
release, she and Carson went west, re-
turned and had a 'scrap" with Redmond,
ana SO she is in Jail once more.
VI course she claims to have had a legal
SEPARATION from Mr.. Redmond-some-
where just the same, he holds onto the
5 "a but when he called on Irene and her
W. mr. Carson in Trenton they according to
,ilS story, assaulted him most grievously;
Nence this last incarceration