The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-04
HER RESURRECTED HUSBAND.
ACTRESS RUTH HAMILTON SAYS SEE
rs MRS gRlUI.

Thousht she was Mr.. Lseksys Last suns
ruer when All Thst Fsss Ahout Csp,. WI
sans Did Not BrIns GrspI 20 the Surface.
Ruth Hamilton, the actress. says that she has
discovered q husband In the person Of John
Graul whom she had long mourned as dead.
and whose widow. she says. she believed her
self to be. when, on Sept. 3. 1892. she married
James W. Lscksye. an actor. and brother Of
Wilton Lsckaye. She and Backaye have part
ed. this time for keeps. and she has sued to
annul her marriage to him because Of the res
urruction Of Graul. The preliminary step in
the action lie the issue by Justice Patterson Of
the Supreme Court OF com mi ssion to Eugene
Il. White at Portland. Or, to examine in plain
tin's behalther m other. Mrs. Alice M Corn elius
and her sister. Mrs. Sophia Hall, both living at
Woodawn. Or
Mrs. Lackaye says she expects to prove by
her mother and sister that when she was very
young, In 1882. she married Graul In Oregon.
That was before she had sought histrionic
fame. When she began her career as an
actress she gradually lost track Of Graul as
she driited East She kept communicating
with her mother. who has married again. and
with her sister. She says they will testify that
they informed her some time In 1891 that Mr..
Graul was dead. They are required in the
many questions which are TO be presented to
them By the order OF Justice Patterson to state
the sources OF the Information they received
that Graul was dead. and also how they come
TO know now that he ls In fact alive. The
plaintiff was living with Lackaye up to last
The action is brought simply on the ground
that she had innocently contracted the mar
rage with Lackaye. being convinced that
was alive. she declares. she left Lackaye. and
she now wants that marriage annulled. She
had parted from Lackaye. however. once be-
fore. an incident to which the papers In the
An action was brought by NJ $. Kaufman. a
the City Court 70 make Capt. William @.
Guiding diamond dagger and lizard. which
that By a desperate expedient friend OF Capt.
Winans had taken from the actress and Lack
POSED to have srittsn to Ruth Hamilton. Ruth
played In Paul Kauvar" and The Crust OF
Society. but she is said 70 have been at he, her
is said TO have first become acquainted with
Capt. Winans ceased to take an active in:
terest In her, 1t is said. when she married
which caused the subsequent trouble are said
to have. been written before the marriage:
when a che figured US sort Of pr9tegeeo f 2,
ment Veteran Club. the ,Lotos Club. and the
Capt. winans and their son. Morgan H. WI:
mans. were spending last summer ut Richheld
Springs when these Incidents occurred. The
actress. It appeared. had lived with Lackaye
but a few months when they disagreed and
turned to her mother and stepfathey.
In the winter OF 1892 800 at Woodlawn, 1t is
said. she communicated with her old friend.
Capt Winans, who sent ner her railroad fare
and assisted her to get installed in u fiat at 232
West Forty-third street. 1t had been under
stood that she had parted from Lackeye. but
Lackeye, IL was found was dropping in at the
fat at odd times. and she was visiting him at
As West Thirtieth street, whore he was living
with his brother. Wilton.
ANY way. Winans found that the couple had
resumed relations and he let the woman alone.
Con siderable matter was published about the
letters which. It was said. Winans had sent
her and which he wanted to get back.
During all this hubbub the real husband OF
the actress did not emerge from his shell