The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-30
HIS CONTRACT WIFE.
Fred Macondray's Mistress Files
Notice of Marriage.
SINNER. THE music-HALL GIRL
Her Lover sought 10 Absnden Her, Bat
"A Fort Townsend Romance.

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Buckiin Byers has filed copy of mar
riage contract with Frederick Macondray,
in the hall OF records. The lady halls from
Port Townsend, Wash. while Macondray
is scion OF a well known San Francisco
family. lie recently returned from trip to
the Orient. and is said TO be now summer
ing AZ Menlo Park, where his mother re-
sides. The contract in question was writ
ten by Mr.. Macondray. and makes the
usual stipulations concerning "love. affec-
ton and adverse circumstances. with
mild hint ar parental disapproval and
policy of keeping things quiet. The
document pledges q mutual interest in
present personal possessions or those 10
be attained. 1t was executed at Port
Townsend on October 8. 1893. and bears
clause in which the contracting parties
agree to be married according 10 the
laws OF California as soon as they arrive
IN the state. The instrument is signed.
but the acknowledgement made yesterday
before John s. Hughes contains only the
name of the woman. The citizen who ac-
knowledged her signature and attached 1t
TO the contract is residen: OF
Oakland. The Baldwin recently enter
tanned Mrs. Macondray. of Port Towns
end, but she left for the North on yester-
days steamer. Macondray has been
absent from the city for many months.
save on rare and brief visits.
PoRr TOWNSEND, Aug. 2a-Frederic l.
Macondray is the Chilean consul for the
state of Washington. Mr.. Aacondray and
Miss Byers are we'll known on Puget sound.
In 1887 Macondray, who is the son of
wealthy wholesale vino merchant of
San Francisco. came to Puget sound
and was employed in the Port Discov-
cry lumber mills as an accountant.
He was then scarcely % years old,
and had been sowing his wild
oats altogether too fast to please
bis relations, who reside in California
and Chile, and was sent north to remove
him from temptation. In Port Discovery
the society of pleasure-lovlng sea captains
and fast set of young men. together with
plenty Of money 10 spend caused him
soon to be regarded as the prince Of good
fellows. He was big. handsome fellow,
generous, warm-hearted, ready to en-
gage in any wild or hazardous
adventure. and numbered his friends by
his acquaintance. After the mill shut
down in 1889 he came to Port Town.
send and engaged in the shipping
business, meeting with moderate success.
and still retaining the expensive habits
contracted in his days of prosperity.
About one year later there came
to Port Townsend TO work in
music hall Miss Byers. an IN
usually pretty. red-cheeked, innocent
looking girl of Is years. Her captivating
manners, charming conversation and
pretty face soon won the heart
Of Macondray. She abandoned her
music hall career, and they occupied
private apartments here rs man and wife
for year or two. The woman was known
as "Shiner," and was very expensive
toy to Macondray, who spent large
sums of money on her. In course of time
his mother and stepfather, who are very
wealthy and 1--we IN magnih-
cent villa at Menlo Park, Cal,
learned the true situation and
prevailed upon the young man to cast the
woman aside. He left her and went to
San Francisco last tall, where the woman
followed him, and where she alleges
in her complaint he signed q
marriage contract on October 3, 1893.
Miss Byers protested TO possess great
love for him, and after he aban-
doned her. ii is said in Port
Townsend, she threatened suicide. or late
she has been leading a speedy life, drink
ing wine and having q good time gener-
ally. Two or three months ago she went to
San Francisco. and the breach OF promise
suit is the result. She is returning on the
City of Puebla, which is due here tomor-
row afternoon, and is registered as Mrs. J.
Macondray.
People who knew the woman I'm her
childhood in Kansas City say that her
relatives are highly respected and of mod
crate means. Her father was a prominent
business man in that city years ago, but
failed in business. which misfortune sent
him TO an early grave.
Mr.. Macondray is a nephew of Capt.
Louis KempH. United States navy, of
the coast defense monitor Monterey,
now on the Sound. He has. also. two I'M
c.es in Valparaiso. who are Chilean naval
officers.