The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-12
HE HAD THREE WIVES
.notber Claimant for Emil
Weber's Estate.
vaRs,eo YEARS AGO IN OHIO.
nm, separated by Fraudulent Divorce
Decision I'm Grade Cases-Cosh-
Murray Receivership.

-,,a Weber. the Portland gambler who
- sbot down ard killed In that city In
- $50 rot only left two widows. who
- fought over mis- estate. but also a
- whose existence heretofore has not
s.sn dreamed OF and whose claims appear
= saxe urtorfty over both the others
-rse nsEIy-discovered widow goes by the
- a. SeIona Weber, and lives in New
yark ard yesterday she filed bin I'm the
s-stted states circuit court alleging that
w. deceased husband had secured
divorce from her by fraud. She
s.s brought action In order 10
tzve the decree OF divorce de-
ss.,ea void and TO establish her title To
rezI estate in ClaiIam and jefferson coun-
,ies valued at sig9a, over which the other
vsdosrs had long and bitter iega! fight
xrs sesona Weber now steps In and de-
elarss that she. and she alone. Is entitled
~ the property. She joins as defendants
Nary ]. Grattan. the second Mrs. Weber
.nd her second husband. Isaac Grattan.
ard her children by Weber. Annie Blanche
weber. Florence Julia Weber and Maud
Barbara Weber. all OF Portland.
ssaona Weber says she and Emil Weber
we're married June q 1874. at London
MADISON county. o. During their married
ne she says Weber acquired 1.sD0 acres
a land IN ClsIlam. and also 1850 acres in
rsallam and Jefferson counties. together
vsth water pr llegss and riparian r!ghts
They had been married only from June to
december when, Il is alleged. Weber. with
cat cause or prov vocation, and fraudulently
ara without her knowledge, began active
rrocesdings for a divorce. Only three
weeks after marriage. she says. Weber. in
nursaance of mis- design, sent her, against
her wishes on visit TO her sister IN New
49, -
aoon 10 return. But. 10 Is alleged. the con-
.Dlrinr husband failed to provide any
means for her return and thereby compell-
Al her 10 remain In New York.
FoIiowing up the scheme TO rid himself
NJ the wife OF but a few weeks. Weber. IL
q charged. began the action in the court
~ common pleas for Madison county
,smjug Iona" Weber as defendant and
alleging that she had wilfully been absent
from him more than three years. sum-
rons was had by publication, and de-
cree finally was ordered In accordance
with the allegations.
wshsr after being rid OF his wife
changed his residence to Wyoming. and
February %, 1877, was married To Mary
nov the wife of Grattan. who bore
"a him tbs children named as defendants.
The second Mrs. Weber. now Mrs Graf
nan claims 10 be the widow Of Weber
ard. with her children, an heir-at-law of
deceased. thereby casting a cloud on the
Title OF the property alleged TO belong to
sslona Weber. the complainant.
AIRS. Gratan. or the second Mrs. Weber
after Weber was shot put in a claim for
the Washington real property, when she
Unexpectedly ran up against the third
Mrs Weber In the person OF Fannie
sanger. formerly a chorus girl In the old
THOMPSON Opera Company, which played
A. the New Park theater. In Portland.
IN iss. Fannie Sanger and her sister
we're both with the company and were
mite attractive young women. and II was
only natural that Weber, the gambler,
shouid have fallen in with them. In time
Fannie Sanger became Fannie Weber,
and after the deadly bullet OF Sandy Odds
haf done Its work she prepared TO assert
her title TO the property as heir-at-law-
The conflicting claims OF the two Wild
ess resulted In a lawsuit In the United
States court for this district. Mrs. Graf
tan prevailed. not only because or ner
PRIOR marriage with Weber, but because
4 was shown that ne had acquired the
rroper4y with money advanced by Paul
Fghf. the father of Mrs. Weber the sec
Cd The case was given wide promi-
nsace AZ the time and the disposition OF
the estate. although bearing heavily on
Mrs. Weber the third. seemed to be IN
accordance with law and right.
But now Mrs Weber the second finds
herself In exactly the position forced ny
her upon Mrs Weber the third. and TO oil
anaaa rancos Airs. Weber the first has eV-
srything In her favor save that the money
with which the estate was acquired was
rot furnished by the first OF Neoer's
trinity OF fatheTs-in-law.