Arizona republican., 1895-05-19
A DEAD PRIZE. An Exhibition of a Fam
 fly Skeleton. A Sequel of the Death of
 pr. Graham.
The Daughter of a Living For
 mer Wife on the Scene.
The Phoenix Wife Asked to Sign Away Her Wifely Claims and
 lllegitlmatize Her Babe.

Mr, and Mrs. Max Andrews of Hous- ton, Tex, came to Phoenix yesterday morning and placed on exhibition family skeleton.
 Two weeks ago yesterday there died in this city Dr. A. H. Graham, an old confederate soldier, surgeon in an Arizona brigade under Col. Baylor, gentleman who made many friends during years residence in Phoenix, and writer of some merit and note. He left comparatively young and good looking wife, 3months sold babe and very little money.
 Su ubscri ptions were literally made to fund for the payment of his funeral ex penses; on ths day after his death he was buried in the confederate ceme. tery, friends condoled with the widow aud the circumstance of Dr. Graham's existence seemed in fair way to be forgotten.
 Among the documents left by the doctor was certificate of deposit in a Lampasas, Tex. bank. A letter was sent from here making inquriry about the money. The bank had gone into liquidation and the letter was delivered to the receiver. J. I. Campbell, who gave it a great deal more publicity than it seemed to warrant at this end of the fine. Relations of the doctor were ap. prised of his death and the existence of his wife here and thus was the closet of the family skeleton unclosed.
 Mrs. Andrews, yb9 arrived here yes terday morning, is a daughter of Dr. Graham by wife who is, yet alive at Houston. Mrs. Andrews husband is said t, be closely connected with the Houston Post. On their arrival Mrs. Andrews hastened to hunt up her un- expected stepmother, who is apparently her junior by several years. Their meeting was dramatic but the step daughter had campaign mapped out and she entered upon 1t without delay and before her stepmother had re- covered from her surprise.
 She told her that her mother was 8 wife of Dr. Graham and there was no divorce. For the reputation of that 1 woman it was important that her dead husband should not appear a bigamist. | T6. z to sign paper stating that she was not the wife of Dr. Graham but only his nurse. The stepdaughter thought nothing of the reputation of the woman of whom she asked this extraordinary thing, nothing of the babe whose paternity would thus be unaccounted for.
 Mrs. Graham No. had already given up some papers belonging to her hus- band. She did this under the influence of sudden shock, but she indignantly declined to consign herself and her babe to shame. Attempts were made by Mrs.. Andrews to secure docu- nlentary evidence in other quarters, proving that the doctor left no wife in Phoenix. Not only is she solicitous for the good name of her mother, Mrs. i Graham No. l, but she wishes to get a grapevine twist on Receiver Campbell of Lampasas, who made so great dis play of the letter announcing the death of Dr. Graham and the fact that he left another widow. She was unsuccessful III every direction. Then she reeorted to argument. "Do you think it pos sible that my father at the age of 65 COulu UOCOllS 1alCl1G Ol tual months-old babel" she asked as 3 cincher. A citizen of the country to whom this question WAS addressed a gentleman who had often quenched his thirst Tn the truth inspiring . waters of the Hassayampa, replied "Oh, certainly; that's nothing. This climate works wonders. I know g man of 75 whose wife gave birth to triplets."
 Neither persuasion nor argument could procure the proof desired and Mrs. Andrews called on the lawyers She secured the services of Messrs Damron and Crenshaw and Mrs Graham No. 2 retained Judge Buck te : look after her interests in this singular dispute whose only object seemed to be to get possession of dead husband When night fell the case was in statu quo.
 Mrs. Andrews also wants her father', gold watch, not for it's intrinsic value but for it's associations. Mrs. Graham 5 No. has it and wants to keep for pre- cisely the same reason.
 Whether or not Dr. Graham was di vorced from his first wife is not now : known, though it may be easily ascer ] tained. Letters from business men a 5 Lampasas say that nothing is knowr there of the divorce though it may , have been obtained in another part O