Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-10

/ career. and become one o. the t2vorlje
! bi-lcsaue artists of the day. II was
| While PLAYING an engagement al her
! husbaSd's theatre that Sullivan erosse1
I he. path. He was AZ the height OF ms
! fame. and this silly woman's vanity was
! fattered by The thought that in their
yor.h he he'd been her admirer. When,
or October 27, Sullivan started on MS
famous European tour, the woman leit
her husband, and taking he: child,
! crossed the Atlantic with him.
She was from that ,.mc until the lat
tcr part of 1890 his constant compan-
ion. The wife of the pugilist made
/ every effort 70 win back the love she had
lost Failing in this she forsook The re-
Egion OF her fathers and became re-
cruit Of the Salvation Army.
In Europe. Sullivan was training for
his fieht with Charley Mitchell. Anna
Livingston was by his side all the while.
The fight occurred in 1883. and al know
The disgraceful showing the then pubic
idol made in the ring. He was still,
however. the IDOL CT Anna Livingston.
When ne returned 10 the United states
she and her daughter came with MINI
Tney accompanied the champion 20 me
South. and the woman was not Ear from
the ring-side when he fought his oattIe
with Kilrain in New Orleans IN 1857.
Through ali these years her influence
over the man was remarkable. When
such men as Muldoon, Sheedy, Duncan
Harrison and others Of their ilk were
unable in the slightest degree to con-
troll the actions OF the big fellow"
single word from this tall woman was
able to make him the most docile OF
men.
CARED FOR HIM THROUGH ALL.
She it was who cared for him after
many wild debauch, and to her more
than 20 any other being John l.. Sulll-
van owed the years Of success he had in
his and other countries after his prac-
teal defeat N France.
Bus. all such infatuations have an END,
and. as usual, the man tired frs. All
through the year of 1890 the couple had
frequent quarrels, and at last, one night,
in a drunken rage, Sullivan threw her
down and beat her.
Even this did not kill the woman's
love. She stuck 10 him firmly. At
last one day they sat down and had
quiet talk. He told her that he had
ceased 20 care for her. He gave her
s.. soc in money. tod her to keep the
jewelry he had given her in the days
gone by. and never. under any circum-
stances. attempt to see him again. The
woman kept her bargain. From that
day until the day of her death she never
wrote him
Three weeks ago when in straitened
circumstances, a friend OF hers wired
Sullivan and asked him to send Anna
Livingston 800. To this telegram
there was no response. At that time
the woman was living in furnished
fiat at No. II Third avenue. She was
obliged TO sell her effects there to pay
the rent and on last Monday took up
her residence in a furnished room on
the top floor Of the house kept by Miss
Fannie Reynolds, at No. 81 East Tenth
street. She was very iii at the time,
and while Sullivan was listening to the
plaud;.s Of the thousands in Madison
Square Garden after his successful bout
with Tom Sharkey the companion Of
his other and better days was lying
and without the attention OF a much
needed physician.I
Miss Reynolds aid not know who she
/ was did net remember ever to have
seen her until she was taken violently
I III on Wednesday that the woman dis
| closed her identity. Then the recogni-
ton of the two women was mutual.
Fifteen years before Fannie Reynolds
/ and Anna Livingston had been at the
/ Howard Athenaeum. both Playing boys
parts and both rivals in the affections
Of the Boston public.
WOMAN PROVED HER FRIEND.
Miss Reynolds, as soon as she discov-
/ cred who her ledger was. sent for Miss
Lamont and other friends of the dying
woman. Medical aid was summoned
but her condition was such that on
Thursday il was found necessary to re-
move her TO the hospital.
The last appearance Anna Livingston
| made on the stage was in the chorus
with Promise Miacos City Club burles-
| quers at the Peoples Theatre.
After the separation with Sullivan
Miss Liyingston's life was OF such ma
ture as 70 hasten her death. She start
e1 a boarding house az No 205 East
Fifteenth street, but she had either nat
ural.y or through long association with
the pugilist acquired the same habits
Of extravaganza that left him after hav-
ing earned over 100000 at the end Of
his career without a cent.
The daughter meanwhile had grown to
an age when she fully understood and
| appreciated her own and her mother
position. Mr.. Anderson, who was then
the owner Of a candy mandatory in
Boston. sent for her and she returned
10 HIN. From The day her child parted
from her until the end the livingston
woman. according TO her friends. was
crushed under a weight of woe.
a shcvt time ago her husband Can
dersonl came TO this city, and. entering
into a partnership with William Harris,
established a theatrical agency. She
was never divorced from him, although
they have not lived together since her
first escapade with Sullivan. Charit-
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