New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18

,ooR FRENcHMAN OO"r'' "O'
.xn RECOGNIZES THE BoDY-sToRY
,s RELATIONS WITH THE WOMAN
,z,.t seems to be an actual iden''nca.'oi u '"v
calling herself Mrs. Everett Oh bos'oi'
,o,,mitted suicide at the Coiohhaue Ho'ei oi'
VI" uas made at the Morgue yesterday oy
.,., "s' Fauconniere. a Frenchman' VINO came
! philadelphia. where ne hao oeen N''e'
w. ~,.u the body. Her maiden name ne saio'
or,se Lansburg. and she was porn IN Oaiais'
". IN 1871. and in 1892 was married 10 an
',.s,,sn. whom she left In Sheffield. England
pe Fauconniere TO America. He Is married
9.O" ,,,,s now lives In Washington. According
"' ..orv they had been forced to separate De-
W." No was too poor to support her.
SUE hu,,sre saw the face of the corpse and
fS1.ooranh of her at the Morgue on Satur-
.,oht Yesterday morning he visited Cor
Gay %.o,er and told him he recognized the
0n' lie declared to Dr. Hoeber that there
"0'- 49,, ,noles on the womans shoulders ana
".,,ot,on "N Of the body 1t was found that
y" ,srs located as he had described.
Evidence OF HANDWRITING.
councilman had with him two envelopes
...a | IN the handwriting of Louise Lans-
-
Due' ,.,,sr left by Mrs. Everett" He had.
~ u braid Of hair from the head OF Louise
,.,shurg, which matched that OF the corpse
'a",., ',oorn,ere told Coroner Hoeber that he had
- h,s best clothes to raise his fare from
p,""so,nhia. He is staying at the City Mis-
odging House, in the Bowery, near Bay
ard-st. ,.rs, noor,v He made
-, statement to Coroner Hoeber, in which
he said: 1orsnurg from long date.
sns , sm'yred 0y in England in 1892 70 man whose
ven do not now remember. She ana were
children :0s1hih5r shan she. 1' She loved me and loved
s,,~srly She and l grew up together ana "a !
voup Ssn az was Six years Of age my family left
T.ns and went 10 Belgium. Louise came win m, my
t.my ,y and she stayed with them until ! was nine
ANN IAN wears s Old Then went as soldier for the
Knr Of Belgium 10 Africa The reason 10, ,,,S my,
doing this that my mother wouiu ,ia not ieo ' i
s.try I,ty Nv family was living at Charleroy. Bel
rum Louise wanted me 10 run away 10 America
" When could not marry her she married this man
whose name now forget She tod me sne re nevsr shef
IN Eng. with him She was married the same
week enlisted in the army sn g0s marre5 them
;Sjrteen months Her husband was then in Glas-
gov, Scotland. on business. , ,oo. Ao,
did no, see her again until May i0se; "neh Maie
where she registered under false name l. served 20
four in the army and she sSs toS ID ms that
she always wished TO be free and that she mar
sa him only ST ms 10 msrca n 1898
! came TO Philadelphia. After mat went 10
wngS C. and Stasnd asei O a5
law her at Pages Hotel In May iSsS ,ogeeber neber
"a. her sye an sfer asked s1a e we 10 marry her. but
hsi 10 work. and said that | could not' ana also
beaass she had not been divorced - ,-or, h.r
unti Nay 6. 1896. when l received a letter IRON ON
BE- rakh was as near as can re"'e'"Oe'' '"'
'@'S1s' "New-York. May 6. 1896
am free know ~ you xSe See mn naTsif saiisfac
ton I have suffered. trusted. and waited Iong
tnough-or | will die in the mystery ana darKness
The Sth or 9th HOOi"r"
THEIR FAMILIES wELL-To-Do.
Her family was wer-to-do and they are gone
where l do no. know. Her mother aid not love
her because she loved me. and she liked better 20
stay with my family than her mother. My family
was welI-to-do but bad speculation ruined my
father He lost a fortune in the Panama Canal.
Ny family are all dead. am married and my wife
lives in Washington I was married IN iJanuary; ,ad,.
1896 married my wife because she looked very
much like Louise.
The announcement in the letter II am free"
rauconniere takes TO mean that the woman had
been divorced.
Fauconniere said that the letterhead Of the
letter which he received May was torn off, 1t
looked like Colonnade Hotel paper. he said. He
left the letter In Philadelphia.
The body Of Mrs. Everett has been at the
Morgue since May s. and in the intervening
tine has been the object OF several alleged
Qualifications. Charles H. Biller. a Newark
crank made a scsae at the Morgue severai
days ago. declaring that the woman was his
wife and going through a sickening show OF
grief 1t was learned that the fellows wife died
over year ago. Eleven persons declared that
the body was that Of Clara Glanfeld, Michi-
gan woman, who had lived for some time IN
Madison. n. j.. where she was known as Mrs'
B. Meade.