The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28

asked to take the witness stand. Speak
ing calmly and in low tones. which pene-
trated to every corner in the room, Mrs.
Wilmerding began by saying:
my name is Marie Fatima dick VIII
merding. Il will be q this month. / was
born In Egypt, at Rameses, near Alexan-
dria. My mothers maiden name was.Helen
Mount. She died at Tivoli when / was
about years old. When we returned to
this city we lived at Tie Buckingham no.
tel, and after that with my grandmother.
Mrs. Vanderbilt Allen. Later We lived at
the Newport flats.
From there we went to Philadelphia,
where l went to Miss Wheeler's school.
I'm Philadelphia my father met Edith
de Silver, whom he married when I was
about years old. Later we went to New
port. About this time my fathers wife got
a divorce from him.
when I was - years old was sent to
Miss Masters school at Hobbs Ferry, and
remained there until 1 was Is. After that
I was sent to school al Brighton, England.
I was about II then, and after year there
I was sent to a school in Paris for another
year.
Her Younger Days
"When returned home at 10 went to
the Adirondacks, and on coming back 10
town lived at the Hotel Bristol with my
father. My grandmother died about the
time Of my return from Paris, and shortly
after my aunt, Mrs. John Wallace, was
killed. From the Bristol we went to BEL
muda, and on our return lived at the Ger
ZACH. Then my father took me to Milford,
Pa, where he met Miss Edith Mott, whom
he married.
"She and my father made me marry Jack
Wimerding. 1t was against the wishes OF
his mother that he married me, because
she did not think him fit TO marry any one.
after that led horrible life. l drank
&c a horrible extent and smoked to hor-
rible extent. I wanted to get free from
Mr.. Wlimerding, and at Cedarhurst fire.
Quently met - (naming a young mani.
my husband was beast and treated me
horribly. He beat and abused me in many
ways. Once tried to have him arrested at
Staten Island and pointed him out to a
Staten Island policemen, but the Wilmer
dings are big people there and the police
HAL lSluoco " dlAcGt Aiih'
Her Life at Bloomingdale
after our separation my husband gave
me $50 a month and my father allowed me
$500 a year, making $1,000 in all. Then de-
cided to go abroad and join my father. He
was dying at the time in house at Capri
ION my return Mr.. Gleason took me te
Bloomingdale asylum. l went there of my
own free will, although I thought l wa:
being taken TO some Kelley cure place.
was put in with a lot of very sick patients
when I left Paris I owed a large hote
bill and left all my clothes and trunks there
I gave the doctor my watch to get money
on which to come home.
'In Bloomingdale suffered fearfully.
had been In the habit of drinking quart Of
whisky a day and smoking from forty te
sixty cigarettes. had 20 drink something
SO 1 drank gallons of hot water. The doctor
told me If didn't stop drinking the stuff
he would send me downstairs.
HE send me down there, and 1t was tht
most horrible place 1 ever saw. The sick
est patients were there. tore my clothes
and screamed and made a terrible fuss
It was Just piece of acting. i wanted tt
get out of there.
IT have written the most absurd things
in the world. 1 wrote them at Capri and In
Bloomin gdale. Up there l tore the leaves
out of my prayer book and wrote on them
all sorts of absurd epistles to DR.. Lyon
Mr.. Levy started in to question Mrs. VIII
merding.
"What reason have you to suppose you
were insane at any timer" he asked.
II don't know whether 1t was the effects
of the absfnthe 1 drank, but at Capri
talked to Mr. Andrews about religion and
wrote a ridiculous paper about my being
an Egyptian princess, the daughter of a
noble family. l realized that there was
something wrong with me. wrote such a
letter to DR.. Cerio, who attended'my father
and myself. DR.. Cerio insisted upon &C.
companying me back to this country on the
Ems. DR.. Cerio told every one on the ship
that 1 was crazy and that distressed me
greatly"
"What Is your condition now?"
II am perfectly sane at the present time.
I think"
Mrs. Wilmerding told Of her marriage by
DR.. Huntington at Grace church In March
of 1892 and her separation in July of 1887
They last lived together, she said, then her
husband went to Staten Island to live with
his parents, and she took apartments In
the Gerlach, where she lived until her de-
parture for Europe on Oct. 16 1897. Mr.
Gleason asked her to describe the transfer
of propertv ahe m q de ON the evening Of he