The sun., 1898-11-28
LIFE SAvERSU[SL L0uSAK KING
Trouble Was She Gave Out the
Report that She Was Drowned
and He Lost His Job.
WIFE OF s. l.. CHAMBERLAIN
This MiddletOwn Boy Continues to be
Given NOtOriesy by the Woman of
the Coney Island Escapadc.
Whom He Married at the
Waldorf, New York.

WALDORF, new 1OrAs
Samuel Lloyd Chamberlain, Of Middle
town has experienced considerable
nMoriety since the day of his marriage
last September.
This is strange but nevertheless true
And true it il that his marriage is the
cause Of his notoriety.
Mr.. Chamberlain moved from Middle
town, at which place his parents, DR.:
and Mrs. Chamberlain still live, and
went to New York.
During last September Louisa King,
handsome New York girl went to
Coney Island beach where she manipu-
lated affairs to the end that the author
tiles would think that she had been
drowned.
She was found ten days later in Phila-
de!phia and was married to the lAan OF
her chuice, Samuel Lloyd Chamberlain
OF Middletown WHO wac at that time
staying in N. Y.
Then the tale of the wooing came out
and DR.. and Mrs. Chamberlain, of Mid
dletown went on to the wedding at the
Waldorf rf-Astoria.
1t looked then as If the notoriety
achieved by the couple by reason Of
''Louisa Kings" adventure had ce 'sed
and Mrs. Chamberain's troubles wtre
all over.
But a fresh one cropped up last Satur-
day in the shape OF suit for 1000
damages brought by the outraged ex-
bathing master and life saver OF the
beach from which she vanished.
Mrs. Samuel Lloyd Chamberlain is
living ut the Hotel Renaissance, New
York, and all Saturday afternoon a
noticeabIy broad d-shoudered man strode
grimly up and down in the slush and
snow before tie hotel, waiting for a
glimpse OF her. He is Thomas j. Riley,
the plaintiff, and he was there to point
out the fair defendant to the PROCESS
server who accompanied him.
The service was not accomplished
during the afternoon, and none OF the
parties concerned would talk. Mr. Riley
is man OF set purpose, however. and
even If he was unucky for the time,
he will succeed sooner or later. and then
will come as curious suit as the
Supreme Court of New York has ever
seen.
Mr.. Riley in his complaint, which was
prepared for him by John U. Shorter, of
the Arbucke Building, Brooklyn. al
leges that as a result of Miss Kings re-
n,arkabe performance he lost his JOB
with Mr.. Bamer (worLh $500 month);
that he SUSTAINED great financial loss in
dragging sthe shore from Gravesend Bay
TO Canarsie with six assistants; that he
suffered great anguish of mind in think
ing that fair young woman had gone
to her death through some lack of vigi-
lence on his part, and that his high repu-
tation as life saver. accumulated
through fifteen years OF hard work, was
materially damaged.
He figures that all this makes up loss
that can only be repaired by the sum of
$4,000, and he demanded Judgment
against Louisa Chamberlain, formerly
Louisa King" for that amount.
Mr.. Shorter in repeating the story of
the disapp -arance, tells how Miss King,
"with the aid and colluslon Of her maid,
Alma Llndstrom, appeared at Coney
Island" and how she disappeared, leav.
ing behind her a "poetica extract Vi a
sentimental nature, indicating an un.
happy and discontented state OF mind"
Hcthen tells OF Captain Rlley's anguish
of mind up to September %, when Miss
King was found; Of the way in which lie
spent money and time in searching for
the b,dy; of how the owners OF Balmer's
Pavilion discharged him incontinently
for losing 'ladv customer" in fine
weather, and of how his worldwide
reputation as q beach master and life
saver was smrched.
Captain Riley also blames Mrs Cham
berlain fnr the accident which happened
to him on October 81, when a trolley car
ran into him on Myrtle avenue and hurt
him so that he was in the Homeopathic
Hospital for three weeks.
"No, would not say anything about
that in the complaint" said he, but It's
all right, Just the same. If hadn't lost
my good job at Banners, l wouldn't have
had 20 get up benefit for myself in
Hoboken, and if it wasn't for the benefit
l wouldn't have been out on Myrtle ave-
nue. selling tickets when the trolley ran
into me. Still, I'll get square on the
company for that.
"Say, I've been in charge of beaches
from Old Orchard, Me-, to Fernandina,
Fla, and I've been at Coney alone for
six years. I've saved hundreds of lives,
and never had a customer drowned.
"Now just think of it; for ten days
everybody believed that had lost a lady
customer on Iul day in perfectly
smooth water Why, if it had turned
out to be true, I'd have given up the
business. l don't blame my boss for
bouncing me, but lie should have taken
me back when he found out that the
game was y con-
"Mrs. Chamberlain can live at the Wal
do,f and the Windsor and the Renais-
sance now and eat table d'hotes, but me,
the man that was ruined by her silly
trick, can live in a bath house and eat
snowballs. Igiess not"
Benller's Bath.
George Bender Of Philadelphia, while
under the influence OF strong drink, fell
into the Christiana river at Bush's wharf
| laturfav ovan,nu The timelv arrival Of