The evening times., 1899-08-02
IN THE GRASP OF pAREs1s.
A briIl@nt Criminal Lawyer of Phil
Qdelnhfa DYING.

adeIphia Dying.
Philadelphia, Aug. flames II. Shakes
peare. once brilliant and successful GRIM
| inal lawyer, is dying of paresis in the
Friends Asylum at Frankford.
Shakespeare studied law with James II.
Heverin, a leader of the Philadelphia rim
inal bar, and became his partner. A sin
gular fatality has pursued the two men,
Heverin was eloquent, quick -witted, ag-
gressive, indefatigabie, of splendid mental
and bodily strength. One day he was found
| in his office stabbed in the eye. 1t was
never known how the wound was inflicted
Rumor had it that an infuriated woman
perhaps client, perhaps someone with
whom Mr.. Heverin was involved had seiz-
ed pen from the lawyers desk and thrust
it in his eye. After it his mental powers
| and health rapidly failed, he became an
invalid, died.
Shakespeare had married ~Heverin's
daughter. After his father-in in-law's death
he conducted, with eminent ability the large
practice to which he had fallen heir His
wife died in 1885. He tried to forget his
grief in double energy in his profession.
Early in 1892 beautiful woman went
W oudhtSpedIe DIS d Clleut. she NdS
an actress, she said Mrs. Nellie White
lock, a widow, born Nellie Rhinehart, in
RichmondS Va. Shakespeare fell in love
with her To the surprise of his friends
he married again in April, 1892.
Mrs. Shakespeare is now in New York.
She wishes that her place of residence be
not revealed for the time The widest
stories have been told concerning her,
even by her husbands closest friends; that
she ruined his life, that she bigamously
married Sir Henry Onequi, a palmist,
now in Jail in England, that her husband,
even then loving her, took her back TO
him. Mrs. Shakespeare had just returned
from a visit TO her husband last night.
She said, Indignantly:
My husband has been ailing for some
time. Five years ago he contracted a tu-
NOR at the base of the skull. When these
reports were circulated about him and me
his business naturally suffered. | saw him
today and he is a much changed man.
1T is not true that he paid me 81 600
month TO support myself. | have sup
ported him for the past three years and
have aided him in every way possible
When he was taken seriously i'll, some
time ago, / brought him TO this city
and nursed him and employed a trained
nurse for him.
The reports that l eloped and mar
ried Onequi, the palmist, are false. My
husband investigated them, and found
them to be false. II they were true my
husband would never have lived with me
again. But he did. He knew, when l
sailed for Europe, a year ago, that
was going, and he saw me of on the
steamer.
Insanity is hereditary, it seems, in
this family. His brother, Louis, is an
inmate of the same asylum with him
When il became necessary to place my
husband in an asylum, / wrote TO his
brother, DR.. Z. o. Shakespeare, of
Philadelphia, and he suggested that take
my husband to Philadelphia, and meet
him there. We went TO Philadelphia last
Wednesday, and there l met DR.. Shakes
peare and DR.. Mills, the insanity expert,
who made the examination. Then il was
deemed best to send my husband TO the
asylum.
Il am not the mercenary woman the pub
lie has been given to understand that |
am. i have sacrificed all for my hus-
bands sake