The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-24
HER LIE 4 ROMANCE
Remarkable History of Mrs.
Sadie Blackstone
WHO NOW SUES HER SON
For Money to Afford Her a
Decent Subsistence.

prayed today in Norwich, Conn and the
general opinion seems to be that Mrs
James de Trafford Blackston. in the
autumn of life, is having more storm and
stress than usually falls to the lot OF
woman. Twice divorced. and after q
years remarked to her first husband
through the mediation of their son. she
now finds herself, so she claims, thrust
| out Of her home by that same son.
''Traff Blackstone, as he was familiar
ly known died in this city, Of paraly-
sis, at his winter residence. No. 110 West
| 9TH street. He was supposed TO be a
wealthy man, but it is said his personal
estate footed I'D only $4s,6S.92, while I'M
! paid bills far exceed this sum.
| Lorenzo Blackstone, the Twenty-Five
! year-old son. was made the executor of
his fathers estate, and is said to be
Strengthening ouc affairs by paying bills
! out of his own abundant means. After
! Mr.. Blackston's death, contrary to the
! general expectation, it was found that he
had only a life interest in his father s
| property. The bulk Of it went to the
grandson absolutely, and the executors
| the fortune to him.
! 1t is to Lorenzo Blackstone that his
! mother is now appealing through the
| courts for a settlement to enable her to
end her days in peace And if ever sun
shine and shadow were blended in the
| life of woman it is in that of Nine.
! BIackstone-as she was better known Of
late years.
Lorenzo Blackstone now rules the house
| where his father took his mother as a
bride about "a years ago. He has re-
Gently married the daughter of Captain
William Caruthers, at present post mast
er OF Norwich
His father, James de Trafford Black
| stone, was the son of Lorenzo Blackstone
a wealthy manufacturer of Norwich,
Conn. The author Of "Blackstone's
Commentaries was his great-great-uncle
and the founder of the house of Black
stone, was one of the first settlers of Bos-
ton. Old Lorenzo Blackstone was one Of
the New England manufacturers who
came in on the flood tide of prosperity
that followed the var. The family came
originally from Bramford, Conn. One
brother of this older generation, Timothy
Blackstone went West.
James de Tlhfford Blackstone was
graduated from Yale in 1868. He was one
of the original members of the Travel
lers' Club, which was merged into the
New York Club and an original mem
Der Of the New York Jockey Club. He
was also member of the Algonquin and
Essex County Clubs OF Boston, and of
the Kittemaugh Aranum and the Nor
witch Club of Norwich, Conn. He was
a director ofthe Chicago and Alton Rail
road. treasurer of the Tetokett Mills and
the Occum Water Power Company, and
secretary of the Attakaugan Manufac-
turing Company.
But now when his estate is hopelessly
bankrupted 1t is said that he spent mon
ey more freely than the great mills could
max It
In the heyday of his young manhood
he owned horses and yachts, and made
FREQUENT excursions to New York. In
one Of his visits he met Miss Sarah a.
Whitaker. who, under the name of Lii
Ian Osborne, was q stage favorite. She
was playing Iibbie Dean, the ingenue
part in the Mighty Dollar with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. J. Florence, at the Park Theatre
The young woman was a niece Of Mrs.
Ferdinand P Earle.
Miss Whitaker was born in Halifax,
in 1854. but spent her childhood in Spring
field. Mass. She was a bright and ac-
compIished young woman, proficient in
music and painting, and had crowd of
admirers
Blackstone proposed to her, she &C
ceDted and they were married in New
York. Mrs. Blackstone retired from the
stage. and they made their home in Nor
wich. For few years all went well. He
had an honored name and money: she
had wit beauty and cleverness. In 1876
a son was born, called Lorenzo after his
paternal grandfather.
Then rumor had II that the brilliant
couple did not get along as well as they
might. In Dec 1877, Mrs. Blackstone left
the Norwich home. and went back to
her relatives in New York. The child
was retained by his father. In June, 1873
under the incomptatibiIity Of temper
clause. which is no longer on the statutes
Of Connecticut. a divorce was granted her
On Wednesday. October % 1878 four
months after her divorce, Mrs. Black
stone gained possession of her child. Mr..
Blackstone was making n tour Of the
West. and the rest of the family. OcCU-
pvinE the mansion at Norwich, had left
/. the house to attend 4 wedding. The moth
e. drove I'd and asked To see the boy,
who was then eighteen months old. This
request the servant granted. and, little
Lorenzo being placed in her arms. the
mother bore Il 20 a carriage and drove 70
the New York boat.
Captain Whal5v with = force OF 10
licemen. boarded the boat and placed Mrs.
Blackstone under arrest She defed them
10 touch her or her child and temper
a-ily carried her point. with the hei9 OF
her counsel Colonel Ripley. BY this time
the boat had left. but the mother and
child drove % Wtlimautic and escaped 20
New York. A raw months later the courts
restored the boy 10 his father,
Feal.ng herself bareaft % everything,
Mrs PIackstoue On Nov. %. lS7q mar
rie3 Samael $. Srndhein. Of the firm q
! S02dhetm Bros. brokers. AZ 10. - Cot
TON Exchange The ceremony was per-
formed by che Rev. D-. G1.thaE. AIRS.
S7adGefn throwing aside an differences
of creed. They Went % the bridegroom
home in T11Ssrs. but 6il -st live hap
PLY. ard o. January 20 ISL see uie--v
/ disappeared. In due .5r,e Nfr So05heIn
+ secured Q 65vc-es and iate- married aEat1
she was next heard from IN Paris.
yvrare she lived 1a- TIE nex- asiesn wears.
After the second divorce she wzs known
Nine BLACKSTONE and became prom
i-e1t III tbe Tr.rch capital her uario-s
always crowded R5.h wen known rr=-
+ and women SEz be-a-- a -uoTl % Afa-
drazo the portrait painter IIsr PICTURES
were ar-e-tzd a- tre French salon fr