The sun., 1900-09-10
MARRIED TO A DYING MAN.
MISS SPEED BECOMES MRS. COS
GROVE IN BELLEVUE.
lie Could Not Keep sober for a Year. as Her
Mother Exaeted. and They Had Been En-
EaEed Seven Years-Now He win lie buried
In the Speed Family Plot In Mount Hope.

In the speed Family Plot In Mount Hope.
George ". Cosgroye Of 22s West Fifteth
street and Matilda Speed Of 3S5 West Fifty
eighth street were married on Saturday after
noon In the alcoholic ward OF Bellevue Hospital,
where Cosgrove had been a patient forty-eight
hours. The man died yesterday morning and
two hours later the bride went to the hospital
To arrange for the removal Of his body
Cosgrove was bookkeeper employed In a
wholesale dry goods house downtown. Mr.,
Cosgrove Ii employed a. clerk or stenogra phcr
in downtown office. They had been engaged
10 be married. for seven years. the brides mother
says, but the ceremony was put OFF from time
TO time because OF Cosgrove's Incorporate
habits. Drinking was apparently his only
fault, and the girl stuck To him In
the hope that he would reform. She
would not marry him without her mother =
consent Her mother would not consent until
Cosgrove had gone without drinking for at
least year
The year Wa almost up two weeks ago and
then Cosgrove began on the spree that killed
him. lle was unable TO 40 TO work last Thurs
day and remained at 22s West Fiftieth street.
where he boarded with Mrs. Catherine Rolston
Miss Speed called there to see what she could
do for him. lie told her then that his case was
hopeless. that he could never stay on probation
lot year u lndI even III ne COulu 10 NHdI
he wouldn't be safe man to marry.
She begged him 10 try again and asked him
to go to some institution where he might be
helped. She told him that she had waited
seven years and was willing 10 wait eight She
showed him the ring he had given her and urged
him to make their engagement mean some-
thing. Her picture and his were together on
the table She showed them to him and asked
why he had put them together II he did not care
more for her than for drink.
Cosgroye broke down and finally consented
to 20 20 Bellevue Miss Speed said she would
20 with him and they left the boarding house
together and walked through fltteth street
to get a car. Before they reached the corner
Cosgroye became too weak 10 walk. Miss
Speed called cab, helped the man into IL and
then drove with him To Bellevue.
She told DT. Buck, VINO received the case.
that she wanted her friend cured pf alcoholism
She gave Cosgrove's right nlmo and address
Miss King and did not give her address The
patient became unconscious soon after he
reached the alcoholic ward and remained 40
most Of the time until the next al ternoon when
Miss Speed called 10 see how he was, Pneumonia
had set in, then, the doctor told her, and there
Speed hurried home and once more asked her
mothers consent 70 marry CosgroNe she
said he could not live; 80 that there was no
able by drunken husba d
MIR Speed conse' t:d, and with Protestant
minister accomlrnlsd ner daughter to the
was a Catholic. Miss Speed i'a Protestant. pr.
Buck Joined Mrs. Speed as a witness Of the
marriage.
CosRrove, Mrs Speed says. was unconscious
when the wedding Iarty got there and was
not revived until twenty minutes afterward To
make sure that the sick man was in possession
~ his senses, the minister ask ed him several
questions, 10 all ~ which he made rational
answers tie also recognized Mrs Speed and
her daughter. when asked il he wanted to
hc married. Cosgruve reached ont and took
the younger woman's hand. Then the minister
hurried through the ceremony and Cosgrove
was still conscious when he was declared To be
the womans husband. Bur he relaI Sod almost
Immediately afterwud and the bride went
away with her mother. She did not see her
husband again alive.
Cosgrove's body was taken 20 an under
takers NJ 500 \inth ayenue Yesterday alter
noon. The funeral. viii he held there to-mor-
row In telling ~ her daughters Courtship
and marriage Mrs STeed said last night:
Il gave my Conse mt Al last because We knew
he could not live He was a good man, too
good for tho Potter's Field. and my daughter
wanted him 70 ho buried as her husband in our
own lot a. Mount Iore Cemetery. There was
no one else 10 care Tor him We had nothing
70 gain by, this marriage. The man did not
have a dollar"