The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-04

whole bearing attracted Fisk, who put
chances In Stokes way-gave him OPP
portunities for making money that he
could not have comprised unaided
Stokes caressed his mustache, accept
ed everything, and said little.
FORTUNES SPENT IN DEFENSE.
After Stokes shot Fisk the public
looked upon it as cowardly murder,
and clamored that Stokes should be
hanged. He was held up for universal
execration. Yet the cutlery didn't dis
turb him as he sat in his cell in the
Tombs. He felt he was all right, and
was certain he would never feel the
rope, and continued his stock deals in
Wall street. His commissioner for these
speculations was Cassius M. Reed. who
pitied and admired him. Stokes father
had bankrupted himself in defense of his
son. When the second trial came on
Ed Stokes was penniless. 1t was Cassius
M Reed who put up the money for the
second trial, and relatives spent
$4,000 on the third II st trial; It
cousin of Edward S. Stokes, it is said,
who induced his father to spend this
$4,000 in defense of Edward For many
the cousins, w. E. d. and Edward
Stokes, which was made up at the death
BEGINS LIFE ANEW.
Stokes behavior in Sing Sing was ex-
emplary and in 1876 he stepped from
the gate of Sing Sing free. Stokes found
himself a pariah. His old friends shun-
Reed.
At the time of the Fisk tragedy
Stokes wife took their young child, a
girl abroad and remained there When
the news came from Paris number of
years ago that his daughter was dead
he did not shed tear.
MEETS JOHN w. MACKAY.
Reed and Stokes began to embark on
the sea of finance. and when Stokes pro-
posed the foundation of the Asphalt
Block Paving company the capital
was forthcoming. The venture was a
failure. Stokes then proposed that they
go into mining speculation. Mr.. Reed
agreed. Stokes drew regularly for ex-
penses upon Reed.
In the west Stokes met John W.
Mackay. On their first meeting Stokes
was driving fast trotting mare.
Mackay made several attempts to buy
it, finally Offering $4,000, which was re-
fused. Ten days later messenger call
ed at Mackay's hotel and delivered the
following note:
cept the mare Eva. with his compliments
and best wishes
From that began the friendship be-
tween Mackay and Stokes. In conjunc-
ton with Cassius NJ. Reed, Stokes
bought mine from Mackay, which he
placed in London and Paris at a profit
of nearly 100000.
Shortly after that Reed and Stokes
became partners in the Hoffman house.
John w. Mackay was also partner.
The hotel became the recognized head
quarters of Tammany Hall and up
state Democratic politicians.
Meanwhile Stokes was acting as
Mackays agent in buying UP the stock
of the Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph company. Stokes became
stoclholder in the now defunct Madi-
son Square bank and chairman of its
executive committee. Stokes transac-
lions with Mackay in the Bankers and
not satisfactory to Mr.. Mackay, and
he brought many suits against MT
Stokes. Reed and Stokes began %
quarrel.
QUARRELS WITH REED.
The partners continued to quarrel and
finally Reed found himself on the out
side of the Hoffman house in back
room on the. third floor OF a Twenty
third street lodging house Then he be-
gan to sue Stokes for an accounting,
including money loaned in the days
when Stokes was in the Tombs under
sentence of death. To this Stokes
pleaded the stature of limitations.
Stokes did not make a success as q
hotel proprietor, and finally he sold out
his interest.
When Stokes was taken sick this last
time a woman, who says her maiden
name is Rosamond Langdon Barclay,
turned up and claimed to be married to
Stokes She said she first met Mr..
Stokes when she was a little girl. Her
father. she said, was Charles Barclay.
an Englishman and a friend Of Mr..
Stokes. She said she was educated at
Pennington, Conn.,, and that twelve
years ago she renewed her acquaintance
with Mr.. Stokes. She said the other
day:
October Is, 1900, at Shipments Point.
Canada, by an Episcopal minister whose
name don't remember. He was stop
ping at the hotel where we were. At
that time Mr.. Stokes was not in gooo
health, and he wished to provide for me
and arrange matters so that should ne
become seriously i'll I would have the
right to visit him, even though our mar
riage was not made public
On the return of Mr.. Stokes to New
York this last time he was an occupant
of the house in which Miss Barclay lived
in West Seventy ninth street He was
taken out for drive one day by Mr..
and Mrs Howard MacNutt, the latter
his sister, and taken to their home, at
731 st. Nicholas avenue, where he died.
Stokes, ever sine he got out OF prison.
has gone to bed every night with the
gas at full flame and valet sleeping
on couch beside him. He was always
afraid of F'isk's ghost
Josie Mansfield in 1891. at the age OF
so, in st. Georges church. Hanover
Square, London, married Robert 1iv-
ingston Read, a young man of wealth;
who soon left her but always supported
her. He was a brother OF Lady FAX
land. Returning to this country she
lived for a time in Boston, where In 1893
she was stricken with paralysis and re-
moved to the home of her sister IN
Philadelphia, the sister being the wire
of a wealthy merchant
After Fisk's death Josie Mansfield
sued Colonel Fisk's widow for 100000
which she claimed the dead man owed
her She did not win the suit. She went
to Boston. The people hooted her as she
passed through the streets, and she
finally found a more congenial abode IN
Paris. She was often seen at Baden
Baden. In 1888 woman known as Josie
williams died in Delanco, N. J., and was
buried in Monument cemetery, Beverly,
N J. 1t was printed all over the coun-
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