The age-herald., 1901-11-03

married to Frank Lawler, the actor. She was 16, extraordinarily beautiful, but ignorant She was born Mana.
 From 1860 to 1867 she lived in Boston in good society she always claimed. In 1867 she secured a divorce from Lawler and weht upon the stage. She could not act but men could look at her and her tigress beauty. She appeared in New York. but did not succeed. She solicited an audience with "Jim" Fisk She was penniless then and only possessed the clothes on her back. but her animal beauty remained with her.
 Her skin was fair, lustrous as an East CT lily Over broad white brows masses of silky black hair grouped, like grapes. in such clusters as to remind one almost of the purple gardens of the still strong god, Bacchus. The smallness, tininess of her ears. like pink shells of ocean, was emphasized by a depending paid of large gold hoops, such as Spanish Gyp- sies often wear. She had small plump hands, with nails that needed no mani cure, and finger whose full curves and absolute absence of Bostonian angles would have commended it for admiring perpetuation to the eye of a sculptor. Her eyes were light but luminous gray. They conquered Fisk.
 He built her a palace at 329 West Twenty-third street, and there he and his friends reveled night after night and there in time come Edward S. Stokes. Stokes was of good birth and breeding, a Wall street clerk of handsome person. ality and features, whom Fisk took a fancy to one day and made his protage. Jay Gould also fancied Stokes and aided him. The young man was frequently at the Fisk mansion where "Josie'' Mans field presided.
 He and Fisk became interested in an oil company, which, furnished all the oil used by the Erie Company. Stokes man. aged the company while Fisk gave him self up to his infatuation for the Mans field woman She was the rage in New York, despite her character Mansfield bonents, Mansfield dresses, Mansfield jewels were copied everywhere.
 Stokes. came under the influence of the woman when he first met her. She was the mistress of his friend but he loved her, and Fisk became Jealous. He learn ed that Mansfield had only taken him on for his wealth. She boasted to him of her love for Stokes, and Stokes met her often under the roof of the house paid for by his partner and comrade.
 Once Fisk became convinced that Stokes had supplanted him in the wom- ans affections, he started to ruin him. Stokes was arrested one Saturday night for embedding oil company funds. He lay in jail until Monday morning. He retaliated by having Fisk arrested for conspiracy and false Imprisonment Fisk forced down the stock of the oil company and nearly ruined Stokes financially. Miss Mansfield at once joined cause with Stokes and gave him letters she had received from Fisk, which exposed the secrets of Tammany and the Erie ring. Stokes held these over Fisk's head. i. isk paid $10,000 to get them back.
 Fisk sued Stokes and Mansfield for blackmail. He also sought the indict- ment of both for the same offense Stokes, lounging at the home of Josie Mansfield, heard of this and immediately swore that Fisk must die. All New York was politically and financially agitated over the conflict between the two men, but that it would end. in murder no one ever dreamed-save perhaps Josie" Mansfield It has been alleged that she melted Stokes to seek out Fisk and kill him.
 However this may have been, Stokes left her house the afternoon of January 6, 1872. He went to the Grand Central Hotel, where he stationed himself in the corridor of the parior floor, carelessly