New-York tribune., 1901-03-26
SAYS SHE is MRS. F. S. BOND
WOMAN WHO TAKES FURNITURE TC
RAILROAD MANS HOME ARRESTED.
DECLARES SHE is HIS COMMON LAW WIFE
HAS SUIT FOR BREACH OF PROMISE
HIS DENIAL.

The arraignment of we'll dressed and seem
ingly refined and we'll educated woman of mid
die age on the charge Of disorderIy conduct
suited in sensation in the YOrkville Police
Court yesterday afternoon. when she declared
that she the common law wife of F. 5. Bond.
vice-president Of the Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad Company The woman had
been arrested at Mr. Bonds house, No. - West
Fifty-irst-st.. the complaint of Bernard
Smith. Mr.. Bond's butler. IT was learned that
she had been dispossessed from fiat at No.
240 West One hundred d-and-fourteenth-st a earlier
in the day. for non-payment Of rent. and that
she had taken her furniture on truck to Mr..
Bonds house and had insisted having the
furniture received at the house. The butler
had called policeman to arrest the woman. and
the furniture still on the truck in front Of
Mr. Bonds house when the woman was ar
raigned
Smith the butler. declared that he never had
seen the woman before she appeared at the
house with the furniture The woman said she
was Mrs Mary Louise Bond. and had been az
the house in Fifty-frst-st. several times. Mr..
Bond IS my common law husband she said
Magistrate Rrann. "and he is living in luxury.
while | a destitute"
John Gilmore Boyd said that his client was
destitute and that she had pending in the Su-
preme Court q suit against Mr.. Bond for alleged
breach of promise. s. ". Knevals. Mr.. Bonds
lawyer. said that there relation what
ever between the woman and Mr.. Bond
The prisoner said that over two years ago she
sshed to sign a blank piece of paper. She
did sign it, There had been no writing above
her name at the time She was assured that
she had not relinquished any Of her rights She
then received 5000 from Mr.. Bond
Mr.. Knevals asserted that the woman had
gone Howe & HummeIs office and that at
place a satisfactory
arrived at and settlement had been made
on her The woman had made ali affidavit that
she not Mr.. Bonds wife.
Mr.. Bond bought the furniture which is
standing in front Of his house. the woman
said. Il have returned the furniture to him.
He has deserted me and don't want his fur
niture.''
We don't want the furniture" spoke up
Mr.. knevals. 1t belongs to her
Madam said Magistrate Brann, you had
better take that furniture away. 1 shall dis
miss this case. but want you. madam. 10 keep
away from that house"
Mr.. Bond. when seen last night at his home
ana asked about the case, replied:
have not this woman for four five years.
and want 10 say that il Is a case of attempted
furniture for the woman and know nothing about
It, have never lived with the woman.
Mr. Bond was asked when and under what
circumstances he had met the woman He re-
fused to reply to the question. He said he had
heard some time ago that the woman had de-
clared he an old man and wouldn't live long
and that she was going to get some of his estate
Mr.. Bond said it would he cowardly of him IL
he did not fight the case. Mr.. Bond is about
seventy years old.
Mr.. Boyd said last evening that he did not
know where his client could be found last night
or what she had done with her furniture. He
said he had known the woman about twenty
five years ago when she was living with a fam
lily named Carr at Sea Cliff. Long Island. Her
maiden name Morse
II said last evening that the woman had
studied law AT one time at the Columbia Law
School. and that she had asked Professor Rus
sell, of Columbia. 10 take up her against
Mr.. Bond but that he had told her she had no
case in law.