The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-23
PLEADS FOR
fORNACHON.
Friend Of MendIcani's First
Wife Seeks His Release.
JUDGE MAY SET HIM FREE
Prisoner Does Not Appreciate the Flsw,Ts
Sent 10 His Cell by Friends Mrs.
furnschoa Frustrated.

Newark, Nov 23--Cast of by relatives,
deprived OF the companionshlp tf his
wife, and condemned to serve 30 days
Imprisonment IN the Essex country, n.
J.. jail for yagrancy. Captain Joseph
Louis Fornachon late OF Company III,
one Hundred and Eighth New York Vol
unteers. is not without friends IN his lonli-
ness
Judge Lambert, Of Newark who sem
tenced Foruachon on Tuesday has been
overwhelmed with appeals for a suspen-
sion Of Judgment lie was visited yester-
day By Young woman, who pleaded elo-
quently for the release OF the prisoner,
and who subsequently, called at the iail
and conversed with Fornachon FOR about
an hour She would not give her name,
but promised To return ian a day or TWO
with an order for Fornachons release.
This lady is a-comparatiye stranger 10
me, FornachOn said. She knew my first
wife and has become interested I'm my
case through reading the accounts I'm the
newspapers. 1 have received offers OF as
sistance from other persons today. and
hope 10 be out of here befor long.
II am not IN "a frame OF mind, however,
10 appreciate floral offerings, continued
the captain. They might bc dispensed
girls who sent me bouquet this morn
ing The girls meant well, suppose
Judge Lambert said he was undecided
what TO do I'm Fornachons case.
Il have been informed. he said. that
FornaChon borrowed money from the
newsboy at the Pennsylvania Railroad
station and from several architects in
the city, / have taken his case under ad-
Nisemeut."
Judge Lambert released Mrs Forna-
chon on Tuesday on her promise to return
To the home OF her mother Mrs. Mary
chon Is kept IN close confinement She Is
said 10 be a sufferer from nervous pros
tration as result Of her recent expert
ences.
Mrs. Foruachon clung TO her husband
as he was led away, and all Of her moth
ers persuasvencss was required 20 iu-
ducc her 60 leave Newark. She preferred
the squalor OF the county Jail she said
to the home of luxury offered by hcr
mother on condition that she should come
alone.
Mrs Fits residence IN Montclair is one
of the handsomest in that fashionable su-
burb. She is accounted by hor uegh
bors a woman OF wealth. estimates OF her
fortune ranging from 100000 60 S,o0.e0o.
FIRST MARRIAGE AN ELOPEMENT
Mrs Fornachon as May Yale Fits. was
she had many suitors but when Eugene
" n. Bissei an officer In tho SiXty-ninth
Regiment, appeared she cast them all
aside.
Mrs. Fits did not approve Of Mr. Bis
sell, hut her daughter did, and the re-
suit was an elopcment That was about
12 years ago. MIR Bissel was in business
in this city. employed as poor clerk
as his wife testified subsequently. Two
children were born 20 the couple before
they agreed 20 separate. In 1898 Mrs
Bissell obtained divorce.
Before Mrs. Bissell had actually obtain
cd her decree she eloped with Captain
Fornachon. and they were married by
Justice OF the peace I'm Jersey city. The
ceremony WAS repeated when the couple
discovered the error Of their haste
Fornachon had known the Bissells for
several years, and his marriage TO the
former Mrs Bissell was not altogether
surprise in Montolair
~ had been employed BY the late Rich
ard Al. Hunt, ''he said. and at the time
of my marriage had good position
with an uncle, Maurice FornachOn, an ar
chitect. who also had been associated
with Mr. Hunt My uncle, however, threw
mo over after my marriage. lie Is
bachelor and disapproves of matrimony.
For nearly three years May and ]
have been cast about from pillar 90 post
our last abode was at - Fifth avenue.
New 1ork. Dut on MonuaE or iast week
our funds gave out and we went 70 Mont
clair to seek assistance. Mrs. Fitts gave
MAY some money and we boarded until
II was gone Then we started back TO
New York We We're arrested I'm Newark
where our funds had given out Ny wife
hungry and ! did not consider it a
crime TO beg for her
Strange stories arc told IN MOutclair ot
the cscapades of Mr.. and Mrs. Fornachon
on one occasion. SO one story runs. they
hired 1UUDle team ostensibh to-virtvr
TO Morristown Three days later the car
raige and horses we've found by the police.
abandoned on the mountain road Cap
tain FornachOn was arrested. but friends
paid the livery hill OF SIS and he was
released
Both Mr. ard Mrs. Fornachone have
been under trc ttment for nervous trou-
hles. the former In Bellevue and the lat
ter In Bl0omingdalc