The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-04
WELL KNOWN N ST.. PAUL
MARTIN WGINNEss, FORMERLY
LIVHD1 In THE SANITY
e4F IT. CITY ~
REAL NAME MYRA GoLDsTE1N
Suggestion Made as Joke Was
49, Adopted Thy Him and Name
Has GIung to Him
hafer Years.


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Ihere are number of people living in
81 Paul who distinctly remember Mar
TN McGlnness, whose wife, it was stated
IN an Associated Press dispatch from Mil
"auKee yesterday morning, married him
under the impression that the man of
Ter choice was of Celtic extraction, but
who Is in reality a Russian Jew, and
whose name, instead OF being Martin Nc
Gihhess' is Myra Goldstein. The cir
cunstanees Under which Goldstein
! changed his name for that of McGinness
are thus related by M J. McFadden.
preSfdentS'ofs the McFadden Candy Man
uiacturing company, of IS East Third
street. who was directly the cause of the
substitution; -
some years ago, when [ was running
small candy mandatory ever on, Sew
entn street, said Mr.. McFadden, Cold
steIii' VINO was then following the aVoca-
IN search of patronage. Although knew
ilm perfectly WELL, l asked MIN, in q
joking way. what his name was. His
answer was MyTaS GsoldStein.
looked at the boy for a moment, and
the 1act that the cast of his countenance
was Irish rather than sIIebraiec impressed
Itself upon me. On the impulse of the
moment L said to him. A--y*t3 sell.
y
ithe one. -saiad your name isn't GoldStein;
II MISREPRESENTATION McGinness. Just
remember sfea per. now will yon2 DIS -
lie SAID he would and went away, and
from that day TO WITHIN a few weeks ago
he was always known as Martin Mc(1in-
ness. Some wass,.he didn T. ke1 kindly to
to forget It. .---s----s---1e=-e--
:, r. or number of years, think posi-
Oily SIX Or seven. he remained nTSts7Paul
most OF the time working Tor me in the
snop. he about half learned the candy
maker S trade built wasn't exactly the
GAZING he wanted to follow FOR bust
ness lie roomed with me part OF the
t IiIne. and We went around together con-
Sloe1doty. WheneVef he spoke OF his tu-
'ture career, he always indicated a desire
to be the proprietor of a restaurant, and
ms was the *business he finally drlfted
AFTER Ieavfng~St Paul he neglected to
write me, and It was not until nine or
ten years laken That l learned where he
was was living: Ih.tRee meantime his parents
mad mad renevedsto-s town in Nebraska, and
from them. NuRa time to time. l had let
tiers asking RassSs knew anything of the
whereabouts o9S4 heir son. 1 heard it
rumored that Uncle Of his had died in
the meantime INF Memphis, Tenn, and
know that the sasEifly was very anxious to
ascertain wh9rehe was living. In fact
they carried Zfbeira inquiries to the ex-
Ten tent OF offert8g[a reward of $500 for any
ployed det@rtMR to try rsil and ferret him him
2 out. It was all IN vain, however, and the
search was fiha1lyEgiven up.
FOUND HIM IN. MILWAUKEE,
Last year Z was In Chicago ON bus
mess trip, and while there made short
trip up to. MHW aukee. While there
come up to me but McGinness. Twas as
glad to see him as he appeared to be to
see me again. Together we had a long
talk, during the course of which Told
him of fha lQftnrS that hfS hid
been writing to me; that 1 had heard it
rumored he was one of the heirs to his
uncle's estate. and advised him to write
his sister, who was then in Nebraska He
Gemurred to this, and said he preferred to
rem lain flcognito. He told me at this time
that he was still known as Martin McGin-
ness; that he was the manager of the
restaurant, and had been for some time,
and that he was getting along nicely and
had been able, to save up a considerable
sum which wa an on deposit in one of the
2s'sTRe afifouneement that his. brothers
and sisters We're anxious to earn his To-
cation seemed to give him some concern
Finally, after thinking hard for a mo-
ment or two, he turned to me and said:
" 1 don't see what m going to do in
this matter, anyway. You see I'm mar
ried. and my. wife thinks my name IS
McGinness. She was a waitress when |
came here, and some one whom | had
known in St Paul, who was then work
ing in the RESTAURANT, introduced me as
McIT10nGSS. we were marrieQ by
Catholic priest, and I don't know how
I'm going to tell her now that I've been
deceivfng her all these years -
He seemed so worried over the mat
ter, that did not press the point farther
When returned home, however, wrote
/ his sister, telling her | had found Nc
Ginness, and gave her his address. Soon
after that I Had a letter from him say
. Clayburg, Neb., had been to see him, and
that he had beer earnestly requested to
make the family a visit. 80
ABAND0NSfWIFE FOR HIS FAMILY.
"a few days ago l.. received another
. letter, this time from McGinness vile.
In 1t she satd2that she and her husband
] h 1aq been of1t town in Western
Iowa where his sister and her husband
resides, and thai sSts ne was still there with
tbs reIatiVeS5U They had insisted that If
she lived With him as his wife she must
abjure her religion and become Jewess
This she steadfastly refused to do. and
the result was that she was now back in
milwaukee, ma destitute condition. Nc
Glnness had. about 81, 500 in bank in Mil
waukee, buts he Had withdrawn it, and
had even written to her to send clothes
to Iowa. Sheh said she did not want the
fact that she had been practically. desert
ed to get into sthez aPers. but NE has evil
IDENTITY changed her mind on that point
AS soon as The priest who had mar
ried the couple was Informed of the cir
GUMS stances, he'wrote me, asking If Nc
01AAuSSo SIOEy WIS True anu sSIdLnS Cnat
the marriage was void if McGinntss was
really married under a false names /
told him all the circumstances of the
case, and in due time received another
letter asking nae to make an affidavit to
the facts as 1 had written them. [ did
so; and have since learned that they were
married again, the last time 5McGinness
taking his real snalhe of Goldstein
Personally, I think McGinness. as L
prefer to call him. IS not wholly to blame,
in the matter. He spoke of his wife. to
spect, and from. what he said I judged
their married life had been an excep-
tionally happy one He is under the in
fiuence of his relatives, apparently, and
unable to break away from them
calling to find relief from the grip
with old methods. took DR.. Miles Pain
Pills, sNerNine and Nerve and Liver Pills
and was permanently cured. Gust.
Egan, JaeksonS Mich. =