The age-herald., 1901-11-03

walking up and down. and not appearing 10 be Interested in anything in particular. The main staircase was in front of him. He could see any one entering from Broadway, .
 Thus stationed he saw Fisk enter and start up the stairs. The latter was seven steps up when he sdw Stokes, his right arm resting on the standard at the head of the stairs, a pistol in his hand, Without speaking, Stokes fired twice. The first bullet took effect in the abdo. men, the second In the left arm. Fisk fell to the floor. Stokes walked away. but was captured before he could leave the hotel.
 Fisk was carried upstairs, and Jay Gould and 'Boss'' Tweed came to his bedside. He died the next day, but Josie Mansfield was not with him. Instead came his wife and his brothers, and they remained with him to the end
 Colonel Jim" Fisk was buried with honors such as New York has bestowed upon few men. Tweed blubblered and even Gould cried Stokes remained in prison. He hired the best counsel in the land and was tried three times, the last time being convicted of mansiaughter in the third degree. Grover Cleveland par doned him from prison in 1877 after he had served four years. Something of his
 
 lived an earth pariah ever since. He Is at the home of sister, now dying.
 The Mansfield woman fled to Boston after Fisk's death. From there she re- moved to Paris Tn 1891 she married Robert L. Reades formerly of Minneap- oils and New York. Since then she has lived in comparative obscurity, She Is wealthy-most of her money came out of Fisk and stokes. She was the Llith of two of these men-she who brought both of them through "a purple palace of sweet sim to a dishonored end.
 While Stokes Hes practically helpless at his sister home, 731 St. Nicholas ave- nue. New York, beautiful woman, who claims to be his wife, is striving to gain admission to him. She asserts that sho is his lawfully welded wife that she was married to him August IS. 1900. at Shipman's Point, Canada, by an Episco- pal minister, and that she has the papers to show her right to care for him. sss
 After Stokes killed Fisk the relations | between the former and Josie Mans | field ended. When pardoned from pris- I on Stokes became something of a power | in Tammany Hall and had some infiu- l ence, but he was not known to have an interest in any living woman. He kept himself from public view and avoided all notoriety. The woman who now CldlIIlS to De 1l6 -WiI6 BdyS lIldL HcT nuS- band was taken away from their home. 209 West Seventy-ninth street, while he was in a weakened condition, against his will, to the house of his relatives She says that admission to him has been re-. peatedly refused her and that she will now ask the courts to act. Her maiden name was Rosamond Langdon Barclay, and she claims. to have known Stokes since she was a little girl Her father, Charles Barclay, of England, was Stokes friend for years, she says. |..
 It is one of tfthe curious ,q stories of Stokes career that when he was pris-I oner in the Tombs in 1872 George FrancisB Train was also there. Train, while in the, prison, organized what he called the ''Murderers' Club" in murderers' row. with twenty-two members and himself president Train announced to, the mem bers of the club, that he would see that not one was hanged. scannell afterward chief of New aYorlx's fire department, was In there, and Croker. Not one of the twenty-two ever. was hanged Stokes became the head Of the Hoffman House, Scannell went into successful politics and Croker became boss" of the city. Cro-. ker is still master; Stokes IS passing away with paresis. Train stin lives.