The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-04-24
HER STORY
PATHETIC.
Young Woman Lsoksfor Refuge
In R0f0Tmatory.
TILTED BY MAN SHE LOVED.
Husband Killed In Beer War and Now
Wants 10 Be Removed From Sight Of
New York Sergeant
TILTED BY MAN SHE LOVED.

New York. April 2.--Giving the name Of
sumed, a tall, attractive young woman
applied TO Magistrate Hogan. in Jeffer-
son Market court yesterday for commit
ment In a reformatory for a period or
not less than six months
Send me away from New York" she
said. Send me anywhere, TO ap insti-
tuition or a JAIL so that ! can be kept
away from this city and from certain
man who is In II and who would not
lift his little finger TO save me-"
Stan Captain Walsh OF the Salvation
Army, who is probation officer. became
interested in the woman. and after hear
ing her romantic account OF her life,
induced her to go TO the home OF the
New York Magdalen Benevolent society
on Washington Heights for six months
instead of taking the longer term in the
reformatory.
REFUSED HER NAME.
To all questions as to her real name
the woman returned evasive answers. Her
own account OF her wanderings abroad
and in Cuba. however furnished clew
10 her identity.
Her maiden name was LILLIAN Mason,
and she said she had been married TO
George III. Pullman, former secretary Of
the National Red Cross society. She sued
him for a divorce, but failed TO prove
that marriage ceremony had been per-
formed. He once had her arrested i'm
Washington for annoying him while he
was walking with another woman. The
story the woman told I'm court was prac-
tically that of her life with a few FAM
ciful embellishments. 1t was roman ntic
In the extreme and the manner in which
1t was told led to the suggestion that
Vivian Alva," as she called herself was
looking for notoriety, either for the pur-
pose OF going on the stage or writing her
experiences for a newspaper. When asked
II such were her intentions. the young
woman replied
mo, am not going on the stage, and
life I'm a reformatory would be too monot-
onous 10 write about, have never writ
ten anything. / have no idea of begin
ming now"
Some OF the Incidents OF her life as re-
lated by Lillian Mason were
II was born on the Atlantic ocean when
the ship on which my parents sailed for
American was off the Delaware Capes. l
was brought up in Maryland and Ken
lucky. Ny parents are both dead, but l
have a grandfather and a brother living.
have been married. No. will not give
my husbands name. / was appointed as
nurse and served In Cuba during the
war with Spain.
SOLDIER HUSBAND DIED.
"My appointment was on the recon-
mendation OF Assistant Attorney Gem
eral Stryker, who knew my family. While
I'm Cuba, / nursed a soldier who was
thought to be dying. l fell I'm love with
him and he with me. He recovered and
we We're married. He was promoted from
the ranks to he an officer I'm the Seventy
first Regiment. l lived with him In this
city after the war. but went TO England
TO visit my relatives. He followed me,
enlisted I'm the British army and was
killed In the Boer war I'm South Africa
81 returned TO this city and lived in
West Sixty-fifth street and later in West
Seventy-first street. | had a friend who
was a detective sergeant. Last night he
asked me to play the plano while he
danced with another woman, whom he
admitted he intends to marry. In
frenzy I decided TO have myself sent
away, as l could stand his Indifference
no longer. / went TO the West Thirtieth
street station, asked 10 be locked up and
saw the man for whom i am doing this,
and he never said word. | have not
been drinking and | am not crazy. am
simply in frenzy. l am going away for
six months.
Lillian Mason was at one time
stenographer employed by Miss Clara
Barton. She said that George II. Pull
man married her I'm 1898. When he went TO
Havana with Clara Barton i'm that year.
Lillian Mason. who then called herself
Mrs. George II. Pullman, followed She
was sent back TO Key West by General
Fitz Hugh Lee, who was then consul
general. At Key West, just before the
beginning OF the war. the woman was
stranded Newspaper correspondents and
others took up a collection and paid her
way back TO this city. George III. Pull
man said when he had the woman ar
rested i'm Washington that she was of un-
sound mind