The evening world., 1904-08-15
Wealthy Woman Attends the
Dead Actors Funeral Ser.
Woes and contradlots Report
that He Was Not Her Son.
els Two Children, VINO Already
Have Made a Name for
Themselves on tho Stage,
Dropped Roses on His casket

y rUbNSul OF C.HrUTu - AcutS SHs
rotor who was found dead In the stur-
tvant Hotsl. took place this AFTERNOON
Il an undertaking establishment ct Ssv-
Gth svsnus and Thirty-fourth street.
Ma Lyman Aspinwall his mother, with
whom he had many differences In life
Was prssent also q few actor friends
ana his two children. Clifford. skven,
snd Marie seven years old,
The services were Of the simplest. The
Rev. 8. 8. Mitchell read tho Episcopal
ritual after which the cortege moved
to the Mount olivet Cemetery, where
la Monrs body was inferred. His two
children. noted for their p~recocity,
wspt bitterly. They hung over the
easket during q great part OF the ser
vices. Dropping white roses on the
conn was the last act Of hlial love on
their part.
A great deal OF mystery snadowed the
iofe OF La Mont. particularly about his
relations with his mother who. II has
cen sid. was not his mother, To all
these intmatios Mrs. Asplnwall gave
direct eontrdicton to-day. To an Even
Ing World reporter she said: =
clifford La Mont was my son. You
en- deny all reports that he was not.
We had our differeces, but they were
born OF misunderstanding. I assert
again he was my SON.
Lamont had been addicted to the use OF
morphine, and II Is believed he took An
overdose. He became III during the
night, choked and burst a blood vessel.
which caused his death. He was found
dead In his room Il the St~urtevant
Hotel, In West Thirty-htth street. by
his friend Charles Burrell. OF No. 26l
West ~Thirty-slxth street, who had gone
there TO take him out to breakfast.
La Mont and Burrell were at board.
ing school together and had been friends
for twenty-nine years.
La Mont always claimed that he was
the son OF Mrs. Lyman Aspinwall, a
wealthy widow, Of Cottage City, Mar
tha's Vineyard. She was notified OF his
death. and came to this city. bringing
with her his two children. who a
their home with her when not on the
stage,
Children Inherit HIS DriIiiancy.
The children are the result OF a ro-
nantlf marriage which La Mont made
some years ago. He was plunged into
the deepest dependency by the death
OF his wife. The children inherited his
brlnancy, and have already made a
name for themselves on the stag',
Mrs. Aspnwall. La Mont's mother,
4 a very wealthy woman and Is
noted for her charitable work at Cot
tage City. Persons who remember when
abe FIRST began to 90 to Cottage City
about thirty years e say she was then
A Mrs. Archibald and that she brought
with her a little boy who was known
a, Danny Archibald. Some years later
Uni. name was changed to Clifford la
Mont.
Mrs, Asplnwall had money, and her
wealth was increased by her marriage
70 Lyman Aspinwall, a member OF a
f, prominent New England family, who
.was eighty years old AT the time He
| died on their return voyage from Eu-
rope and left her the bulk OF his estate.
was Arrested In Boston.
Five years ago she had La Mont ar
rested In Boston for annoying and
threatening her. She told him In court
he vas not her son. When asked who he
was she repliedt hat he was a founding
and would say nothing more. He was
put under bonds to keep the peace, but
they afterward patched up their dit
ferences and she again called him her
son and he referred to her as his mother.
She dealt generously at times with La
Mont. At times he lived In luxury. His
life was the gayest OF the gay At these
periods. At other times he appeared
respondent. Occasionally he attempted
10 earn a living on the stage. On the
whole he lived The life Of a dlettante,
doing a little In acting. occasionally at
tempting literature and art.
His children who are precocious,
brilliant and gifted with grea, beauty.
are cared for by Mrs. Asplnwall when
not on the stage.
Mrs. Acknowledgements her winters In
New York and Lakewood. Her sum
hers are spent at Cottage City. where
shs IS regarded as the possessor OF mil
Hons. and where che has never been
Known to refuse an appeal Oh the part
u a religious association o. In behalf