The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-23
HER DOUBLE LIFE SOON ENDED
BRIDE POTSONS HERSELF WHEN
HER TWO HUSBANDS MEET.


that she was bad woman. They all agreed
that she had drifted with the tide. Her
suicide in Johnstown, n. Y, on Friday
afternoon, five days after her marriage TO
George NJ. Iichtenstern, manager Of Vert
hcimer 4 Co.'s glove factory, when she
was confronted by Michael McCartin, her
real husband, was the end OF her string.
that was all. And yesterday another
suicide followed il.
Shis remarkable young woman could not
have been called beautiful. She was,
however. pretty. OF the shopgirl type 30
numerous in New York. She had light
hair and a round face and wore glasses
over rather small bright eyes Of blue.
She dressed well and always was in good
humor. at least until the crash came in the
govemakers' town,
She was born in New York twenty
four veais ago. Her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Legrave, now live
o,cra feed store at 424 West Forty
second street. Her girlhood was unevent-
ful until. when she was II, she met Michael
NcCartin. lie was a hard working young
rainier and he came a-wooing. It looked
a good match and, when her parents APP
proved Of il, Sadie married Michael GAey
vent 20 live at 1902 West Tooth street. The
Young wife's life was uneventful and per-
hans not always pleasant, according to the
stories Il the neighbors, until the baby
came. The child was a comfort to her
a. long as it lived, which was only year
or 30. Then she had TO fall back on her own
Pleasant nature and take things as they
came. She did not enjoy staying alone
in Mn. Fillman's boarding house all day
and about four years ago, just after the
child- funeral she told McCartin that she
was going to find job for herself. Il would
helm out the family resources and keep her
mind Of her loss. The husband did not
dissent.
Sadie applied for place as stenographer
with Wertheimer 4 Co, at their main oftice'
6j Blocker stree; She feared that bust
ness houses might not care TO hire married
women. 50 she called herself Mise Sadie
McCartin. She got the job and stayed
there. by day writing letters about skins
and gloves and by night sitting in the Har-
lem fat or telling funny stories to the neigh
bors She was able to dress and live better.
II was not long before Lichtenstern, who
lived in Brooklyn and was travelling sales
man for the glove house, noticed the pretty
Ftenographer. He had many a short talk
with her and used to take her to luncheon.
The first thing Sadie knew Lichtenstern was
nanifestly in love with her. She could have
storped it all, perhaps, by telling him that
she was married, but that involved conse-
ouences which she did not care to face.
He could have informed the Arm, which
might have resulted in her being discharged
for deceit. A second and more important
consequence was that the truth probably
would have sent Lichtenstern away and
Sadie had begun to love him. He had
treated her with more consideration than
she had ever known. So che kept up the
lie resisting the frequent impulse 70 tell
her new lover what she really was. That
was her easy going way. She knew that the
tr1,tb would wound Lichtenstern and make
a break in her own e.. Il was better, she
thought. TO live up 70 her old custom Of
making the best Of everything and living
from day TO day.
Business or something else used to call
McCartin away from New York and on
those occasions Sadie would invite Lich-
tenstern to call at the boarding house.
She told him she lived there with an aged
aunt. He would take her 10 the theater
or they would sit in the parlor and spoon.
The landlady guessed what the situation
really was, but saw no genuine harm immi-
nent and minded her own business.
Then McCartin would come back and
Sadie would adapt herself to circumstances.
She was always TT ying to avoid trouble
and cuarrels and MoCartin never heard Of
Lichtenstern's existence, any more than
Iichtenstern dreamed that there was a
NlcCartiu. While hor husband was In town
Sadie was not neglectful Of the new flame.
She met him after work and sometimes at
night hut not at the boarding house. She
was always ready with the excuse that her
aunt Wa peevish, OF that the parlor was 70
be taken for the evening. She met him at
elevated stations and in theater lobbies,
the while telling her husband that she was
working overtime in Blocker street OF that
she was going &c VISIT lIlehu' McCaIth
/ chit nste n. from tn. d~st few weeks
OF hI, friendship with the woman, wanted
her to marry him and she was obliged b
invent a series Of excuses Tor not complying
for she had admitted that she loved him.
Things kept on in that way for months that
stretched into years, Liohenste always
more urgent Mrs. McCarttn always more
Itsourceiul in evasion Michael hcCaItin
sways ignorant, the landlady always dumb.
Last November the MCCartins moved 10
5iS Columbus avenue where they lived
with a Mrs Riedel The visits Of Lichten-
ste n continued and Mrs. Riedel sized up
the case as il really was-a beautiful love
affair. saving Mr., MoCartin's presence.
Sadie saw that Mrs. Riedel knew and con-
fd,d in her.
I'm going to marry Mr.. Lichtenstern,
she told her one day.
How can YOU do that Sadie said Mrs
Picdel, when YOU already have a husbandl"
Sadle pouted, something remarkable in
her. and cried some;
George doesn't know that she said
That stunned Mrs. Riedel, who protested
that 4 was time 10 tell him.
i can't do that, said Sadie. He'd be
40 mad he'd never speak to me again, and
] love him 80 now that ! can't get along
without him He's 10 honorable that !
can't think Of shocking him He wants
me TO marry him. That's the only way
| can get him and I've got TO have him.
After that Mrs Riedel kept her peace.
seeing that the case was beyond any of her
remedies
And all this time Mr.. McCaItin came
and went. ate his ham and eggs and lived
the prosaic life Of a journeyman painter.
He was never for romance, and II did not
occur 10 him that his wife had a thought
for anything but holiday matiLees and
tattiug
Mr. Lichtenstern was insistent In his
demand for Maria &c, and at last the pree-
sure becs.ule too much for Sadie. A week