The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-28
TRAGEDY. RE CALLS
THE FISK 5SHlOOTlNC
Stokes Bloody Deed in New York
Hotel, Years Ago, Was Also @
X Due to a Woman.

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4, NEW YORK, June 77.-The murder Of
Stanford White BY Harry Kendall Thaw
has parallel In the shooting Of I arnes
\ Fisk, Jr., BY Edwin Stokes, on the stair.
way OF the old Grand Central Hotel, now
the Broad way Central, on JANUARY 81
1872. The two men were widely know, In
the city, and their quarrel arc Sc over q
woman. stokes was freed on the ground
that he had shot Fisk In self-de tense &c sc lit
" Jim Fish, as he was called had been a
lion tanner and peddleri before he went en-
into business III New York, where ne
broke Into the board OF the Erie Rails
road and became scoinrnde gof Jay Gould.
Together they put down Erie stock IN
1855 FISK 60 rnered 3the gold market, run.
Ming Roid 5up TO 160 When President 9 RANT
Knocked the bottom out OF the market
Fisk reptdlated all sfthe tbar gains ne haa
made for the sale OF gold. He ESCAPED a.
the penalty Of this action It'll oug On MS e.
3lations with the e Tweed ring, q y hicn vas
then In control Of the city government ~ ~.
ss II was business that first brought FISK l
and stokes together. stokes was IN tcrest; :.
ed ii an oil company tina furnis ned nee OF
n q Tho i ii Two men hecame friends. and
Fisk Invited the younger man N 70 dlno
al the famous house. iii No. aN West esq
Twenty-ttlird$s Street, where the Prince o.
Erie had set up an establishment 1or
j oslo Mansfield n O woman wi IN II Who '
he was deeply infatuated. It was not not
long before the woman began @ snow 70,
q liking for stokes. Fisk realized ga z t ~
situation, but he evidently still cared for
! a. triad Il VII, her back. But his efforts
were In vain. n Us ID III. 5ys
Became Enemies.
II The friends became enemies and fought
In business Fisk wthdre " II the ERIE ERIE 8
pat ronage from the oil company, and
stokes lost heavily Each man ian .hao atne
other arrested II, turn Il Josie Mansfield
gave her new lover the old one letters,
which he threatened to publish FISK
bought them back for SO 900. " Then the
Mansfield woman began a. suit against '
Fisk. a iss III, ssfzs NE
7 On the morning 81 the day when the
shooting occurred there was nearing,
OF this last suit Fl In Yorkyille Court.
stokes accompanied the woman, Under u
the questioning OF Fisks lawyers she
broke down and cried. IN ii
i This aroured her admirer to great. an an
ger Later he went to her house | and n
II Is said that a. messenger en- brought ne
news that Fisk ha d procured y O warrant
FOR the arrest OF both Of tn EN-. 9 okes
evidently sd N that the fight was going
"a against him. He went Sin search Of Fisk
To- the Grand Central Hotel and awaited
his arrival at the head OF the stair
Fisk passed In at the women g entrance &c;
and started to go upstairs. Just above
the middle landing he looked up and saw
stokes resting the barrel Of q pistol &onE
the newell post above him. Two shots
and Fisk fell to the n ground
Stokes threw his gun into the dies par
Tor, ran down III another ~ st air way a an q
sta rtad ~ lea Va through the barber shop
Of the hotel. There he was captured.
sR5 stokes was & tried and sentenced tof
death. u He obtained q new trial and was
AGO uitted. n He died $onl " few years go.s
sF83 Josie Mansfield went TO Paris Nine
teen years laters she married rich young
man named Read. & Later they sepa rated.
and seven years ago the woman was
stricken with paralysis. Now she, too
ia dead.