The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-05-25
Body Of a Nan held IN Ashevil!e Of
Eight Years IS Claimed
BIZ AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
The Body, Which sIas Been in an
Undertaker's Establishment, Was
Tha. of Noted Forser and Gem
erai Confidence Nan. Who Was
Credited With Sixteen Wives.

The remains OF Charles J. AS
quith. alias Lord Beresford," alias
have at last been claimed. The
body OF Asquith or Lascelle. the nan
who died at Asheyille. \. c., in Oct
ober. 1902. and which has remained
in local undertaking establishment,
ever since. was last week shipped to
Baltimore on affidavit Of wife No.
that the body was OF her husband
and the remains will be cremated In
that city.
The name OF wife No. is With
held. Negotiations for the body
were conducted through q friend,
Mrs. T. J. Summe-feld of New Jer-
sey. who made affidavit on behalf OF
wife No. 1 that the body was that
OF her husband. The un6ertakers
being satisfied as to the affidavit
turned oye- the body upon payment
OF certain costs. incident to embalm-
ing. ETC.. and the body went to Bal
timore for cremation.
That Asquith or Lascel,e or Lord
Beresford was thief, a forger and
a biganist is certain. II is alleged
that he had been married fifteen
times. He was known in Georgia,
Colorado. Texas and other states. and
bore an unsavory reputation.
The man went to Asheyille in Sep
tember or early October in the year
1902. He was very sick at the time
and. although supposedly well OF,
when his death occurred two or
three weeks after his arrival, it was
found that he had 20 funds and ap-
parently no friends or relatives. The
body was emba:med by an under
taking firm and in the absence OF
pay, and in the absence Of intorma-
tion and advice. from friends or rel
atives sthe body has during these
eight years remained unclaimed at
the undertaking place until last week
when wife No. /. through her rep
resentative. made claim to the body;
made affidavit that tie body was that
Of her husband and paying all ex-
penseS claimed and secured the body
for shipment to Baltimore.
The shipment Of the body OF AS
1uith or Lascelle ends a most inter-
esting and mysterious story. Dur
ing the years thar the body has re-
Iained unclaimed in AshevilIe. many
hundreds OF people as a result OF
he notoriety that the incident at
tracted have visited che undertake
ng rooms and sought to identify the
body. Several times it was thought
hat the body had been identified
1y one or more wives. but always the
Identification proved a false alarm.
II Is said that the man Asquiin,
whose body was claimed by a wo-
nan who alleges that she was his
original wife and married 70 the
woman some twenty years ago in
he Little Brick Church Around the
Corner" in New York: that they
vent to Europe and lived happily for
time and that then the man dis
appeared. That was the last that
sas seen OF him by his wife. 1t
said that he was in jail in Eu-
'ope: that he was finally liberated
md later appeared in Italy where
lie sold somebody's yacht and again
got in bad
Ills caree: was checkered and
Just how he found his way to Ashe-
vile was never explained. Il is
known. however. tina. when his death
occurred in Asheville he wore q tie
hat was purchased in Texas and
,lso other clothing purchased in the
lone Star State. which indicated
hat he had come from Texas to
isheville. II was stated that the
real name Of the woman who claim
ID the body of her husband is ret
named; that. in fact. all persons
aaviag anything TO do with the TAX
ing OF the body away will not di-
:ulge their names and the undertake
,rs and others interested are pIedg-
ed TO secrecy.
II is understood that although the
local undertaken who has held the
BODY Of Lasce!le for eight years turn
I'd it over to wife No. !! up>n the
payment Of actual cost. $40. that
the unGer,akers were recently Offer
,! $4,000 for the body which they
refused IN an effort to comply with
the North Carolina law. =