The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-19
WALDO WRDS MRS. HBCKSCHER
az HER COZ NrRY NOME IN
GREENWICH TO-MORROW.

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me- % the Yeung wlnow % Jehn a.
EIeclGseAsr. wb~ hAngFsea H1sr whsn Ne
was sa-FRs Cam@ansiemer mas EsoCa
asesaler On l.azsa and . Polses Depaty.
Fire Commlasioner Rhinelandsr waldo
and Mrs. Virginia Otis HoOkschsr. the
young widow 81 John q. Hsckschsr. are
20 bs married tomorrow afternoon a. Z
o'clOck 1t AGrs. HscksChsr's country home
IN 0rssnwtoh. COnn. Very TOW Of capt.
wald0's friends knew that the marriage
vas forthcoming.
. Airs. Heckschsr. Who 70 . year OF two
younger than the Capeain. has Q town
hOuss at 40 firth avenue besides . ooun-
try home at 0rssnwich. 6hs 10 az petits
figure. with brown hair and blue eyes
and b decidsdly pretty. She asafoEtune
Of hsr own lsft 20 hsr by John q Heck
sohsr. who died on July 4. iscs.
She was married TO Mr.. Hscksohsr on
October 10. isos. He had been married
twice before. His drst ~tfe was Miss
Whitney. Who was q granddaughter Of
Stephen whitney The children by th1s
marriage are Mira George D. Mcclellan
and Mra. Ewsrton L. winthrop. The
nrst Mrs. Beckschsr. Who died In 1891.
brought q large fortune 20 her husband.
He was married again In Iso3 70 Mrs.
Henry winthrop Gray. on whose account
he had Fought . duel with Mr.. Gray over
the Canada border ninstesn years before.
Shs was q daughter % william r. Travsrs.
The encounter was one % the conspicu-
oais happ~nings % Ig7s. The weapons were
pistols and the distance was twelve PAGES.
The signal 90 Gre wss given ~ dropping
a handkerchief Gray fired the inst ant
the handkerchief Ruttered to the ground.
His bullet PASSED through the skirts Of
Heckscher's frock cost. Tho latter. q
crack shot. had reserved his FIRE. He
levelled his pistol at Gray. hold the
position for a few seconds. then fired In
the air. Mr.. Gray obtained divorce
aeon after tho duel.
The excitemsnt over the affair Vas in
tense. The Grand Jury started an
Investigation and called in many sur
geons in tho hope that they knew
something about tho duel. DR. George
A. Peters and DR.. Morris II. Henry
were among those examined. but
they stood on their professional rights
OG secrecy and duty to.their clients An in
dictmsnt was actually retuFned and A. W.
Clason. Mr.. Hsckscher's sscond. spent
several days in iail. But the indictment
was faulty In the eyes Of District Attor-
nsy Garvin and tho case wa finally
droppsd.
The second Mrs.. Heckschsr lived six
yemrs after the marriage. in iseR in
1876 M HecksclssT met Virginia Otis
% Richmond. Va Her father Was Robert
A. otis. q planter. and her mother Was
Helsa Gordon. q member % the Virginia
family % that name Mr. Heckschsr WINS
~ when tins marriage took place
He died July T. ions In his lifetime
he had transferred TO his wife securities
worth over s2u0.O0O His will left her all
nf his household furniture and sGects.
a specific legacy Of SOON his estate IN
the Valley Farms Company of Honkcrs
and the income % trust fund Of SI0O. O00.
His daughters by his first wife. Mrs.
Mcclellan and Mrs. Winthrop. received
ot,ly sIO0 each Ivy the will but Il developed
later that Mr. Heckscher had made pro-
vision for thegn at the time of their mar
riage,
Rhinslandsr Walio who IL n years old.
- the sou Of Frarcss W waldo ard Ger
trude Rhinelander. He was cdWcatsd at
the Berkeley school aud the Columbia
University school of Mines. He was
commissioned q Ss.cond Lieutenant in
the United States Army when he was -
aud Was assigJied 20 the Seventeenth In
fsntry He took part IN the campaign
in northern LsInOn in 1879. lp1O and 1901.
and Was on stan duty ~ an aid to Gen.
Leonard WOSJd and Gen. Hell ROariBgI
Jake Smith in Subsequent campaigns. A.
a captain 4 the Philippine Scouts he vas
active in the campaign against the Moros
in 1870 aud Ie0s.
Police Commissioner Bingham made
the Captain First Deputy Commissioner
in 1875 He resiened ia 1891 and was
named Ivy Mayor Mcclellan to organize
force for the policing OF the Catskill
AquedlIct district. He was an unsuccers-
ful Tammany candidate for Congress in
an Overwhelmingly Republican district
two years ago. and made q lively cam
paign. speaking mostly from cart tails.
Mayor 0ayB0r sppointsd him Fire Com
missioner on january Of this year. Capt.
Waldo 10 in rather more than comfortable
circumstances