The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-01
SAINT CYR, Who
WE'D RICH WIDOWS,
WAS POOR TEXAN
Husband of Silent Smiths
Widow Court First Wife
in Hartford.


New York, Feb. Attorney John
f. Brennan of Yonkers. as special
guardian of a minor heir, has fled in
i the Surrogate's SCourt at White Plains
a Recommendation that the court or
i der an investigation to determine
whether public policy does not de-,
mand reopening probate of the will of
Caroline Redf1e1d Saint Cyr.3 IF the
special guardians view is sustained
by Surrogate William A. Sawyer, OBJ
3ections may then be fled to the cod
tcil whereby the inheritance of a.
grandson, Henry Alexander Redfe1d,
Jr.. was reduced from 100000 to $780,.
900.
This proceedings brings into court
the international mystery of the life
OF Jean Hara11 Edward Saint Cyr, or
de Saint Cyr- This young man, of
many and marked social graces and
unknown past buried his first wife,
the aged Caroline Redfe1d, last Jan
uary. He astonished society of two
continents last April by marrying
Annie Armstrong Stewart Smith, the
wealthy widow of James Henry ttSi-
lent''0 Smith
Stranger tales of adventure and TO-
Imance never were conceived than the
dramatic episodes Of Saint Cyr's life
that become relevant to the inquiry
Recommended by the Surrogate's
guardian at White Plains.
Jean Harold Edward Saint Cyr,
J masquerading as distinguished
French gentleman and as such receiv-
ed at the White House and in so
ciety's most exclusive circles, is none
other than a. missing Jack Thompson
John Henry Edward Thonhpson-of
Waco, Tex. newsboy. hotel clerk, ha-
erdasher's salesman and chorus man!
This husband in prompt succession
of two rich widows, one more than
double the other nearly twice his age,
lived in a hall bedroom Of a New
York Tenderloin tenement eight years
ago. He was a slender, blonde youth
: apparently not more than twenty-five
Hooking, nor handsome: his voice rasp-
ing and effeminate, with traces of
fSouthern draw1; his education mani
testify that of the world, not of books
nor Of universities; his manners SUI
lperhcially courtIy, even ladylike. On
his back, in the most extreme dress
that the period of his means could
afford, apparently was put most of
his meagre income
Twice within a few months, in 1907
ne was dismissed from two New York
department stores, once for fighting
and scratching the face of a fellow
clerk, once as an incompetent He
tried his hand as chorus man, but
the theatre did not suit his ambition.
He Ma<ries the Rich Widow.
But there was a rich old widow
stopping, he said. at the Waldorf-As-
foria-
Thompson tried to borrow $500
from Texas friend, saying he could
get q position as this old 1ady's sec
Rotary. The friend didn't lend him
the i've hundred, but the young man
soon went to live in Mrs. Redfe1d's
home, then at Hartford, Conn. He
Il boosted that he would marry the rich
M h1r MIA of
Within a year and a half he made
good although servants in the house
hold did not know until four years
later Of the secret marriage ceremony.
Now the same Jack Thompson
an. de Saint Cyr''-resides while in
! New York at the Ritz-Carlton, has
his meals served in his suite, mingles
with milIionaires and is a member
since 1914 Of the New York Athletic
Club He declares that he was born
In Trouvi1Ie. France, forty years ago,
CT French father and Dutch mother,
and that he was independently rich
before he met Mrs Redfie1d.
On this supposed basis-and be-
cause he is the husband of the very
rich and socially prominent Annie
Armstrong Stewart Snith-he is en-
tertained by such families as Judge
and Mrs Gilbert H. Gary, the Brazil
ian Ambassador, and Nine. da CANA,
and many others of ssured social po-
sition- He is now at Palm Beach, oc-
cupying a suite of seven rooms at the
Breakers with his rich wife.
Still Saint Cyr denies that he is
Thompson, and declares that it is a
case of mistaken identity.
But the official record of Saint Cyr's
secret marriage with Mrs. Redfeld's
shows that he gave as the names OF
his father and mother the names of
the father and mother of the missing
Thompsoni
The date and place of this first mar