The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1901, Page 17

THE SUNDAY CALL.' ; . % 4 both herseif and her husband Into the [n connectfon with his mumate triend, lor.e perore an-New fork was agog over for blackmall, seeking the maictment ox San Francisco newspapers. At this time Eben Jordan, a merchant, who was a the Mansfleld, and the splendor of eher both for that offense. This news came to her preferred admirer above all others pillar pf the church, cleared over a mil- establishment. Despite her character, Stokes, lolling amid the luxury of the was D. W. Perley. the wealthy English l'on and a half through unscrupulous her name was used to christen every- Manstield home. It was probably then law partner cf Judge David 8. Terry. A methods in handling Government con- thing, from bonnets to jewels. that the devil entered him to kill Fisk, short time after he became entangled In tracts, ete. By sharp dealing Fisk pock- A citizen of San Francisco, who as & and It has been alleged that Josie Mans- the wiles of this wholesale flirt, Perley cted $600.000 at the time of General Lee's 133 worked as clerk in the auditor's field incited the deed. All of New York was calling at the house of Mrs. Warren, surrender. office of the Erie Railway, remembers Wwas interested and agitated over the dif- the mother of the fair but false Helen —Tisk then removed from Boston t0 wey the magnificent palace of brown- ferences between the two men, but none Josephine. Josic and Perley were spend- New York, where his financial career Was gtone that Fisk built for her at 329 West surmised that it would end in red-handed in- the afternoon in the patlor behind as corrupt as his social one. After 80me ryenty.third street, about six doors be- murder. The whole world was for a time locked doors. Suddenly a loud knacking original financial operatlons with a lne j,w the Grand Opera-house corner, where famillar with the detalls of the tragedy was heard, the door was burst open and of Sound steamers, which he started In pig office was. This gentleman Temembers that followed. Lawler and Mr. Warren fushed Into the opposition (o those running, afd out of ¢ho Mansficld at that time as an exceed- Stokes left the Mansfleld place on the / ;::r: Ach :; e mmm”{ e"""i;e“w\; :th:il: 'h‘e r;x[n.fj"; Rmo':zyr;“:fi :"‘ll;"g OX'V;: ingly handsome woman, above the aver- afternoon of January 6, 1872, went in & Steel St bin hend; WAISHTHA the " Slenal. vtin R DE il et P rrrs g | PSS 1 BelEHi A Syt STatng., toward | haek 10, the Grand Contral Hotal ag stus o HEIeR daseobine i BIl IR 8 DretabL: . Ter it ST i st e Sauiness fiat Stiaaw el Srapied her tioned himself in the corridor of the par- 3 Hand famt, l:els q];l; Coutis s ars Fesotioas do uok figure. He remembers also that Fisk in lor floor. The main staircase was in front Lawl harged Perley with 1 et ”‘ o S andi some way gained permission from prop- of him. He shot Fisk twice as he was et e g ampering desert him. e pushed forward and be- - .\, ,onery of the block to cut @ small coming up that staircase from Broadway. with the affections of his wife, and came the ummm.;rnend e ey B T O it S oo Blokes wiw arcated batave by SouiEilune forced the frightened Englishman to and Willlam M. Twéed. .. fetvaniia’ Taluoen: Ohg: G0N Wi $6: - the Notel. . Jay: Giouls ; ad > Wil 3 slgn a check on a local bank for $5000, ~ Fisk could swindle a friend out of bun- ... o0 thie: woman Who ciet Mus ¥is Tweed came to the Defails of Vi, Wi Lawler then ordered Perley out of the areds of thousands of dollars and call it jife, He passed much of his time in dled the next day. His wife and brothers house at the point of his pistol, telling business. In a raliroad and cattle deal those days in the mansion with her, and wers with him to the end. “Josle” Mans- him it he ever spoke of the affair he he did Commodore Vanderbllt out of the clerks in the office often watched him efield was not there. would shoot him on the spot. Perley 100,000, and said, laughingly, “The Com. 60 through the little green turfed yards Colonel “Jim” Fisk was buried with all hurried to the bank after his escape and modore got the cows, but I got the to meet the beautiful woman who some- the honors that New York could bestow. stopped payment of the check. At his cream.” He became largely interested in times came out to greet him. Stokes, after three trials, was convicted of instigation the San Francisco newspapers Frie stocks, and in the early seventies Later, among Fisk’s friends who en- manslaughter in the third degree. After published the whole particulars of the casily took away from many New York joyed the frequent revels in the Twenty- serving four years in prison he was par- hold up, describing it as a conspiracy be- men the prominence of being {n the lead. third street house was Edward S. Stokes, doned in 1577 by Grover Cleveland, who tween Lawler and his wife and the others The women idolized him and the men a young man of good birth, whose father Wwas then Governor of New York. concerned. feared him,- for his corruption was was in the plate glass business. Since his crime there has been no peace : : = for him and his face has told the story Through a friend he warned Lawler to known. Stokes was a clerk in Wall street when of Nt mtbiry. ¥ie. M it ol et get out of California within thirty days He was made colonel of the Ninth Fisk took a fancy to him and made BIm g.i.ctives and lived the life of a h on penalty of death. Josle and her hus. New York Regiment and his short stout his protege, and also won for the Young ever since on the remains of his ,o',ml:, band then safled for New York, where figure was always a conspicuous one-in man the friendship of Jay Gould. The until death claimed him at the home of she found a fleld altcgether to her taste. the public resorts of the city. With handsome figure and features of Stokes his sister. She was diverced in New York and favor and fortune the world celled him gave him an advantage over Fisk, who _ After the murder of Fisk the relations on the high road to success. But a was short and so stout as to make it a Dbetween Stokes and the Mansfleld woman sed. He is not known to have had any 'man was leading him on the path that getriment to his appea He was. Cease At the heyday of pompous, and also int interest .again in any ltving woman, and sely valn. TRIS o pequtiful woman, Rosamond Langdon may have been a factor In the =pell Barclay, who made claim while he was ich “Josle’” Mansfield cast over Stokes, Il to being his wil3, was not recognized e more and more frequently to or acknowledged in his will Fisk mansion. He loved the woman While Stokes was lying in prison, a play . 1 met her alone often under the roof Was produced at Niblo's Gardens called A for which his friend and partner had ~Biack Friday,” in memory of the great shortly afterward went upon the stage < in that city. She could not act, but she w hed a rich, dark, antmal-like beauty that lecds to other thing i £0ld panic engineered by Fisk, and having paid. & for its theme the killing of Fisk. The Soon Fisk knew that the Mansfleld only gceng of the murder wall laid in Wall cared for his weal:n. She boasted of her gtrect, with Fisk shot as he passed the office of Stokes. Charles Thorne took the part of Stokes, W. Price portrayed Fisk, and Lizzle Fechter was the notorious Mansfield. The play was soon withdrawn on account of public indigna- tion. On Stokes’ release from prison he spent some time at the Hoffman House with his tried friend, Cassius H. Read. Soon after- be came to San Francisco, and be- er of a number of John W. Mackay de- little mare which driving, and sent a it, but Stokes refused again sent to Stokes, of. s . 7 the theatrical folk ® mbii‘on was to go i s W he sacrifice v " gnorar X a e s ™ inf e . o A mior SE S e . Bd jwmped from her window and the others have preceded her to a litle stroet beyond, while ip her [N 5 e be awful memories wly arrived lover was wildly up = y f it, and thus was the wonderfn auty of the woman made the subject of P éiha blic con A declined. Ten days later & messenger de- f jon, trcache i ORI livered to Mr. Mackay at the Palace Hotel B 4 4 & Ne ng after this the r ast, their Aifferences. Mansfield was shot a note from Stokes reading as follows: x the Rockies as & harrier be. the street cormer by Tabor on e T oo By b : tween her and her past life, appeared in 1854, Tabor wite sentenced’ to be best wishes.” From this dated the well- ghe was known as Boston, where she lived some o 5 Wi : : from California, Who 1 vemesoe) ihp ! ved for some y 5 ged, but in 1855 was pardoned by Gov known friendship between Mackay and = - s putable society she al s claimed, ernor Bigler, He was defended in his Stokes. In conjunction with Read, Stokes 3 ¢ lttgation, P4 €0 #ay some who knew her there. trial by David 8. Terry, who afterward Jater bought & mine from Mackay, which he placed in London and Paris at a profit of nearly 32,000,000 “Josle” Mansfield fled to Boston.imme- diately after Fisk’s tragic end. From there Fisk was wildly jealous S5he went to Parls. There she deposited In the East she met Frank Lawler, the shét SBenator Broderick in a duel, and handsome . actor, returned from Cali- was afterward shot himself by David fornia and then playing leads with Emily Neagle, at Lathrop. :‘|r-lan. dll"r tigress beauty Infatuated About two years after her father's death 1 for Stok m, and in 1866 the two eloped after a s 2 i t e st de vt rs among the theatrical people ten davw’ mcquatntance, and were par: ki) "':rlr.f‘;o'::::h:rf.::-“;os:?yi:: % ::;:-:l;“o:d:’;":rm;n:nce In New fl:!)k:vlr:‘x;o!::',:n auaiald.: The: stags. €4 at/anos 1a1a Plans 1o rin Stdkas. The I e e T 16 Py, T winco’s earlier days remember ried. One year afterward they wero di- aream then, and she was soon popular York and her short theatrical carcer was would not yleld her fame or a living, and latter was arrested one Saturday night for o Vo (he banhing SR TR ant Be - that ended in murder. 100, 15 now at rest, but to her, per the most unworthy of all, life juxurious home is still left e ”""’”’:"' bf“‘;“""' sirl :' about vorced, the cause, it is sald, belng her among gallants and a certain society set, N0t & success. penniless, she sought an interview With embezzling funds of the oll company in New York papers once more published rixteen years who mixe among them and fondness for other men. Lawler is long Then her mother loft her with friends n At that time “Jim” Fisk, the son of a “Jim" Fisk. which he and Fisk had become interested, columns concerning the Mansfleld, under pausicd the stage doors in the days of the since dead, and did not see all of the de- Fan Franclsco, went to Stockton and mar- Vermont horse trader and peddler, was The luminous light of her magnificent furnishing all the ofl used by the Erle com- *Uch headings n:c"’-‘g':"f::l-fl‘f“:mfi;ofl- yoman,” ete. e early sixties. Coming from no one seems s.ruction which his one-time wife after- ried n Mr, Warren. perhaps the most consplcuous figure In gray eyes conquered him. Her skin was Pany. Stokes was In jail a couple of days, = for a time in distressed circumstances, but fpe _y,’?,‘,;:;-:;:,::np;;e[;:::;: w;;:l,.“;‘;:::n”d e Jus,!c [!P(;f.p]-ra;) Jife in San Francisco, New York. He was the man whom fate of a deadly falrness, that made more jet and tl;axl: had Fisk arrested for c;nsplrncy it is probable that most of the wealth e o I n Boston fn and soon drifted into lh(-ulrvlnul ambitions or some ovil genius set apart to come black the masses of silky hair that clus- and false Imprisonment. Fisk forced hich she is now known to have was r rea n as s o be Warren, 184, and her parents removed to Stock- and the gay life that endéd in the epl- under the thrall of this Nana, whom he tered closely around her broad white down the stock of the oil company and saved from her relations with Fisk and 224 ¥he was sometimes referred to as the ton, Cal., In 1852. There in 1854 her father, sode which resulted In her golng Kast. afterward housed In a palace fit for a brows. From her tiny pink ears hung a nearly ruined Stokes. Josie Mansfield at Stokes. In 1S9L in London, she married Y rren girl” On the site where the Joseph Mansfield, was the editor of the After becoming Mcg Frank Lawler she queen. pair of large gold hoops, gypsy fasbion. once took the part of Stgkes and gave Robert L. Reade, formerly of Minneapo- pile ent California Theater now stands, Republican. He got into personal Jour- returned for a brief season to Callfornia, Fisk came to New York from a cor- ‘Small beautifully formed hands, and & him letters she had recelved from Fisk, 15 and New Yori, sud (o he weatihy. He r as in thos e o ot v ’ . . i then com - there ‘,: thote daye an L-shaped alley. naliem to such an extent with John Ta- her husband belng engaged for Maguire's rupt business career in Boston, where tall figure, whose curves were perfection exposing the secrets of Tammany and the {:‘::,r ,:,';: ;:‘::q of ncgr. p;;:‘:-::m’ Loy It was filled with shabby houses, and in bor, who ran the opposition paper, the Opera-house company. Here a black- he had’ made his home sinco his coming then, formed a pleture that caused Fisk Erle ring. Fisk pald $10,000 to get them to BDoston. but has since zone abroad one of these “Josle” Mansfield lived. SBhe Journal, that @ murder was the result of malling sode brought the names of of age. At the time of the clvil war he, to fall down and worship. It'was not back and then sued Stokes and Mansfleld again to live.