The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1901, Page 3

tienstinater™ » the fund for th TWO WIVES, SE 25, FRIDAY EV a Young Woman and Old Woman to Face Each Other in Court, Each Bearing the Name of William A. Burton, of Kings Park, L. I. This is the story of # man told by his two wives, It has to deal with suicide, Samy, forgery, perjury, the Sraudulent obtaining of. a divcree, malfeasance in office in sequestering a marriage record, deceit unparalleled and ingratitude that ‘passes comprehension. The litany of offenses against the cit and the moral law recited by the wives of William A. Burton reveal a depth of moral turpitude entitling him to historie distinc- tion. Yet this man died a respected citi: zen and civil officer of Kings Park, L. !. His wives lived on adjoining estates. He courted the younger behind the elder woman's back, One was sixty, the other twenty, and he was filtysive. Twenty-four years before the elder woman left him to go to the bedside of a siekly daughter, he had secretly divorced her, forging the names of her brother and niece to affidavits that she had confessed she was an unworthy wife. When she left ke asked the younger wemain to enter, e did, though her Jather had killed himself because of the sorrow brought upon him. Then apoplexy seized Burton, and his young wife drove with him in a cart to his lawyers, where he signed a will denying his elder wife, denying his only living ehild, whose bread he had eaten in adcer- sity, and leaving everything to the younger woman. His estate is :corth $50,000, and the fight in court has brought this siranze story to light. YOUNG WIFE TELLS HER SIDE. After Marriage She Found Letters In Pocket from His Other Wife. A bright-faced little country girl ts Isadora E. Nichols, sometimes known as Mrs, William A. Burton, who will figure next Monday in the Bupreme Court in Brooklyn as a leading figure in as strange a case as was ever unraveked in a court of law. She {s plump and rosy cheeked. her teeth are dazzling white, her hair aa black aa night, her eyes a compromise between blue and gray. She is not heau- tiful, but she is wholesome looking and her manner is straightforward, @ point that will tell heavily in her favor on tae witness stand. She says she is the wife of William A. Burton, lately deceased, and she ilves all alone in the Dig mansion on his 2i0- acre estate that borders the Sound on the outskirts of Kings Park, L. 1. Te Face Each Other in Co nother woman, older than she b; most haifa century, claims the title ST. LOUIS FAR Ex-Gov. Francis Here to Promote Big En- terprise. Ex-Gov. David R. Francis, of Missouri, and ex-Representative Nathan Frank, { St. Louis, representing the St, Lou's World's Fair Commission, are in New York to-day teliing a “touching” story eo the Presidents of New York's big insurance companies. ‘The Loulstana Purchase people, they way—including fifteen States and three ‘Territories—are to hold in St, Louie in 193 a World's Fair, which is to be the “greatest ever.’ It is to celebrate the centennial anniversary of. Thomas Jef- ferson’s purchaze from Napoleon of that great ecction beyond the Mississippi. Ten millions of dollars have been sed by the city of St. Louts, they say, and Congress is to pass at this session the bill appropriating 95,000,000 of Gov- ernment funds in aid of the project. Ex-Goy. Francis and Mr. Frank have Kindly offered to let the big insurance companies of Manhattan, whose busl- ness field counts the purchase a fertile part thereof, contribute all they want to ‘exposition. Several of the Insurance companies already signed for large subscrip- Once. Used Always Used. ' FE I j Paid Help Wants World; but f | scloui 7] °Mre, Platt is. suffering from angina 3) Dectoris (heart diacase), which has been 19; 28RTavated by a bad cold. She !s under 237 Paid Help Wants in thirteen other New York papers combined. BAAABA 4 AGENTS .. 9 HOUSEWORK | ROILERMAKERS .. 2 \JANITORS ...... @! poweas & KITCHENWORK ... 3 HUSHELMEN .. 3 pelle Hi BUTCHERS .. :... 3) NURSES,.. CHAMBERMAIDS .. 4! NeCKITEAR COOKS .. + 14 OPERATORS CASHIERS’... .....3 PORTERS .. CANVASSERS . 3 | SALESMEN 5) TUcKERA . 3) Warrers .. 3| Woopworkmn: 3] the conatant care of ph: 7 1 ‘al i| MANAGER ‘ ‘is 18 | Patera a" Te-Day, After’ a Short Iiness. EXTRACT FROM WILL OF W. A. BURTON. 1 have no wife (see decree of Aivorce Med In Queens County Clerk's office May 27, 1896). 1 do not think I have any living ehiit who ts blood of my blood, though Retla Augusta Van FI was nto lve with her mother and acknowledged her asiny wife ¢ °° i Todo wit! and beque: z friend, Tsadora daughter of John the property of which | may seized, or in which 1 may any Interest: what te be her role property f+ Mrs. Burton and the dower right tn his estate. They will face each other in} court : : | ‘The townspeople of Kings Patk ate divided in nay hy between mm. They remember that ti jam A. Burton came to live among the: He was accompanied by a little gri halred woman, past aixty, "whom he tn- troduced as his wife. Burton wast ap- parentiy her junior, for he was a man oe pewersa physique and wore his age w She mingled little with the ,towns- eople, but in the shops ahe was Unpopu- jar because she drove a aharp bargain. She bought on credit and Mr. Burton pald the bilis. A little over a year and a nalf ago ehe went away. Burton told neighbors she had gone New wrk to nurse a sick daughter. Courting Fair leadora. ¢ was gone that the gon- with Isadora E. It was after connected his n Nichols, whose fathe: lived on a piece of ground that had been original y carved out of the Burton estate. In the oder, wom absence there was what Kings k folks cated “‘crose lots courting. The aged gentleman farmer could be seen hanging over his fence talking to his protty neighdor. In summer even: ings they were seen strolting ulong the formed the greater part of ‘s land, ‘There was more talk of it than there would have been had Burton remained a private citizen, but he chose to run for Justice of the’ peace of the township. and the talk of him and John Nichols's daughter nearly lost him ‘the office. ‘After Burton won his oM@: he toid his friends he had divorce! his wife. On June 3 John Nichols blew his brains out, His daughter sald he had suffered from melancholla, but the neighbors, under- stood differently, for he had spoken bit- terly of Burton. Before gossip was done with the eufoide Burton and Ina- dora Nichols went to Dr. Julian O. Nel- son, of the Methodist"Episcopal Church, and were marrieJ. Two days before last Thanksgiving Day, Burton, leaning over to mend a barn door, was selzed with apoplexy. He reeled into the house, saying he was golng to die. Made Will and Died. His wife, with her own hands, har- nessed a fig and drove at break-neck speed to Northport to the oMces of his lawyers. Ackerly & Miles. Burton was so weak that he was all but speechiess when he reached the | | lace. But he revived long eno’ te fctate his last will and testament It was comparatively casy, for he had been wyer. When the paper was signed and attested he fell back uncon- He wi and driven home, From the buggy he war lifted to his bed, where he lingered we (nvouRA the Higat daybreak curious gossip after Burte i undertook to look up hts flage record. It was not on it when the miniater was approached sald he had spoken of fling tt. but 1s Te aie. | fon. who a health ver thro: hie magisiracy, sald he would keep the focument and Mle it with the County Medteal Powrd Young Wife! jory. The second Mrs, Burton has only onc relative on earth, a brother, and he ts traveling salesman. Most of the tme W. A. Burton's death xhe has lived in the big. house overlooking the 1d There she received an Bvenin 11 representative and. Ie der Mra, Burton hai to A. Rurton’s story, nef the part he had Five years ago the Murtons came here Sunken Meadows. us this pi They were ot and Tocnew then Burt rather elderly fo usband who, [though advanced tn years, carried his ze well. Mrs Burton may say that t a year and a half #! ele 1 know it Is clone After she went often to ane and nally ne his wife “T asked wi wife, and he her. When I answered: ‘You me of her own jonger anvth: my one Th rolng to ber. Barton's Deception. “After uwhile | found out he had de- ceived me and that he had iltverced her along time ago, 1 questioned him about that, demanding to know why he had continued to lve with her. ‘She had_no piace to KO, poor thing,’ he sald. ‘She Was old and I ald not care to turn her adrift. I let her remain as my house- keeper, We did dive as man and wife after the divorce. “1 belleved hint, and to prove that J was sincere In wanting myself put right before the public, | made him publish an announcement In the Northport Journal that he had deen divorced before 1 would marry him. “He told me all al and he never «poke harshiy of her, Bhe was Augusta Mary Childs, of Marengo, N.Y. Be married her Jan. 26, 1864. tn Waterloo. They had four children, eile Augustat who is now Mra. Dr. Milton Van Freet. ts the only surviving child. The others were William Francis, Fred: erick Childs and Lillian Isadora, ut his former wife “| was married to Mr. Burton’ on June Ne e ent the! 12, 1900, by Dr, Jullan O, Nelson, the TALE OF WOE. | eh islet Ua Pe i stor of the Methodist Caurch, which fost Vincent, Wert) § is ¢ Patiended {aE Burton “wan” sot “a _ — | Taran Per e Bas- f churoh attendant. Ile was a secretive) “f had auch a life with Willi ee t Ochi : v jam A. Bur- ahr} ‘ fran, and jet me know Tittle about 8) toy ag usually befalls the wite , 1 | Bag, 7 ° 9 ket entirely selfish man. He - Elgil y Wrote to Firat Wife. Ainted So arid Wat inayikexceptst tous nine | Also tinest Elgin Creamery et ion alwaya enepiclous Of one thing, self, Though he wan a strapping bie | and that was his fondness for his former | fellow, a | miler fe believer. iheyncorrespendea tol cons eandink Over. six > feeteand | the time of his death. Several times 1| “ClEhink over 225 pounds, he never | found letters trom her in hin pockets, | ar! ed a dollar himself. His father | FE plea ut they were brief, and not the kKind| was W. H. Burton, late of Waterloo, ” Sorr n all the Andrew Davey stores, special to,make me fealous. Most of them read: 2 5 orplon to that part in all the Andrew Davey stores, sp gi ear Will: fain well, Belle in res| No) 4 lawyer and manufacturer of the e for Friday and Saturday, covert. . 1 hope your health ts im:|once famous Twin Bros yeast cakes. & avy Department proving. Your loving Augusta.” {Ho set my husband up fn business in 3 ayy, poet! SOCe an | “1 could hardly take exception to that) cy ? ® inte train ould hardly take exception to (nat) Church street, New York, und in several | = At Ce Perth, i for #0 many Years. other places, here and out West. The) Cod r of seary to coat “One thing that prejudiced me against | business was ulways in my name, but oa H emporary aide Mrs. Burton was that when she ‘eft] my husband wi Samal 4 Am nava, represen here to look after her daughter her hus. t domineering Man ANA) shore line of the town of Kings Park. | he ‘ Mt it To never waters band wae in poor feulih: tle never made| * always xot things tn his own hands | ty" “ahous Wire oe ae SHES enter I All h and was tn poor heal spe Hg inaver: mare lt iditheatlost (everything: + 1, abou’ forty-three inties out of admired her or she bee the believe that the divorce bape son fie in| After his father died, tal New York f there with the i DIVORCE BY ABSENCE. WG the Court-Houre at Jamalea are $e") prope trom under him, he fall. ti fhe | The father of Isadora hols, | usit farming people Andre Dav ine jer him, he finaliy, tn 0 now puts tn her w his wite|4) year an faugheer | ps Srbesi ‘W ey regard myself as the legal widow of | 81a What money wun teft him out of| ert leesten, Se ee PERS IINA Ha HeE ae SFIVRERPIEE TENTS oe eee ec ee aa Ccea! ‘ carried to his buggy! Mr. Burton, and will Mgnt for my rights. Ithe estate, bought a iid-acrs farm on the! farm eut ou iad Oclstnale promectetlatilis ced ined t A STAAAS | Sewaradian in New Jersey. S Tears meee = i 3 Ip addressing the jury in the It tores. SENATOR PLATT HURRIES > TO BEDSIDE OF WIFE. DODOODOBODIGOHHBODODHGHHBHOOOOGHHHODIOGEGGHOOIOGOOIAS CODHDOOOQHOODGGHHSOOHSHGHHGSHDIGGOOGDHGQOSg| MRS. THOMAS C. PLATT. Her Condition Considered Serious and Canstant Care . of Physicians Necessary. Senator Platt is worried over. the fll- ness of Mrs. Platt and has come ‘ere from Washington ahead of his time. Hin wife's condition 1s rogarded as sertou: aiclans. been In poor The Senator's wife h health for a year, and Mr. Platt has heen obliged to!decline many public In- vitations on that account. Perhaps no other woman In the United States in personally acquainted with # many eminent public men as Mrs. Platt. While she has never heen prominent in oMclal functions, she has In her quiet and beautiful home Ife met nearly every: Republican of note In the United States during the last twenty years. She however, ted womanly” ¢ and benevolen an politica, war x0 Mil . from nervous prostration lant Januar: her apart- ments In the Arlington flote ry oa ton that {1 wan doubted If'she would recover. She has passed her alxtieth year, and before her Slinens of two years ago had been in good health all her life. LEAVITT. DEAD. ‘Theetrtval Man .Fapired a8 a vaudeville Mansger =~. ee ms CRET val manager, died to-day after a abort} thin boy | He was proprietor of the Columbial yoy to Theatre at Pateracn and was weil known 4 witnes! ‘DIVORCE AND ———$-42—___ Mother of His Children Did Not Know’She Was Divorced Until His Death. pore ® § 8 his blood was tiving, but-in als ate @ a n states that he had two ® tarm . born in 1857 and now & hee aughter, Belle Augusta. imony In. this’ divorce was Te: ving wh by Referee Onderdonek,: of gram received recommends, the « decres to the late Jus= L ahs teatimony, efe! in ° jaavits purpor sto 1 Stephen 8. Childs, of Terns ind Miss Frances E. Philes, de is my owe es Pailes ls my sis*er's: Ww employed” by” my: editor of the Water- wh> will be: re. atrol éaving his hotel. nid my niece declare Ir was | ne World, woman as Mise Ni thes 1 Pronounce their sign “to the aM@davite as ra ers Name. ibre of che map, I f myself In alt this. ve Burton's farm! fr, . A. Burton. shat! laughter of her good name, retch would rob her of her 1 a name after he had lived arnings as a public” school of Morrisanta can tell We lived there from here a bunch ef wing his ackng he me tw er $2900 she loaned him. The New York Life Insurance Company, ald me without queation the pollee t held on his If yaugh bigamy case at Belvidere, N. J., to-day Judge Shipman. of the Warren said that the New Jersey Jed that where a husband statues pro 3 and wife absented themselves from each 2 other for more than five years WeOONaUcwo2 Geog Previous to Mr. Burton's death he wre « several times to hie wife regarding an | and then J either: of them married, there could: be ne conviction for bigamy. | “hodenbaugh swore that he and his j wife, Anna Rodenbaugh, of New Ye 8) city, had been apart for more than five —-e {naurance polley on his life which she ra before the second ceremony, had go: hold of. He used to say that he * married a wealthy Belvidere woman. wanted me to have to pay his funeral and is now, against me. using It to fight this ¢ ow either I or my lawyers have been Lancaster Sails for Laj ‘ avie to get It, and we understand thas 3 ‘ | : Site. ‘iturton has collected the @noney & Guayra; Scorpion Stops PO I A I OES O at Curacao. Finest Long Island Potatoes, special for Friday and Saturday of this week, in all the Andrew Davey stores,/at, AGED WIFE’S Under MOTHER WADE | HER SIN BEC. Mrs. Jacobs Taught Boy Professional Beggars’ Tricks. $240,000 ON | =e SUILDING HIS DEAT ete Pearson Secured Big Insurance Policy Two Days Before He Died. Broadway, Cor. Chambers St. Come to This Big, Fair and Square REDUCTION SALE On Thursday the ‘5 were notified When the Mutual Life Insurance Com: pany, of this city, handed a life hat Mr. Pearson had died at the Eliot An emaciated ind of seven years stood] surance policy for $21,0%) to Preside ate ANE on the bridge at Jefferson Market Court| James @ Pearson, of the Pearson 3 : eri I tas oft ; jerformed on the day: the . o-Vay an aturda’ this morning, his hand tn that of Spectal] Company, of Hoston, the off ered to the Boston law- y y ‘ Agent Dimond. of the try Soclety,] they nad an excellent risk. Three phy- | ¥¢F very time of de- Two days of rapid clothing selling must result from while the latter told the Magistrate how | lvery tion had been. practl- the iste fellow was compelled 'ta beg] MElans fas examined Mr cally a "yas the only means to these powerfully fetching reduction: Important upon the streets until midnight and} pronounced nim in ap sl eave 7 a x , - 7 c= 5 turn over his money to 1 Beaaat naan faiaiicaveceyianerorliie | ite and decided changes demand these gigantic stocks The .woman, Amelia Jacv stout, 3 j Taken Oar in Good Falth, go quick— nothing withheld—the publie gets 4 mpany"s atrict requirements ! i middle aged, lstened plasidly to the ree * ei 4 Ml agents of the company, all the advantages of this 1 reduction cltal, Bhe was arrested wien the Gay eaters Mt E COnes it ©, reported i ! ‘ Agent eaw the lad turn over to her a GALS, way Ut the pulley was taken our by Mr. SAE handful of dimes and nickels af ‘ Kood fa | “This boy, Millard Jacobs, Is seven nine rillelcon cee M ’ B ’ Cc . g yearn old.” Said Dimonts wtttessiog tne] HNEt: of the RaEal iy iNeluomeant on en’s, Boy’s and Children’s Te does not got He} Und e ; ! oh wh avai Ana thls P lives with his mother and father at nips Sb t ne ffe inners Over Ra U a S te, i le mer and fetes ot [fe liered darn stra al Rol take fet tt he Dvercoats, Raglans, Ulsters, Suits, papers and begs on Broadway baba hit? ny continuance in T: S nd Sapere) mpd voes| on Gro Nancie wallets | ny. continua tn rousers. Shoes, Hats and Furn familiar and ann ‘The helra of Mr. Pearson will proo-| avin f | ‘i 4 rms goers, ‘The lad thly sue y a (edetiveroul ite Tf the finest. newest and best merchandise in. the eke scotyesl Lendl Hfatiea)o¢ | AEauNlne ARB | 1 mi sale th land the upset prices —the snap and dash with cereful beggar in the ‘Te tullise it tgaw |i tuhiwaw ty | ; oni the whieh the immens stock is going, is of any inter im tur var a aut Uo] Beare anton ty 1 | pe dl aeree cent est to vou then YOU MUST COME or neglect the Win mother last night « rested her.] ln Boston for the # ; , ! A Deters pee git iy Bea EDLY GUI tact rhatlusaradeataaced 5 | Late ansitaics ouah wi most important aet of your life, the saving of Soctety rouma he ate ax (the were fam-| birge, and tn au e Hr il money, and here is where you save it in limps. Come ished and he revelled ina bata requirements of . " wet vour share—eome in the morning i ° warm clothes, He tells me tist he begs) attic! But Mr “ iu ge v share—come in the me ru if you can. and sells pers beewuee ile mother} nothing. La _¢. oe makes him dosh. lr says she Ine hlin could fn $35.-$40--$45 Overcoats and Raglans '° £0 at him to try to get five f ndition indicat ‘ ' paper he suld and eh his tomeraa{ Muanclal ata Investigated and | 4° EU $15 and $18. tale of coll ant hunger. She taugn: | found eatiet " mpt a es an him, how to shiver. tHe knows every | After everybody had passed on | 2 Of Genuine Montagnacs, Elysians and all other best cloths, trick In a professional beggars reper-| FE the rink was| “1 tofre. He says he would lke to wtay xubmi| the “general mo re 4 25- — $30 ‘ LOMOTANEMianitatnieakinkiea Marita inbany. Me arsed favorably on wie $25—-$28-$20 Suits, Overcoats, Raglans and would like to get hie supper before he 4 notice was rent to the applicant remium. His { h f ald ke ao neu bles aupinnr sforasne |e we patch weutn br sl. Ca shrewd lawyers who Ulsters to go at $8, $10 and $42.50, to hool ke other children. Th ™ WAST eH buts held: ng Ae SA DAH Ors UNE es BOERS) oy . . ". + The Gerry ages recital it nat ug. |amaiting the payee: of the first a contract which never ex The Big Stock of Trousers and Fancy Vests. ter Mra, Jacovs, “The bo. com. | premium. | Meiers NYT i i mae Gena bist nGincoin Keir lame welsh toa mtb A Boston lawyer representing Mr ! las returne | $1, $5, $6 took) Trousers $2, $3, $4 and 85 Faney clothed Sei wailt nate ford,” whe Venton iuppearsas at uh New v in pa i eroey ie ite Voats reduced to itm. He sues cut erwith ne 1 [Spall the: premium sand crecelved >the s the court \ { 1,50 and $2. . am achard working woman, | keep a | DOUCY: Jo Ho iihhente dy ntand at Broadway and Phirty- Te ~ seventh street, My husband Js a litor-| MADURO BROS, & CO. EXPAND- 1 ITATS ne w $1.65. Ing mn. He is ty court with my ING. ng stock at half and le: Infant daughter He will tel! you that the boy is well treated” The -to- Date’ Haberdashers L don't call it geod treatment to keep Sprending Out Qnee More. R LOTHI fn boy of geven years in the str make reoin for te carpenters, ex . nigot,” sald) Magistrate Deu weted, the well-Known outfitting firm a Gerry agent los extibilened tha Hr & Co, x ound teak the pee iret. navel te Mesa Te tire toe sell] fred yi tn B98) Dl ener aati BROADWAY cor. CHAMBERS ‘Phe woman Was ied back (> prison, th he Gerry Soctety to tm held He expreaned great siting fon at hearing that he was not gol ~ bome again, axsortment of Open Late Saturday Night.