The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1908, Page 18

h ~ ACTOR DENIED A MARRIAGE AS MRS. OSBORN DIED Emest- Lawford Put Current Report at Rest Under Sen- sational Circumstances, | | ‘The estate of Mrs. Josefa Osborn, the | society and stage dressmaker, who died yesterday at her home, No. 2 Rutherford place, comes into the possession of her daughter, Audrey, who ts fourteen years 16. This disposition of Mrs. Osborn's | fortune establishes that she was not | married to Ernest Lawford, the English actor, two years ago, as her friends and acquaintances believed. It ts estimated that Mrs. Osborn left about $500,000, which includes the dress- H making business at No. 24 East Forty- | : sixth street, the house at No. 2 Ruther- | : ford place, where she died, and about | : $150,000 which she recelved as a bequest | tn the will of her stepfather, Peter | Stout, a former president of the Stock | Exchange. Whether or not Mr. Law- ford was remembered in the will cannot be told until the document is filed, but those familiar with the facts say that | he renounced all claim to the estate at the deathbed of Mrs. Osborn under cir- cumstances most dramatic. | Report of a Marriage. Mrs. Osborn divorced, in acral 195, Robert A. Osborn, whom she had married in 1893. In August, 1906, shortly | after the sensational marriage of Mrs. Osborn's former bosom friend, Mrs. Leslie Carter, to a young actor named Lewis Payne, it was reported in/ theatrical circles and in the Bohemian society set that Mrs, Osborn had mar- ried Ernest Lawford. There was extended publication of the alleged marriage at the time. Mrs. Osborn and Lawford were in Europe. Mrs. Osborn continued to build up her dressmaking business and Mr. Lawford resumed his work on the| stage. During all his spare time in the city he was Mrs, Osborn’s devoted attendant and their marriage became | settled as a matter of fact. It was! even reported that Mr. Lawford had allowed a wife in England to divorce him so that he might marry Mra, Osborn. Took Charge of Affairs. When Mrs. Osborn was taken ill with appendicitis two weeks ago Mr. Law- ford took virtual charge of ‘aires at her home, receiving visito: sulting with the doctors and nurses. He was deeply distressed when she cYd/ not show a perfect recovery after the first operation, His advice was sought when the surgeons decided upon @ sec- ond This apereeioa’ was performed on! Tuesday. It proved to be unavailing, | and Mr. Lawford was told late in the! evening that the patient could not re- of Mrs. Osborn's closest | were at her home yesterday ing the end, In the présence of these persons, it is said, Mr. Lawford ained to say that !f any false fi Mrs. Osborn and Clvan piplinlytcurrentibeldcsired _ to correct it before she died, He then announced that the report of their mi riage Was a mistake, adding, {t is sa that the ceremony would have been per- formed but for the fact that he was already married. Soon after this Mrs. Osborn died Depends on Will Contest. The richness of 3 Osborn's est on the street. Known as a Clever Woman, Mrs. Josefa Osborn wns one o| most remarkable and New York. She tistic talent, a and a bent for t her into the on ment of her career In ivit Mrs, Osborn leased Berkeley | Lyceum and opened it 6 Playnouse. He: lish a cozy little { Associated with her in her best friend, Mis The enterprise lasted failed disastrously. In the wreck Mrs. Osborn, and Mrs, Leslie Carter’ fell out. lawsuits were instituted, Miss % went to Europe and has been é ever since. Mrs. Osborn cc starting a dressma 1898, when her clal reverses about to put o iK pr ‘ Osborn went to him with original de- | ene for the gowns and got the con- | tract. From this beginning she built up | & business which occuples @ big house and employs 250 people Worked Sixteen Hours a Day. Her capacity f n w work was wonderful she was in the & day A reases ' un Four ‘ ii American aused general in : $ © a series of articles for | i . and newspapers in which | ed the American woman's in: can Sn eel EARTHQUAKE PANIC AT SPA IN BELGIUM, SPA. Belg Noy. 12—A violent iration oe *irigiteoed, 23ed Street FUR DEPARTMENTS. 23d Street ajrd Street UPHOLSTERY DEP’TS. 27d Street JAMES McGREERY & CO. On Friday and Saturday, November the 13th and 14th. LADIES’ CLOAKS, dn Both Stores. 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