MRS. O’BRIEN’S STORY
THE LADY WHOSE ACTS IN
VOLVED THE WHOLE ARMY.
She W»* Not the Cnnae of the Broker
Engagement of Mlaa IlomcyD—A Bit
ter lujnutlce Righted—BIm llomeyn'i
Unpopularity the Cause.
¥IEUT. O'B r I e n'j
charming wife—the
indirect cause of
Oapt. Romeyn’*
court-martial and
sentence of dismis
sal from the United
States itrray
malntalned abso
lute silence during
the long trial, but
she gave to the
Writer the first full and frank
statement that has been made
of her side of the famou3 case
which has agitated the United States
army.
She Is a little woman. Her manner
Is captivating; her conversation shows
education and culture. As she spoke
with fervor aoi earnestness she looked
fondly upon her husband, who was
pacing up and down the porch. “It’s
a hard situation," said Lieut. OTirien,
“In which I find myself. The case
should never have gone lo a court, but
should have been settled in another
and more effective way. I at first felt
tha! physical redress exacted by a man
of thirty-three from one of sixty
three would have been criticised, yet
now I wish that 1 had forgotten that
Capt. Romeyn was sixty-three.’’
"When I first came to the post," said
Mrs. O’Brien, "Mrs. Romeyn visited me
and said that the bachelor officers at
Fort McPherson were horrid. They
did not dance with the married women
and they did not call on tVra. I
thought it was queer, becau- I had
\ 'IV 1 '
LIEUT. OBRIEN’S WIFE.
always found bachelors In the army
to be nice to married ladies. The bach
elors called at our quarters and al
ways danced with me. But Capt.
Romeyn’s wife said that some of the
married ladles would not go to the
hops any more. I said:
“ ’Well, if I went to the hops and
bachelors did not dance with me I
would etay at home, but I certainly
would not talk about It.’
“Mrs. Lieut. Martin and Mrs. Lieut.
Kalk both said the same thing. The
bachelors were nice to me, and nice
to a young girl who visited me during
the winter. I Invited the bachelors to
my house to dinner for my guest, and
they were always nice, as was natural.
Mr. Bamford and Mr. O’Brien have al
ways been good friends. When Mr.
Bamford and Mr. Shaw stopped house
keeping Mr. Bamford came to our
house to mess. In January MM.s Rom
eyn announced that she w. engaged
to Mr. Bamford. which was the foun
dation of all the trouble. Win n Mr.
O’Brien spoke to Mr. Bamford about
it be did not deny It. 1 ti
gave Mr. O’Brien very clearly t ••
understand that he was no; eng.tg. . to
her. Mr. Bated >t d and l had ' ineutlv
ridden and danced togeth r bef ire thU
engagement "as ajnoun 1 more
before Its announcemi. an after.
Mr*. Homeyn wu •• r.uft* f. . • all the
time, und on Christ run.- eve Cfcpt.
Komeyn walked to town wit a n:e. Mr*.
Homeyn came home fttn the et-i the
latter part of January ami Mr. O’Brien
and 1 called on her Mr. Bamford wet •
to Mtaa Item . i. a 1 told ter that
muat set him right in tht* garrison an 1
say that the • .te: at which the lt d
announced waa broten off. This the
lefuacd to do. Then cune this gerruan,
wnici a i»’*i nm.r ins. i.
at the german I <ti»m«! w!ih Mr ll mi
lord, .art Mr». Rouieyn u* Mr O'Hrlan
amt r e. bin ai r <114 n >t f»t Mr. Uara
forrt. which »v r> or * tn th** room
thouaht wa» atranga. The mat *lav
Capt R meyn i »*•* • 1* »ai«l th*t I ha*l
i tru • tit by all of 'ha l.i•!:*•* of the |km
«>a accnm.t of my b*h*yt«f
"Mr o'S‘r *« Went at «?».<< ifthurap.
tala, of i' <* t<’>'h hi* a In *• ami <b
atatole4 that Capt Rom.cn make a
public Thu Cap! It '!■ *« r».
fUi>* J M> t» • ** * ht t . |i r t)i, .
aart Mini hi to Roum-vm « phyat
til cued .»> ia<~x>c.l turn* h.4*
t'apl ft ttteyb T**a d«tt* laid him
that It •**»»!»• «eur <!•* *a It autild ra
•Ult fatally t.» It moa Thta I r*«d
mr huahabrt to tike lc*al a MP a IB
eta) char**# h*t*g hta *aly racour*«
Mr trHriea h«•;•**! that an Ihape* K*r
•Mid ha teat tad Cat* M> ••»«»* re
tire.) at va.a He 4M M eaal a eonrt*
■Marital
*-|4«w la Ihta • u»t the fal»* aha
lautlReM war* • o« with «ho«a l
bate h#*'a «m » #■ l.r nal t<••«■•
WuMaB who h«.| ihem.citea
vlaiaed'ha »h*- « »« i* m aha
to th*«». *»'«•» U Ma* in .aitaa.ry
Mttth tW* H ‘ •'» » ♦« ciaipfy a
gweatb.n e* jRM'u, h a U iklrr hi»»
MMarvle.1 fcrh'b he M ■» I t|» Hk. I
l4«Ut luiahed Hi aeatart h*«* t >
Mm Mi** Rom a I hart MtatUy
glVhl h* pa la> with a M ♦ U m». n «a>
invited, and the men used to draw
1 straws as to who should take her, for
she was not a favorite. I think It a
pretty good indication of the whole
thing that Captain Romeyn was only
supported by men who had known him
a short time and all the other officers
of the regiment took the other side.
“The singular feature of the court
martial was that It drifted away from
the trial of an officer charged with con
duct unbecoming a gentleman, to
attack the character and motives of
a woman who was not on trial, who
had no part In It, and yet who was
made to bear the brunt of the scandal.
If the evidence there given should be
permitted to stand unanswered It
would appear that she was the accused.
It was a case In which my name was
bandied about until I and not Captain
Romeyn seemed to be the one on trial,
Here was a court-martial composed of
officers of the United States army list
ening to petty stories, Idle gossip,
w'hose repltltion could not have been
tolerated in any civil court.
“There are In every army posts of
course, two classes of women, as there
are In every other station of life. One
keeps posted, reads magazines and
takes pleasure In intellectual pursuits
and In the prevailing forms of exercise.
There Is the other, composed of mpre
housekeeping drudges, reading neither
newspapers nor magazines, taking no
Interest In public affairs, but content
ing themselves with the Idle gossip,
speaking over the back fences, as you
might say, to each other about those
who do not notice them. Those peo
ple rely for their mental pabulum upon
the most. Idle of gossip and are tho
r ady victims of servants who carry
tales from house to house.
Killed on tli« Third-Itnll Komi.
Thomas Kelly, 70 years of age, of
Hartford, Conn., was killed the other
afternon on the third-rail electric road
Just established between Hartford and
New Britain. The motor car of the
train which ieft New Britain at 12
o'clock struck him. Kelly wras stand
• in' i Jinuau u»«r i i iv
liver between the thinl-rnll track and
'he track of the New York, New Hav
en and Hartford railroad. The train
consisted of a motor and a closed car.
Kelly was In plain sight, but, passen
gers say, the motorman didn't slow
up. He blew the whistle, but Kelly
did not get off the track, and still the
train did not slow up. When Keliy
was struck the body fell through the
bridge to the river bank. The motor
man didn't slow up, according to the
story of a passenger, till some one
called his attention to the accident.
Then the train was stopped and hack
ed to the bridge. The conductor and
a few passengers got off the train and
looked through the bridge at the
body. The conductor sang out, “'All
aboard,” and the train started for
Hartford. The motorman didn't leave
his post. Kelly was the first victim
of the third-rail road.
Rilled While Picking Wood.
James Dorsey, 14 years old, the son
of a carpenter living at 75 Franklin
avenue, Brooklyn, was Instantly kill
ed the other aftcruoon while gathering
wood. James and his brother, Wil
liam, 11 years old, entered the yard
at 40 Classon avenue, where scrap
Iron Is stored. James discovered some
wood under a pile of iron rails, and
crawled under the iron, which it Is
estimated weighed twenty tons. The
iron was held in place by means o(
j wood braces, and there was at least a
f “>t of spare between the iron and the
ground. Just as James crawled un
der the brr.c s gave away and the Iron
fell .upon the boy, crushing him tt
death.
T!»<* Npgro of ('rhnnn.
This Is the negro criminal lyncher
; by a mob at Frbana. 0., recently. U:s
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BY A STRANGE HAND.
IOHN MADDICAN MYSTERIOUS
LY SLAIN.
iVIfe Locked l’p for Intoxication noil
Awoke In a Mtopor to Kind llor tluw*
hand Head Deputy Sheriff* Solution
of the Cut.
OHN Maddlgan la
dead. John Maddi
gan was the Hip
Van Winkle of Port
Chester, a quiet
little villa on the
New York, New
Haven & Hartford
Hallroad, about
thlrty-flve miles
from New York
city. He was only
forty years old.
John Maddlgan was murdered and
the authorities have no clue to the
Identity of the man who took his life.
Ills death was so mysterious that even
the detectives are puzzled, and there
Is but little possibility of the guilty
one being brought to Justice.
Maddlgan eked out a precarious live
lihood for his wife and himself by do
ing odd Jobs about the village. He was
a harmless, good-natured fellow, a
(ride too fond of drink, perhaps, but
there are many who declare that he did
not have an enemy In the world. When
a one-horse circus, advertised as the
"Edison Projector cope,” visited Port
Chester the other day Maddlgan soon
made fast friends with several of the
attaches and Joined in their revels
until midnight on Friday, when the
company left for White Plains.
About 2:45 o’clock the next morning,
Charles B. Conaty and Benjamin F.
Kelly passed the saloon of Harry Man
ning. on East Broadway. As they ap
proaehed the plaee they noticed a form
lying prostrate on the sidewalk.
JOHN MADDIGAN.
'•Hello!” said Conaty, “here's old
Balia-hooly’ Maddigan.”
They shook him, but he failed to
arouse. They found traces of blood,
and summoned an ambulance, in which
he was removed to the Ladies' Hospi
tal. Dr. Stafford made an examination,
and found that Maddigan was dying
from a knife wound in the abdomen.
It was reported that he had quarreled
with his wife earlier in the night, and
she was sent for. Mrs. Maddigan was
not at home, however. She had been
arrested in the street two hours be
fore for intoxication and disorderly
conduct, and lay stupefied in a prison
cell. Her husband died soon after
r< aching the hospital without making a
statement. A trail of blood ran a dist
ance of one hundred feet from where
Maddigan lay in the street.
M Leeeq, a photographer, who lives
in the neighborhood in which Maddi
gan was found, says he was awakened
about 2:30 o'clock b y a noise *n the
street. He opened a window and saw
Maddigan and a strange man arguing
on the corner.
"Don't you raise a hand to me or
you'll regret It!’ exclaimed the string
«r, aa he drew a knife. There were a
few more angry wctds and the two
passed on.
Lecoq noticed that Maddlgan <trrie I
a bundle. When he waa pleki d up by
Conaty and Kelly there was a loaf of
bread under hit «rm. It was still warm
and had been purchased at the store
o* Hen ]a ruin R Mead about 5: to
■ clock.
IU| I’likrr Worth •IHe.MMt
Odd stories have olten been told <;f
tblffonniers of I’arls. but even rcor*
curious perhaps is the rase ot Mother
f rrpto, a female rag-picker, »uid lo be
worth Itnouoo, who went out to
America front her natlt- Italy when
»he waa,* girl of twenty, and has fur
’he laet flve-an l-f.irty year* honored
N« w York by htiping to relive It of
or con*M# red trtffea. K»«n now IM*
toman twasl of too den with ba<k biut
by the atCUiudialed weight* of .n(*t
l*s* eark* »*# rubbish, work* u>we If
t *n hours a day fmm two la the
morale* until |ve In the afternoon
»n the scanty <ipy*>rt of iw.. meals
sail >Se I* miCa • km. i. . _ . I_
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"FAITH CURED" SHE RELAPSED
Frlffhtrued Out of Kca*on by a Sermon
On
7h* /lev. J. W. Dougherty, pastor
of ibo Apostolic church in Richmond,
Va.. claims, by the exercise of falth
j healing powers to have restored
r< ason to Miss Anna M. Goode,
of Salpm, Va. Mr. Dougherty
lately left the Baptist church, estab
lished a new denomination, and has
built up a large congregation. S. D.
Goode asked him at a meeting to try
to heal his daughter, who. after hear
ing a sermon on hell and Its terrors,
lost her mind. She Is a pretty girl,
and was formerly the secretary to D.
B Strausp, who, after attending a re
vival meeting, resigned as president of
a Salem bank and became an evangel
ist. Miss Goode was running about
the woods when Dougherty first saw
her.
"When she saw me,” says he. “she
threw up her hands and cried out:
‘Oh, here Is the Lord come to save
me.’ When I drew near her she did
not run away In consternation as she
was wont to do upon the approach of
strangers, hut remained passive.
“‘Are you the Lord?' she asked. I
said: ‘Yes, and I command you to go to
your home.’
“.She Immediately obeyed, walking
quietly to the house, and to the sur
prise of her family. 1 read the passage
iu the Holy Scriptures, regarding the
healing of the sick. We prayed and
I annolnted her with oil. Her feature*
relaxed, a new light came Into hei
eyes, and she became a rational be
ing.”
Two days ago the minister received
a letter from the young woman’s sis
ter saying his patient had relapsed,
and the family would ask for a com
mission of lunacy.
WOULD SELL HER HUSBAND.
Ur*. Hauling Claim* the Right t.’inlet
the MUnouri !,*»»•.
Mrs. Hubert Hauling of 0316 Pattison
avenue St. Louis has a husband foi
sale.
Negotiations for the sale were Insti
tuted In Justice Harmon's court, St.
Louis the other morning. Through her
attorney, Mrs. Hauling Is proceeding
under the provisions of chap. 169, secs.
8,846 and 8,849 of the Revised Statute*
of 1889.
The substance of these sections b
that anyone declared guilty of vagran
cy and found guilty of such charge by
a Jury, may be sold at public auction for
a term of six months. Of course, this
means that the buyer may place the
defendant in servitude for the length
of time prescribed.
Mrs. Kauiing's story, as recited in het
petition, is that her husband has neg
lected to support her. In short, the
effect of her accusation is that Haul
ing has that tired feeling—too lazy tc
work. Mrs. Kauiing's Idea Is to have
him placed upon the block, his service*
for six months sold to the highest bid
der, the proceeds In excess of the le
gal costs to go to her support.
St. Ixtuis lawyers are much inter
ested In the Hauling case. It develop*
that the Supreme Court has ruled In a
parallel case to that of Hauling that
the act authorizing the sale of vag
rants Is unconstitutional. A queer com
plication of the statutes is also dis
closed. It is generally agreed that tht
sale of Hauling will be a failure front
a legal standpoint.
On page 83 of the 117th Missouri re
ports is the story of a negro by th*
name of Thompson who was arrested in
Audrian county in 1893 on the same
charge brought against Kaolin-;. He
was found guilty of vagrancy. The con
stable took charge of the negro and an
nounced the day of sale. Meanwhile
habeas corpus proceedings were insti
tuted and the case reached the Su
preme Court. On June 19, 1893. the
curt e-n lane ruled that 'he statute un
der which the negro was to be sold wa*
! in contravention of the Federal Conuti
j tution. The negro was discharged
j from custody without bring sold, l bs
9
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llba I
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, Jaugbtvr !■> y. *b» ta li y«ara ut4
('tU'MI b*j baa* *i . uU..h»
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i «agd4 had Mr twa by ataaaa *1 «
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inalr »*ra »rat *4 hi a n*W* *»# ytataa
*y iba *a»ag*4 UU»< aa4 anally
; u«|k> la • kohl *1 Marib*r4 Min*
I Ik* girl *4* i«b«a boat* a*4 <‘r**4all
ttttd await* IM miimi «4 tba g«aa4
l»**y
a Ut at* »la a
Mr •***■**• II*** rw» r*a I tbai
I nod la*«b at gklaa yat * Mia* Abwaaia i
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AN ILLINOIS TKAGEm
SLAIN AND THEN CREMATE!
A YOUNG FARMER.
Ufort* KaniTmnnn of Sterling. III*. Whll
tluanlliiK HU Father's Property, I
Killed and llurued — HI* Hody Plain
on a Funeral Pyre auil Koasteil.
ORBED, murderei
and cremated. Tha
tells the story o
the awful fate o
George Kauffinann
of Sterling, 111.
The other nlghi
he stood guard ovei
his father's gran
ary to protect 11
from thieves, whc
killed him at hie
post an^ sought to wipe out the evl
dence of their fiendish cruelty with
fire.
All that remained of him was a
corpse, with Its throat cut, Its skull
crushed and Its head bullet-pierced
a charred lump of flesh. There was no
clue to the demons who committed the
crime.
George Katiffmann was the son of
Tobias Kauffman, a farmer living
about five miles north of Sterling, He
was 22 years old. He was murdered by
a person or persons whom he had
caught In the act of stealing oats from
his father’s granary, and a fruitless
effort was made to destroy the body by
burning It on a stack of straw.
Farmer Kauffmann has two dwell
ing houses with about a quarter of a
mile between them. He left his old
home for his present dwelling about
a year ago, but continued to use some
of the buildings attached to th<‘ former
ievidence. He found the old stables an
available place for his hogs. Near by
was a granary, and in it he kept a store
of grain. The old house was tenant
^ / If l> 1
GEOROE KAUFFMANN,
leas aud the new dwelling was so fat
away that the granary offered a tempt
ing opportunity for any man who
wanted to steal up under cover of night
and carry away Its stock of grain
Farmer Kauffmann discovered some
time ago that a thief or thieves were
I aiding his granary, and he laid plant
to Circumvent them. He asked his son
George to take up his night quarters
in the deserted home and watch for
the plunderers.
George Kauffmann began his vigils
seme weeks ago. He slept on a bunk
and kept the window open in order
that he might better see and hear any
one who might intrude upon the prem
ises. He was unsuccessful and regu
larly went hack to the other house for
breakfast.
The other morning he did not come
at the usual hour. The family waited
some time without concern. Then the
father became alarmed ami started for
the old house to investigate, accom
panied by Charles Schrader, the hired
mat.. They w^nt to the house first, hut
there v s no trace of the young man.
They hurried tnrough the outbuildings,
but found no sign of him. They saw
and scented the straw stack, which had
been nearly burned down and was still
smoldering, and they went to examine
It.
They were horrified to find on (he
top of the sm iking stack th* body of
young Kauffmanti burned to a crisp
and with the clothing ail e mutinied
The thief, caught In his crime, had
wteuked a tearful vengeatc'. The vic
tim had been clubbed and hi*, aku'l I
II untied His threat had be. n c it, in !
• km kmu.l <* . i.a..Hl.i . . # I
- ' —- — ' / M will I ;ir
t« <ly. * bullet h I* >h'>wM that the
mttrdnrnd bail abut the young ijuih,
•nil the iit'lUatlona were that thin wa*
‘JKitte after the ahull bail been beaten In.
Several peraona In the neighbor
hood are umler moiplilnn. but there la
no evident* to warrant their eunvti
lion.
tkmrtn waa the youngest yf threw
Uruthera ami waa the only one of them
hat ainyed on tha farm Ltneotn. the
•blaat. ta on n ram h m t'alllornin, and
t’lanh K la mnnei 'e.l with n ('knitting
Kli'ia.of pa bib alien in lioalmt
laorgea father who la M yearn nil,
alarwd grant dnpandemw up- n him in
hw matter of managing \S»* farm, g
rttal in wktek he proved angering to
oany ufeier hnmtn.
t*». aeta t'nlei tee I wtal,
go Weetoi ham that liny tie poikm
nan proved tkemaelvaw in ha* yu«h
and to *<*»k an »«t*nt ban the whwwt*
>ng ha tot ingrwnaant tkgt lha agaeg
nbwk ha* gr-*an to M, ntnaeni
*rom * aery email h«dinning, ta to m
HIM Nether tmrwnnmi The reawlt t«
Lnt >hw •*•* era who «« r.g*
•pending «H that* tpnrw tint* trntntng
V* the pah a* it la u»*t-l*r«4 an •**»
mb when obtained, im-wgh might#
tnrd to g»t
t h«g* i»’*t* t>«< in Fnlw in ttt
V*t in tuwnhtatt*,
r SOCIETY WOMAN EMBEZZLES.
Tre»»nr»r of An Orphan A»ylun> Art*
ml»« She Stole Money.
* A prominent society woman ol St,
? nil has embezzled $3,200 belonging to
a charitable Institution. For several
» i weeks the women managers of the
( | Protestant Orphan asylum have dis
■ | cussed tha defalcation in meetings
pledged to secrecy. Though the books
of the asylum have showed a large
balance, when money was wanted it
could not bo had. The treasurer fin
ally stated that she had given the
1 money to her husband and could not
1 obtain It. When the officers of the In
stitution applied to the bank where
the funds had been deposited they
were refused a statement, the treas
urer having ordered that statements
should be given only to herself. A
new treasurer was elected and u de
mand made for a settlement. The
former treasurer then wrote a letter
to the officers stating that the missing
money had been used to pay for the
living expense's of her family during
the past three or four years, and that
she could not replace it. The asylum's
officers refuse to discuss the matter
for publication, hoping to recover
seme of the missing funds. The asyl
um is managed by the leading society
women of St. Paul.
CIRLS ATTACKED BY A BULL.
They Were Cycling Through 11 Pastors
and Wert* Tr»«d*
Tho MisBe* Lottie and Carrie Sabin
of Cohecton, N. Y. had an exciting and
perilous adventure with an angry bull.
They were riding their bicycles
through a pasture field, near Harrison
ridge a day or two ago, when the ani
mal charged upon them. The young
women made a burst of speed, but ter
ror robbed them of power and the pur
suer gained rapidly. In despair they
sprang from their wheels and scram
bled up a tree, reaching a safe position
lust In time The till'll “cnhlinil nf ht*
prey,” an the young women said later,
then turned his attention to the bi
cycles. and the wheelwornen from their
uncomfortable perch watched helpless
ly while the animal wrecked their
wheels. For two hours the hull paced
.around the tree, when a farmer ar
rived and retcied the young women,
after driving the animal away.
WED IN SPITE OF DEATH.
Ml«k Ifriimiriiiilc Married on tli» Day of
Her Mother * Funeral*
All was ready for the marriage of
Miss Harriet M. Hrinsmade and S.
Robert Hart. The little house at No.
40 Spring street. New Haven, had been
newly painted and decorated. The
near friends of the couple had been
invited and the clergyman engaged.
And then came death without an in
vitation, and showed his ugly face in
the door of the pretty home. Mrs.
Julia Hrinsmade, the mother of the
hride-to-be, died suddenly of heart
disease.
"Let us get married Just the same,”
said Mr. Hart. “What harm is there
in it. I am sure your mother herself
would advise such a course. You have
no immediate relatives, now she is
dead. You need the protection of a
husband. You have no brothers and
sisters to be shocked. Let us have a
quiet wedding and go right to keeping
house. I am sure it will be for the
best.”
William W. Pardee, a conductor on
the Consolidated road, who is an uncle
of the young woman, opposed a mar
riage so close upon the heels of death.
Her employers, Buckingham, Clark &
Jackson, also advised her to wait a
little, and offered to advance h> r sal
ary. But Miss Hrinsmade agreed with
bar lover.
“The house is all ready for tis." she
said. “1 cannot afford to keep it if
1 remain single, and | would not ask
Robert to pay the rent.'*
So the momentous question was set
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