THE CAUSE OF JAMES FISK'S DEATH.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1115, 23 February 1872, Page 3

THE CAUSE OF JAMES FISK'S DEATH.

« Allusion has been frequently made to the Flak-Mansfield suit, ont of which grew the shots that closed the eventful career of James Fisk, jun., and a brief .Jupsight into the suit will certainly interest the reader. Helen Josephine Mansfield was for yean the mistress of the redoubtable Colonel, the sharer of his joys, his great wealth, and what was wont for Fisk, his business secrets. There appears to have been a complete infatuation on Fisk's part for this woman, an infatuation which, as we have said, carrying him to the greatest lengths. Having control of both his heart and purse, none of the whims of the fair Helen went ungratified, and stories of her exploits and brilliant extravagancies have rung the land. The gallant Colonel was lavish as a prince^ and it is probable that he really entertained for this frail, erring woman a feeling deeper and more . earnest than men usually bestow on their paramours. How, when, or by what means the snapping of this tie occurred does not much matter, but there came a time when the tie which bonnd these

twain was snapped asunder, never to foe restored again evermore. There was a scandal, a separation, and then the matter died out and people ceased to gossip about the differences of the pair. It appears, however, that at the time of this separation Fisk had in his possession —so at least the fair Helen alleges— some 30,000d0l or 40,000d0l of his mistress* money deposited with him to be invested for her account. The refusal of Fisk to give up the amount brought about the; nowifamous litigation. Mrs Mansfield, forswearing the Colonel, took to her arms a certain Edward S. Stokes, a broker, of some sort in New York, and the two madja common cause against the recalcitrant Fisk. This suit has been in pro* gress now for near two months, and has attracted a great deal of attention. Mrs Mansfield's appearance in the court-room as a witness created no end of a sensation, the reporters describing her beauty in glowing and rapturous terms. The suit possessed a peculiar, albeit adventitious, interest for the whole nation, because tho beautiful Mansfield threatened constantly to startle the public with such revelations of Fisk's affairs and operations as should shake the country to its very centre. In these threatened disclosures it was said that Tweed, Sweeney, Hall, and the Tammany Ring, together with those concerned in the Erie corporation,, would play the most conspicuous part.