Zij is getrouwd met Marquis James de la Montanya.
Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1902 te New York City, New York County, New York, USA, zij was toen 26 jaar oud.Bron 7
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Armand Barbier 68, head, born Nov 1832 in New York, widower; Maria Barbier 25, daughter, born Feb 1875 in California, single; Alfred Barbier 35, son, born Oct 1865 in California, married 14 years, farm laborer; Howard Barbier 15, son, born July 1885 in Illinois, errand boy shoes;
Armand Barbier 48, saloon keeper, born New York, father born France; Catherine Barbier 40, wife, keeping house, born New York; Alfred Barbier 25, son, widowed, barkeeper in saloon, born California; Howard Barbier 14, son, born California; Birdie Barbier 5, daughter, born California;
HARRY EMERIC A CONTESTANT; Objects to the Probating of the Will Left by His Wife.He Claims That She Was Unduly Influenced by Her Relatives; Public Administrator Wants to Hold tho Estate Pending the Controversy.
There will be a contest over the probating of the will of the late Mrs. Eugenie Emerlc, who left the bulk of an estate valued at about $125,000 to her sister, Lorena Myrtle Barbier. The papers in the contest were filed last evening by Harry F. Emeric, the husband of the deceased. Emeric claims that the most of the property was deeded by him to his wife and that owing to the undue influence of her relatives she almost entirely ignored him when drawing up the letters testamentary. Emeric sets forth In his pleadings that Lorena Myrtle Barbier had been friendly toward him until January 26, 1896, and that since that time she has always evinced the greatest enmity toward him. He further alleges that Mrs. Emeric was unduly Influenced by stories told her by her sister, picturing him as
being bad, vicious and unfaithful.
Simultaneous with the filing of the contest there was a petition Hied by the Public Administrator, asking to be granted letters of special administration on the estate. Public Administrator Freese sets forth in his petition that he is acting at the request of the husband, who realizes that the contest will be a long one and that the estate willin the meantime suffer unless some one is appointed to look after it.
Name: Lorena Barbier, Birth Date: 14 Feb 1875, Birth Place: San Francisco, California, Age: 16, Residence: San Francisco, California, Passport Issue Date: 17 Apr 1891, Passport Includes a Photo: No/ online database
WOMAN'S DEATH IS INVESTIGATED
Mrs. Lorena de la Montanya s Friend Denies Rumor of Men in Room at Time of Suicide; Mystery Veils Reasons for Tragic End of Noted Beauty and Brother Asks Detectives to Conduct Search and Inquiry.
SKEPTICAL in a certain degree of the stories told regarding the death of Mrs. Lorena de la Montanya, who died from the effects of a revolver shot at her apartment, 1360 Jones street, Friday evening, the woman's brother, Alfred B. Barbier, and Chief Deputy Coroner John Kennedy invoked the aid of the police last
evening to thoroughly investigate the case. Detectives Tim Riordan and Boletto were detailed on the case and late last evening- went to the apartment and examined Mrs. Margaret W. Patton, the friend who was with Mrs. de la Montanya
during her last moments, and Celia Budia, the maid. Both women were steadfast in the reiteration of the circumstances of the tragedy. Both denied most emphatically the truth of the rumor that there had been men friends of Mrs. de la Montanya and Mrs. Patton to dinner during the evening and that during the after dinner talk one of the men had accidentally fired the shot which caused the death of the [woman].
GIVES NO MOTIVE FOR SUICIDE
Mrs. Patton does not presume to assign a motive for the suicide. She expressed the suggestion, that her friend might have been playing with the weapon for effect when it accidentally went off. The revolver was of a peculiarly dangerous pattern, and while Police Sergeant Layne was examining it after the shooting it was
discharged in the crowded room and several persons had narrow escapes from being numbered as its victims. What aroused the suspicions of the coroner's office and the police were the facts that although the shooting is said to have occurred at 7:15 o'clock, and the woman died before 9:30, the coroner's office was not notified until 11:30, two hours after the death had occurred. Dr. H. W. Allen of the St. Francis hotel, who was called by Mrs. Patton to attend the dying Mrs. de la Mon
tanya, is thought by the coroner's office to have been derelict in his public duty in not having notified the morgue sooner. Dr. Allen left the city yesterday afternoon and could not be seen to explain the lapse of time he allowed to intervene. It is reported that the pistol was located by the coroner's officials in the bedroom of the dead woman, while the tragedy occurred in the dining room of the apartment.
Lucius L. Solomons, who was Mrs. de la Montanya's attorney, suggested the most feasible reason which she might have had for killing herself, although Solomons said that he could not fully reconcile the idea of suicide with what he knew of the woman's happy, carefree temperament.
WOMAN'S INCOME SAID TO BE LIMITED
"Mrs. de la Montanya had considerable property," said Solomons, "but the income from that did not appear to be sufficient to permit her the luxurious life to which she was accustomed while she was living as the wife of James de la Montanya, from whom, as it has been known, she received a final decree of divorce recently.
"She contracted debts with tradespeople about town, as her credit was excellent, and she was not always able to meet the bills as they came in. They were petty bills, all contracted with tradesmen, as I said, and there were no loans or financial entanglements which might have caused her seriously to worry. Recently she made a bad investment She purchased an apartment house at Sacramento and Cherry streets. She subsequently discovered that she had been deceived in the property. There is now a suit pending in the courts to have the sale. set aside on the grounds of deceit. The suit is against S. Goldsmith, from whom the house was purchased, and alleges that it was represented to her that the property was earning a gross rental of $300 a month, while as a facf the rent rolls were padded, and two of the tenants claim that they were receiving rebates in their rent from the landlord. It is also alleged that the original owner of the property said that the
tenants had year leases, while as a fact they merely rented from month to
month. "However, the difference in income would not represent an investment of
$2,500. And Mrs. de la Montanya did not worry over her financial affairs. She owned another piece of property at Spruce and Sacramento streets, which
produced an income. In fact, her gross monthly income was about $450, and
deducting the interest on her mortgages, taxes and other fixed charges, her
net income was about $200 a month. But this did not seem enough for her.
On that she could not have the travel and the'eritertainment which she craved.
Shortly before her death last evening she was talking. with Mrs. Patten, 1 understand, on plans for a foreign trip. She might have realized that she could not have traveled as well as she was used to doing, and had become despondent over that fact. In an impulsive moment In an impulsive moment she might have shot
herself; but I can scarcely
de la Montanya, James, adresse Av. Goethe, parents: James and Sarah Jane; & Lorena M. Barbier, publication of banns 3 Aug 1902, 16th arrondissement;/ online database