Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-08

In August the widow was appointed
guardian of the children, and Lord Clan
ricardo of the property. The widow had
then tIOO year jointure, but his lord.
ship. the guardian Of the property, made
her an allowance Of FL 500 . wear: and
the Court, acting on the security of this
nobleman Of high rank, granted her a
mansion and demesne rent free. and
f600 to furnish it,
So the necessities and comforts of the
three young ladies were at least provided
for. Again hear the Attorney General
"He could state positively, that while
they resided in this mansion, more ab.
ject state Of misery than those young
ladies were kept in he hardly remember.
ed ever to have read of. He could not
but apprehend that their early and pre-
mature deaths were owing to the manner
in which they were treated, aud he trust
ed in God they were not so treated de-
signedly. During this time the boy
called John relacour here, but who went
by an euphonious name, and one to which
perhaps he had as good title-John de
Burgh-was living in the house. Instead
of being treated as the unhappy daugh-
ters were, this adopted son was INDUCED
in every possible manner and, indeed,
it appeared in the evidence that they
the daughters were obliged to perform
even menial services for him; and it
would seem that greater cruelty was
never practiced by jailer towards his
prisoners in the worst of times than this
unnatural mother displayed towards her
daughters, especially whever they thwart.
ed this young adopted child of hers "
In the mean time, too, the mother, il
appears, had taken to drinking; and
this may perhaps somewhat paliiate the
unnatural and loathsome nature OF her
conduct to her poor daughters. She ac-
cuses one daughter of criminal conduct
with her solicitor, saying also that her
person was otensive-that she was rot
ten; and, to account for the existence Of
young DelacOur, she states that be was
the natural son of another daughter, by
French gentleman of high position.
In lS47 the daughters Mary Ann and
Josephine executed disentailing deeds,
the grantee in both being Lord Clanri-
clrde. In 1849, Mary Anne, the eldest
daughter, died, shortly after coming OF
age, leaving her mother 10000. The
property then became vested in the
younger daughters, Josephine and Homo
ria, who executed disentailing deeds in
February, 1851, to Lord Clanricarde.
In that month, Josephines end was ap-
preaching. She made a will which was
drawn by Lord Clanricarde, by which
she left 100000 to her mother, to be
paid on the marriage Of her sister and
in the event of her sister dying without
issue, before her mother, her landed es.
tate was to ke sold, and the proceeds
given to her mother absolutely.
In June, 1851, Josephine died, and i,
was sworn that the exemplary mother
manifested neither surprise nor regret,
but looked upon it as the accomplish.
ment of her most desired end In 1853,
the last daughter, Honoria, conveyed all
her property in trust to Lord Clanlicarde,
subject to an appointment 10 herself for
life, and afterwards to her mother, her
heirs and assigns; but after the execu-
ten of these deeds she never had posses
sion Of them in reality or substance. In|
addition 10 these deeds, the mother OBJ
tanned from her sex daughter, on the
brink of the grave, bond for "a 000
in the meantime the mother Sickened
herself, and died before her daughter, in
the latter part of 1858; the daughter
dying on the 18th of December of that
year, intestate. The mother, who COM
planned so much of her poverty, during
life, as to be obliged to deny her daugh-
tiers the merest neeessarieS, leaves to her
son Delacour 10000, and to Honoria, ESQ.
Delacour claims the chief part of the
Handbook estates under the various deeds,
&C., executed by the daughters; the
petitioner claims as heir. .at-law to Homo
Ha. The executors under the will of
Josephine oppose 80 does the brother
of Mrs. Handbook. Judgment was de-
ferred in expectation of compromise,
and the compromise has been effected.
The deeds and will are to be cancelled
the petitioner, Handbook, is to get the
estates, and he is to pay 100000 to the
respondent, Delacour, on his coming of
age and in the meantime, four per cent.
on that amount. Delacour is now only
fourteen years of age; and should he
die before attaining twenty-one, the petit
toner will have the estates absolutely
without payment.
The intimation out doors is that the |
husband and the girls were all disposed
of by slow poison, but of that there can |
be, of course, no evidence.
"PAY WHAT THOU OwEsr. when | |