Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-28
A DEATH-BED MARRIAGE.
Fatal Result of JOhnsOn's Desperate ana
Bloody Onslaught.
80 of Mons. A. yaudemOnt, otherwise
Arthur de Pelgrau.
While in Artlculo Norris he is Married TO
TO Mile. Aline La Favre, otherwise
Maggie Cox.
MARRIED.

MARRIED.
In this city, on the evening of the 9th inst.
at 3 o'clock, by the Rev. Father Kelly, of st.
/ Peters, Mons. ARTHUR DE PELGRAU, OF
France, and Miss MAGGIE Cox, of Belfast
Ireland,
DIED,
In this city, AT $50 pm, 9th inst, Mons.
ARTHUR DE PELGRAU, "a native OF France IN
his 5lst year. q
At s.20 nm. Yesterday, the Blditre de
| ballet of the Parlor Music Hall, known on
| the bills as Mons. A. V~audemont, breathed
his last, an innocent victim Of the mad
| desperation of Johnson, who on Wednes-
day night, opened a fusilade from a six
| shooter in and near the concert hall above
/ mentioned. When Vaudemont was taken
20 his lodgingsssoon after being wounded,
il was thought, before the wound had
been probed, that his injuries were not
necessarily mortal, but yesterday
morning it was discovered by DR..
Lynch that the ball, instead of
passing around just under the sur
face, had gone through the lumbar re-
gion, and that the chances of recovery
from its effects were slim indeed. The
surgeons opinion proved correct, and, as
above stated, Veaudemont expired at
twenty minutes past three O'Clock last
evening.
The career of the deceased since his ar
rival in the city, the tragic manner of his
death, and the peculiarly Frenchy sensa-
ton Of marrying the danseuse Aline La
Favre, q few minutes before dying, must
be the excuse of this reporter, if any is
needed, for giving such of the particulars
of the mans past life as we have
been enabled TO gather. 1t seems
thai when conscious that the hand
&c .laarh n-og nnnn him XaanEapann
sent for one of the reverend gem
tlemen attached to st. Peters Church,
and was attended by Rev. Father Kelly,
to whom he stated that his name
was Arthur de Pelgrau, that his family
resided in the West of France. lin the
Palitinate of the Rhine), and were highly
respectable in their connections. While
in Washington city some years since he
met the dansuese, Mile. Aline La Favre,
Whose real name is Maggie Coxl since
which time they have been travelling to-
gether, making their advent in this city
some months since, at Broom's Varieties.
Their operations during that time are too
well known to our readers to need repe-
tition here. Suffice it to say that he and
Miss Cox occupied the boards of
that establishment, exciting a SEN
sation as leaders Of the can-can,
such as has never been known in con-
nection with the theatricals of Memphis.
From the Varieties, about q month since,
his famous couple were transferred by
Manager Broom 10 the Gaieties, so lately
occupied by the double-breasted and
dOuble-headed negro gal. Here they con-
tinued their sensation an-can. being night
" received by immense audiences, such
as delight in the l~ascivious movements of
that Americanized French bestialitv.
When the Gaieties was vacatedfor the ne
gro m~onstrosity, Neaudemont and his
partner were employed at the Parlor Sa-
loon, whore up to the time of the terrible
tragedy they were engaged in the same
can-can.
Since the infietion ofthe wound the I'M
fortunate mdib's dc ballet has suffered in
tensely. As death approached. however,
he became, all things considered, free from
pain and calm in mind, In this frame he
bethought him to do Justice, so far as he
could, by the girl Miss Cox. He accord
ingly expressed q desire to be united in
marriage to her. so that she could inherit
an estate Of some value IN France, and
to which he was the only heir.
There being no bar 10 the qualification
of his request except that of time, which
the surgeon admOnishedhim was growing
short indeed. 4 license was hastily pro-
cured, and the bride took her place at
the bedside, and clasping the already
clammy hand of the dying bridegroom
1AAN 40 oNANeAAAAS NNO1 anu bAlA1NlhE
heart, be with trembling lips and voice
weak in death-responded to the words of
the marriage ceremony. Barely had the
Holy Father time to shrive the diving man
ere all that was mortal Of Arthur de Pei
grau was stiff and stark before them.
His death viii be a crushing blow to his
mother and sister, who have Just arrived
in Chicago, from France, and who tele- |
graphed last evening for him TO come TO
them, only 10 receive the reply" Shot
last night; died about an hour ago"
The only persons present at the mar |
riage nddeathbed, were Mr.. Henry Dren- |
nan and Miss Catherine Sharpe-both |
strangers to the parties most interested.
Miss Cox, or Mile. lie Favre-maid, wife |
and widow in less than thirty minutes
Is the daughter Of 4 linen-draper of Bel
fast, Ireland. Her father stands high in
the community in whichhe lives; having |
been Lord Mayor Of his native city, re- |
ceiving in that capacity, as the guest of
the city, Prince Arthur of the royal fam
lily Of England. She proposes to give up
the rather questionable profession in
which she has of late been engaged, and
retire to the peace and privacy Of her hus-
bands estate in France.
y dispatch wasreceived yesterday morn
ing, by tho manager of the Concert Hall
In which Veaudemont and LIE Favre were
engaged, from the manager of Towards /
Olio, St. Louis, asking Neaudemont to ac-
cept an engagement there; and had not
the accident which deprived him of life
taken place, the ballet troupe, Of which
be was the head, would in all probability
have left Memphis at the endof the pres
week.
The funeral of the murdered man will
place from the rooms lately occupied
by him on Main street, over the Basket
between Adams and Washington.
At eleven o'clock this morning.