Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-01-29
A Shattered Life.

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RY OLA WOMAN BURIED IN GREENwooD.
FromIthe New York Times.
She turned her face to the wall and
simply said Il want to die = and as she
spoke those words her life came to an
end. 50 that while the glad chimes were
gayly ringing i'll remembrance of the Re
deemer of us all, a poor, lost woman,
young in years, butold in affliction, found
happiness in death Yesterday she was
buried. Some years ago young French
artist, man of the people, who has
since grown famous, painted two COM
panion pictures which made fashionable
Paris weep. They were called t" to-day
and tomorrow" In the first a Young
and beautiful girl is pictured attired in
regal robes with diamonds in her hair,
Bacchante-liee, with a foaming beaker Of
wine in her hand. In the other the same
girl, wasted and wan from suffering and
sorrow, habited in rags, lies on wretch
ed pallet of straw, dying from consump-
ton. The story is an old one, often re-
peated Such was the death of Marie
Duplessis, whom Alexander Dumas fls
made saint, and such in the present
case was the end of Therese Theraud.
One died in Paris, the other in New York
and that is the only difference. OF the
many who during the days of her beau
ty and prosperity basked in the sunshine
of her smiles and favors, not one did her
the poor remembrance Of casting flower
into her open grave. And when the hearse
and single carriage following it passed
on their weary way to Greenwood, the
people who wondered at the meagre fu-
neral disply little dreamed that the plain
coffin contained all that was mortal of
woman famed for her beauty, wit and
sins-a woman whose witching voice had
brought prince an abject beggar at her
actor to self-destruction. Her real name
no one knew, and her most intimate friends
never discovered the story of her early
childhood. Her career from the moment
when as Therese Theraud she captivated
young Paris until her death on Friday in
| this city, under the name Of Cora Stan
ley, is public property. Onone occasion
alone she did nearly betray her incogni-
to. One of her friends-one of her true
friends who remained with her to the
last-on paying her visit, heard her
sing little chansoa known wherever the
French tongue is spoken, Je l'aime Je
l'aime O Bretagne." He was astonished
at the exquisite way in which she sang
it, and said, Why Therese, you must be
Breton" Her eyes filled with tears,
and she instantly left the salon. When
he sought her he found that she was cry
ing bitterly, and she said, "Dear friend,
never speak to me in that way again, you
| make me so sad" She was compelled
to leave Paris, and decided to make her
home in this continent.
Before her departure she gave to her
friends and companions in Paris grand
farewell banquet, at which she bade
them farewell. She left France with
100000 francs, or 100000 The next
heard of her was at Havana, where she
lived in magnificent style. During her
residence at Havana a young and hand
some actor named Gomez formed her
friendship, and fell deeply in love with
her. She loved him with as much sin
cerity. One night, after the Performance
in the Tacon theatre, where he was play
ing, Gomez went with Therese to her res
idence, and proposed to marry her. She
at first laughed at him, but seeing that
he meant what he said, she reasoned
with him and said that if he married,
his prospects in life would be ruined, and
she loved him too dearly to do that.
The infatuated young man went to his
hotel and blew out his brains He left a
note addressed to Therese saying that he
found life uncomfortable without her, and
he would not forget her even in DEATH
When the news Of his suicide was brok-
en- to her she was seized with brain fever,
and for some weeks was at the door of
death. She recovered to find herself al
most beggar. During her illness her
maid had stolen all her jewelry and fed
to the mountains with another servant.
She then sold her mouse in Havana,
came to this city, and assumed the name
of Cora Stanley. For a time her career
in this city equalled her Partisan life.
She dispensed charity with no niggard
hand, and the poor and the starving
never went away hungry from her door.
To the charitable societies she gave large
! ly, and to the shame of the officers
be it said that when she needed aid at
their hands she found it not, At last
her star began to set. Consumption
seized upon her. The mosteminent ply
sicians in the city were summoned, but
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