The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-03-02
A BROTHEL ROMANCE.
THE DOUBLE LEGACY OF A CINCINNATI UN
KNowN-soME STRANGE REVELATIONS.

THE DOUBLE LEGACY OF A CINCINNATI UE-
KNowN-soME STRANGE REVELATIONS.
A Columbus CO., correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer tells the following
story ofstrange developments in that city:
Let us see. 1t was eight or ten years ago
perhaps longer-that many of our best peo-
pie there in Cincinnati were thrown into
fever of excitement over an auction sale of
the jewels, and plate, and biiouterie,
and pictures, and handsome furniture
of q deceased ''lsndlady." So
ciety was all agog to get peep at the lux
urious appointments of Mime. Metcalfe's
mansion of pleasure and to become owners
of the diamonds and rubies and pearls which
had sparkled on the madame's well-rounded
person during life. The things brought al
most fabulous prices, and were either care
fully slowed away or applied to honorable
use, to remind their owners of how nice
thing it is to be naughty. The dragons of
virtue who would have been the first to
heave stone at the madame during her
lifetime, when she was dead eagerly bought
up her plate and her pictures, her dia-
monds and her brocatelle furniture, to be
able to point to IL and think how much
better IL was in their hands
than in hers. Years before then, when the
madame was a young girl, claiming kinship
with one of the proudest families in Ken
lucky, she came to Columbus to live. She
always said that her ruin had been accom-.
plished by a man who lived here, and with
the strange love that so often burns in q
woman's heart she would be near the man.
Henry Broderick was a rake, gambler, and
the outcast son of one of the old families
here, and be was known for years as the
madame's "friend" after she had opened her
establishment here. child was born to
them in course Of time, t. n or twelve years
later. After that the madame had removed
to Cincinnati and became known, and in
time became
DAZZLING ANoNYMA,
recognized by every one. And still later,
when she had sickened and was dying,
Henry Broaerick went down there and was
married to her. Some said that it was sim
ply In order to become her beir and get her
money, but others, and among them the mad
anne herself, believed 1t was to legitimate
their child. Well, the madame died, and
there wasn't much left after paying off her
debts. Then Henry died a few years later,
| leaving nothing but an annuity of $500 a
year that be had Inherited from DIR. Good
ale's estate, and the child was lost sight oil
until the other day, and only then by his
appearance In a court of law. 1t
seems that DIR. Goodale, In making
his will, provided that Henry Brod.
erick, his nephew, should be paid $500 a
year during life, and that the annuity
| should, in case of his DEATH go to his heirs,
"brothers, sisters, or otherwise" were the
words, until they should become of age.
Now. this son, William Henry Broderick,
comes into court and enters suit for the an
nuity for the past four years, claiming that
he is the legal heir of Henry Broderick. and
as such entitled to it. But the thing doesn't
stop here. If he establishes his claim to the
annuity, ne establishes il also to heirship in
| the Goodale estate. That estate is worth,
probably, million and half dollars to-
day, and he will be entitled to share in the
one-ffteenth of il to which Frederick q
mother was entitled. He would be entitled
to this 500 600, or just SIS, 600. And thus the
child that was legitimized on his mothers
dying bed TO crafty the sordid desires ofhis
father is likely to establish bis claims to q
! handsome little fortune thereby.