Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-10

Bots d'Aac, man of desperate char
acter, died at New Westminster, on
Frazer River, Victoria, and before
dying confessed that he and another
half breed named Jean Grouse, dead
long since, had carried the little girl
Off The story he told was that the two
had been hunting in Manitoba, and had
been hired by q dark man, stranger
and foreigner, for two thousand
guineas, to do this very work. They
had ridden from the Lake of the Woods
across the country, avoiding settle
ments, and had camped near the Henley
Lodge for week before the oppor-
tunity occurred which they sought. IN
escaping they had ridden straight to
Lake Superior, and there embarked on
vessel waiting for them. There was q
woman on the vessel who received the
child from dark man. Francois and
Jean were paid, put ashore at Grand
Portage, and advised to leave that
country, which they did at once, going
to California. Francois thought it was
the dark mans purpose to drown the
child in the lake. The story, so i'm
probable in itself, was sifted closely by
Sir Moncr1eff's agents, but led to no
disclosures, and, as it was universally
conceded that the child must have
been dead long since, nothing further
WAS done.
I pass over the terrible suhferings of
the parents so atrociously bereaved.
Lady Mary might have lost her health
again, but that her husbands condition
absorbed all her faculties. He, when
he was compelled to abandon all hope
of recovering his child, fell into a state
of melancholy that came very near in
yolving the loss of his mind. Lady
Mary returned to England with him,
and only conquered the madness which
threatened him after two years Of heroic
struggle, in which the devoted wife put
away privily the bereaved mothers woe
lest it should in ure her husband s
chances. It was then her hair turned
white.
When recovered sufficiently Sir Mon
crieff Henley was persuaded to enter
public life, and SO. gradually, Time the
CONSIDER had opportunity to do it's work.
The bereaved couple returned to society,
and regained the serenity and COM
posture of ordinary life, though it is
said Lady Hanley could never see a
child of Berthas age when lost without
the tears coming to her eyes.
Just one week ago, when Sir Mon
Grief and Lady Henley had been only
couple of days returned to town from
celebrating the Christmas festivities at
Hove-Leayington, a carriage drove up
to their door, and couple of cards
were handed in. They were those of
the Most Reverend William Bernard
Ullathorne, Roman Catholic Bishop
of Birmingham, and Father Giuseppe
Francini, S. j., rector of the Academy
of the Sacred Heart, Chateau Riches,
Province of Quebec, Canada. The rev
erend gentlemen, who said they came
upon business of importance, were in
vited in, and received by Sir Moncrieff,
who is q personal friend of Bishop Ulla-
thornes. The bishop asked if Lady
Henley could be conveniently present
likewise, as the matter concerned her as
well as her husband. Lady Henley
was summoned, and then Bishop Ulla-
thorne said: 81 have simply come with
Father Francini to vouch for him In the
fullest manner. He has strange and
touching narrative to make to you, and [
wish to as ure you that you may place
the most implicit confidence in him and
his disclosures" With these words
the bishop took his leave.
Father FranciEi, man of sixty years,
tall, commanding and venerable in ap-
pearance, began by asking Lady Han
ley if she had ever known a certain Chew
alier Mattel Lurgan-Baglione, a Flor
entine gentleman of great wealth, who
had been in the service Of King Victor
Emmanuel, and had suddenly died of
heart disease about four months ago.
Lady Henley answered she had known
the chevalier very well, but had not
heard of his death. "You knew him
in London, in 1853, when he was at
tached to the italian Embassy here p
Eyes" "Excuse the apparent i'm
pertinence of my questions are
deeply relevant knew the chevalier
in Rome, in 1857, after your marriage %
81 did do you know if he mad any
occasion to hate you with all the vim
dictiveness of his fierce nature?' 81
know he professed to love me desper-
ately, and [ rejected him. "But after
wards, in 1857 2" Lady Henley hes
itated. "He tried to pay me attentions
then which I did not see proper, as the
wife of another, to receive. [ did not
tell my husband then, wishing to avoid
trouble, but have reason to believe he
deeply resented the cold way in which [
treated him-my God p she cried, as a
sudden thought flashed on her mind,
"You do not mean to tell me that man
kidnapped my child?" "Calm your
self, Lady Henley, or you will not be
able to hear all that I have to tell you.
He did kidnap your child, l have every
reason to believe. %
sTel me-tell me quick! Does
she live?''
"She does-she is well-she is
lovely-she is everything that the fond
est parent could wish-the Hottest rank
require.
s'Wnere is she 2" cried both parents.
''Bring me to my child"
''She is coming-she is on the ocean
now. I came to prepare you to receive
her. See, this is Bertha, and he placed
photograph in the mothers hands,