The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-10-16
THREE FATAL SISTERS.
The Terrible Work That WOman's
beauty Can Do-TwO Deadly Dueis
md n Suicide in One Family Of
Daughters.

and Il Suicide In one fhhiii5 '"
Daughters.
The St. Louis Times narratives the ioL
lowiog tragical story Of real life;
Our readers may possibly recoIIect the
circumstances of II fatal duel, widely
published at the time, which occurred on
the Sd of April, 1874 on the old duellna
ground, on the sandy stretch of shore
fronting Bay Bienvenue, a broker, and
Andre Phillips, lawyer Of New Or-
leans.
Aside from the fatal termination OF
the meeting, the contest between fhll'
lips and Bienvenue would not save been
unusually remarkable but for the TACT
that it was the final scene in the tragic
welded lives of:three women-sisters-
whose husbands fell by the bands OF
violence, melted by the due. courses OF
their wives. Born of reputable creole
parents, these sisters were inheritors OF
vast wealth and stainless name, and
| distinguished for personal beauty IN "
land where the lovciueSs Of woman was
proverbal. Tendcrly reared and brill,
lantly educated, possessions that riHalcd
in extent and 'cNccllcd in value Ger
man prncipality, it is not surprising that
they became the battered bellies ot So
ciety, and were thehoast and pride OF
the merchant and planter bcauN IN all
the wide coast country. That the brill
liant protcge of the hauticst HrIslUcracy
of the old regime should be destined 10
exercise the fatal influence they cXerted
on the men who loved them and made
them their wives is indeed surprising.
But they were iIrtS from their cradles.
Born To admiration, their lives were
spent from youth to maturity IN an at
mosphcre ui fictitious sentiment and un-
real passion. They locked upon men u
merely the ministers OF pleasure and as
the MEDIUMS through which their Hat
t red vanity might grow and expand, as
the flower blooms in the warmth of the
sunshine. All the aims ANA duties of
life were bounded by the ambitions Of
society. Admiration to them was APP
probation.
And now for the story Of their lives;
The eldest sister wa, married to DR..
Sharp OF: TuScal oo-a, Alabama, pol
shed graceful. gentleman, whose love
and devotion might have contcntcd any
woman less prone 10 aliurcments of So
cictv and the admiration OF mrn. 1t
was the first year of the war, and the
most brilliant society Of the South was
Gathered ut Mobile and New Orleans.
With an appetite whcltrd to fever heat
by a few months abstinence from social
pleasures, she plunged rccklessly INTO It
whirlpool, Of gayety. The married h!rt
wears no armor Of innocence. Her
loyc and admiration is pitted against
mans duplcity and cunning. She
,takcd and lost From folly there is
but one step to imprudcnce, and that
step was taken, despite a husbands jcal-
ousv, and spite or honor. The end was
incvitablo; Il challenge and II duel, and
her husband fell pierced 10 the heart by
the bullet Of her >cducer. There was no
pity for woman like this; society re-
PEELED her her friends discarded her
and she fled to New Orleans 10 lead the
life of an adventures.
The second sister shortly attcrward
~,,;,' '' ~ W.Li'a Tbr f,tr orhnr .i.tcr
,."',so "a h ,.V -, corarr 81 simiGr colv
500 ~. 49, r raco.ySd her with OMEN arr.
,y.aItL i,fuo.,i,I coonrrtfor. ami AL
liance> with Il distinguished family OBJ
scurcd for time the rcccoIrcIous Of Il
-;,..u, ;.,,rnl.,cn Rpt o...in soon
,,r.,y h,sy with her name From one
INV oaIo,bnr she passed with fatal
a.,,.,,,,'I min, i,.|iH.r.rcn ur.iI in
f.,.I hopr her Iu,L nd learned that
,h ,.', ,r,,a,n he loved the wife bcIdolizrd
ven. - thine TO be- scorned. 1t broke hi,
hrart With the dow afall Of his idol
hi, reason wavcrcd and he persisted by
hi, own hand. For all his brilliant tai
cnl. and the promise ola Brilliant wo.
man. be died the victim OF woman
geraIy
Thnyoungcr sister became the wife Of
Bienycnue. young broker of New Or
leans Rich, beautiful and accomplished