The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-22
A YOUNG wIFE's DESPAIR.
Committing Suicide in u Fashionable New
York ootei Six Months after Marriage
Husbands Passion for strong Drink.

Committing Suicide in u Fashionable New
York ootei Six Months after Marriage
AHusbaud's Passion for strong Drink.
From the New York sunl
Mr.. Robert Stuart and Miss Eveline
Il. Marks were married in st. Thomas's s
Church on the 10th of April last. The
ceremony filed the house with wealthy
and fashionable relatives and friends.
The bride was the adopted daughter of
Mr.. Abiel b. Marks, q retired merchant,
who dwells at 62 West Thirty Fourth
street. Her mother was Mrs. Marks's
sister, and the name that she had ex-
changed for that of Mr.. Marks was
Terry. The groom's father was Lieut..
Robert Stuart of the United States navy,
who died in 1862. His widow became
the wife of the Hon. Elijah Ward. The
groom inherited from his mothers
friends a.large fortune. Before his mar
riage he lived with his mother and step
father in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. After
the marriage the couple took parlor
and bedroom in the second story of the
Berkeley House at 20 Fifth avenue.
For three or four months the couple
lived happily. Then the husband began
to drink. Two months ago his taste for
liquor developed rapidly, and he often
reached home SO much intoxicated that
he was barely able to walk straight. His
friends noticed his growing fault, and it
was proposed to send him to Europe, in
order that he might change his COM
panionship and he under the influence
of his mother and stepfather, who are in
Europe. 1t is said that President
Frederick d. Tappen of the Gallatin
al rrl,o ,, l.,
during the absence of his stepfather,
proposed to accompany him.
On Saturday last a woman went to
George Inness's pharmacy and purchased
half an ounce of laudanum. She said
it was for Mrs. Stuart. There was some-
thing in the bottom of the four-ounce
phial, which Mr.. Waiting, the clerk,
supposed to be old laudanum. The
woman was tall and not we'll dressed.
Mr.. Waiting supposed her to be ser.
want. On Sunday Mrs. Stuart called
Kate Cummings, chambermaid, into
her room. She seemed worried, and
was weeping. She said that she would
rather die than live as she was living.
Then she explained that on Saturday
night her husband spoke harshly to her.
She told the chambermaid that she was
going out, and would return soon. If
Mr.. Stuart arrived, he was to be told
that she would return in few minutes.
She then went out, but was gone not
more than ten minutes. When she re-
turned, she sat down at her desk and
wrote letter, which she sealed and ad-
dressed to her husband. While she was
writing, the chambermaid went out of
the room. She was not again seen by
anybody except her husband until
about two hours previous to her death.
Mr.. Stuart reached his home at about
five o'clock. He was very much under
the influence of liquor, but was able to
walk straight. He said nothing, but
went to his apartments direct. At nine
o'clock he called from his room through
the speaking-tube that communicates
with the Office, and ordered some sand
wiches. Food is not usually furnished
at 80 late an hour in the hotel, and the
request was referred to the proprietor,
Mr.. James Slater. He called to mind
that Mr.. Stuart had had no dinner, and
ordered the sandwiches sent up.
At six o'clock yesterday morning a
call was heard from Mr.. Stuart through
the speaking tube. He requested that a
physician should be sent for. Mr. Sla-
ter himself went to the Office of DR.. s.
L. Hubbard, and the doctor reached Mr..
Stuarts rooms at sixteen minutes past
six. He found Mr.. Stuart greatly agi-
tated and expressing the keenest an
guish. Mrs. Stuart lay on the floor,
near the bed, with pillow beneath her
head. She was entirely unconscious.
DIR. Hubbard tried to arouse her, but
without success. She died at eight
o'clock.
Mrs. Stuart was completely dressed,
and her hair was arranged just as it was
when she returned from the street the
day before. On table within reach of
the bed was four ounce phial contain
ing laudanum. The front part of the
bed showed that Mrs, Stuart had been
lying on it, but the clothes were not
turned down. The back part of the bed
had not been occupied. On her person
were found two letters. ljer husband
says that when he returned at five
o'clock he found his wife lying ON the
edge Of the bed, and as he supposed
asleep. He did not disturb her, but lay
down on the lounge in the parlor. In
the evening he awoke, and feeling hun
CRY called for sandwiches. He noticed
that his wife was still lying on the bed.
After eating the sandwiches he took of
his coat and boots and again lay down on
the lounge, and did not arise until q lit
tie before six o'clock in the morning.
Then he called his wife's name; but as
she did not answer he became alarmed.
On turning up the gas he made the dis
covery that something was wrong with
her. and at once called to the Office tc
have physician summoned.
Mr.. Stuart said that while he was try
ing to arouse his wife, before DIR. Hub
bards arrival, she fell from the bed.
He then placed pillow beneath hel
head as she lay there, because she
seemed to breathe more freely on the
floor.
By eight o'clock Mr.. and Mrs. Marks
and Mr.. Tappen arrived, and notification
was sent to Coroner Woltman. He made
an external examination, and then i'm.
panelled six jurors. The witnesses testi
fed that they knew of no trouble be.
tween Mrs. Stuart and her husband.
The letters found were shown to the
coroner, and he announced that they
distinctly declared an intention to com
NIT suicide. At the urgent request Of
the friends of Mrs. Stuart these letters
were withheld from the public by the
coroner. The verdict was that death re
suited from an overdose of laudanun
administered by Mrs. Stuart herself.
A Woman Seeking Home in Prison
Sarah Lane, far from forbidding