The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-11-22
Death Rather than Disgrace Suicide
of Wealthy Young Bride in New
York City, on Account of an Inebriate
Husband.

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Times:
NEW York. Nov. l2 Seven months
ago a quiet marriage was celebrated at
ST. Thomas Church, between Robert
Stuart and .Evelna Terry Marks A
brilliant reception followed at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, and the bride and bride.
groom. after the wedding trip, settled in
luxurious quarters at the corner Of Fifth
Avenue and Ninth Street. They had
ample means, and the happiest prospects
Two months ago the bride discovered
that her husband was the slave of hered.
itary dipsomania, and after she had pa.
tiently but vainly endeavored to wean
him from his love OF liquor, her mind
lost its balance. This morning she lay
dead by her own act, while her husband
who had not yet recovered from a de
bauch, wrung his hands, cursed himself
and shed maudlin tears over her body
Robert Stuart, the husband, was the son
of Lieut.. Robert Stuart, United States
navy, of Detroit, who died of alcoholism.
His mother is the wife of ex Congressman
Elijah Ward, Of this city, and Is now in
Europe. When Roberts father died he
left his children well provided for, their
guardian being Mr.. +. d. Tappen,
Presiden mt Of the Gallatin National Bank,
believing that an active business life
would tend to cure him of il, procured
him a comfortable situation in the bank
The position, however, the young man
was compelled TO resign last month, be-
ing continually unfit for duty through
overdrinking Miss Marks, the wife,
was only twenty-three years old She
was the niece and adopted daughter Of
Mrs. Abiel B. Marks Miss Marks was a
quiet, refined, welleducated girl some
what melancholy in disposition, and in.
clined to be religious. The marriage was
celebrated on the 18th OF April last Mr.
Stuarts mania for liquor was detected by
his wife about two months ago. As he
was not Of robust physique. a little wine
asserted its influence over him for a long
time. He suffered greatly when recover
ing from a debauch, and OF late had been
constantly in dull quiet state OF ine-
briation Mrs Stuart often remonstrat
ed with him, but she kept the secret
fron everybody but 1lr Tappen until
Saturday last, when, goaded by some
harsh language that her husband used to
her while intoxicated, she made the
chambermaid, Kate Cummings, her con-
fident. The young bride, surrounded by
luxury, was shedding scalding tears as il
broken hearted That night Mr. Stuart
returned home in a maudlin condition
and treated his young wife even more
roughly than before, and she passed the
night alone in her bed, he sleeping on a
lounge in the sitting room. About IL
| o clock on Sunday, Mr.. Stuart being out,
Mrs. Stuart told the chambermaid the
renewed insults she had submitted to.
/ She would rather die, she said, than live
as she did. The girl tried to console her,
| but Mrs. Stuart cried continually. About
noon she appeared to have taken a sud
den resolution, and, dressing herself has
/ tily, she went out, returning in a few
minutes. The girl Kate saw her in her
room shortly after she returned. She
was then calm, and was sitting at the
writing desk To day, when she was
dead, three letters were found on the
/ desk addressed TO dear friends. About
| 6 p. m. on Sunday Mr.. Stuart entered his
apartment intoxicated. lie opened the
door of the bed room, and seeing his
wife lying dressed on the bed imagined
she had laid down to take nap. lie
laid down on the lounge in the parloI
and slept till 6 o'clock this morning
when, feeling cold he determined on 90
ing to bed, believing that his wife had
undressed. When lie opened the bed
room door and saw that his wife still las
dressed on the bed, he vaguely appre
hended that all was not right, and step
ping to the side OF the bed, shook hi