Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-12-03
yOUNG BRIDES SUICIDE.

LIFE WITH \ DRUNKEN HCSBASD-A
SAD SroRY-Barely seven months ago
a quiet marriage was celebrated by the
Rev. DR.. w. i. Morgan at st. Thomas
Church, at the corner Of Fifth avenue
and E'ifty-third street, New York, be-
tween Robert Stuart and Evelina Terry
Marks. A brilliant reception followed
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the
bride and bridegroom, after the usual
wedding trip, settled down in luxurious
quarters in Mr.. Rhnelander's apartment
house (the Berkeley. at the corner OF
Fifth Avenue and 9th street. They
had ample means and the happieSt pros
poets. Two months ago, according to
testimony before coroners jury, the
young bride discovered that her hus-
band was the slave of dipsomania, and
after she had patiently but vainly en-
deayored to wean him from his love OF
liquor her mind lost its balance. Yes
terday morning she lay dead, while her
husband, who had not yet recovered
from a debauch of the previous day.
wrung his hands, cursed himself aud
shed tears over her body.
Robert Stuart, the husband, was the
son of Lieutenant Robert Stuart, Uni
ted States Navy, of Detroit, who died
of alcoholism, and the disease was dis
covered when the son, now twenty-slx
years old, was boy. His mother Is
the wife of ex Congressman Elijah
Ward, of this city, and is now in Eu-
rope with Miss Stuart, Roberts sister.
When Roberts father died he left his
children well provided for, their guard
ian being Mr.. +. ID. Tappen, President
of the Galatin National Band, who,
knowing Roberts weakness, and beiiev-
! ing that All active business life would
tend TO cure him OF it, procured him a
comfortable situation in the bank. This
position, however, the young man was
compelled to resign last month, being
continually unfit for duty through over
drinking. Miss Marks, the wife, was
,n'y twenty three years old. She was
the niece and adopted daughter of Mrs
Abiel b. Marks, thu wife of a retired
/ merchant who lives at No. 62 West
Thirty fourth street. Mr.. Marks never
countenanced the adoption of the girl
but treated her as his niece, and wa:
very indulgent to her. Miss Marks wa:
quiet, refined, well-educated girl, some
what melancholy In disposition and in
clined to be rehgisu,e. Mr.. and Mrs
Marks were parishoners of Trinity
Chapel, No. l5 West Twenty-ffth street
and both the Rev. G. +. Swope and the
Rev. G. Il. Olmstead, the ministers il
charge, speak highly of the girl. Mis-:
Marks parents died when she was al
infant, and she was never baptized unit
last spiing, jnst before her marriage
and was confirmed few days after. ShC
was then engaged to Mr.. Stuart, and a
her request he was confirmed about th'
same time by the Rev. DR.. Morgan, o
81. Thomass.
While they were on their wedding
trip General Ward and his wife sough
comfortable quarters for them, and en-
gagged apartment No. 26 on the seconc
floor of the Berkeley. The suite con
sists OF a uxuriously furnished parlo
and bedroom, with dressing and batl
room fronting on Ninth street.
1t is supposed that Mrs. Stuart suffer
ed terribly when she discovered he
husbands weakness, and it is probable
that she often demonstrated with him
but she kept the secret from everybod.
but Mrs. Tappen until Saturday last
when goaded by some harsh languag,
that her husband used to her when in
toxicated, she made the hotel chamber
maid, Kate Cummings, her confdht
This was about noon, and the kind
hearted servant girl sympathized will
the young bride, who, surrounded b!
luxury was shedding scaldng tears, a
if broken hearted. That night Mr.. Stu
art returned home in maudlin condi
tion, and treated his young wife ever
more roughly than before, and she pass
cd the night alone in her bedroom, h'
sleeping on lounge on the sitting
room. About IL o'clock on Sunday
Mr.. Stngrt being out, Mrs. Stuar. agalr
told the chambermaid of the renewed
insults she had submitted to. She woulC
rather die, she said, than live as sh'
did. The girl tried to console her, bu
Mrs. Stuart cried continually. Abou
noon she appeared to have taken sud
den resolution, and dressing herself has
tily and drawing thick veil over he
face to hide her swollen eyes, she weE
out, returning in few minutes Th'
Girl Kate saw her in her room shortly
after she returned Yesterday, wher
she was dead, three letters were tounC
on the desk, addressed to her dea
friends.
About G p. NJ Sunday Mr. Staar
entered his apartment, as he admitted
Yesterday, intoxicated. He opened th'
door OF the bedroom, and seeing hi
wife lying dressed on the bed, imagined
tl,at she had lain down to take nap
! He managed TO take off his shoes, anC
/ then lay down on the lounge in the par
lor ard sleep Till o'clock, when h'
summoned a waiter aud ordered some
! ham sandwiches. These were sent him
| although rne of the house prohibit
/ it, and after he had eaten them he agair
opened the bedroom door. His wife
was in the same position on the bed
Stuart went lack to the lounge anC
slept until between five and six O'Clock
Yesterday morning. when feeling cold