Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-11-24
A TERRIBLE DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
A Young Man of Wealth Becomes Drunk
ard, His Wife Poisons Herself-Married
In April to Die in November.


ard, His Wife Poisons Herself-Married
in April to Die i'm November.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
NEW YORK, November Pm addi
ton to the Vanderbilt scandal, a sen.
sation is created by the suicide under
peculiarly sad circumstances of ayouno
married lady moving in the first cir
cles. Mrs. Evelyn Stuart was found
dying this morning in her reom at the
Berkeley House on Fifth Avenue, one Of
the aristocratic private hotels. The dis.
covery was made by her husband. A
physician was called, but his efforts
failed to rouse her from the comatose
state into which she had lapsed. At the
side of her bed, upon small table, was
found four-ounce vial half filled with
landanum. Three letters, one directed
to her foster-mother and two TO former
schOolmates, were found on the desk.
They declared that the writer was mis-
cradle, and would rather die than live
These, and the diagnosis of the Doctor,
confirmed the theory that the young
woman had deliberately ended her life
with poison. An investigation devel-
Oped the fact that the suicide was due
to an unfortunate depravity on the part
of her young husband, Robert Stuart
This gentleman, it appears, although
amiable and intelligent, is unable to
control his appetite for liquor. This
tendency, it is said, he derived from his
father, Lieutenant-Co Commander Robert
Stuart, an esteemed officer of the United
States Navy, who died several years ago
in Detroit, Mich, only ending a long
debauch in death. Mrs. Stuart, the
widow of the Lieutenant, is now the
wife of ex-Congressman Elijah Ward,
of this city, and is travelling in Europe
at the present time. The lady who has
ended her life in such a pitiful way was,
in her maidenhood, known as Miss Eve
lyn Marks. Her period of married life
lasted only about six months. She was
married to Stuart in April last,
in St. Thomas's Church, in Fifth
Avenue. The Rev. DIR. Morgan
was the officiating clergyman, and there
was brilliant party present. At the
conclusion of the ceremony the young
couple held reception in the private
parlors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. On
their return to New York from their
honeymoon trip, Gen. Ward procured
them apartments in the Berkeley House,
where they have lived since. For three
months the young people appeared to
have nothing to trouble them. Mrs.
Stuart was, by nature, shy and retiring,
and had marked tendency toward re-
ligion. Her husband was regarded in
the hotel during that period as manly
young fellow. who, having at the start
n good opportunity, was certain to make
a mark in the financial world. He was
Assistant Cashier in the Gallatin Ma
tional Bank, the President of which was
his guardian About the latter part OF
August he began to develope a taste for
drink, when, night after night, he went
home intoxicated. Having once fallen
into the habit of getting drunk, he
seemed unable to restrain himself. For
the past four weeks his intellect has
been sodden and inactive. His young
wife bore with him silently, making no
person acquainted with the sorrow his
conduct caused her until Saturday last,
when she told the chambermaid she felt
she would rather die than live in misery
as she did. The same day she procured
laudanum in small quantities at differ
ent places. Sunday morning Stuart left
the hotel early. Mrs. Stuart was found
in tears by the servant. From morning
no one except her husband saw Mrs.
Stuart until she was found dying. Stu
art returned to the hotel about 3 O'Clock
in tho aftarpnor stup;dlx- dr,,nE Ahouf