Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-05
A REAL ROMANCE.
The Heiress of a Large Estate in
a New York Tenement
House.
Tho Strange R1mance Of Emma
TOrrey-A Story that Discounts
q Dime Novel" And the
Villain Still Pursued
Her."


New York Star, June 'lthl
1t is not often that in real life we
meet with a story that combines all
the elements Of the EXTREMIST TO-
mance-involving beautiful heir
ess, desperate villain, attempted
abduction, strychnine, ar mic,
opium, nitrate of silver, and pistol
bullets, masked men with a coach
on dark night, and all the other
melodramatic incidents; but the
Star presents to its readers this
morning true story that contains
all.
Emma Torrey resides in the ten
ement-house No. $50 Forty-second
street, between Tenth and Eleventh
avenues. She and her father oecu-
py rooms which are almost desti-
tute of furniture, and the neigh
borhoed is one in which only the
poorer classes live; but she has az
appearance and manner far above
her surroundings, uses correct lam
guage, and is lady.like and graceful
in every movement. She has aris-
| tocratically chiseled features, blue
eyes and brown hair, and, if seated
in drawing-room instead of the
third floor front Of a tenement
house, would be one OF the bellies Of
society. She tells her own story as
follows;
"Lady Seagrave was maiden
lady, who owned large estates near
Howth, county Dublin, Ireland,
and also in Derbyshire, England,
and was connected with the nobil-
ity and the upper families Of the
landed gentry in England and Ire
land. She was a very peculiar
woman, with strong likes and dis
likes. Ny mother, Sallie Hughes,
was the daughter of her favorite
sister, who married Mr.. Hughes,
also a wealthy land owner. From
my mothers infancy Lady Seagrave
took a great fancy to her, saying
that she had the genuine Seagrayc
face, while my mothers brother
and sister were like them. She said
that my mother should inherit her
property, and as it was in the old
lady's own right, she could be-
queath it to my mother ifshe v shed
Ny mother grew up on the estate
{ being there with Lady Seagrave
nearly all the time until she grew
up"
"But how did your mo-ler hap
pen to come to this country ?"
81 don't know that, sir; | believe
there was some estrangement and
she came away. After her arrival
here, | think, she married my faith
: er. Lady Seagfave relented before
her death in 1871, and wanted my
mother to come back, but motheI
r died in the same year" here he
, voice choked and the tears came ii
, her eyes" and we never hear(
/, any more about Seagraye unit
! about four years ago, wAen | hearC
' that my mother was heir to tn
y estates, and that my sister Margare
e Elizabeth and myself, as my moth
t er's heirs, were entitled to the prop
r erty. Shortly after that poor IIag
e gie was taken i'll. She S"2med t
e fall into regular decline, and 500.
n afterward died. We have had rea
s son since then to believe that sh
!. was poisoned"
n "What makes you think ~"
e Because since that time sewers
J. attempts have been made upon m
s life, and my father has been po
r, soned once"
= "Will you relate the circpa
h stances ?" a
st GA year ago last December | Wa
sitting taking my tea, 1t did ne
Is taste quite right, but | didn't min
e, it. After drinking it | found som,
4. thing in q hollow tooth | have
h took it out, and itlooked just like
little pill. showed it to gentl
W man friend of mine, thinking
IS was some of the solder of the te,
Id pot. He took it to a doctor, WI
r said it was a pill made of nitrate
ly silver, and that somebody had bee
Of trying to poison me"
as Who do you suppose could ha'
IN done it?"
m =" | forgot to tell you about tina
en- For some years past a Mr.. ---- b
on been acquainted with me. He &
lrs acquainted through a friend al
lr. used to take me out occasional
lis | found out chat he had an unC
it in Ireland who is endeayoring
'p- gain possession Of Lady Seagray
ID, property, and believe that man
he going to kill me. Always bofC