Connecticut western news., 1878-01-24
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 A LIFE STORY.
Romance In Real Lifc---As Told by New
 York City Paper.


 The sensational case which has just arrested public attention, and in which the coachman, Brady, appears as the disturber of the peace of Mrs. Eugene Robinson's household, says the New York Star, involves one of the most TO- mantle domestic stories that have ever transpired in social life.
 It is not more than eight years ago when Buffalo society was on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting to receive Miss Mary Robinson. bride of MT. Frank Tracy, one of the wealthiest young men of that oity. Rumor has painted the lady as one of the most beautiful of her | sex. When the metropolitan belle first ap- peared in the society of Buffalo it was to become it's acknowledged queen. A prouder man than MT. Tracy at this
 friends it was but to talk of his wife and
 the furore she was creating. He would
 sit in a corner of parlor at social en-
 tertainment and watch hor graceful
 movements and listen to her ringing
 laugh.
 But fate had decreed that this happi-
 ness was not to last, and when the young
 couple were but one year married, trip
 to New York was the beginning of long
 series of misunderstanding, which led
 to their arrangement. Mrs. Tracy's husband took her across the Atlantic; but though Alpine mountains and Swiss ; lakes might for @ time banish remem- brance from her mind, Mrs. Tracy was
 unhappy and discontented with life. She told her husband that she longed for home, and they returned to Buffalo. Her efforts to live in harmony were, however, useless, and after few months v she fled to her mothers care in New York. They moved into a quiet village in Connecticut, and when the legal time . had elapsed, Mrs. Tracy's matrimonial letters were broken by the authority of Connecticut, which recognizes cruel /, and inhuman treatment as @ sufficient . ground for severing the nuptial tie. = Eugene Robinson, her cousin, came tc
 her in her distress, offered her his hand
 and ample fortune, and she became ( a devoted wife. Society, which was once so dear to her, has lost it's charm, anc the presence of her husband is all that o she wants from the great world. ,f The romance might we'll have finished here, but the story has sequel quite a, ,r interesting as the preceding history, ant r perhaps more exciting to the communit, Q at large, as it concerns the history of tw, 70 ladies once acknowledged queens of tn,
 metropolitan stage.
 But few persons who were acquainted i' with Miss Agnes Ethel, when she wa r the leading lady at Daly's, knew that sh A' wss divorced wife. The sad fate of girl who was 8 wife at sixteen, and 500 le after was thrown upon her own re G. sources, by the unkindness of her natr to ral protector, was as sad one as an le of the dreams in which the lady figured AS It is known that the great success of Mis es Clara Morris was the cause of Miss Etht 't. severing her connection with the Eft !e Avenue Theatre. but the ladies alway US continued to be the warmest and mol 'e.' devoted friends.
 lS When Miss Ethel was starring th 'rs country in Divorce" she performe ,s- the play for several nights in Buffal ,u' While Miss Ethel was acting |" Divorce "A "A one evening, Frank Tracy strayed int o' the theatre. It was at the touchir ou scene where Fannie Adrlance deliberat, V, about returning to her husband, and uo the unhappy man caught her words s, trembled all over and tottered to sea aiA The developments of the play we |" watched by him with an eager interes en and when the repentant wife fell into h ne husbands arms his loud sobs were hea lo' throughout the building.
 The divorced husband sought the a
 quaintance of the woman who had tn unnamed him, and she was no less cul
 ous to know the man who had been he strongly affected by her art.
 ot Tracy endeavored to lead better lii to and the young actress retired from u res stage and took up her residence with | to mother, under promise of her hand, art his efforts were successful. Old MI ts- Tracy nearly worshlpped her as u nls guardian angel of her boy, and heap eiy the most lavish presents upon her. Mi ot Edith decided to accept his offer, al Ike made her farewell to the public at t oal Union Square Theatre.
 on- The curtain fell for the last time nat Miss Ethel, in the spring of 1873, al rs she became the second Mrs. Frank IT lth cey, at little church in the suburbs Buffalo. Her welded life was continu st- for a little over year, end was hap ay one. She has since occasionally appef lb- ed in her old field, but large fortu Vas renders her absolutely independent or her profession.
 es. One incident in connection with th Ich romance deserves notice. In the fall ay- 1874 Daly's company came to Buffal get The play cast was Divorce" with Mi
 Morris in the leading character. Sh
 however, refused to play drama whi' '.'s she believed would wound the feelinI ,k- of her frierd, and positively declined nd act the piece at Mrs. Tracy's hom
 There had been trouble before betwe' ng her and her manager, and this refus 'Ae was the means of severing their come
 tion.
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