The Morning herald., 1878-09-12
A NEWPORT TRAGEDY.

MISS KATY MASON DIES IN THE NEWPORT
HosPITAL--THE DEATHBED CONFESSION
OF HER sHAME-INDIGNATIoN AT HER
MILLIoNNAIRE sEDUCER.
Adespatch from Newport, R. l., Septem-
ber 10th says: While hundreds were watch
ng the departure Of the British fleet, and
while fair damsels were waving their hand
kerchiefs at the officers on board, young
woman, hardly out Of her teens, was dying
at the Newport Hospital, and by the time
the salutes were exchanged, the spirit OF
one who had been wronged by Newport
millionaire, had taken its flight to another
world. The young lady was no other than
Miss Katy Mason, better known as "Alice
Trevalyn," }" the. female detective, who was
recently sent to Blackwell's Island by a
New York justice. After serving out her
thirty days sentence, she was liberated and
left the prison, having no home, friends or
money Her family, who are well connect
ed, had given her up, after doips all that
was possible for her. While she was on
Blackwell's Island, they quietly left New
port and took up heir abode in Boston, SO
mortified were they at the disclosures which
were made at the time that they felt they
could endure their disgrace no longer. A
telegram was received here the latter part
of last week by near relative OF the Ge- ~,
ceased, stating that she was Ill, very III,
and would be in Newport the following
morning via the Fall River line
1t appears she knew that her parents nao
moved away. No one was at the lanGlng
to meet her when she arrived at tnree CLOCK
| In the morning. She was driven 10 tne
residence of the relative, who refused 70
allow her the shelter of his root. ne re-
commended the hackman to take her 70
the police station, where he thought sne
could be subsequently removed to the nos
pital. With an aching heart, the girl oon-
seuted to the proposition, and she spent tne
balance of the night at the station, by
persistent efforts on the part of the autnor'
lities, she was admitted to the hospital tne
following day, where she commenced 70 70
sink rapidly. Her brother was the first 10
arrive, then sister, but the mother was
too Ill to come to the bedside of her dying
daughter. s.,.
To her sister, while her life was tast
ebbing away, she confessed and begged ncr
to convey to her mother and her brothers
q I'D sisters, the pain and anguish which
s1e felt at the Disgrace which she hso
brought upon them and upon herself,
She was willing to die and bury the past
with her, Slowly, and with the conscious
ness of knowing that she was about to die,
she confessed that, while q happy school
girl, scarcely sixteen, with home and friends,
and every thing to live for, she had been
wropged, cruelty wronged, by resident o.
Newport, who was the father of family
and who was as old as her own parent, nov
dead. She told the story of how he hat
taken her to ride, and the means he hat
resorted to In order to accomplish his pur
pose, and NJ her dying words she con
o firmed the story which she had told to tn
reporters while in the tombs in your city.
The facts in the case have been loni
known here, and now that she has substan
tiated them with her last words there
ne little indignation. One of the man
2 ladies who had been with her during tn
last hours of her life, remarked that tn
t girls seducer ought to be made to pay, ou
: Of his enormous wealth, the funeral ex
!, penses. The funeral will be private, an
the remains will be taken to Dedham, Mass
for ipterment in tie family burial ground
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