Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
THREE WOMEN.
ADELAIDE NELSON'S SUDDEN DEATH
AND ITS DETAILS.
A Horrible Story Of a husbands Perfdy
and Wife's vengeance-A wealthy
woman's Generosity.
Paris, August %, 1850.

PARIS, August %, 1850.
Californians have certainly not forgotten
the charming actress, Miss Nelson, who
some years ago delighted them with her
passionate PRESERVATION of Juliet in "Ro-
meo and Juliet, and they undoubtedly
regretted to learn of her untimely and al
most tragical death. Entire Paris has been
very much exercised over the circumstance,
which has served as another proof that the
monster death often makes his appearance
at untimely hours. Miss Nelson was ex-
tremely fond of Paris, and whenever her
engagements permitted she crossed the
Channel to enjoy drives to the Bots de
Boulogne and the many beautiful monu-
ments with which the French capital
abounds. Its said she had already signed
an engagement with an American manager
for the ensuing winter, but had intended
before leaving England to give some repre-
sensations in London at the request of her
numerous friends and admirers" rhomnae
propose ct Dieu dispose" During this visit
to Paris Miss Nelson was accompanied by
dame de compagnie, a femme de chambre
and secretary. One day very recently,
at o'clock in the afternoon,
SHE DROVE TO THE BoIs
In her landau, as was her custom each
day she was dressed all in white, with a
large white straw hat trimmed in white
lace, and presented very pretty picture.
She was accompanied On this occasion by
her dame de compagnie and a gentleman
acquaintance who boarded at the same
hotel-the Continental-the newest and
handsomest hotel of the capital. In the
bois is vacherie, where are to be seen fat
and well-fed COWS, whose milk is much
appreciated by children and women in
their drives. Miss Nelson stopped to take
a bowl of milk and then continued her
promenade She soon felt i'll, and drove
to one of the chalets surrounding the res
taurants and asked for room in which
she could repose for while. She was
shown to a room where were a
table, some chairs and lounge.
A bed was made of the lounge
and Miss Nelson placed upon it.
She was soon taken with fearful pains of
the stomach, and was so i'll that doctor
was called, who prescribed hot tea with
cognac, which relieved her for q time.
Soon after another crisis came on and the
sufferings were so great that physician at
the Continental Hotel with whom Miss
Nelson was acquainted was sent for. He
had poultices applied, and gave the patient
besides some powders. She was again re-
lieved for short time but she was too i'll
to be moved, and arrangements were made
for her to pass the night at the chalet. AT
3 o'clock in the morning she was taken
with such fearful pains and commissions
that her hands tore the covering of the
lounge on which she lay. The doctor was
Immediately sent for, but the distance
from the bois to the Continental Hotel is
long, and it required some time to awaken
the physician, for him to dress and drive
out, so that when he reached the chalet he
found that Miss Nelson had breathed her
last. She had died amidst most terrible
sufferings. The authorities had to be in
formed before the body could be removed,
but the officer on beholding the corpse and
learning all the particulars, came to the
conclusion that the death
WAS NOT NATURAL
And ordered an autopsy of the body.
There was nothing for the friends of the
actress to do but to obey and submit to
the body being carried to the Morgue.
The following day at 3 o'clock, instead OF
Miss Nielsen, in her lovely toilet, seated in
her landau, the admired of all the passers
by, the body of the actress was rolled in a
cloth and ratified over the stones in a com.
mon wooden box for carriage to that little
house on the Seine ON whose walls are
traced in invisible letters the histories of
many tragedies. The physicians who ex-
anined the body were obliged to pronounce
the death natural. They stated that milk,
although not iced, was sufficient on warm
day to chill the blood, produce commissions
and even death. 1t seems that Miss Neil
son comes of distinguished family. Her
relatives were telegraphed to, and the
body sent to London. 1t is also
stated that as she spoke French very
fuently, she was negotiating to play the
role of Mana" which is soon to be repre-
sented in one of the Partisan theaters.
Miss Nelson was but 90 years old, and had
time to make further progress in her art.
She was one of the handsomest actresses
of the present Gay, and her sudden death
and the sad circumstances connected with
it have excited much commiseration and
melancholy.
THE LAWS IN FRANCE CONCERNING WOMEN
Are so abominably barbarous that women,
in order to obtain justice, which civiliza-
ton teaches them is their due, are obliged
to resort to violent measures in defiance of
the laws. Such was the case at the city of
Saintes, where married woman, the
mother four children, threw vitriol in the
face of her husbands mistress. Mile.
Girard du Domaine was born at Rochefort.
She lost her father and mother when very
young, and was raised by her grandmother.
At the age of five she went to Saintes,
which city she never after left. She
was rich, and was besides very beautiful.
When but seventeen years of age she fell
desperately in love with Legardeur de
| lilly, who was modest employer in
railroad Office. She was so much in love
with him that she had her family propose
| to him. Mr.. de lilly FASTENED to accept
wife, young, beautiful and rich Madame
| de lilly adored her husband and was
| most exemplary wife and mother, but she
began to perceive an unaccountable cool
| Hess anu luQlnCACuOC Oli Vic Pdle VI lACA
husband. She suspected him of irregular
conduct, and one day, finding a number of
bank notes hidden away by her husband,
she wrote to her notary, who informed her
that Mr. de lilly had extracted about
&C, 600 francs from her fortune. Such is
the law in France that when a woman
marries and brings with her the dot SO
strictly exacted, she has no control what
ever over her fortune, and il he sees fit her
husband can spend it all, and even give it
away to another without her being able to
prevent it. This information confirmed
Madame de lilly in her suggestions
besides, she received about this time
anonymous letters, stating that when she
went during the summer to the sea shore
her husbands mistress
ENTERED HER HOUSE,
Donned her robes, and called herself Nine.
de lilly. She had in fact often noticed
very pretty young girl, brunette and
oucriere, who never passed her in the street
without laughing in her face in an insolent
manner. On asking an explanation of her
husband with regard to the bank notes, he
cynically answered her that the young girl
was his mistress, that he loved her, and she
was to become his wife, since she had but
n faw months tn live that she it was who