The daily gazette., 1880-07-26
Marrying a Title.
MRS. wETMoRE's SAD STORY AS RE-
LATED BY HER FRIENDS.

LATED BY HER FRIENDS.
PARIS, July 24.-The Wetmore-
Anglesey affair continues to engross
public attention, and, although it is
the general theme of conversation
here, it is curious to say that with a
single exception, that Of the Toltaire
this morning, all mention of it has
thus far been kept out of the news
papers. All sorts of rumors are
current in connection with this fact,
which, for the honor of profession, l
shall avoid noticing. ! prefer to
settle it down to the prudent reserve
which the French press is always
known to practise on such delicate
occasions. Having been introduced
to Lady Albert Clinton lately at the
house of mutual friend l have
profted by my slight acquaintance
to obtain some information regard
ing the melancholy affair. Her
Ladyship received me courteously
and expressed her willingness to tell
me all she knew of the circum-
stances. She herself seemed over
come with grief, and her eyes filled
with tears when she began to speak
about her deceased friend. After a
few general remarks about the ru-
mors which were in circulation l
told her what l had stated in my
telegram of Thursday evening and
which she pronounced to be in the
main correrrect.
LORD ANGLEsEY's LETTERS.
"May 1 ask" said, elf you are
in possession of Lord Anglesey's
letters to Mrs. Wetmore ?"
"No," she replied, "they are in
the hands of her lawyer, Mr.. Gardi-
ner, Of the Champs Elysees. They
are all couched in terms which con
vey the idea that His Lordship had
the most passionate affection for
Mrs. Wetmore, and in no less than
seven of them he declared that he
would marry her the moment she
got the divorce from her husband. L
have even in my possession a ring
which he gave her in the first days
of last month";" Her Ladyship
here went and brought in a small
basket containing, among other eff
fects of the deceased lady, a plain
gold ring, bearing the following in
scription on the inside TO Annie,
from Anglesey, June l, $780," l.
Lady Albert Clinton then contin-
ued :-"Mrs. Wetmore came to Eur
ope about three years ago with her
son, a lad about thirteen years OF
age. l think she met Lord Angle
sey for the first time in Spain
When she left America she had no
idea of permanently separating her.
self from her husband, of whom she
always spoke with remorse, but
Lord Anglesey turned her head by
promising to marry her if she got a
divorce. This took time, so much
time, that he got tired Of his bargain
and deserted her as soon as she had
broken loose from the only real tie
which bound her to life and affection
for her child. She was handsome,
and confding. Poor
dear she was so faithful to Anglesey
and believed in him SO entirely
You know he lived on the Avenue
Kleber, occupying separate apart
ments in the same house. Three
days before her death she said,
speaking of her husband Henry
was always kind to me, but we had
in common. We were not
made to live happily together. He
was much too religious for me, and
was not satisfied unless l went to
church all day Sunday, but he was ID
good, kind man. l never ought to
have left him. My fate should be a
warning to American women who
come abroad without their legitimate
But she rarely gave
way to these remorseful feelings, for
she loved Anglesey to distraction.
DESERTED.
"Her last meeting with him was on |
June 90. He told her he had |
to 90 on London on business. She
said to him, with sort of instructive
feeling, you will be true to me, Henry,
and come back as quickly as you camp
He replied that he loved her as much
as ever, and parted with her with
every demonstration of affection, al
though he knew that he had written
her letter, dated the 10Th, the day
before, in which he bade her farewell
forever, and gave her to understand
that all was at an end between them.
This letter was handed to her next
day by Mr.. Stone, Lord Anglesey's
and it drove her almost to
madness. 1t was then that l brought
her to my house; for she had no friends
here, and in the letter to which have
lust referred Lord Anglesey gave her
To understand that she must leave her
apartments and write no more than
one letter to him. To this she wrote
a reply of most touching character,
in which she appealed to the Marquis
manhood. Remember she said, 'all
/ have lost for you. Can you expect
that God will prosper you or yours
when you are capable of such dread
full wrongP' In another passage she
saws, Can it be possible that you have
no conscience or feeling or that you, a
nobleman, are willing to turn me out
penniless into the world after all your |
promises, to say nothing of your pre-
tended affection up to the week before
your marriageT
APPEALING TO THE COURTS.
was next shown number OF letter
from Lord Anglesey, autnehticated by