Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-19

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stealing bag of -four to keep the wolf of
hunger from his door-the terms OF JUS
tice. Will our honest citizens submit to
anything less? Are they willing to have
their honest ballots get aside Or nulliftcd
by infamous fraud, and still look Oh IN
silence
POOR JENNIE TYLER.
The Ex-Pres,dent's Niece Dead and Her
Husband Too Poor to Bury Her.
The death is announced of Jennie Tyler,
NIECE Of ex-Rresident Tyler. Ten years
ago she was one of the reigning bellies Of
Washington. She possessed also comfort
able fortune. Yesterday her dead body
lay stretched OH table in rickety and
squalid tenement Of brooklyn, her hus-
band: William Collins, being too poor to
defray the expenses of the funeral.
1t appears that she has wealthy
relatives who refuse to bury her:
Jennie was married twice. Her first hus-
band squadered her money, Her second
husband, Collins was poor and was thrown
out of work. 1t is said Jennie's father
lives in Harrisburg. The dead wOman's
sister lives in handsome four story b. own
stone house in a fashionable locality i'll New
fCrk her husband said Mrs. Collins was
not recognized on account of her marriage
beneath her station. Mrs. C"llins's first
cousin is a prominent CITY politician, and
she was also q relative Gfa loading lawyer
in Wall street. Her brother is said to be
in a Baltimore college. Senator John w.
Stevenson is her cousin, Jennie Tyler was
born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1913.
Details of Her Death.
New York Herald:
"They had to do as said. for made
the match," said Mrs. Charlotte Rice to a
reporter yesterday. Il did it for the best
to give the ,ioOr girl Il home
The speech had reference TO the mar
riage of Jennie Iernon Tyler, a daughter
of Col. W. w. Tyler and grandniece of
the late President Tyler. to William
Collins, laborer in the Brooklyn gas
works; and it was in response to the re-
porter's question as to why, both being
Roman Catholics, they were married in I,
Protestant church. While Mrs. Rice vae
speaking the reporter looked around the
barren apartment, whose uncarpeted floor
and the bare walls spoke of poverty and
almost sGpalur.
was not always so poor" said Mr..
Collins, Interpreting the reporters look.
That lie spoke truly there could be no
doubt, for still he was rich in true manli-
ness and all the higher attributes of hu-
man nature. Stretched OH table, which
served for a bier, lay the poor woman,
whose story is a singGlarly sad ono. The
child of wealthy parents and boasting a
lineage as proud as any in the land,
splendidly educated and a pet in the high
est social circles, she was, before her girl
hood was past, betrayed. disowned, cast
out. Deluded into a mock marriage In
Brooklyn by a man named Jennings and
despoiled of her property, she was left to
beggary and starvation, or worse. Jennie
Tyler was born in Richmond in 1913 her
girlhOod was passed on her fathers
plantation in Mississippi she was educa-
ted in a convent, and in 1872, when her
cousin, John w. Stevenson, was United
States senator from Kentucky, she was
introduced into Washington society. 1t
was soon after the last event that she made
the acquaintance of Jennings and married
him. A few months wrought the misery
and downfall of the bright, vivacious and
intelligent young girl. For the next two
or three years nothing of her history is
known by the public except that she was
disowned by her family, and rs Mrs. Rice
declares, harshly turned away from her
sisters door when she went to beg for
bread and protection.
rlWent with her to her sisters house, I"
said Mrs. Rice, "but the door was
slammed in her face. l told her to come
away with me, and that is how she be-
came my brothers wife. -
" Mrs. Collins has not been recognized
by her family" said that sisters husband
to the reporter, "because she married be-
low her station. There are family reasons
Way should not talk about her life it is
purely family matter, and does not con-
Germ the public.
But the man who shared his scanty earn
ings with her, who gave her name and a
home, who was proud to call her wife, was
not so reticent. AS he sat over his dead
in his poor apartment at No. 79 Hudson
avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday, he never
ceased talking of her gentleness, her Vir=
tues and her accomplishments. There was
no mistaking the fact that this poor labor
ing man was proud of his talented and
high born wife, ''She was too fine woman
for a poor man to marry" he said "she
was fit for prince. But she never COM
planned of her hard lot-she was never un-
happy in her proverty. Nor did l ever
hear her say an unkind word of her rich
relations who had disOwned her. She was
we'll acquainted with General Pryor, the
lawyer. Senator Stevenson Was her cousin
and was Mrs. Arthur, the wife of General
Arthur, in New York: Her middle name
was Herndon. You see she was of royal
stock"
"Have you heard from any of her friends
since her death?' the reporter asked.
"Mr. Brophy, her brother-in-law, sent
me s25 10 bury her, but it came too late
to do it to-day, and this morning re-
ceived letter from her father. Here it
is.''
Mr.. Collins handed the reporter a letter,
which was dated at the European hote',
Harrisburg I Pa. It's contents were as fol.
lows
WILLIAM COLLINS, esq.-My Dear Sir
Your telegram was this moment received
the sad intelligence of the
death Of my daughter Jane, and 1 most
condole with you. Though it was
what we were expecting every day, yet it
is severe blow to me, and more particu-