Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-08-04
THE SAD STORY OF MRS.
WHETMORE.

The Wetmore-Anglesey affair con
tinues to engross public attention, and
having been introduced to Lady Albert
Clinton lately at the house of a mutual
friend have profited by my slight &C.
quaintance to obtain some information
regarding the melancholy affair. After
a few general remarks about the rumors
which were in circulation. MAY /
ask" ] said, "if you are in possession
OF Lord Anglesey's letters to Mrs. Wet
more %
NO" she replied, "they are in the
hands of her lawyer, Mr.. Gardiner, OF
the Champs Elysees. They are all
couched in terms which convey 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 divorce from her
husband / 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 bas-
ket containing among other effects of
the deceased lady, plain gold ring,
bearing the following inscription on
the inside: "To Annie, from Angle
sey, June A, lS80."] Lady Albert
Clinton then continued: "Mrs. Wet
more came to Europe about three years
ago with her son, lad about 13 years
of age. / think she met Lord Angle.
sey for the first time in Spain. When
she left America she had no idea of
permanently separating herself from
her husband, of whom she always
spoke with remorse, but Lord Angle
sey turned her head by promising to
marry her if she got 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, affectionate and con6d-
ing. Poor dear, she was so faithful to
Anglesey and believed in him so entire
ly. You know he lived on the Avenue
Kleber, occupying separate apartments
in the same house Three days before
her death she said, speaking of her hus-
band, Henry was always kind to me,
but we had nothing in common. We
were not made to live happily together.
He was much too religious for me, and
was never satisfied unless went to
church all day Sunday; but he was a
good, kind man. | never ought to have
left him. My fate should be warning
to American women who come abroad
without their legitimate protectors.
But she rarely gave way to these re-
morseful feelings, for she loved Angle
sey to distraction. Her last meeting
with him was on Sunday, June 20.
He told her he had to go to London on
business. She said to him, with sort
of instructive feeling, You will be true
to me, Henry, and come back as quick
ly as you can?' He replied that he
loved Ter as much as ever and parted
from her with every demonstration OF
affection, although be knew that be
had written her letter, dated the 10Th,
the day before, in which he bade her
farewell forever, and gave her to under
stand that all was at an end between
them. This letter was handed to her
next day by Mr.. Stone, Lord Angle
sey's secretary, and it drove her almost
to madness. 1t was then that / brought
her to my house, for she had no friends
here, and in the letter to which have
just 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 re-
ply of o 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
ful wrong?' In another passage she
says, 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 marriage p"
/ was neat shown a number of let
ters from Lord Anglesey, authenticated
by his family coat of arms. They were
all couched in the most endearing terms
commencing with "My lovely Anna
"My dearest" and closing with extrav-
agant assurances of undying love, es-
TEEN and fidelity. Seven of these let
ters, Lady Albert Clinton said, and
Mrs. Wetmore's lawyer assured me,
contain explicit and unequivocal pro-
misses of marriage, and cover period
of nearly three years. When it was
announced that the Marquis had mar
ried Mrs. Wodehouse, Mrs. Wetmore's
lawyer, who knew all the circumstan-
ces, urged that a suit for breach OF
promise should be instituted.
The deceased took no interest in all
this, the idea of death engrossing her
mind from the moment she heard OF
Lord Anglesey's marriage Every ef-
fort was made to calm her was vain,
and she paced up and down her room
the image Of despair. This lasted un-
til Wednesday morning, when on en-
tering her apartment, Lady Albert
Clinton found her in the last agony,
with eyes glaring, hands clinched and
face so distorted that she was hardly
recognizable. The servants were i'm
mediately sent for medical aid, but il
was 10 o'clock before doctor could be
found Every effort was then made to
save the poor sufferer, but in vain she
writhed in dreadful torture until about
3 o'clock, when she breathed her last.
When the Marquis heard of the melan-
choly event he sent word through his
lawyers that he would contribute ESQ
toward the expenses of the funeral
The burial lot alone at st. Germain
cost f40. The deceased was lady OF
refined and pleasing manners. She
was graceful and attractive, with espe-
cially pretty hands and feet, and her