The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-02
Romance and Tragedy.

The suicide of Mrs Wetmore in Paris
on account of her love for the Marquis
of Anglesey and his desertion of her is
Just beginning to wake up the sleepy
newspapers Of Paris, which thinks more
of polishing a political squib than they
do of giving their readers the news.
The unhappy end of that lady was
caused by the base conduct of an En-.
glisn nobleman. She was a married
woman, having her little boy with her
while her former husband was in this
country, the latter having obtained a
divorce from her on the ground of deser
ton. When Mrs Wetmore left Amer
lea she had no thought of permanent
separa lion from her husband, but she
became infatuated with Anglesey, whom
she met in Spain and who is very
handsome and fascinating person, and
evidently ecouraged her husband to be
lieve that she had left him for good. OF
him, says cable dispatch to the New
York Herald, she always spoke with re-
morse end three days before her death
she said of him: Henry was always
kind to me but we had nothing in COM
mon. We were not made to live hap
PLY together. He was much too relig-
ious for me, and was not satisfied unless
I went to church all day Sunday; but
he was a good, kind nan. | never
ought TO nave left him. My fate should
be a warning to American women who
come abroad without their legitimate
protectors. This is pathetic and per
haps the story Of her misfortunes will
be efectual in preventing other foolish
women and their equally foolish hus-
bands from INDUCING IN such protracted
separations.
Anglesey's treatment of the misguided
woman was villainous. The dispatch,
quoting from her friend, Lady Albert
Clinton, at whose house she died, says:
''Her last meeting with him was on
Sunday, June o0th. He told her he
had to 90 to London on business, She
said TO him with a sort OF instructive
feeling. you will be true 10 me. Hen
~, and come .bacl; as quickly as you
can He replied that he loved her as
much as ever, and parted with
her with every demonstration Of atfec-
ton, although he knew he Lad written
her letter, dated the 10Th, the day be-
fore, in which lie babe her farewell for
ever, and gave her 10 understand that
all was at an end between them. This
letter was handed to hey next dav 10y
Mr. Stone, Lord AnsleseYs secretary,
and it drove her almost to madness. 1t
was then that | brought her TO my
house; for she lad no friends here, and
in the letter to which / have Just re-
ferred, Lord Anglesey gave her 70 un-
derstand that she must leave her apart
ments and write no more than one letter
to him. To this she wrote reply Of a
most touching character, in which she
appealed to the Marquis manhood.
Remember, she said, al. have lost
for you. Can you expect that God will
prosper you or yours when you are cap
able Of such wrongF In another pas
sage she says, Can it be possible that
YOU having 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
pretended affection up to the week be-
fore your marriagel
Lady Clinton says that MIR. Whet
mores lawyer has in his possession
many letters from Lord Anglesey to this
lady, all professiag passionate affection
for her. and in no less than seven OF
them he declared that he would marry
her as soon as she obtained her divorce
from her husband. Yet when reminded
of this his lawyers coolly reminded her
lawyer that there was no law Furnishing
breach of promise in france, and an Of
fence committed there could not be
tried in England. The Importance Of
this case lies not in romance but in the
lesson it teaches to American women, so
many of whom aspire to European mar
riages. Rochester Herald