Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-01-13
THE CHRIsTI4N NOY sOAHDAL.

the Published Letters,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The lovers of
sensation and those who fad pleasure in
the exposure of the indiscretionso of weak
and foolish woman have been supplied
with rich feast in the publication Of the
letters from Mrs Lille Christiancy to
Edil Giro. While the public here generally
are of the opinion that Minister Chris
tiancy has right to demand divorce,
there are still many who condemn Giro as
a scoundrel for his unmauly course in per-
scouting woman, the tone Of whose gush-
ing and loving letters is sufficient to show
her passionate devotion and almost insane
love for the Spaniard. Indeed, it is diff
cult to express the full sentiment of the
people here about the matter. IL is the
leading topic of discussion in all circles,
and is likely to be the sensation for some
days.
The gst of the woman's letters is to the
effect that there WAS an understanding
between the parties that they were to
marry as soon AS Mrs. Cristianoy
could be legally separated from her hus-
band; and holding out their future happi-
ness together as his reward, she appeals to
Giro to come forward and testify in her
behalf, and to assist her in breaking down
the charges arising out Of her improper
intimacy with bin, in order that she can
establish her own allegations against her
husband of cruelty and infdelity. 1t
seems that Giro failed to respond TO the
appeals, and in several instances she
threatens suicide, finally concluding her
correspondence by denouncing him and
demanding the return of her letters.
Those that have been published run from
March 4th to July 18th, 1880. The fol-
lowing will show their style:
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 4, 1sSO-DEAR
EDtLBERTo If you stilllove me, in pity come
to me. If you do not, then let principles of
honor move you. Mr.. G. has applied for
divorce.
If you come aud still love me, you will find
me good loving wife. for know now, that
Will gladly marry you. will very soon be
free here, but wish to get the divorce
not have him get it on account of my
thoughtless imprudence with you. If you do
not come here and aid me | swear that will
kill myself. You must aid me. Let your
manhood assert itself and save me. Come
just as soon AZ this is received.x If you still
love me you will soon have yourreward, for |
will be your wife, and l will be good and low
ing. II you have ceased to love me, pity me-
and save me, for my death, and death would
make it, would come through you. Come
Immediately. Yours, LILLE.
81 ID street.
In the other letters she begs "Desr
Edilberto" to write the testimony she asks,
and says:
"If you fail to write Just the testimony
| asked you for, without anything left out
for one item would spoil the effect of
| the evidence-I will soon 90 out of this
life and by my own hand, forced to this
by you.
"With woman's agony plead to you
| to save me. 1 am crying while l write,
for pity myself. am no coward, but it
seems pitiful for so young life to be put
out as the flame of candle.
''If to. night could stand by your side
your wife should be glad, but not unless
it was without stain. If you love me, and
| clear me, you can come and take me away
your wife, and without stain. will be
80 tender and true.
IF you don't love me, l can, with q
clean name, make my way in the world,
but if this trial comes on without evidence
from you, will never live to meet it.
swear this. / am so sad and tired of
trouble, but dsath at 25 seems hard.
I'm letter to MIR. Giro, but without
signing her name she asks for the return
of al her letters, promising to return
letters and jewels to him"
To MIR. jackson she writes:
"Mr. Giro alone has ruined me, If fall.
He can save me, and / think you must
agree with ME that no man of any honor
would let q woman SO suffer, through him,
even if he hated the woman, and had
never known for her a deeper or more
tender feeling.
"a man should mako sacrifice to
shield weak woman from the conse.
quences of any act of his. The world
condones any fault in man, but women
lose their good name and all is lost.
II mean simply and truly that would
never live through such, and with q
stained name | would kill myself"
In another letter to Edil, she says "For
Gods cake, feel what is true, that there is
but one thing in life to bring happiness
that is the real L0ge of two persons; married
love, l mean. The love and possession
of woman will not bring peace and content
and in the years to come life would seem
very empty. Feel this, Edil aud let &C
friend or friends come between US, bring.
ing shadow of doubt"
The Star says that the letters purport
ing to have been written by Mrs. Chris
|
by the prosecution to be only few tha
Giro retained when, at Mrs. Christiancy',
request, he turned over 80 letters and tele
grams and two photographs of her to DIR
Blood, who still holds the correspondence
1t ia said that Giro stated to certain per
sons in New York, in effect, that if Mrs
Ohristiancy had been faithful and true il
! her love for him he would never have con
+ sented to testify against her; that HI
, would have gone to his death rather thai
= injure her. But, he said, she not onl,
j unceremoniously dropped him for Blood
, bus that she had kept his (Giro's) jewel
} and had obtained money from him be
| sides. Notwithstanding his com plant
/ against the lady, Giro pretended to b
, | very reluctant to testify against her
? While the examination was pending il
Q New York, hewever, and before Gro hat
e given any testimony in the least compro
e missing Mrs. Christiancy, Giro WAS Al
g rested on warrant sworn out by Dr
@ Blood. The attorneys for Mr.. Ohristianc
obtained his release. The arrest mad
d Giro furious.
h He at once told the prosecution that b
n would tell all he knew, and furnIshe
: them with the letters he had retained
IS The STIR publishes another interview
a with Mrs.. Christiancy in which she denie
Y having written the published letters allcRe
n 10 have been written by her and ad1resse
y to Edelberto Giro.
Al Mrs. Christiaucy says that she is willin
d enough to explain such letters az she di
k write, ard to give history of her conntt
q ton with Giro. She says, among otbe
10 things, that she declined many writte
requests of Giro to be permitted to CON
ID to see her at Washington; but finally wei
"a with lady friend to meet him at the rsi
" road depot on his arrival from New Yor
" on the strength of an assertion on his pa
,r that he was about to return TO Peru, gp
le that "kuowing there was much talk Rbol
,e her there he wisbed TO hear her side
1, the story, to defend her" She says ST
10 did not accompany him to the hotel, b'
le subsequently she and her lady frien
is dned With him at a restaurant. The ne,
ly morning, at her mothers house, lie urge
sd her to obtain divorce and marry hin
but she declined. He came back late
the afternoon and told her there had bee
a woman with him al the hotel that sfte
noon; that some one had said it WAS 81
(Mrs. Christianoy) that MIR. Christian'
ne and his friends were prosecuting her, at
that she must marry him. She repli'
as that Mr.. Ohristisncy and his friends mig
ty drive her to death, but they could n
., make her marry him, and she nev