Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
ADvENTURESSES,
Who First Enchant and then Black
mall Rich Men.
SOME STRANGE AND PECULIAR CASES.
A Beautiful 'Syren Descended from ROYALTY
The False Countess Of 0erwent-
water-A Tale Of Secret
Marriage.

llNo NAS aNfSANuFcI, tue adventures is
Of every nation and generation, and of
marvellous ingenuity. The adventures
peuetrates into every circle of the COM
munity, from the highest to the lowest
She is leading spirit among the religious
like Mrs. Allen, who a year or so ago
sAametuily tortured feeble-minded girl
seCludirg and starving her in a lonely
mouse in the country, in order that she
u.cht enjoy the girls small fortune.
The adventures is found as an instructor
al youth in wealthy families, like the &C.
C,mP.Ished SOyerness, who not long ago.
IoOk advantage Of her position in family
. rob the inmates OF clothing and other
Na,UabIeS.
The beautiful syren who enchants rich
married men and then black mails them. il
= wel.-kuOwu character.
but though the genus adventures Is
abundant and prolific in y,llainous schemes,
ihey are all on small scale compared with
Tue male species, aud the world has seen but
Re" Really Great AdVenIuresses.
The only one to be so ranked was Mad.
SINE DE Is Motto. BY one of those strange
NiclSsltudes that attend even royalty, a
meal descendant of the house of Yalois
VS. reduced to beggary in village in
burgundy. By q lucky chance when a
child Jeanne dU NaloiS happened 10 solic.
II aims OF the wife Of Provost of Paris,
then on visit to the village. The little
SKI asked her 20 give something to the
descendant Of the former kings OF France"
Struck by the StraDgeness OF the appeal.
Tue .EoYus. ; wife inquired into the Child's |
story, and finding her to be what she |
represented adopted her and took her 10
fsT'S. hat begGar girl was destined 20 be- |
rome tbs originator OF one OF the most ro- !
wanuc episodes m the worlds history "A
mystery which is yet UnSOlyel, and which !
ted indirectly 20 the legal Il UrdeS Of a !
queen, the disgrace of a cardinal, and !
PrsCpitaled the most terrible OF all up |
r'>'0gs.
The French ReyOIutiOu.
~ hat Jeanne de YalOis, afterward Mad. |
a.ae de "a NoJte, the street besgar, is Justly /
entitled tO.rsn& as the one greas female |
siyrrtUrer Of the world.
In the affair OF the diamond necklace, |
Marie AutOinette is always invested with |
tIe principal interest, and pitied or blamed |
according 10 the impression made by the /
strange story on the mind OF the reader.
But Cor Madame de la Motto. the woman |
who conceived the plot to make Cardinal
Ge Eohah disgorge the price Of the
queens famous diamond necklace Justice I
has not been done her wonderful brain. |
he epItOme OF the Oft told tale is this:
Madame Ne Ia Motto became the wife Of q |
IOOF and Inscriptions officer. She was a |
beautiful woman and he cOnnived at her !
SnOTrS. as they enabled him to live ex-
traVagantly; Madame's undOubted royal
lineage, and the position given her by the |
ITOYOstS vile enabled her to meet the |
highest society OF the day, and she became
The Confidential Companion
OF Cardinal de ROhan. She soon ascer-
tanned that his ruling ambition was to pos
>esS over the queen the same influence |
Cardinal llaLarin had over Anne OF
Austria, but Marie Antoinette hated DE
EOhan, and for years would not speak TO
him. This Nine. Mette persuaded him,
WAS owing 10 the fear OF her affection be-
lag discovered, and she thought best to
hide 1t under the pretenSe of hatred. The
French nation vas very poor; they had |
been so stripped 10 keep up the luxury OF
one monarch after another that they had
,Ome TO want bread, and we're in danger
C~s state of discomfort and revolt. Louis
Ky. had u-lcred for Nine. On Barry 3 dia-
mOnd ncgklace worth - 10000 French |
pounds bat the king dying before il was
completed toe necklace remained in the
hands Of the crown jewellers, who, year
after year. vainly urged Marie AntOinette
- purchase IL. They offered 10 make a
,p.rnd.j present to whoever would ind
tUyer amt Nine la Motto induced DE
rOhap to believe the queen desired him
secretly 10 obtain II Tor her.
She Forged Letters
10 snow to the cardinal as coming from the
queen 20 her, conveying messages to hum,
aId evan hunted up u woman who bore 50
S.r,ng resemblance to Marie AutOinette
~ 20 deceive any one. This wOmaa met
tue cardinal in the park, she pretending to
Ig the queen. After that he put up the
money for the necklace, which was deliy-
cred TO Niue. de la Motto. Her husband
had .Uined her in the plot. They broke up
the necklace and he disposed OF il in Eng
land. he EOLan finally became impatient
90 the queens continued silence and con
tempt. and he whole affair was made the
sUbleCt of legal inquiry.
Gue French people, dISlking Marie An
t0iaette, beljeVed the story OF the La
Mol,es-that she had commissioned them
u induce the Cardinal TO buy the neck
lie. Judgment was given against Mime.
2 & MOtUe, bur the revolution restored her
o. liberty. She fed 10 England, where she
lived IN great poverty. One day; being
plI-ued By Il creditor, she Crawled ON TO
line sill OF a window to escape him. fell
and was wOrtally injured.
7he Next Great Adventures.
laousu less known, was Amelia Radcliffe,
>p,atied Countess OF Derwentwater. She
Gained to nr the descendant and helreSS
AZ James Radcliffe, the last Earl OI Der
w-utwStyr. who suffered death on Tower
Hill fO- his devotion 70 the cause of The
Pretender' He was called the Martyr
Ear.. aud his name even yet remains green
and yenerated among the descendants OF ,
those amOug. whom he lived. He was I'M
menseiy wealthy and his estates were for
Ieitvd To the crown. \ small portion was,
however. allowed 10 his son, who retired
II tbs continent And here the
My-tcry and Confusion
her;as Uae OF his g-andsOuS. II Is
,.daLyu. H.arcied descendant OF John
Sobiu,kj. O.. Poland, and Amelia was their
daughter
In 1865 she made her appearance in Eng.
land. gad took possession Of the home OF .
her ancestors, DllStone Castle.
There was not a room that had q stick of /
furniture n it, and the entire castle was /
without roO!. Nevertheless the countess
tOOS up her quarters only TO he elected |
ny tire 0ilicoSS OF the crown. She .
then ,lm2gI on the roadside, the people 1
bringing hrr most tDuntIlUl supplies. She 4
enurArorrd To- collect the Derweutwater !
rent, sud almost riot took place, the |
entire pOpulaCc believing in her claims, !
0ud supporting her ITetensiOnS "a the |
rirhtfU, descendant Of the "Martyr-Earl;" |
-2iap were raised for her to prosecute /
Icy NU't But the proofs Of her line /
axe uat being found satisfactory, she was /
Declared An ImpOstor.
sui her creditors became clamOrOUS for |
tar's money, and jewelry, pictures, ana |
whatever else of value she had brought /
with her were sold at auction to satisfy |
them, after which the so-called Countess !
Oi DeEwentwater disappeared, and nothing |
more was heard OF her. Sne was a fine !
looking elderly woman, who dressed in |
the Austrian military uniform and wore |
sword by her side, There was q great deal !
nt intrlcacy in this case-the adherentS Of |
tse Countess contendiag that the only son |
Ol me Aartyr-Earl lived to old age under |
an assumed name in Germany, and reared |
atamily. The government contended that |
Afue"a claims to being his descendant |
vas impossible, as the EarIs son died be. |
lore ae reached manhood.
Like YendeitaS these old claims to birth |
ana fortune never seem to die out. But |