Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-19
a ROMANCE OF LIFE.
The Widow of Former Prominent Actor
and How She Became Such-Her Pres
ence IN st. Paul.

The Widow of a Former Prominent Actor
and How She Became Such-Her Pres
ence IN st. Paul.
Early in the seventies the American stage
was for brief season graced by the pres
ence of Walter Montgomery. Ae was an
English actor of remarkable genius, great
facial and physical beauty, and in appear
ance and manners one upon whom each
god had put his seal to give the world as
surance of man. Though neither dude
nor a masher according to the significance
of the term, he met with
the admiration accorded distinguished
and handsome histrions by the women of
the United States without regard to age or
social position and prominence. His en-
gagement in New York was season of
professional triumph, not less than
season of feminine alteration. He was
courted and Toasted and petted by the
Knickerbocker residents of the avenue,
and esteemed as the one altogether lovely
among ten thousand by visions of lowell
ness who sparkle for sea-
son in haunts of sin, and
then are heard of no more.
His experience in the metropolis was that
of a star of incompatible brilliancy in the
dramatic armament, and this was dupli-
Gated during his engagement in Boston.
While there he accomplished the conquest
of a lady who moved in the most select cir
cles- From her luxurious home on Beacon
street hill she dictated the fashion and
elegance for which the Athens of America
has become famous, since fashion
and elegance obtained precedence over
the stern manner of life said to be
indigenous to descendants of the
Pilgrim founders of Fanueil hall. It is
but just to the lady to state that the admi-
ration she expressed, and the tender feel
ing such admiration gave birth to was
fully reciprocated by the eminent actor.
To have done otherwise would have been
unnatural, nor in the light of subsequent
events can he be charged with having es-
tranged affections from one who was le-
gally and by form of marriage entitled to
their sole enjoyment. For he was ignor-
ant that she was the wife of another
While that ignorance continued his bliss
was supreme, but when he unexpectedly
discovered, that discoveryiwas the preface
to tragedy more real, more sad, more
pitiful than the creations of genius or the
productions of the mimic stage. Upon
the conclusion of his season at Boston he
went to California, whittier his admirer
followed, and where she remained while he
performed to delighted audiences on the
Pacific coast circuit. Upon his return to
New York he sailed for England, and the
same ship which bore him out across the
bosom of the bread Atlantic to his home
across the sea, included also
his fair admirer and enslaver. Arriving
in London they were married, and for a
season they are represented to have enjoyed
all possibilities of domestic happiness.
One day it was reported to him that his
wife, was wife only in name, for she had
deserted the home of husband in Boston,
to be folded in the embrace of a lovers
arms. He immediately sought his wife,
and obtaining from her confirmation of
the truth of the report, condemned her for
the deplicity she had employed, and re-
nounced his. allegiance. Going to the
rooms of club of which he was a mem
Ser, overwhelmed with mortifca-
ton, he put an end to
his misery by shooting himself to death.
His remains were taken charge of by
friends, and after the cause of the "deep
damnation of his taking off" had seen him
inferred in Kensel Green, removed to Paris,
when after brief residence she returned
to America. She was a passenger in a
north bound train from this city yesterday
and the lines of care visible on her
countenance, her hair prematurely gray
and other evidences of mental distress,
gave notice that with her the debt called
Nemesis was not yet fully paid.