New Ulm weekly review., 1885-03-18
The sorrowfu1 Story ofa Young Lady o.
Baltimore.

A Baltimore dispatch of Thursday
says: Over newly made grave in
the burying ground attached to Bay
View asylum there stands a tombstone
bearing the following inscription;
annie Collins, aged 19 years." Under
this assumed name there died at the
asylum recently young lady named
Ada Aubrey, member of respectable
family Of this city, and the niece of ex-
Mayor Stansbury of Baltimore, whose
life ended In tragedy. Some months
ago an elderly lady, accompanied by
young girl, called upon one of the
trustees of the asylum and asked that
her companion be given shelter there.
The elder lady said that she was aunt
to the girl, who was poor and orphaned.
The girl was Of the most beautiful
brunette type.
Her story was briefly told to the gen
tleman from whom she sought aid, and
it was but repetition of the oft-told
tale OF mans treachery and woman's
folly. Some two years ago she met
cousin. They were thrown much to-
gether at home and in public assem-
blages, and the young man, by his de.
voted attention, soon showed to Ill OBJ
servers that he was deeply in love with
his beautiful cousin. She reciprocated
his affection, and wnen he proposed for
her hand she accepted his offer. His
financial condition not warranting an
ma tn
was kept secret, but the lovers still
continued devoted, and he seemed
never to weary of the society of his fail
cousin. Matters went on thus for a
long time, until yielding to importuni-
ties and beguiled by the promises of
her betrothed, was ruined. When her
mother was told Of it she refused to
believe that her daughter had
fallen so low, and thinking that
her illness was of some other
nature, sent her to visit relatives in the
country. When her real condition could
no longer be concealed, the girl left and
returned to her mother, expecting to
find there the shelter and comfort which
she could hope for nowhere else Her
falthless lover had fled when he learned
OF the ruin his deceit had wrought.
The mother thinking only of the dis
grace brought upon her name, refused
to receive the girl. Persuaded by
friends of the family, she at length con-
sented to use her influence to obtain
her wayward child admission to the
asylum at Bayview, but refused to ac-
knowledge her as her daughter. Thus
the girl was taken in under an assumed
name, and with not one Of her relations
and friends to cheer her in her sorrow.
Her beautiful face and winning manners
won the hearts of the attendants at
the asy ylum, and though they did not
know her real name nor station in life,
everything possible was done to smooth
her path and comfort her. In few
weeks child was born. The young
mother, weakened and excited by the
trouble through which she had passed,
became very i'll and in few days died.
A message was sent to the mother of the
young woman, but she did not come to
her daughters bedside, and thus amid
strangers and her identity wholly un-
known, the girl whose future had seemed
so bright with promise of happiness in
time and the esteem of friends breathed
her last. A plain wooden coffin was sent
out to the asylum. and the girl placed
in it and driven off to a cemetery an6
buried. No priest or friend was il
attendance.