Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-20
MN SECRET MADDOy
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--.-,.. who saw It for the nrst time
--..,.a gss q lovely place; and even
90, rso1 So was a familiar landmark
rene own that a more charming
a. than Madden Court could
--,. .,-d among the southern cOun-
England
-....ro. SD much the house SIS IFS si.u-
rc.. .ska away from it its wooded
i and Surroundings Of magnh-
...-.a Do IFS position on the green slcp-
tris s-i you h'd nothing bat a
.,.. regular. white building with
-r.rny ro.s, in which successive
. hai added 3 widow here,
-, .-taving there, and committed
-. .,-une 'ucoa2ruity Of erecting an
r r,- r5-ae3 ia font Of the old Tudor
al,s.o,.
lathe lbs. lrourd q green undulalng
Sd. ~-,,t ere and there by a few
-....-.f .-let1 of oak aod elm, left The
-.f,.. mousse cpsn TO the roadway,
.t... a. '.lv-g i.s gates wound on for
1850 Irmus or So until IL reached the
-r.gso. NJ ld0D. which derived its naue
s,.. RI. eocrt and in whose ancient church
..-.,r.v the founders ef the family,
". s,its and danes Of the house OF
r.r.r..I 'sy ia ptured state. For the
u'r.r.r. I'D been lords of Madden for
.----ss. aul Co the b1colic mind the
-,..-,itv OH there ever being a time when
e.. should ease O. be a Halliweu at the
.---. WAS o-. o.. rose things which j. was
irp.sb, Co conceive.
f was rsp.r.ei by those who pretended
t. snIsr.l With the family archives
-l,- once ths family possessions had been
f, imminent 13uasr Cf passing away nom
-t.o s',o-s.te- b. the time OF SIR Janss
En- ths Tihwells we're one OF those
f-soi aules who had been all thirg'
nt- men, Tly had been 10 The Cru
s-f.s.. the saria- portion of their history
h.fb.,r burned st Smitbhsid as heretiCs
later o1 under Nary the SanguiaeOus; had
m...l their g.s.e TO thu last mustard pot
t- King ava co1ntry during thu civil
var ana hl -anhl5d Teck'essly with
wtst rem med OF their property under the
Esra-o-
Sr n's s4lliweu had been one Of the
widest -i gckedsst spirits Of che Sec
tC.r., Court-a hoon comp7uion Of
I',..s- SOD De Grsmcnt-and 1t was
ssh .ti- having lost al his available pos
ss.s-s 81 The gaming table, be Rad been
sbr.0s.ske bis iuhe-i' auce on The for
tunes o.. t1e dice box, when, as he raised
BIS hand Oh make the cast, he was stricken
b7 .is pEZue I'M it's most malignant form,
lli died hid o1sly in less than two hours,
orassn by all, alternately CursiDg his
.- and uttcriug horrible blaspbenies
8lo1g the ruins of overturned caVd tables
ni broken wine hlsks, with the smoky
hgi. of suffering taloN candles to illum
bee bi7 ne th agony.
His picture, pain ei by Sir Peer Lsly,
hangs among the rest of the family por
traits 10 the picture gallery OF MADDOX
Court, and shows dark, handsome but
sinister looking individual of elegant fig
IRE, arrayed with an the costly magnif.
,sDcs OF the time, IN suit Of carnarioa-
.olorsd velvet, with a cloak of the same
il gold and lined with white
attn harging tcom one shoulder, ruff IS OF
be finest MechliD, and a plumei hat,
ooped with an emerald clasp. upon his
lead
This portrait, which wss completed but
short time before his death, and bears
be date 1905. - represents him as wear
lg SD eyil-l0okiog smile on his cOunte-
ance, and standing IN a negligent atti-
1de, with one hand on his silver-hibed
word, and it is reported that it was thus
tSred in this Identical costume that he
let his death, and was by mis-
wful end.
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