Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-02
DEATH JOINED THEIR HANDS.
Pathetic Suicide Of Two Lovers on
an English Railway.
THE WIDOWS HEART WAS BROKEN
An Aged Philadelphia Lady Expires
Suddenly on Learning Her Lovers
Pcrndity-Married Them in
the Highway.
Little Ronnnces.

suicide on the Midland railway, be-
tween Nottingham and Trent, Eng
land, under highly romantic circum-
stances.
Lillian Barford assumed the position
of barmaid at the Midland hotel, at
Derby, for which purpose she had left
her home In the north of England.
Owing to some misunderstanding with
the proprietors she relinQuished her
new position after having been in it
only few days. A young Belgian
named Feron, who happened to
be staying with some relatives
at Derby, and who had in an in
formal manner, made the young lady's
acquaintance during her brief appear
ance as the divinity of the bar at the
Midland hotel, met her one evening,
bowed, resumed the acquaintance, and
made an appointment to take her to
the theater on the following night.
Feron, whose father resides in Brussels,
was we'll supplied with money. Feron
became perfectly infatuated with Miss
Bradford, who returned his affection in
an equally vivid manner. The course
of true love was not destined to run
smoothly. however. Before making the
acquaintance of Lillian. the inflamma-
BILE young Belgian had already mort
gagged his affections to the daughter
of prominent Derby merchant.
The young lady did not show
any disposition to relnquish her claims
in favor of his later utilization, and hav-
ing in her possession a number of pas
sionate epistles from the young man,
determined to sue him for breach of
promise, for which purpose she placed
her case in the hands of her lawyers.
AT this juncture Feron's father arrived
from Brussels. After wasting week
or two in these Intellectual remon-
strances, the senior Feron finally re-
turned to the continent without his son,
who was still as madly in love as ever
with the fascinating Miss Bradford, who
had reluctantly confessed to him that
she also had previously pledged her af-
fections to another, who was expecting
her shortly to become his wife.
The strangely unsophisticated couple
seemed to be able to see no way out of
| their difficulties other than suicide, and
repeatedly announced their intention
| of completing their erratic careers by a
| sensational termination. On Saturday
| last the couple decided to visit Noting
ham, for some purpose which has not
| transpired, and before starting the girl
announced their intention to the land
vi SulCluc tOSoUueE,
| saying that they would be found dead
! together on the train. Upon arrival of
| the train at Trent, however, the couple.
| who had secured q compartment to
| themselves, were found stretched upon
| the floor, bleeding and lifeless. Feron's
| revolver, which he had been eXcep-
tionally fond of exhibiting, was the
weapon which did the deadly work, and
| there is no doubt that Feron first shot
the girl and then himself.
Mrs. Jane Bell, widow of ffty-six
| years, native of England, and dress
maker, died lately in Philadelphia,
| Penn, of a broken heart. The doctors
called it ''heart clot." She was the
mother of two grown daughters, who
had died, and had with her her twelve
year-old granddaughter, Eva. William
Reath, rich widower, who had known
her husband, came courting her, and for
the past two years has been constant
visitor at her house, calling regularly
two evenings week, and modestly re-
firing promptly as the clock struck TO-.
Last Sunday, while coming from
church with Mr.. Reath, woman
rushed up and said What are you
doing with my husband?" He assured
her that he was not married to the wo-
man, and Gained her rutfled feelings.
| buo woman GAME ana Sdlu Snc
was Reath's wife, but the willy widower
persuaded her to the contrary. To as
sertan the truth Widow Bell asked
Rev. Mr.. Culver, the clergyman, who
sent the unfortunate widow slip CIV
ing an account of her recreant lover 8
marriage nine years before. She went
into swoon, and in half an hour the
angel of death eased erpain.
Andrew Mitchell, of New Haven,
Conn, recently died in poverty in a
Baltimore hospital, ignorant of for
tune waiting his claim in his native
state: Rev. William E. Bartlett, pastor
of ST. AIMS Catholic church, found the
poor fellow dying in the United States
Marine hospital, in Baltimore, and ad-
ministered to him the last rites of the
church. He told the priest he had
wealthy relatives in Connecticut, but he
him, and he had nothing to hope for
from that source. He said that when
twenty years of age he had run away
from home, went to California,
shipped on a Pacific trader and followed
the sea for twenty years, when
stricken down with Bright's disease, he
was compelled to leave his vessel at
this port and enter a hospital. The
priest was much interested in his story,
| anu Wueu ue ulcu ldu MS TeHldlUS Dur-
led in the Holy Cross cemetery, instead
of letting them go to pauper's grave.
Through the medium of the conference
ST. Vincent de Paul, Rev. Bartlett then
communicated with the branch of the
conference at New Haven, and learned
that Mitchell's relatives were all dead
and he was the sole, heir to an extern
sive estate. The officers of the ST.
Vincent de Paul conference here will
not say much about the dead sailors
family, but it is understood
his family were very prom
inent in the early history of New Eng
| and. 1t is stated that the fortune now
without claimant consists principally of
real estate and farm lands in the neigh
borhood of Hartford and New Haven.
The executors of the estate, which is
valued AZ $500 600, have, it is said, been
looking for the sailor heir all over the
world, and tracing him from port to port
until about year ago, when the search
was abandoned, and he was given up
for dead. He had intimated to his COM
rade that he left home because of a
boyish love affair, match to which his
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