The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-14
The WIFE OF A PRIEST
Sad Sequel to the Flight Of Father
Lake and His Bride from New York.
Alter the Death ct Her Husband-A
Sensation which Caused - Gr~ss
Deal of Talk Year. Ago.

NEw YORK, Nov. l3.-News has just
been received here of the death i'm Spain
of Mrs. Sarah Ginev.ra Lake, widow Of
Rev. Henry =. Lake. the brilliant young
Catholic priest. who. nearly seventeen
years ago. forssok the church to marry
the woman whom hc loved. The story OF
the romantic career Of this couple was
yesterday told by an intimate friend.
Father Lake WAS the son Of Henry Lake,
senior partner of the house of Lake d Mo
(rccry. leading dry goods men i'm New
York ID years ago. He had been brought
up in the Protestant faith and at the aae
OF Is caused much coustcrnation in his
family 10y the announcements that he had
been converted tn the Catholic faith. He
Ia n. where he passed through the various
grades until ready tn e.iter the priesthood:
10 better prepare himself. he determined
Ia go TAI Rome. and there entered the
American college. having as brother
student Rev. Dr. Alct;lynn. While i'm Rome
he collected - rare Catholic library. said
po~Srsss-i by - Jesuit father in this city.
For the tirst six years of priesthood he hs'-
iougsd tn the Paulist order.
In the cour-.. of the study of ..locution
he met Miss Sarah Ginevera hsfa, ~ girl
of l'i, who MAS studying under the Same
teacher. she was a young Ts,etess and y
public reader. who nlad.. her debut As AN
actress unsicr Mrs. Sheridan at the Union
square tl,s,ater. Lake and she fell in love.
hut for "a long time kept the feeling con-
cealssi from each other. The struggle ts.-
tween duty to tl,. church and love for this
girl Was "a very bitter one. bat love natur>
ally won, and Lake deserted the church.
They were married secretly and lived in
New York for ~ short time under the name
| Of Ednhonsls.
Lakes Disappearance vario,,sly
discovered that In. young prizes, was mar
| riesl. A few friends who were privy to the
secret did not let il be known till Mr.
and Mrs. Eslmon,ls'' had left the city.
| Then IL was the scandal of "A day. Whittier
| the. couple. wandered WAS not known for
| several years by the friends left behind.
| lint m
| confident in this city from San FrAncisco.
telling of the happy life they were living.
! ccivcsi on Christmas day, 1870. from Santa
| ruz. announcing the death OF Father
| Lake 10y consumption. Mrs. Lake ~
| turned to- san Francisco and made n
| home for herself in u quiet little house ora
Fifth street. When her grief had some
| what subsidized, she wrote a letter tai q
friend which WAS evidently Intended as a
defense of her ard Father lakes action
- have been blamed for inducing my
husband to break his vows and leave his
church. This charge is false. When he
told me of his love we discussed the ps,cu-
liari,y of his position. advised him Ia
stay IN the church. He studied up the
question of cciihacy and this led him to
investigate and lac concluded that the. sys-
ten had no divine origin OF authorization
or course, loving him was passive to hi-
wishes. We secretly sailed for California
reaching san Francisco on the 9TH OF No
ve,niss.r, 1874. In the hope OF finding a
mors. congs.nial CLINE for the con-,iinptivs
we went to Vera cruz and settled down fo,
life. He started "a newspaper. but had ns
heart for the struggle, even in this far ot
favored and lovely land. But, neverths.
less, lived and loved until deatl
claimed him. Here l ann in "a great cit,
alone. thousands of miles from any of r,!
friends. l have written to Mr.. Lake
friends in New York. but I do not know
. how they look upon me now that he !
dead. Most OF my own friends in New
. York have ignored me entirely. and ye
what great cr,m. ar shameless act have
: done: I simply obeyed the purest am
uoblr~t instincts that God has planted il
the. human breast"
. Nothing more. had been heard of Mr.
Lake until her death was made known b
letter IA few days ago.