St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-06
Serious InSinuations Are Cast
at the Prince Of Wales
Eldest Son.
The Suicide Of a Gaiety Girl
Raises Seandalous Sur
misses.
A Gallus Young Lord Goes to
the Front to Protect the
Prince.
Anti Clerical Demonstrations
in Rome--Genepal Run Of
Europe.

est is being taken in the echoes of the
inquest on Saturday last Oh the body of
Lydia Miller, or Manton, to use her
stage name, a chorus girl of the Gaiety
theater, who recently committed suicide
by drinking half pint of carboIic acid.
At the inquiry on Saturday, it will be
remembered, Lord Charles Montagu,
brother of the Duke of Manchester,
testified to having been on very intimate
Germs with the deceased and to having
been late i'll keeping an appointment to
lunch with her on the day of her death.
This failure TO keep an appointment
promptly is said to have greatly an
noyed the chorus girl. Since the in
quest mysterious illusions have been
made in the newspapers to certain
high parsonage. understood to be Prince
Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince
of Wales, who also is said to have had
intimate relations with the dead girl.
As in the case of the death of the Duke
of Bedford, who shot himself in fit of
temporary insanity Jan. IA last, and
whose death for a considerable
period afterward was said to be due
TO natural causes, attempts have been
made by the coroner, who is the same
official who acted in the case of the
suicide of the Duke of Bedford, to hush
up the real facts in connection with the
death of the Galety girl, whose portrait
has been displayed among those of the
fashionable beauties of the day. This
anxiety to conceal facts in the case is
said to be on account of the dead
actress noble and royal protectors, but
II is only serving to attract further at
tention to the case. The coroner to-day
still refuses access to the dispositions
taken, and it is only stated that the
members of the corOneT'S jury were
called upon to sign blank paper in
stead of the usual record of the pro-
ceedings.
The Star to-day, commenting upon the
affair. says that the truth as to the mys-
terry will never be known, and that it is
0bv ious that another inquest has been
hushed up without good cause. 1t
says: "A number of honorable
and highly estimable gentlemen huShed
up the Tranby Croft affair for the sake
of society, and the circumstances of his
death are said to have been kept dark
for the sake of society. But society
does not mean Lord Charles Montagu-
he is an amiaDle young ariStocrat and
the brother OF duke, but dukes are
cheap in Coroner Troutbeck'S district
for his friends never suspected Lord
Charles Montague of great wealth.
Moreover there never was mucn secret
about stage door jeuneSSe dOree. TO be
on good terms with Il smart chOriSter is
so much the correct thing that young
swell is more likely to flaunt than to dis
guise it, while being OH Christian name
terms with lord would be staggered
about by the smart chorisrer.
But no one suspected Lord Charles
Montagu and Lydia Manton to be more
than the mereSt acquaintance. There
* one VOnDp man NbOCa mama iS olOSaiV
connected with hers, and it is the name
of young man whose position would
authorize efforts to hush the matter up
for the sake Of society," 1t was at his
request, or by his command, that she
left the Gaiety theater, so it was said on
her authority at the time. A little house
at Broadstairs could tell stories about
Miss Manton. 1t was there she passed
the summer, and BroadstairS had, at
the same time, distinguished visitor,
whose presence, if 1t rad been generally
known, would have given the place eX-
cellent advertisement. This may give
some idea as to why people are calling
Lord Charles Montagu chivalrOus and
self-sacriticing. He came forward at
the inquest and assumed the role of the
particular friend in order to screen
another.
THE girl lived in great style; had
large quantity of diamonds, and used to
drive to the Gaiety theater in the smart
est of dog carts, with tiger behind
her. She was at the Gaiety Wednes-
day. She went behind the scenes,
where her appearance created a senSa-
ton. She had inst returned from Broad
stairs, full of merry "reminiscences of
her holiday.
when questioned as to the proba-
bility of her rejoining the chorus, she
laughed and declared that it wasn't
good enough and that she had no need
of work. But it was noticed that there
was a suspicion of hysteria in her flow OF
spirits. and that there were tears in her
eyes when she babe an unusually af-
fectionate farewell to her friends"
The st. James Gazette, the Globe,
and other papers denOunce the coroners
secrecy.
. The Star also says: "When it was
found that she wore diamond bracelet
as a mark of princely favor, it was
quite certain that everything that
money could do would be done to pre-
vent publicity at the inquest. Was it
because there was a crime to conceal?
Or was it because some exalted person
age was invoived-some person whose
feelings could not endure the penalty
of eXposure?"
In an interview with George Lewis,
Q. c., who watched the inquest upon
the body of the dead Gaiety girl, that
distinguished lawyer said Il know
nothing of any attempt to suppress tes-
timony. No motive for the girls suicide
has transpired, excepting that she was
highly strung and subject to fits of de
preston. She had previously threat
ened TO commit suicide. There was no
suggestion at the inquest that Lord
Charles Montague was not the real per-
son involved The girls relatives were
very angry, and if there had been any
one behind Lord Montague they would
have elected that fact"
Miss Lydia Miller, who was only
twenty three years of age, will be re-
membered by some people in the United
States, as she visited America in 1888,
with the Gaiety company of that year.