Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-07
TRUE TO HER LOVE.
A Charming New York Heiress, Who
Eloped From Sewickley and
WASMARRIED ATONCE IN BEAVER,
Now Makes Daily Visits to Her Husband in
the Metropolitan Jail.
HE is CALLED THE KING OF SWINDLERS

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in Sewickley last January, eloped to Beaver
and was married to man calling himself
Walter Eaton.
1t shortly after transpired that the bride
groom was not Eaton at all, but an adven'
turer calling himself Sidney Lascelles. Less
than month previous to this event the
man who followed Miss Lilienthal to Sc.
wickley and married her had been registered
| at the New York Yacht Club and the Man
haitian Club as Walter S. Beresford.
Beresford-Lascelles-E -Eaton-Bond is want
ed in Rome, Ga, because of his high living
there at other peoples expense, and he is
now in the Tombs, New York, on the charge
preferred by Richard X. Fox that he issued
draft for $500 on funds in England which
did not exist. Requisition papers have been
countersigned by Governor Hill and Georgia
officials are ready and anxious to return
with their prisoner, and the granting In
Brooklyn of a writ of habeas corpus which
disappointed the Georgia victims gave
the elusive Englishman a breathing spell in
the Tombs
HEIREsS OF LOVELY HOME.
Miss Lilienthal was the youngest men,
ber of the family of Christian 81. Lilienthal,
another daughter being the wife of Benjamin
Parr, whose large -four establishment is at
State street, New York. Christian H.
Lilienthal, who died 10 or le years ago, left
an estate valued at several millions. He
owned big tobacco factory at the south
east corner of Washington and Barclay
streets, and was among the heaviest i'm
of fOh then doing business
the city. He left will leaving the
bulk of his fortune to his wife and
naming her as administratrix of his estate.
Not a small part of the estate was the beau
tiful country home, improved and embel-
lished from year to year and called bel
voir." No name could be more fitting. For
three or four miles northward from Yonkers
the eastern bank of the Hudson is terraced
with well-kept lawns and villa grounds. But
until one proceeds well out from the town,
along North Broadway, the scores of pretty
summer homes seem to be elbowing each
other to degree that is not pleasing to the
eye. "Belvoir' atones for everything.
The mansion is Elizabethan pure and
simple. 1t is set in the midst of grounds
that stretch from the summit Of the hill
nearly to the water's edge. A gatekeeper
rises from his seat in the door of the lodge to
admit you, and half a dozen laborers look up
from their landscape gardening as you pass
gate to the mansion. and when you stand at
the entrance of the broad hall beneath the
porte cochere you gaze through l00
acres OF park, across the Hudson, ana A. hnd nc
ground, the Palisades. This Is "Belvoir,' of
which Walter Beresford hopes to become
master, and which is lost to his unfortunate
wife while she continues to give him the
support of her devotion.
DAILY VISITOR AT THE ToMBS.
The heiress to Belvoir and the income that
goes with it has abandoned both to blindly
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RED Daily she uisits or communicates with
the Tombs prisoner and lives with humble
friends in an questionable city street,
while the sorrowing mistress of Belvoir
gaZes longingly across the park to the lodge
gate or turns her face despa1r1ngly toward
the never changing Hudson and mourns as
for a daughter who is dead Her sorrow was
brought about by Walter S. Beresford, alias
William Bond, who is Sidney Lascelles, alias
Walter Eaton. -
Early in the summer of 1889 Mrs. Lilien-
thai sailed for Europe with her daughter.
Previous trips and their hospitality at "Bel-
lar in good society abroad as well as at
home.
From Paris they went to the Riviera and
then made little trip to Algiers. The town
was very gay. A popular young fellow, Sid
Dey Lascelles, who was received by the best
families was among the gayest of the gay.
His manner bore the stamp of the British
gusrdsman. He had been in India and spoke
Hindustani f1uently. He was otherwise well
educated. He seemed to know all about
every body worth knowing in England, and
claimed kinship With the old and respected
family of Lascelles-a name, by the way,
that carries nearly as much weight with it as
does the name of Beresford. He had fine
tenor voice and sang with passion, and, what
was more, he sang to Miss Lilienthal.
Mother and daughter forsook Algiers for
Italy. Presently Lascelles and his fine tenor
voice discovered them. They went to
Switzerland, but the voice and the man pur-
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ter and the man borrowed money from the
mother-or had drafts cashed by her, which
is the same thing with this branch of the
Lacelles- -Beresfords. He forgot to have the
drafts honored, thinking, probably, that it
was all in the family. Mrs. Lilienthal was
not of this opinion. She went to London,
suddenly forbade her daughter to see Las
celles again, and, by way of preventing
meeting, took passage for both on the first
steamer bound for New York.
FOLLOWED TO sEwICKLEY.
One day early in January of this year Mrs
Lilienthal was Mortified to discover that
Lascelles was i'll New York. She hesitated
not day but fed, taking her daughter with
her. Though it was midwinter they came to
Sewickley, where friends of the family re-
sided. Lascelles followed, was repulsed by
the mother, met the daughter clandestinely
and one day took her to Beaver, and there
they were married.
aware at that time of all that could be urged
against the man whom she loved, and that
her confidence in his ability to clear him
self was unshaken. But at that time neither
she nor her mother knew of the man ex-
cept as Lasceles. He had arrived on the
Umbria i'll December as Walters Beresford,
as Walter S. Beresford he went to Georgia,
and he continued to be Walter S. BeresfOrd
until he had obtained money enough to en-
able him to continue his pursuit of the
Lilienthals. Then he became once more
Sidney Lascelles. All this the mother and
daughter were yet to discover.
Mrs. Lilienthal returned Immediately to
New York. The daughter and her husband
followed, and both eXerted every effort to
effect q reconciliation. Never before had
Lascelles exhibited such energy and deter
mination as he showed in his endeavors to
be received into the bosom of the family
that could devise and bequeath "Belvoir."
1t was useless. The disappointed English
man was informed that he would never be
recognized as in any way connected with
the Lilienthal family. To his wife the mes
sage was that she could choose between her
family and the adventurer whom she had
married. Both knew that this meant that
while Lascelles had devoted wife he would
have penniless one As Lascelles still had
hopes OF q reconciliation and his wife had
unfathomed devotion for him, they went off
on trip to the West Indies and elsewhere,
getting back in time for Lascelles, now
Beresford, to resume his habitual occupa-
ton of living at other peoples expense and
get himself into his present difficulty.
THE GAY MAN IN JAIL.
Beresford, in the Tombs is a little haggard
but still jaunty. To an experienced judge
of human nature he appears to be that most
dangerous characteristic man who when
you look straight into his unf1inching eyes,
impresses you as being either the best, most
generous, most lovable fellow in the world
or an awful scoundrel. At present the
weight of evidence tends in the latter direc-
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