The Princeton union., 1891-10-08
THE LATEST SENSATION.
The Connection OF Prince Albert Vic
tors Name With an Unsavory Scan

The Connection OF Prince Albert VIC
tors Name With an Unsavory Scan
dal.
being taken in the echoes of the inquest on
Saturday last on the body OF Lydia Miller,
or Manton, to use her stage name, chorus
girl of the Gaiety theater, who recently
committed suicide by drinking half pint
ofcarbolic acid.
At the inquiry on Saturday Lord Charles
Montagu, brother Of the duke of Manches-
ter, testified to having been on very init
mate terms with the deceased and to hav-
ing been late in 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 annoyed
the chorus girl. Since the inquest myste-
rious allusions have been made in the news
papers to certain high parsonage, under
stood 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.
The coroner still refuses access to the
dispositions taken, and it is only stated that
the members Of the coroner's jury were
called upon to sign blank paper instead
OF the usual record of the proceedings
The Star to-day, commenting upon the
affair, says that the truth as to the mystery
will never be known, and that it is obvious
that another inquest has been hushed up
without good cause. Continuing, the Star
says:
A nuber Of honorable and highly estimable
gentlemen hushed up the Tranby Croft affair
tor the sake OF society, and the Gil loumstances
q pa fn hay haan liant 1oC
for the sake OF society. But society does not
mean Lord Charles Montagu-he is all amiable
young aristocrat and the brother OF a duke:
but dukes are cheap in Coroner Troutbeck's dis
trict-hs friends never suspected Lord Charles
Montagu of great wealth. Moreover there never
Vas Waso much S1 secret about stage door Jeunesse
chorister is so much the correct thing that d
young swell is more likely to faunt than to dis
with lord would be staggered about by the
smart chorister.
But no one suspected Lord Charles Montagu
and Lydia Manton to be more than the merest
acquaintance. There is one young man whose
name is closely connected with hers. and it is
the name OF a young man whose position would
authorize efforts to hush the matter up for tho
sake OF ''society:' 1t was at bis request or by
his command that she left the Gaiety the
ater SO it was said on her authority at tho
stories about Miss Manton 1t was there that
she passed the summer, and Broadstars had at
the same time q distinguished visitor, whose
PAcSStiCc, IL ~ uau Utcu SeuoEdlly Known, WOulQ
have given the place excellent advertisement
ms may give some idea III to why people are
calling Lord Charles Montagu chivalrous and
self-sacrifcing. He came forward at the inquest
and assumed the role OF particular friend' in
order to screen another.
The St. James Gazette, the Globe and
other papers denounce the coroner's Sc
crecy.
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 prevent publicity at the in
quest Was it because there was a crime to con.
ceal? Or was 1t because some exalted parsonage
was lnyolved-sOme person whose feelings could
not endure the penalty Of exposure?
In all interview with George Lewis, O. c.,
who watched the inquest upon the body of
the dead Gaietv girl, that distinguished
lawyer says:
know nothing of any attempt to suppress
testimony. No motive for the girls suicide has
transplred, excepting that she was highly strung
and subject to fits OF depression. She had pre-
Vlously threatened to commit snicide. There
was no suggestion at the inquest that Lord
CHARLES Montague was not the real person iu-
volved. The girls parents were very angry,
and ii 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 remem bered by
some people in the United States, as she
visited America in 1883 with the Gaiety
COmpany of that wear