New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-18
MloS MAUDES CASE ABRUPTLY STOPPED.
SUICIDE OF THE MOTHER OF THE ALLEGED
S"lNDLkR-rnEIR FINANCIAL STRAITS
AND ARISTOCRATlC CONNEOr.ONS


London, Nov. 17-Gwyneth Maude, the handsome
eighteen year-oM gr who was arrested on the charge
OF swllng Sphinx son. the jewellers Of No. Grace
ohufchst, ont of silver savers and caDdelabra, was
or"ught up remand in the MarborOlg Street Police
Nour today few minutes after the case was
called the Court informed that the girls mother
had committed suici le this morning The hearing
IN TIE case was postponed for week. MIS-. Maude,
VINO was separated from her husband, lived with her
daugher IN handsome house al HYDE Park Cate,
ana mad large number Of servants. II appears that
while Gwyneth Maude In the dock today she was
Ignorant Of her mothers fate. Through the brief s-
sion she sat pale and dovncast
There are thirty forty witnesses who will testify
that Miss Morde obtained articles from them in TIE
same manner in which she obtained the goods from
the Spnhs. ana then pawEcd them. The Sinls say
that She visited their place of business and ordered
the silvers ana candclahra to lie sent TO her home
after crosts had been engraved upon them. TIE o7dor
was filed but when the firm attempted 10 collect their
money it began to dawn upon them that they had
be@l swindled. They soon learned that their goods
Lad been pawned and the arrest Of the girl followed
Whom she first arIaigncd n epreseptatlVc oi IA
fur company came forward and charged that she had
obtained a soals,,in mantle, Jacket and null nom
the company without paying for them The c"in"n!
afcrwaid learned that these aiticlts had been paweI
blame for the th>ft,. ,,,.,..
General Made formerly an Elucny 10 the Cu"oI
hilcd ler>clf by Jumping from tolrsolS "iia"" W.
the Greet Weetcrn Hotel. Iaddingon, where ahc ad
bo,n SAYING for tic last few days. She went 70 u.e
hotel tcrtay afternoon, regl cred as NIS. '-.!u
land. ard was shown 20 small apartment Oh w
third noOr looking the approach 20 TIC tiHH
Western station. \ housemaid. the next moF}liF
happened 10 enter an arcaWay Immediately ben'"ih
the window % that room. There she found ilc b'uN
Of Mrs. Mal;dc, terribly bruised and cold TIC w9haI
lad evidently been dead for several hohis' me H",
officials decar, that she must have Ju;npcd rom -
window: il was impossible that she could have ;acI
and there can 10 no doubt that 1t was case "I
suicac - -,
TclcgIams were found in the prctcts 0f Hli, Miun
dress showing the eN,lrnc financial aim MY So W.
in. one domardcd the nlncdatc payment ot -.
Another asked for the settlement OF u mu,h Inft
amount Two detectives visited tie 10; today, WIN
warrants for her Arrest. Trey Ind already ''h 10
her home at HYDE Park Gatr, and had ran>anl '.G
house in their search for her. The police Se'eu aII
of her belongings N The hotel Mrs. MauGe Wis Il
tall handsome woman about forty years on; -
pef re the casc po~tpon,d today Johh hnEs"-
ley assistant to tie Mee>rs sphinx. testified as 10 tc
Visit Of Gwyncth Mnudc 10 the shop 1fe Si"sl nhe
direct d to be engraved that of the Ge MohAl, "
She gave her flmily Of Mandc. ne head oi tie
Naudn family T. the Earl d. NOatalt, RcplccAl4'N'
Pcrr fcr ireland The Mgrdce claim descent from ,ie
l,rc.t lf,ronial family to Which belonged hd"a'Ich
Castle now the residence of Mr.. Gledsionc Sr 'orh
wallis Maudc the present Earl dc Monalt, mas been
several fines L0rdin.Vaiting 20 the queen. n
1889 he vas appointed one Of tho speakers Oh us
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