The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-13
ONE OF LIES RoMANCEs.
Startling Tragedy Connected With
the Loss of the Ship New Era.

Startling Tragedy Connected With
the Loss of the Ship New Era.
From the PhilodeIohfa Press.
monument was dedicated recently on
the Jersey coast, near Long Branch. It il
TO commemorate the loss Of the ship New
Era on Nov. 13, 1854 This was the most
fearful disaster that ever happened on the
Atlantic coast, 354 people being lost, the
s majority German immigrants. There was
no life service on the shore in those days,
and the local fishermen were helpless to aid
3 the unfortunate people, who came ashore
q tightfully mangled by the force of the
s waves.
Among the passengers was Frederick
Stanley and his wife. He was the son of
s. Sir Frederick Stanley, an English baronet,
3 who owned an enormous tract of land on
K the border of Wales, and by the discovery
Of coal this became immensely valuable.
81 Frederick, his only son and heir, had mar
ried the daughter of man named Cornett.
who lived near Conway. She was very
s beautiful but entirely uneducated, and her
8 father had in his youth besn transported to
a Van Dieman's Land for some otfense against
8 the laws.
Sir Frederick Stanley's anger may be
1 imagined. The representative of one of the
Oldest houses in England, it was intolerable
that his heir should marry a convicts
daughter. He at once .disowned his son
cut of supplies and made a new disposition
OF his large estate, willing it to his brother
and his male heirs, but, at the intercession
of his lawyer, the present Sir John Denham
8 in default Of such heirs the estate was to
revert to his son and his children.
Young Stanley was an upright gentle
man, but no manager, and his wife was no
better. He had some money coming from
the estate OF his mother. and this was
quickly anticipated, SO he concluded to
come to America to seek his fortune. In
company with his wife, infant son and
nurse girl, he embarked on the New Era at
Bremen, and they were all destroyed on
That terrible Novem Der night in 1854.
bis father did not survive him long, and
the brother, Devonshire Clergyman, got
the estate. He had five children-four sous
aud daughter-and the tragedy of their
lives was frightful. The daughter was
disappointed in love and drowned herself
two of the sons died fighting the mutineers
IN India, another was killed ia duel at
German university, and the youngest while
examining collection OF Chinese curios,
wounded himself with a dagger aud died in
few hours, supposedly from poison. With
the death OF the father in the next year
that branch of the Stanley family became
extinct.
The estate went to another Stanley In
DaVonshire, and this gentleman was sur
prlsed at learning from his solicitor that a
man claiming to be the original Frederick
STANLEY wes about to bring suit for his in
herltance. His story was that he had es-
capped from the wreck and wandered away
halt conscious until he got to Philadelphia
ana had only short time before heard Of
his uncles death. and his heirship.
ms was in 1855. A fortune was spent in
detective service, and the pretender put
through legal inquisition, but he held his
own, and his chance of winning seemed
GOOD when he suddenly disappeared. Even
MS attorneys knew nothing Of him, but year
sIIer q man was killed in a low gambling
zen IN Paris and when the body was exposed
at the morgue it was recognized by visit
ing knglishman as that of the putative
frederick Stanley, but it will never be
known whether he was an imposter. And
ms Is one of the tragedies connected with
the lated ship New Era.