Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-23
WAS0NCE ABARMAID
MRS. KATE TERRY DIES LEAVING NIL.
LIONS TO HER DAUGHTERS.
Two Arc q Burglars Children History Of
Pretty Girls Life and Marriage
to Wealthy Planter.
New York Worldly

A woman with a remarkable history
died OF Brights disease. at her residence
No. ZOE west Seventy-fourth street.
week ago yesterday. but. although the
certificate OF death was filed In due forfn'
the Identity OF the deceased was not pup
llcly discovered until yesterday. she was
Mrs. Kate Louise Terry, who, aithoush
beginning life amid most humble sur
soundings. serving as a barmaid AT inc
age of II. and being subsequently en-
trapped into an alliance by a bigamou'
burglar, eventually captured maj !
monial prize which many OF Ne" io'h .
proudest society women would not nave
disdalned. o
Tho particulars Of the death OF TINS VIZ
man and relating 10 period ifh'lleola',,y
anteccdcnt 10 her death are not eaSny
ohtainable DR.. Clark Wright OF No io'
west Eighty-nfth street. who was 'he AZ
tending physician, says that sne W"
sick for some weeks and was a,'e.ue
by n trained nurse. lie also adih'.S NC
iust before her death ne caoieu W
three daughters In France 10 CONE W
America Further than this her ilps are
- ard a. the woinan's last residence.
,ybere no sign Of Grape has been us
,laved the housekcepor In charge reluSeS
20 make any statement 1t Is understoou'
,,o,ro,,cr mat the body was taken 10
private receiving vault TO await 'ne ar az
rival Of the daughters, who are no" oii
AN HEIRESS.
The Youngest of these daughters
vcors Of age. IS. II reports are TO oe po-
ueved. the heiress 10 an estate VaiuVu a'
e. oDon0 The older daughters chiiui "a
~ tb. INFAMOUS burglar above MENTIONED
viii inherit something Ike N,Vo'Vo'
Ms Terry was born Kate flynn, anu
in ls5S was employed as parih"Iu -
the Washington Hotel. at Law PoU VI
Among the customers win "hoh ''''0
exchanged chan over the counter was "
dashiug American. who professed to Dc
man of independent fortune. She was
then seventeen years old. ana Il Nci!
prertv girl. The following year she
married her Yankee admiIcr who iar
from being the wealthy gentleman ne
etendcd. was in reality fugitive from
Justice He was Charles Bullard, alias
Charles Wells. alias piano Charlie
whose picture to this day ornaments the
rogtes' gallery at police headquarters
and who, 1t will be remembered, was
a. or. time WANTED for completely III
the famous Boylston Bank robbery.
Although
character Of the man she had married,
III, barnaid stuck to him for several
years. in fact until she discovered that
he had a wife and children living in this
country Then she indignantly left him,
with the two children which had been
born TO her, and carved out life for
herself How well she succeeded will te
presently shown
MATRIMONIAL COUP.
BEFORE the discovery Of her husband 5
prior marriage she lived with him in
Paris where he opened an American
barrOom on thn Rue scribe. and where
she perfected herself in the arts and
braccs that enabled her to make her
second ana most brilliant matrimonial
coup. when she left the bank burglar
she had but a few hundred dollars. but
coming directly to New York she opened
q clearinghouse for gentlemen and made
a good living from the start II was
while keeping this lodging house that
she made the acquaintance Of Juan Pc
tru Terry. a wealthy Cuban planter
whose residence the greater part of the
year was IN New York. she was pretty
and fascinating. and caught tie fancy
Of the Cuban, who. greatly To- the con-
s;erna,ion Of his family. was mraried
a. hor ~ Judge Morgan. at the .Ieffer-
son Court one morning in the year 1880
They made their hon." at the SturteVant
House and all went smoothly until
November T. ISL when Mrs Terry gave
the newspapers a sensation by causing
the arrest Of Miss Alcevinia Atwood. Of
40. 81 West Forty-cighth street, on
two charges. one Of grand larceny and
the other Of assault and battery.
FIGURED IN COURT.
H..
found a letter signed Winnie Atwood"
In her husbands pocket. the tone of
which indicated a decree Of intimacy not
pleasing 10 his wife. She wrote a reply.
signing her husbands name, took Il cab.
and drove TO the vicinity Of Miss At
woods fiat. She sent the missiVe into
the house, but, receiving no reply, fol-
lowed II in person. and, according to her
own testimony, was set upon by Miss
Atwood and her sister and turned out Of
the house. Upon her return to the hotel
she m IS a $1,000 hill. and accused Miss
Atwood of having stolen il. The case ex-
cited great deal Of attention in the
newspapers at the time, and Miss At
wood was acquitted.
The court experience seemed to whet
the appetite Of the eX-barmaid for legal
disputes and ever since then she fire.
quentiy figured in the New York courts.
IN 1855 her husband Juan Petro Terry,
d!ed in Paris leaving a fortune estimated
at six millions, One-fifth of which went
to his widow and the other four-iifths TO
the little S-year-old girl. Juanita Teresita.
who is now on the ocean with her two
step-sisters.
Since her husbands death Mrs. Terry
has lived alternately in Paris and in New
York. She had frequently appeared in the
police courts after having trouble with
her servants or landlord.
The children are expected to be in the
city in a few days.