Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-15
.BERESFORD ID HIS WIFE The Tin Lord Tries the Power of
 Pathos. WRITES A MOVING LETTER in Which, Like the Exemplary MT. Wegg, He Drops Into Poetry. ACCUSATIONS OF PATIENCE AND FIFTY The Epistle Is Delivered to the Wife, After Several Attempts, and May Have
 the Effect for Which He
 Hoped.
ACCUSATIONS OF PATIENCE AND PET

New York July 14.-Maude LaScelles, the wife of w. s. Beresford alias Lord Charles Beresford, alias Sidney Las celles, was visited yesterday at her home in Yonkers by an ambassador from her husband, who Is now serving time in convict lumber camp at Kramer, Ga. Beresford, who in time past has proven himself a most accomplished i'm poster, was recently sentenced to five years at hard labor for forgery. He has professed repentance for his offenses and desire to lead an honest life. Many prominent persons in Georgia believe he is in earnest. and have asked the gov ernor to pardon him. The press through out the state, with few exceptions. has favored his pardon.
 It was announced a few days since that Mrs Beresford had begun suit for an absolute divorce from her convict hus- band. She is a charming young woman, of aristocratic family, who ran away from home and married Beresford before she knew his true character. Until re- gently she was loyal to him through all his trouble. in spite of the protests of rel atiyes and friends. What seemed to her conclusive evidence of his infidelity finally turned her against him. Beres-, lords friends assert that they can es- tablish his innocence of the charge of infidelity. and that the evidence against him in this respect if any exists. was purchased. and is black perjury
 Several attempts have been made in the past few days by Beresford's friends to place his letter in his wife's hands. She is so surrounded by relatives op- posed to Beresford that. the matter was a difficult one. The friends did not dare to send the letter by mail for fear it would be intercepted. Yesterday, how ever, the letter was placed in Mrs. Beres-- ford's hands and read by her in the pres ence of her husbands representative. The letter is as follows:
 Kramer, Ga., July s. 1895
 My Own Darling Maude: I would to God you could read my very heart as it goes out to you.
 The mind hath a thousand eyes,
 The heart but one;
 And the light of a life dies out
 When love is done.
 There is never an hour in my life, whether awake or asleep, but you fashion and control my thoughts. While my vi- cissitudeS have been more than it seems possible to have borne, paramount to the grief and remorse which 1 experience Is my solicitude for you. The bangs which I know have stung your tender and pathetic heart have contributed more to my humiliation than all else.
 That have repented all my past trans gressions is sure and certain, and all my future life shall be spent in honest. ear nest Christian. God-lilSe endeavor to ob- literate the unhappy episodes of the past by a spotless and blameless career, in spired always by an unrelenting and ceaseless effort to make the pathway smooth and peaceful for you.
 If I had the power, dear heart, I would gather all the sunshine and send it to you in this dark hour to brighten and cheer the day. I speak no idle words. I yield not to impulse and deal in no extrava- ganza when tell you that you still con trol all that makes life dear to me and you still remain my only hope and guid- ing star.
 You are the ocean to the river of my thoughts which terminates all"
 I cannot believe you will ever forget the beginning of this terrible ordeal when in New York city the first stigma of shame was placed upon me. How staunch, how true. how loving and de- voted you were, and how you continued to cling to me until our departure from Atlanta. I shall not tax you with the long and painful circumstances which have come into my life. Since our sad parting at Birmingham only God knows the anguish 1 have suffered. and now I feel as a mere wreck of the past dis torted in mind and i'll in the flesh. weary and sick at heart. But for you long ago should have released my hold upon life. Your sweet image. has cheered me. and though you have been silent could not believe that one so true and loving could ever forsake me.
 In all these tribulations. though ap- pearances may be against me. have re mained faithful and true to you. --T The false accusations concerning my conduct m Americus have no right to appear on the roll of truth.
 In that unwise step God being my judge, I was actuated by desire to see you. I wandered l scarcely knew where but did no moral wrong. Some months ago wrote you full explana- ton of my departure from the camp. In contradiction of the charge of mis- conduct when I visited Americus with the captain of the camp. you will have evidence submitted to you of my innocence.
 The deepest wound of all was the in- that you had in reality asked the courts to sever the sacred ties which bind us together, and am satisfied t you have been persuaded to the concIu- sion and coerced by Parr and others by their enmity to me and their avarieious greed for financial gain
 There exists a very strong probability that the governor will grant me an un- pardon within a very few days, request which is prayed for by every official here and many of the in auential citizens of this and other states. Indeed. the Georgia press, almost exception, favors my release. The only objections eminated from D. B. King. and all that has appeared against me is traceable to him.
 Will you, whom I have loved beyond the natural degree. and with unspeak- able devotion, constant and true as the | stars, secured by any hope of home in | when life's conflict is over-can you, the only tie that binds me to the | world, leave me forever?
 WM you, my darling, my wife. shut | the gates of mercy and love and drive me | 10 despair and death? Oh, my angel. You are all in all to me | cannot bear to lose you. Answer my | ,rays:, and may the blessed Savior hear l nv rl aa fot1ch that tender ldvino haa ri |