San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-12
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Mrs. Green's Life.

Mrs. Green's Life.
In constant fear OF assassination.
That is the state in which Hetty
Green declares she has been for
nearly thirty years. That is why
the richest woman in America, II
not in the world, has gone about
dressed like a poorhouse inmate,
lived in shabby lodgings, cooked
her own food and washed her own
clothes.
Her $40, 100000 odd have brought
her no happiness. On the contrary
she has suffered endless anxiety,
fear and trouble on account OF her
wealth. Yet she is constantly
striving to add more to her vast
fortune.
Hatty Green's eccentricities are
old stories. Her persistent long
ing to acquire wealth and her
equally persistent practice OF not
enjoying it are well known. But
the motive of her strange actions
has only been guessed at hereto
fore. Yesterday she gave her own
explanation Of them.
She declares that she Is in daily,
nay, hourly and momentary dread
OF being murdered, and in support
of this theory she tells a wild,
wierd tale.
She says that her father was
killed first; second, she sa d
her aunt's death was hastened by
drugs, and third, that she herslf
has had several attempts made on
her life.
On June IA, 1865, Hetty says, she
was called to the bedside Of her
father. He told her then that he
was in the clutches OF conspiracy
and gave her the details of the plot
against him. Shortly afterward
she left the room, and upon return
ing found her father bathed in his
own blood, which flowed from
wounds inflicted by prominent
person whom she does not name.
This conspiracy, according to
Hetty's account, included her aunt,
Miss Sylvia Ann Rowland, Of New
Bedford, Mass. The lady became
suddenly and mysteriously i'll, and
she died without having spoken to
any of her relatives. Hetty says
she found the nurse had been ad-
ministering laudanum in doses OF
60 drops.
Then came Hetty's turn. Stones
and other dangerous missiles have
been hurled at her from the win
dows OF buildings in this city.
Men have broken into her house at
Hampstead, l.. l., with intent upon
her life. Ground glass has been
placed in her food.
Her son, too, she says, has suf-
fered. Once a strange man threw
him over an iron fence on to a
grating down town. When he re-
covered another man jumped on
him so that he injured his knee
cap. Other suspicious circum-
stances have been noted.
"Mrs. Green" said William H.
Stayton, her lawyer, "firmly be-
lieves these stories. L know moth
ing about the truth of them.
"She does not think the execu-
tors of her fathers estate are con-
cerned in this conspiracy against
her. On the contrary she thinks
the guilty persons are much more
powerful. She has her suspicious,
but Of whom | do not know"
But Mrs. Green did say one thing
that cast reflections upon her
fathers executors. She declared
that the old whaling captain had
intended to name other persons to
carry out his requests, and that
when the will was read it was
found to name two clerks in this
city and another in New Bedford
for that purpose. Then instead of
Hetty receiving the whole estate,
as he father tod her she would,
100000 was given each of the exc
cutors, 100000 was left in trust
for her children, and she only re-
ceived $l,O00,000.
"That is untrue" said Henry A.
Darling, the only living executor.
New York Journal.