The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-15
END OF A ROMANCE
SOME LIGHT ON THE LIFE OF THE
LATE HENRY DIXON.

Although He Died in the Poor House of
This County He Was the Husband OF the
Granddaughter OF One of EnsiAnd's
Great EarIs-she Ran Away From Hons
to Marry q Lover Twenty Thousand
Miles Away and Was Assisted in Her
Flight by a Wichita Merchant-Details
of the Romance.
In the year 1860 Robert Williams. the
well known merchant broker with Of
fees on North Emporia avenue, this
city, was station agent for the Midland
and Great Western Railway company,
at Langford, Ireland.
One fine evening in the spring A.
Morby Richardson, clustering ana
somewhat dashing Irishman, heavily
booted, whipped and spurred node up 10
the station and entered.
"Ah, are you the agent?" he asked
81 am,'' replied Robert
"Cawn you keep q secret?"
| II am no woman, sir" said Robert
"Ah, by St George. that's good, see
me man that you are apt"
Eyes sir,'' said Bob. II am apt
(aside) Apt to hit you one on the butt
of the ear
Continuing. Mr.. A. Morby Richardson
said: ''I have a trunk here wish you
would ship to Dublin. Tomorrow morn
ing lady will come here to buy tick
ct to the same place. Under no circum-
stances give any information ABOUT
either the trunk or the lady"
'Tts love affair." thought Bob, "and
il it is by my knfgfhtly soul I will lie
religtousIy for the girl II promise you,
Mr.. Richardson, that I will keep the
secret
| Next morning lady came in. lifted
her veil, bought a ticket TO Dublin and
asked Mr.. Williams to say nothing TO
any one about II.
With graceful bow Robert promised
to lock the matter UP in the archives of
his heart and for thirty-six years he
kept it there. He told it TO an Eagle
reporter yesterday for the first time.
| The young lady who bought the tick
ct was Miss Fannie Hill, an Irish beau
| ty whom he knew well. She was the
daughter of Lady Georgina Hill, daugh-
ter of the Earl of Albermarle, one of the
English military heroes of the battle of
Waterloo. Lady Hill was married TO a
stfpendary magistrate in the county of
Longford.
There are, doubtless, a great many
people in Wichita who will remember
this same Lady Hill. About twenty-
five years or more ago she caused one
of the greatest sensations in the social
life of Ireland.
The union of this celebrated lady with
the stipendary magistrate was blessed
with thirteen children. Mark the fig
ures. She was a beautiful woman.
About that time the Fenians had scar
ed England into the possibility Of hav-
ing the comonality of Irish blood with
an aristocracy Of brains elected to par
| lament. Among the successful Irish
| "spalpeens" who talked their way into
parliament on the popular democratic
wave was dashing young Corkonian
named Mccain.
| When McGann returned from London
after making hit in the house of COM
mons he met Lady Georgina Hill and
his splendid FORM, daShing negligee
manners and honey-coated tongue
made such an impression on her heart
that she left her houseful Of children,
her stipendary magistrate, her broad
acres and castled home and eloped with
the audacious Fenian- The stipendary
ma gistrate raised thunder, the thirteen
children raised the roof off the pa rem
tai castle and the Earl OF Albermarle
raised hades, but all in vain. Mccain
kept his eye on the lady, his hand ON
his hip pocket and a stiff upper lip.
| But to return to Miss Fannie Hill.
She went to Dublin, thence TO South
ampton and thence to Sidney, South
| Australia. where she was 10 have met
a lover whom her father forbade marry
| ing in Ireland. This lovers name was
| Harvey.
When she left Southampton She met
dashing youn English ar1stocrat on
the steamer named Dixon who proceed
ed to make love to her. She was flying
through twenty thousand miles OF wat
or IN th. arms of another lover and she
refused to accept passionate tenders or
| Dixonia- love. He was a brave spirit
and kept on counting her from zone to
zone. over the equator and around the
horn to the land of the kangaroo.
Arriving at Sidney, South Australia,
otter q, VOYAGE of several months, she
found a. note written by Harvey saying
that he had gone to the interior and
asking her to wait until he came back.
She became indignant, as she had
right to become, after such GOODNESS
shown her. Dixon grasped the situa-
ton, he pressed his suit and within a
Few Gays MISS Il talfli- IlA4is liz pCdQll-
fui and romantic Irish girl became his
wife.
There was a boy born unto them and
they named him after the town in Aus
tralia in which they were so happily
married.
The Wichita boom was loadstone
that attracted people from all quarters
OF the world Among those who were
attracted hidner was Mr.. and Mrs.
Dixon and their son Sidney of South
Australia and Robert Williams, the
station asen of Longford, ireland.
Mr.. Williams was clerking in q store
on North Main street and one day q
lady walked IN and was introduced 10
him as Mrs. Dixon.
Williams. Williams" said Mrs.
Dixon, applying her mental vision u
the dim past, IT knew a young man II
Ireland years ego OF that name"
II am an Irishuan," said Robert, |
striking an attitude that betokened vast
pride Of mother country.
He was a railroad man." said Mrs, |
Dixou-