The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-13

WAS MRS. REFS.
Titania, Who Drowned
Herself in Reservoir.
Telltale Telegraph Blank Led
to Identification.
Poetry, Love and Sorrow Appear to
Have Been Her Portion.

she threw herself into the reservoir In
Central Park from which her body and
her poems were drawn Monday morning,
betrayed her identity by the small piece
of telegraph blank In which she
wrapped tho violet that she placed next
her heart. From tie number and the
initials OF the sender and the receiver OF
the dispatch Vice President Bradley, OF
the Postal Telegraph Company, traced It,
aud learned that 10 was sent 70 Ethel
Marie Rois, at AZ Columbia Heights,
woman that had lain In tho inorgue for
Two days was identified as that of Mrs.
Reis last night.
y Mrs. Reis surrounded her life with
poetry, but did not succeed in making IT
"A happy one She was the daughter of
Danish poet and was 80 years ola. she
was divorced from her husband In Den
mark 10 years ago and came 70 this
country two years later. she earned
good living by translating short shories
from the English into Danish language
and by writing poems.
She made tour of Europe In 1884, and
settled in Chicago when she returned
There she met Horace Lucean Arnold, OF
Brooklyn. He is poet and engineer
and writes for scientific journals.
1t was first known that he and Mrs.
Reis had an affection for each other when
she caused his arrest in the Adams street
police court Brooklyn, year ago, and
She then learned for the first time, she
said, that he had wife, at No. 3il Grand
avenue, Brooklyn.
Arnold and the poetess lived together in
the boarding house of Mrs Schlichling,
No. 6l Hicks street. she said lie as
saulted her, and he surrendered when In
formed that a warrant had been issued for
his arrest.
The woman relented and asked that she
might Withdraw the complaint but
Justice Walsh was not satisfied. he asked
Arnold: lis this woman your wifey'
Arnold hesitated ana answered, mo.
Then the woman asked that the case be
tried that she might set herself right.
"He courted me in Chicago, she said.
"He represented that he was unmarried,
and, although he Is sixty years DID, lis
tened TO him and made vow of matri-
mony."
''Tnere was neither ceremony nor vow
10 our marriage said the man.
do you not call that vowY He wrote
that for ne, said the woman, as she
handed the court slip of paper contain
ing the following:
She asked one vow TO heaven bright above,
Unwitnessed ail-which nothing could confer
Then TO her love AMI lover gave her gift,
Her all, hers II, as freely as child
Gently and erolsly might its lips uplift
To give kiss TO one who asked and smiled.
The woman added that she did not con
sent TO accept the marriage ring he offered
her until she had read the following fancy
OF his mind:
So tall my sweet love STOOD
And held me close in her round arms,
And kissed my mouth with her warm lips;
Her snowy bosom swelled like billowed sum.
mer seas,
When winds are south.
The man still insisted that the woman
had done all the wooing and said, adj
dressing the court that she had insisted
upon following him when he was about
TO leave Chicago a year before. The
woman offered as an answer this poem of
his:
An old man walked within frosty wood,
Where branches high AM bare moanei DESC
And as he walked in this new world there
turned
To him fair faced lily on its stalk;
wnman's eyes sbone DER its heart Of gold.
Villa words, words then the old man bah.
bled In his talk.
She also offered this in evidence:
"oh, love-, my love- say that you love me
] said. Her kiss she gave me- but not her vow.
She said Not YETI
The woman offered other poetic evidence
that she had been wooed. The court
would not receive them, and looked into
tnC cDarge Oh tnG ASSAULT Inc woman
said she had learned the night before that
Arnold had another wife, that they had
quarreled, and he attempted 10 take with
him the manuscripts of "a book of poems
and novel that they had been working
on together, when she locked the door,
and he then assaulted her He said he
used no more force than was necessary
to escape from the room.
Justice walsh dismissed the complaint,
after saying that he regretted that there
was not sufficient evidence on which to
hold Arnold.
The woman went TO live In furnished
room in the house of Mrs. Juliotte Dur
ant 63 Pineapple street. She devoted
herself to literary work and resumed the
name Reis. She soon gained the respect
of Mrs Durant and her nieces the Misses
Reid
After few weeks man who resembled
Arnold called. He was introduced as
the Professor by Mrs. Res. She said
he was 10 teach Der languages. He called
frequently and the woman was always
low-spirited il he did not come when she
expected him. She moved six months
ago To the boarding house OF Mrs. David
Nairn. AZ Columbia Heights. The
Professor" was more frequent caller
there.
Mrs. Nairn objected to his calling so
often, and then Mrs. Rcis said "He IL
my husband, but the marriage is kept
secret Tor the present. as ho lis wealthy
and has grown children who would
object"
She showed to Mrs. Narn letters that
were signed, Your darling Husband -
Mrs. Reis sent her trunk from Mrs.
Nairn's house April %. IL was taken by
the Wels-Fargo Express Company TO
Hoboken. The clerk could not say
whether 10 went Co the Hamburg Ameri-
can line pier or to that of the North
German Lloyd line. IL was To DO sent to
Europe by express
The Professor" took some bundles
from the house for Mrs. Refs April "a and
April 20, the day before the Grant mon
umcnt demonstration. Mrs. Reis left,
saving she was going 10 Chicago
Mr.. Arnold said that he bad had no
Interest I'm Mrs. Reis since last May, and
when told that IL was SAID nc both the
houses in which Mrs Refs had lived
since then that he had been frequent
caller eH her, he replied that he had 10
call to prevent her going To- his wife's
house and committing su'ciGe there. He
ad led that she left him week ago last