The age-herald., 1898-12-17

formerly of New York, died here today of liver complaint He was twice married,
 his second wife being Sybil Sanderson, the opera singer
 Antonio Terry,s death closes another
 chapter of the strange story of those
 who have had to do with the Terry mill lions. The family has been as famous in
 New York as it was in Cuba, where was
 located the sugar plantation from which
 Tomaso Terry, Antonio's father, earned fortune estimated as high as $50,000 900. Though probably greatly overestimated, l that fortune certainly ran into the tens of
 millions.
 Tomaso Terry had fine house at Fifth
 avenue and Thirty-ninth street, where he
 lived a part of each year. and where his children, of whom six survived him, were
 prominent socially. He divided his fortune
 between them. Antonio was given the Gu ban plantation known as Juragua Ia Can dad, besides his share of the residuary estate.
 Two children besides Antonio have been brought to public notice at various times,
 one being the Baroness Blanc, wife of the
 
 Washington and a conspicuous figure in his country's politics. The taking of her
 name by another woman who excited pub lic attention in this country greatly an- moved the real Baroness Blanc. The brother of Antonio Terry whose life attracted notice was Juan Pedro. He met at an American bar in Paris a beautiful woman named Kate Wells, the barmaid there She had been the wife of Charles Bullard, alias Charles H. Wells, a notori- ous bank robber, who operated in several countries and finally came to grief in this city. Juan Pedro's marrying this woman was source of deep sorrow to his rela- tiyes. They lived much in Paris, although they maintained a handsome home here. A son was born to them Jusn Pedro died in Paris, leaving his widow 5000 900 and his son $5,0OO,0O0 The widow died in this
 city in 1894, leaving her boy her fortune,
 and he is now being educated in this coun- try.
 Antonio Terry was small in stature, yet handsome, with a skin unusually dark, even for a Cuban. He was never a spend thrift and never mixed up in scandalous affairs; yet his name came up time and again as patron of stage beauties, both actresses and singers. He was passionately fond of music, and was good musician. He first married Gin 1876, at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, this city, Miss Grace Dalton Secor, an orphan niece of William H. Secor, leading lawyer. She was only eighteen years old and he was twenty A daughter was born in 1881. The
 first Mrs Terry had rare beauty and talent, according to those who knew her. This marriage did not prove happy. MT. MrC 6fxrfd lad fhntr tfr,,a JNntxry nara New York and Paris, but as years passed were more and more apart. In 1887 they separated by mutual consent, Terry agree ing to settle $6,000 year upon his wife | with extra allowance of $2000 for his
 daughter. Then Terry went to Paris and
 made that city his home.
 About six years ago Terry met Sybil Sanderson, an American singer, daughter of a California judge about whose beauty and voice all Paris was talking. Not long
 afterward 1t was publicly announced that they intended to marry as soon as Terry could get divorce.
 A bitter legal fight then began between
 Mrs. Terry and Antonio Each sued the other for divorce and the cases were be-
 fore the French courts for years. She finally won, getting s1 ,000 month alimony and the custody of her child.
 Terry and Sybil Sanderson came to this country in 1896, she to sing in opera here for the season. The first Mrs. Terry died in Paris in 1897. Three months later Terry and Sybil Sanderson were quietly married in Paris.
 Soon after the wedding the second Mrs. Terry was stricken with paralysis. Terry's devotion to her was extraordinary and pathetic. The beautiful villa at Nice built for her was left and she was taken to Paris to be put under the care of the best specialists. Anything she expressed a wish for was secured though it required a journey to the ends of the earth. She craved music. Artists of renown were ready to gratify that passion at all times, and once an opera company was engaged to sing at her bedside "Esclarmonde," an opera in which the sick woman had scored triumph.
 Mrs Terry has-been steadily improving and her physicians say she will recover, but MT. Terry developed complication of diseases which made his case hopeless, and his doctors told him so two years ago. WHEELER AND THE CONSTITJJTION