The St. Johns herald., 1898-11-12
REMORSE KILLS
 MILLIONAIRE.
Sins Against His Loving Wife Drive
 LangWOrthy to Suicide.
SPECIAL BY CABLE.

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 Paris, Oct. 31.-(Copyright, 1898, by W. R. Hearts. )-Edward Lang worth grieved so sorely over the death of his wife that today he killed himself.
 Fifteen years ago he cast her of, re- pudiated her child, denied her wifehood and dipped freely into his vast fortune to defeat her Tn her fight justice and the restoration of her good name.
 The Langworth case re-echoed round the world, because it was one of the most amazing remances ofreal life ever unlolded in court of justice. Lang worth, the fabulously rich south Amer | ican Englishman, wac the apo,heosis oTa villain in meIodrams. The English 1 governess was Mildred Long, the apoth- eosis of persecuted heroine.
 But no writer of meldorama would have dared toinvent such last act as that on which the curtain fell day. Mildred Long reached London in 1883, after incredible hardshlps. with child and story, but no money. The story was we'll worthy of being transferred bodily between the covers of novel, as it afterward was. Gently reared and unsophisticated, but compelled to make her own way in the world, Willard Long had gone to Buenos Ayres to educate the children of rich planter. There she had encountered a cOuntryman of her own. man of fascination. with the jeweIs of Ragah and incalcnlable pos- session in South America and Mexico.
 This was Edward Laugworth.
 la the garden dusKy Southern beau ty in which his life was spent. Lang worth plucked this solitary little Engl- ish rose. She loved him. There was a wedding ceremony, a private one. and she went with him on hoard his yacht |, clothed with happiness almost beond her comprebensln. They sailed over the seas of two hemispberes, following in the golden path of summer, listless of destination.
 From this dream the awakening was gradual. Something must have arisen to make Mlldren apprehensive about this marriage, tor second cermony performed, this time under the British flag. But Edward Langwolth was ac- customed to observe such obligations lightly, fartifed as he was by fortune which hs was unable to reckon. Mildred LaugWOrth had child and that gave her pertlua-iiE and cOur- age one would have associated With this gentle English girl.
 Langwerth must have suspected this, and he fesred her, for he was British subject and affienable to the laws of the British courts. So he followed her to London. where his agents furnished unlimited money. interposed between the penniIess young mother and all avenues to the seat of justice.
 The wisper "blackmall" was enough to shut the .ears of philanthropists: the fashioned newspaper office.
 But there was new journalism in those days. Otherwise there would be no storp to tell. William T. Stead had become editor of the Poll Mall Gazette and begun to revoIutionlze thd English newspaper world.
 And yet all that the Poll Mall Gazette did was to befriend friendless woman whom none other had dared defend to attack a man of limitless resources to collect a mass of evidence an tc spring upon the London pubic, in the form of a special supplement-, the complete story powerfully written and divided into chapters, of Mildred Lang gworth's wrongs.
 Such was the inception Of the notori. Us "Langworth case" which was settl' ed in 1887 the millionaire acknowledg ing Mildred as his wife, paying hel S1 ,O00, GOO cash and making hera at annu al allowance of S25, 900 for their child.