Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-25
A DARK STORY OF LIFE
Which Brought Sorrow and
Shame
To a Rutland Girl, who Now Lies Dis
figured In "A Hospital In New York---
Released TO Recognize Her Mother.

To a Rutland Girl, who Now Lies Dis
figured In a Hospital In New York---
Released TO Recognize Her Mother.
A woman, blinded and suffering, was
found by policeman at the Boulevard and
65th street in New York city the night of
Nov. 4. Her face, neck and shoulders had
been burned with carbolic acid. The
woman told an incoherent story about
some person coming up behind her and
throwing acid into her face. She gave
her name as Mrs. Grace Livingston, and
said she had gone to that corner to meet
her husband, whom she described as a
lawyer. She gave her address as No. 9
West Twenty-second street. No trace of
her husband was found there. aud he never
came to see her at Roosevelt hospital,
where she was taken.
How the woman was injured remained
a mystery II days, at the end of which
time Mrs. Mary Murphy told her story to
the New York police. Mrs. Murphy's
maiden name was Ward, her home was in
Philadelphia, and IL years ago she mar
ried VIM. II. Murphy, clerk in the office
of Hugh Porter, a prominent railroad
lawyer. Mrs. Murphy has three children
Her husband made frequent business trips
TO Michigan, and he once received tele-
gram from that state which aroused the
wifes suspicious, but he claimed that it
referred to business. He sent his wife and
children to a seaside resort during the sum
mer, but did not visit them Saturdays or
Sundays and Mrs. Murphy heard that he
had been seen often in the city with a
blond woman.
After she returned she found that MUIR
ply was maintaining two homes. He
claimed that his relations with the blond
woman were proper and were necessary on
account of business deal. He promised
faithfully never to see The woman again,
but did not keep his promise, and he and
his wife agreed to separate he to give her
Sl25 a month. He continued TO live with
the blond woman. The couple were known
as Mr.. and Mrs Livingston.
On the night of Nov. Mrs. Livingston
suddenly appeared, unlimited. in Mrs
Murphy's apartments. Mrs. Murphy de-
scribes what took place as follows: "'Your
husband she said, seems to be very fond
of his children. If he were to leave me
would you take him back9'
Il replied that | would not forgive a
man who had disgraced me and my chill
dren, especially man who had associated
with such as she.
See here, said Mrs. Livingston, you
are Christian woman and so am l.
"'If you are a Christian woman re
torted, there is no Christianity l sent
my children from the room, saying | did
not wish to have them in her polluting
presence. told her what l thought Of
her, opened the door and babe her go.
''As she approached the door | saw her
raise her right hand, in which was an I'M
corked bottle. l seized her arm. The
acid ran over my hands and splashed upon
my neck. threw her down and the acid
fell upon her face and shoulders. | lifted
her TO her feet, pushed her into the hall
way and slammed the door"
What motive induced Mrs. Livingston
to call at the fiat only she knows 1t is
possible she intended to commit suicide in
the presence of Mrs. Murphy, but changed
her mind. Mrs. Murphy thinks her hus-
band had concluded TO abandon his mode
of life, and Mrs. Livingston had come TO
seek revenge.
Murphy cannot be found at the present
time. He has been discharged from his
position since the scandal in his domestic
affairs became known to his employer.
The portrait of Mrs. Livingston, which
appeared in one of the New York papers.
was recognized by Mrs. Bernard Carroll,
South street, Rutland, as that of her
daughter Annie. When Mrs. Carroll called
at the Roosevelt hospital in New York the
young woman said, 81 don't know the
woman. Take her out" Mrs. Carroll
was positive that the patient was her
daughter, however She said that the girl
left home eight years ago to act as gov
erness in Saratoga. She went afterward
to Washington, Denver, Salt Lake City
and then back to Saratoga. Her mother
supposed she was acting as governess all
the time. Mrs. Carroll said: "She came
home last in May. She was a beautiful
woman, too, having grown more beautiful
since she had been away, but objected TO
her bleached hair. She had a lot of fine
clothes with her. l tried to make her stay
in Rutland, but she said that she couldn't
see enough of life in that way, and that
she was going to live in New York. At
the time she showed me picture OF her
which is reproduced in this newspaper
clipping. When she wrote from New York
the last time she said she was now Mrs.
Henry Cary, and that she was living in
West Twenty-seventh street."