Evening journal., 1901-05-10
DBLAW Arb WOMAN
My GET FORTUNE
Romantic Story Brought Ont
by Search for Missing
Heirs

i Cambridge Md, May lO.-A letter from
an attorney IN the South TO Mayor Robert
G. Henry. OF Cambridge, inquiring the
whereabouts, II living, OF certain lady,
has revived an old romance thai has been
forgotten for forty years.
Somewhere about 1850 or '52 young
\ Englishman came to Cambridge and an
nounced himself as l.. Byron Chaworth Of
Il England. lie came, he said to make the
Eastern shore his home and wanted en-
ployment. lie was comely young fellow
with the thews and slnows Of a trained
athlete and accomplished In ieats OF
strength and agility then quite uncommon
In this region. IN addition TO this he per-
formed some creditable tricks In legerde
main and ventrlloQuism, which, added to
his graceful manner and charm Of an edu-
Gated. cultivated mind. soon made him a
welcome guest in the best homes In Dor
chester county.
lie had very little means al his com
mand and engaged in teaching school at
4 Antioch, several miles from Cambridge
His athletic trimming stood him in good
stead in those days, when the big boys In
< lcountry schools were very hard customers
! to handle. Young Chaworth proved TO be
Ian all-round good fellow and waNed popu-
|, lar with young men and madens. He
could hold his own with the best edu-
Z Gated man in the country, back a
3 horse as well as the most cunning jockey
and play a stiff hand at poker with the
Z best adopts OF the game.
1t was the possession of such accom-
B pllshments as these that caused Farmer
Z Henry Phillips to refuse chaworth the
= hand OF his pretty daughter Margaret
q when the Englishman sued for il. But tho
Z objection was OF no avail, for one dark
y night pretty Margaret escaped out of d
3 second-story window into the arms of hel
x lover and was married TO him by the mos
q convenient minister. The elopement wa.
9 the talk OF the county for while an,
4 many thought that the young lady ha,
e carried her ducks 10 a bad market.
g Pretty soon Chaworth began TO show him
self IN coiors other than those exposed q
= the public eye before his marriage IL
treated his wife badly and became yer.
dissipa;cd and reckless In his conduct
year after the marriage girl child wa
n born. She was named Karee. The chill
was yet an infant when ChawoIth left III
wife and went South. lie never came bac
to Maryland nor communicated with hi
wife so far as known. lie was heard q
during the Civil War as a spy In the Cor
ny federate service Chaworth said his ia
al name was Lord Byron Chaworth an
created the impression that he was OF q
ie- same family of Chaworths into which u
poet Byron tried to marry He all
claimed to be a scion of noble house an
possible heir TO wealth and title. No o
believed this to be true after his bad co
duct in the county.
Now, however comes a letter from
southern lawyer to Mayor Henry aski
after the daughter OF l.. Byron Chawort
in which il Is stated that such a pcrs
was known 10 have been born In Dorche
ter county I'm the nfties The letter al
stated that the inquiry was made thtoul
- the request Of the London solicitor
liz Count Chaworth. Mayor Henry declln
TO disclose the name Of the lawyer W
wrote the letter and the name and Fc
my dence Of the lady But, he says, the "a
md yer stated that there is conslderal
estate in which the daughter Of 10
Byron Chaworth is interested abroad, pr
sumably IN England. The lady In qul
tion was married many years ago a
lives in Delaware. She was located
Mayor Henry after some effort and e
OF her probable good fortune. The Ia
| a name from the public untg she learr
> more about the matter TO which he ga
assent.
Now, then, comes an interesting poi
Why should an English solicitor be WI
ing to a lawyer in the South about a Ia
who presumably could be. found In Ca
bridge, Nd? II looks as II there are sol
people in the South who may be interest
In any estate that rightfully belongs
the heirs Of Byron Chawprth. that wort
gentleman having been long since ga
. cred 10 his fathers. and his wife, pi
woman, having died seven years az
- giving birth TO his child. II may be Il
Chaworth married in the South and !
family there and that the lawyer IN,
toned might be their attorney. At a
!, n rate, the parties interested are movl
N warily and some developments are so