The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-09
Dying In Hospital He Tells Of
Marriage 10 Miss SavIn.
sINNED FOR her SAKE, he SAYS
hslthsr She Nor Her Father Has Visited
hlm-0sclarss ns win Not Live
Another Day.

New York May al feel that
may not live until morning.
and the physicians are OF the same
opinion, but If 1 do not see the sunlight
again l also want to know that in "A
Few matters. at least, 1 have been set
right in the eyes OF my friends. And
believe what | say TO you, for / am dy-
Ing, and dying men do not lie.'
In a voice SO faint that IL lent corrobo-
ration 10 his abatement DR.. Marian de
Haremba said this Tuesday night. He was
on of1 OF the ten couches In the charity
ward OF st Vincents Hospital. his eyes
sunken, his features pallid and drawn.
his hands so shrivelled that IL seemed as
though the skin alone held the bones
in place.
So ends the sensational career OF a man
VINO az times masqueraoed under the title
OF Count" TO which he had no rIeht.
VINO a. such was married secretly 10 Miss
Josephine savin. the dashing daughter of
rank w. Savin "a broker of this city.
who, I'm order 10 support her i'm the stvis
10 winch she was accustomed, stole funds
which were In his care: who passed sew
Sing ana x,hn -, me me state prison In Sing
Odeil last week because he had only "A
Few days TO live. and then WAS taken to
alive.
DESERTED BY RELATIVES.
What wish TO deny particularly. he
went on, lis the statement which has
been made nearly every day since Tues
day last, when i was brought here, that
nursing mo as wife should, and that
her father, too. has been a constant Wis
iS9r M9T. to the III hhospitsL You might nnd my
other fashionable place.
nave not seen her or heard from her
ln Years AS FOR her father, ! never
asked him If i might pay court 10 the
woman who afterward became nv Wife
Ills answer was that he had separate
from his family, and that it was a mat
Ter or no concern TO him TO whom his
daughter was married"
The sufferer. who is in the clutch of a
computation OF diseases. had to pause
long enough for nurse To hold a glass OF
water 10 his parched lips. His effort I'm
talking was go great that he lay painting
for some minutes before he could corr
tinue. Then. with a deep sigh.s which
caused the patients on the adjoining cots
TO turn their heads and gaze at him. he
added:
And this is the awful price pay be-
cause a poor. gullible foreigner felt
hatterd that was chosen by an Ameri-
can girl, whom I had placed on a pedestal
as being all that was best. purest and
sweetest in womanhood. But although
my wife has forgotten me. although IL
satisfy her every whim, all wish 10 say
about her is that she Is a great, unfsth-
omable enigma.
TITLE A FICTITIOUS ONE.
81 have done wrong. i had no right 10
the title of count, but Il was at the sug-
gestion OF physician In Washington
that l assumed IL. and II stuck 10 me-
although never have I signed myself as
such, nor have 1 led any one To believe
was OF the nobility. The girl / made
my wife knew this, too. She was aware
that no count would live I'm one OF the
cheapest hotels I'm Broadway. in room
for which he paid $3.50 week.
another pause, 81 was working in the
Polish Home here getting $50 q month.
when first met her in June, 1897. Our |
money to buy boxes at the theatres TO TO !
pay for dinners at the Waldorf Astoria.
where soon iearned she had many |
friends among the habituss. had a lit |
Then had to so To Saratoga TO see her; |
] was forced 10 plunge into extrava- |
and then. took the funds OF the Home. |
For. this I was prosecuted by the presi- |
dent, the Rev. Stephen Szymanski, and |
m hree S wears S'' MAS tssn res 70 bprison i1r
and although every one was most kind To |
me, had TO remain there until IL was |
too late to do any good for me-"
GRATEFUL TO PRISON OFFICIALS.
lie did not forget 10 pay n tribute 10 /
the warden OF the prison and the ofticials |
~ the uoSpltai tHert, VINO nad furnished
him with delicecies and stimnlants 90 |
sustain him on the "trip TO the city He |
was most grateful too TO the Rev. James
Dworzak. OF Williamsbridge. and the
Rev. John StrZelecki. of the Church of
St Stanislaus. in Seventh street who had
Interested themselves In his behalf and
had induced Archbishop Corrigan 10 write
10 Governor Odell asking that he be par
doned
In the same spirit ne spoke OF Louis w.
Beald. president OF the Society Oswiats |
or Polish Educational society. and his
other countrymen, who visit him daily, !
and who are arranging to bury him when
he is no more.
After our secret marriage" he con-
tinued we lived I'm the Hotel Grenoble,
where II was said my wife had attempted |
suicide one night We never were happy
My expenses were more than | could bear
and then came the discovery that I was
IL say that ] literally was forced into
SHINING My love for that woman was
such that would have done anything for |
her, and the lVxuries | had INDUCED I'm |
had turned my brain.
but don't want TO make any excuses:
" Is All over now. and my knowledge OF
medicine convinces me that | will not BE-
in this world twenty-four hours longer
/ may say. too. that have no regrets
except that ! was not more scrupulous
more honest"
lie would have spoken more although
he could not hide the pain the effort
caused him. but nurse came To his bed |
side, said IL was the hour when all WIS.,
itOrs must depart, and that he must have |
his medicine. He smiled, moved hts fin
gers AS "a motion OF farewell and closed |
his eyes.
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