New-York tribune., 1907-01-07
! BERESF0RD BANSHEE.
Hon LcT5 DclaraFs Death Vas
EetuIdoJ at CErraghmore


Lord Deievsl Beresford's recent dsa.b ., +,o
Railroad wreck fortnight ago seems to have been
hersidei in tne customary manner bv the snreo--
anos of tie gnost Of the wife OF Str Tristrarn
BerestoFd ST CuTraghmore the ancestral home of
.he BesesfoFds and-one of the grandest co,,,trv
places In the south OF Ireland. This sbost1v Iadv
Bsresforc arrayed in the garb of the her4nning =,
;hs el6nteehfh century. with fair hair and broad
hao% rioOoh ueo fouho the wrist of her left arm
e"sS" SHOWS Ierseii when any death or misfortune
IS Roout 10 oVertake the house of Teresford - g,
perhaps oy reason of this that tie Beresfords arc
MI SO intensely superstitious. Indeed tho n-asen+
head OF the mousse Lord Waterford, gave a rather
amusing Illustration OF this popularity on tho oc-
rason Of the birth of his eldest son ard heir net,
Lord Tyrone He owns fine house in Cavandieb
Square. London. which. unfortunately bao.a 49,,
number lS ana so alarmed was he lest this yp
LUCKY huiioer should cast a blighting influence
over the so-csiied happy event. that he actually
leaseo lor q couple OF months another furnishes
house in The same square, and II was tbar. +h.
the oirth or the child took place. Young Lord Wa
ferforo' VINO is married to daughter of Lord
lansuowne mas now two boys. After them in tbe
lins Of succession to the marouisate and estates
Genes Admiral Lord Charles Beresfora 1,bo hs -
sons, and after him tho ten-year-old SON of tbo
hte Nllam beresford and of his American wife
oaughter Oh Commodore Cicero Price of the
United States navy who was married in turn IN
Louis Hamersley, Of New York and the late Duka
Of Marlborough, before becoming the wife of "Bilr'
Beresford.
With regard TO the Lady Beresford who ALWAYS
heralds death IN the Beresford family, there is
strange story concerning the black r,hbon
which her ghost is said ALWAYS tn vsar ~, ,,s
wrist and which figures also on her portrait II
seems that she had romantic affection for the
Loro tyrone or her day. and. filed with doubts
and fears as to the value of their religious on,r
IONS they made a solemn promise TO each other
that whoever of the two died first should n ner-
mittsd by the Almighty. appear to the survivor
Ior 'ne purpose OF proving the existence of the
Divinity Fifteen years later she came down ona
morning to breakfast looking very much agitated
with black ribbon tied round her wrist Her
husband asked her If she had hurt herself where
upon she earnestly entreated him to INQUIRE
IS TO the cause of her wearing the ribbon saving
lou VIII never see me again without it." She then
eagerly and anxiousIy asked whether sny letters
mad arrived and, on being questioned by her nus
pano, remarked that she expected TO hear of Lord
Iyrones death. which. she declared. had taken
place on the previous Tuesday. Her husband
laughed But in the afternoon a letter was brought
In stating that Lord Tyrone had died on Tuesday
morning al Dublin. To the amazement Of Sir
Tristran Beresford, bis wife, instead of manifest
ing grief showed feelings of relief and exclaimed
i can now give you most satisfactory uisce of
intelligence am going TO become a mother II
VIII be a boy end an heir to your estates" The
son was born within the year who in courss os
time inherited not only the Beresford title and es
iates. but marrying Lord Tyrones only child and
neiress OF all the lie Poer property was created
Earl or Tyrone himself, his father-n-law's title
being revived in his favor.
THAT BLACK RIBBON On HER WRIST
Many years afterward when her deathbed.
Lazy Beresferd revealed to her eldest son and IN
Archbishop William King, of Dublin her spirtuaI
ADVISER and most intimate friend, the reason for
wearing the black ribbon on her wrist She de-
cared that on the night preceding the arrival OF
the announcement or the death OF the last of the
La Poer Earls Of Tyrone he had appeared TO her
harh had IN,
with fright he exclaimed: "Have you forgotten our
promise to each other9 died on Tuesday morning
~ = have been permitted TO thus appear TO as
sure you that the revealed religion is the true and
only one by which we be saved I am suffered
10 inform you that you Will seven months hence
osoone the mother of a son. who will marry my
infant heiress, and that you viii your sixty
eighth year. Lady Baresford continued: II begged
MN Tor some convincing sign proof so that
when the morning came I Nigh. be able 20 RELY
That his appearance had been real and not merely
me phantom OF my imagination He thereupon laid
his hand. which cold as marble on my
wrist and where the fingers touched It the slrews
snrank up and the nerves withered. Now said he
let no mortal eye while you live ever see that
wrist After Lady Beresford's Death which
occurred precisely had been predicted IN her
s'1ty-eighth year. her eldest son and the Arch
bishop OF Dublin united the black ribbon and found
me wrist precisely as she had described it. with
the nerves withered and the sirews shrunk the
discovery being placed on written record nv hotb
and the first Of the Beresford Earls OF Tyrone
Lady Beresford lies buried in the Cathedral of ST
ESurlck at Dublin but her spook has its abode at
Currashnore This is the true story and origin of
re FAMOUS banshee of the Beresfords at Curragh-
more the existence Of which is known and believed
IN from one end OF Ireland to the other
AS Tor Lord Delaval Beresford he wa. .ba
youngest or the brothers Of the late marquis and
had practically spent his entire life since attaining
manhood in ranching in Texas Mexico and CO..
aoa- lie visited England occasionally and for
merry held commission in the army. but had
little fondness for the constraints of life IN p1
iano' preferT1ng the free and untramunelIed ex
'suehce OF the Mexican border. His brother Ad-
InraI Lord Charles Beresford. is sailing from Eng
ishd next week. on leave Of absence in order 10
httead TO the liquidation of the dead mans ex
tensve interests on this side OF the Atlantic and
incidentally to deal with the claims wbtc, have
Deem put forward by Lord Delavaps octoroon house
keeper 10 his estate.
THE PRINcELY HOUSE OF GAIJTZYN
from Russia comes the news of the destruction
- the ancestral home OF the princely house OF
1ahtzyn In the province of Charkoff by insurgent
peasantry, who not only plundered the chateau
put consigned the latter TO the fames as we'll as
1il the extensive buildings in connection Herewith
which Included of the most famous studs In |
'sussa- sawmflls, and all the agricultural ma
chinery needed for The production Of breadstuffs
on large scae. In this as I'm other of their
analogous outrages. the peasantry have displayed
Ootn lack OF sense and Of gratitude. for the vast
suantities CT corn which they destroyed on the
oaltzyn property would have proved of ines
unable value to the starving and famine stricken
houJiks in the adjacent provinces; while the name
OF Galitzyn. like the equally historic one of Trou-
netzkoi, has always stood for popular rights and
liberties
The Gsiltzyns are descended from Guedininus
Grand Duke of Lithuans. IN the fourteenth century