Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-17
House of Mystery" Conceal
ed a ChiId's Tragedy.
DAUGHTER IN SECLUSI0N
Disfgured for Life by Bites of a
Savage Dog.
HER NAME NEVER MENTIONED
Father Dearly Loved Her-His Pride
Will Remembers All.

NEW YORK, September 1.-the death
| of Giovanni F. Morosini has revealed to
| the pubic tho secret which has made the
| old bankers mansion at Riverdalc known
the House Of Mystery
1t concerns the tragedy of the banker
| Youngest daughter. Amelia OF whose eX-
istencc the public has known nothing and
whose name, in strange contras: 10 the
publicity given TO her sisters Giulia and
Victoria, never appeared in print
The neighbors at Riverdale knew that
ten or fifteen years ago a briEht-eyed
| little girl was included in Mr.. .,orosini's
family of five children. \ few years
after her mothers death, in 1883, the
youngest child was lost to view-as COM
pletely swallowed up as was the older
sister, Victoria, after her eopement with
Ernest Schilling, the family coachman.
and Punishment by her father to Yer
mont convent.
\ few intimate friends heard indirectly
that Amelia mad been bitten and fright
fully disfigured for life by some animal
a dog. a pet bear or horse, so different
versions of the story ran-but none of
the family would mention the subject.
For several years the neighbors have
gossiped about u mysterious woman oc-
casionally seen in the evenings on the
occupied by the old banker. So seld Jm
was she seen that suoerstitious neigh
bors might we'll have imagined her to
be the spirit form of the bankers be
loved wife. in whose memory he erected
the 100000 mausoleum in Woodlawn
cemetery, where his body will be laid
beside hers tomorrow. after a funeral
service at which only the family and
Father Murray are to be present.
If ever the mysterious woman of the
balcony, now known to he the youngest
daughter. Amelia. ever left the apartment
she has occupied near Ter fathers or
ever set foot in the gardens of the es-
tate within the last eighteen years, it
is not known to neighborS or servants.
The girl has been though prisoner
in castle.
Rumors, distorted and magnified. pic
tured the millionaire as turning against
his unfortunate child because her once
beautiful face had been disfigured. and
in his doting worship of his handsome
daughter Giulia. refusing even to see or
speak to AMELIA. This it is learned
authoritatively, is false.
"Mr Morosini." said one of his few
intimate friends and advisers, always
spoke of his youngest daughter as My
darling Amelia She fully much as
Miss Gulia. was the apple of his eye, and
her misfortunes did much more than the
elopement of Victoria with the coachman
to sadden his later years.
He never told even me the particulars
of Miss Amelias Disagreement, but I
know that he spent hours with her every
day, and that the family did everything
in it's power to make her comfortable and
happy"
Amelia Morosini is now twenty-five.
She was about twelve when a savage dog
attacked her and inflicted the injuries
| which have kept her from the public
gaze ever since. The same family pride
which Victoria Morosinis elopement SO
hurt as to embitter her father permitted
the misfortune of Amelia almost never
to be mentioned Callers at the Morosini
home for years never heard of her.
Estate Worth So, 100000.
The provisions of Mr.. Morosinis will
disposing of an estate said to be wort IN
| about $3.OOO,OOO will be of especial inter
est because of the long estrangement of
father and the daughter who eloped.
Henry Thompson of 2 Wall street,
attorney for MorOsini. said positively yes
, terday that Victoria Morosini will be at
the funeral. At the time of her mothers
death she was exied on account of her
elopement. Her husband. Ernest Schil-
ling. has been completely lost to the
Morosini family.
Attorney Thompson would give no init
nation of what provision has been made
for Victoria in the will. but from another
and perhaps more intimate friend and
business associate of Morosini it was
that all of the five children have been SO
provided for as to assure no contest.
Wall street variousy estimated the
Morosini estate at S. 1000, 900 to $4,000. 600,
but both of these figures are said by close
business associates to be far above the
actual.
Disposition of MorosiniS collection of
armor is another interesting subject of
speculation. 1t is known that he dis
cussed proposal to present it to mu-
scum.