The Detroit times., 1909-01-28

she IS a Liberal Her life is severe
and spartan. Her religion is OF the
breed OF that OF Cromwell's Ironsides.
The Llangwm man Is somewhere in the
background. He is a domestic ami
mai. He has not even n claim TO his
own name. He Is Mary Palmer
man" or Bessie Liewellin's son.
There is no off-hand talk of the wife
or the missus' in Langwm.
An attempt is being made in Liver
pool 10 alleviate many OF those cases
in which pride and poverty are trag'
ically blended. 1t Is a departure from
the ordinary methods OF relieving DIS
tress, and the opportunity OF bringing
It about is due to the generous public
spirit OF Sir Peter Carlaw Walker, the
head OF the well-known firm OF brew
ers, Messrs II. Lee Jones, IL. Ashley
Shute and Z. Ellis. The chief aim or
the fund is to reach those on the verge
o: starvation whose pride prevents
their appealing for or divulging their
poverty Through the Inauguration or
this fund cases have been discovered
where the people concerned were once
well-to-do. TO such a class Sir Peter
Walkers benefactions-which Is said
TO he $1,000, 000--has come as an In
describable blessing. Quiet observation
having assured the organizers oil the
genuineness OF a case, relief Is admin
istered with the greatest secrecy
A strange romance OF a secret mar
rage and the heirship To historic e3-
tates has Just come 70 light. About
a month ago, Capt. Thomas Ereke
Lewis of Moyne Court, near Chepstow
and Abbeydore court, Heretordshire,
died. He was buried at ST. Pierre,
chepstow, the family burial place. It
was generally thought that he was
widower and the supposed heir to the
estates In the two counties OF Mon
mouth and Hereford was present al
the funeral. But since then rumors
have been afioat that Capt. Erek2
Lewis left wife and two children.
Injuries prove that this Is true, ana
that the captain has left his estates
10 the children OF the secret marriage
and his wife.
A special interest in the affair arises
from the fact that Lewis, at the time
-
of the I.ewises of ST. Pierre-who had
occupied their estate near Chepstow
sirce l35O-and the last in the direct
line OF the great family OF Morgan
from which Viscount Tredegar, the
hero OF Ralaklaya Is descended OF. a
loo al archologist wrote. he was the
last of the old family OF Lewis, OF ST.
Pierre. and also the last male de-
scendant or Lewelyn at Ivey, Lord OF
the Tredegar. Though not a Morgan
by name. he was the last of the Nor
cans IN the direct line. Llewelyn had
three sons. The eldest Morgan re-
ceived tile paternal estate OF Trede-
gar the second was Ivor Hazel, the
lord of Gwern Cleppana, patron OF the
great Welsh poet Dafydd Gwilym. For
his third son, Philip, he bought the
state OF st. Pierre about the year 1891.
and from that day right down to the
prescnt time there has always been
Lewis OF ST. Pierre in the County OF
Monmouth.
How IL came about that all the coun-
ty was ignorant that Capt. Ereke
Lewis had married again and that ne
eft q son and daughter there Is no
explanation. HIS first wife, by whom
there was no issue, died In 1899, after
over 40 years of married life As
Capt. Ereke Lewis was IL years OF
age at his death he must have been
well advanced in years at his second
marriage to Miss Morgan. whose
house was In the neighborhood OF his
Abbeydcre estate in Golden Valley,
Herefordshire.
She lives at a charming little house
about two miles from Abbeydere sta
ton. Interviewed by press repre-
sentative, she said she knew that Capt
Lewis was supposed TO be single. but
| he was not, as she was his wife. He
was inclined 10 be rcticent, though, she
said
Cant. Lewis had left the Abbeydore
property To her and the ST. Pierre
property to her son.