The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-21
Death of MurieI Byram.

And all that have aught to do with
Them" read the words of the curse.
1t seemed stretching belief to intimate
that the trouble involving Mr.. Perry
was due to the fact that he was directly
connected with the family which held
the cursed fortune, and yet at the time
there were those who said: at is an
other manifestation of the curse on the
Burnes money!
Even unto the third generation, -
Mrs. O'Brien had prayed that woe and
trouble would follow the cursed dol
lars.
Miss Muriel Byram, cousin of Miss
Marjorie Burnes and her inseparable
companion, was one of the second gen.
Grafton. Like her cousin, the famous
Marjorie Burnes, Miss Byram was one
of the social favorites of Chicago. Life
for this young pair was filled with
gayety and pleasure. Receptions, balls,
dinners, entertainments of all kinds
were lavished upon the young beauties,
and for them at least it seemed that the
curse had lost its power.
But in the winter of 101 Miss Byram
was cleaning a rifle preparatory to
starting on a hunting trip in the west
She was an ardent spOrtswoman, skilled
in the use of firearms of all descriptions
During the simple process of cleaning,
servants heard a shot, a scream and a
fall and when they hurried into the
room Miss Byram lay upon the floor
dead, killed by her own weapon.
The grief which overshadOwed the
Burnes family following this tragic
event was so deep as to drive the beau
tiful Marjorie into retirement. The
cloud of tragedy hung heavy over the
owners of the cursed wealth and it was
months before the name of Marjorie
Burnes again appeared in the lists of
those present at Chicago society events.
Marjorie Burnes WEEDS Love.
Later in the same year Miss Burnes
was given a still larger share in the
wealth left by the old Missouri pioneer
When told that her personal fortune,
already of considerable size, had been
added to substantially, the famous
beauty shrugged her shoulders and said,
simply, rs that sop
Beyond this she refused to display
any feeling regarding her acquisition of
greater wealth. Perhaps even then she
dreaded the money which seemed to
carry with it death and trouble.
When finally Miss Burnes again en-
tered the gay swirl of society it was
to be wOoed and won as bride by SD
ney c. Love, a graduate of the divorce
l.
spectacular careers in finance of any
young man in the west. From clerk
in a railway office to a millionaire in
ten years was the record of Mr.. Love
From a poor outsider to a wealthy
member of the highest social life in
the city was the climb he had encom-
passed in ten years. He was looked
upon as one of the coming men in fl
nancial circles of the west, and as
polo player cotillon leader and general
society man he was the favorite of his
set.
The marriage of Miss Burnes and Sid
ney Love was looked upon as a love
match. Love was congratulated from
one end of the country to the other
upon having won the most beautiful
woman in the world, and among his
intimates there arose a proverb, Loves
luck"
Soon after their marriage the much
feted pair went to New York to make
their home. Love, aided and abetted
by the friendship of w. H. Moore, for
merly of Chicago. had entered Wall
street as a broker. The future looked
bright.
Luck Fails to Save Sidney Love.