The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
MISS DOUGHERTY
is in L|ME.L|GHT
HerDog "Patsey' Wins All First.
Honors at Bench
Show.
S EN- sATl5oN IN PARIS
Mrs. Walker Fearn Will Probe
Mysterious Death Of Her
Niece.
ny VANCE THOMPSON.

Especial Cable to The Times- Dspntch.l
Paris October S.-Pretty Miss
Marion Dougherty, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Webster Dougherty, of
Philadelphia. ana granddaughter of the
famous Dan Dougherty, of the Silver
tongue. Is once more in the limeligfit.
Miss Dougherty was only sixteen
ana pupil in IA Paris convent school
when she ran off with Baron" Rich
ard Alexander Strobel, a Bohemian,
with vast estates near Prague. NIT
In little time the girl-wife found
that the Strobel title and the Strobel
estates were fairy stories and that
her husband was nothing but a whced-
ling adventurer So they were divorced.
Miss DOnghcrty's New Romance.
That was in 1905. and since then
Miss Dougherty has Tot been largely
In the public eye. Now she is with her
parents ut the Hotel Maurice having
Just motored up from San Sebastian,
and she has brought with her the con-
CALCULATIONS of two Queens and one
King and gold medal for her Irish
terrier Patsey. and n second recollec-
tion of fetes. flowers and adulati6ns
from the grandes of Spain such az
fall to few American girls. When the
judges of the San Sebastian dog show
awarded the gold medal to Miss Dough-
eerty's Patsey, the sportsmanlike young
King Alfonso and his English Queen
Ena were the first to offer their hearty
| concentrations. Then the Queen
| Mother followed the example of the
royal pair and added her felS,itations.
Queen Ena seemed TO remark a
/! similarity between the prize-winner
Patsey and the Irish terrier which so
! piteously mourned at the late King
! Edwards death. and 1t transpired tina,
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blood and family. King Edwards faith
! ful dog. by the by, is now at Copen-
hagen with Queen Alexandra, and is
| said TO be still grievng for his dead
| master
Miss Dougherty and her mother were
| spending the season at Biarritz when 4,
occurred to them that Patsey might
win n prize over the border. This she
did carrying off all the first honors
| and reaping golden laurels for herself
and her happy mistress.
All this. of course, was before the
| revolution in Portugal and the shaki-
ness in Spain
Uncarthins n Tragedy.
Friends, relations and onlookers are
worked UP to high pitch of excite
| ment over an impending laS suit by
Mrs. Walker Fearn. cousin OF the
late President Grant. to obtain an ac-
counting of the vast property of her
niece. Mrs. Wilkinson, whose mys-
| FERROUS death was the sensation OF
| Paris some months ago.
! Excitement is now intense because
very direct evidence of poisoning has
been discovered This discovery, fol-
poison Madame Claude Berton, the
| daughter Of DR.. John l.. Phibbs, Of
Chicago and Seattle. has caused people
to begin to wonder IL the poison route
| is the usual way of getting rid OF
American women in Paris. The high
standing of Mrs. Walker Fearn, Who
belongs to one of the Oldest families.
is a presumption in her favor.
So as to be near at hand to push
the case to the bitter end, Mrs. Fearn
and her daughter, Mrs Barton French,
have taken an apartment in No. IL
Avenue Victor Hugo 1t appears that
Marie Hewitt Wilkinson's entire for
tune went to count de Montsauain
and his family. connected by marriage
with Mrs. Wilkinson through the mar
riase of her mother with the we'll
known sportsman, b. Boruski. Az
matter of fact. the real heirc are Mrs
walker Fearn, the aunt of the de-
| ceased, and the Baroness de Saint
Bresson. the adopted daughter of the
late Mrs. Wilkinson.
Newly discovered evidence has just
come to light regarding certain poison
ed fruit and the sources from which 1T
was sent the said fruit having been
delivered to Mrs. Wilkinson one week
before her death. The English nurse,
a Miss Marshall. has also lately been
discovered Accusations against her
are very grave, for the evidence goes
to prove, that she administered triple
dose of morphine and strychnine to
| the dying woman.
| Miss Marshall was dismissed by Mrs.
/ Wilkinson shortly before she died. The
| nurse then took refuge with the De
| Montsaulnins. The chemist who filed
| the fatal prescription is also known.
| He lives in the Avenue kleber, directly
opposite the dead woman's house. The
physician who wrote the ordinance
isDr. Fisher, of the Avenue Montaigne.
| 1t has been learned that Mrs Wilkin-
son was kept sequestered for some
time previous to her death, and that
even her friend, Princess Marie of
SAKE Meiningen. the aunt of the Ger
man Emperor, was refused admittance
to the house.
Since the death of Mrs. Wilkinson
/ the Count de Montsaulnin who was
once president of the Jockey, Club, has
died. but even so Paris will not be
/ of 1ol, ~,