The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
MYSTERIOUS THAT HAVE
NEVER BEEN SOLVED
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who was, however, before being ad-
mitted to the sick-room, called aside
and pledged upon his honor not to re-
veal what he might see or learn con-
corning his patient. The physician s
lips were sealed until his death, and
the only information concerning his
patient which could ever be obtained
from him was that he had never seen
her face.
She was yelled during each of his
visits, for ten weeks. The husband
was the only nurse at the bedside, day
night, through all of the enervating
heat of August. But as autumn ap-
preached he became exhausted from
loss of sleep, and two Virginia ladies.
guests at the hotel, were permitted to
administer to the sufferer, but only
after they had taken the solemn oath
that they would never reveal what
they might learn about the mysteri-
GUS invalid.
When the stranger was seen to be
dying, at midnight, Thursday, Octo-
Der 3, the husband requested that
only he should be left in the room, SO
the physician and two volunteer nur-
ses withdrew.
A chill wind ratified the sashes, a
fine, cutting rain battered against the
windowpanes, and the two ladies with
the landlords wife shuddered as they
waited outside the bathroom door.
Finally at dawn the husband with
haggard face and swollen eyes, step
ped out into the hall and announced
| that all was over.
Then, lest some one should see the
hidden face in death, the husbands
own hands prepared the cold body
for burial in Saint Paul's churchyard,
and ordering the monument with its
puzzling inscription he disappeared.
For dozen successive years he re-
turned on the anniversary of his be-
loved ones death, to put fresh flowers
upon her grave and see that the grass
was neatly trimmed. During these
pilgrimages of devotion he was fer
ried directly from Washington and
back, without stopping again at the
Alexandria tavern or speaking to any
one met upon the streets.
But, at the end of these dozen years,
| he seems to have died, for his visits
suddenly ceased and the grave of his
supposed wife became neglected. The
columns of it's strange monument top
| pied and so remained until one spring
morning, when a distinguished-lo
ing old gentleman and two elderly
women handsomely gowned myster-
iously appeared in the churchyard to
order the stone repaired and the grave
replanted. Under pressure of ques-
tions from the sexton these unknown
visitors reluctantly admitted that they
were relatives of the dead woman
and that. her husband had been a
British officer; but when questioned
more closely they hurriedly left the
cemetery.
Nor would the two Virginian la
dies who nursed the yelled woman at
the Bunch of Grapes" where they
themselves were guests, ever say
word as to what thy saw or learned
in the sick-room, save that their pa
tient was very beautiful and was of
uncommonly high birth. Both lived
| to ripe old age and went to their
graves with their lips still sealed up
on the female strangers" secret
That it was the lost Theodosia Burr
Aston, daughter of Aaron Burr and
wife of the governor of South Caro-
lima, who had come to this end was
one theory, according to which the
alleged husband was a pirate who
had captured that distinguished la
dy.
Another story was that the female
stranger" was no other than Sarah
Curran, the heartbroken fiancee Of
the Irish revolutionist, Robert En-
nett, and that the "disconsolate hus-
band" was Major Sturgeon, of the
British navy, whom the unhappy lady
was forced to marry after Emmett's
death. But these theories were based
on pure speculation and have gained
little credence.
Mystery of Hidden Son of Royalty
We have had our unfathomable
mysteries of appearance as well as
disappearance. One of the most per-
picking of these cases was that Of a
man whose chief energies, until his
ninety-fifth year, was expended in
searching for his own identity.
This was James Ord" to use the