New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-14
MCLAUGHLIN GIRL
In HAVANA GRAVE
Only Ribbon and Withered
Flowers Tell of Her
Flight and End.
MARRIED GARAGE MAN
ON HER DEATHBED
Ceremony Performed byBishop's
Dispensation - Aunt in
Coma Over News.
by Cable 20 The Tribune

Havana, Cuba, April l3.-Grace Nc
Lsughlin lies in an unmarked grave in
the big Colon Cemetery here. Upon the
fresh mound Of earth rest three
wreaths Of withered flowers. About
the grave Of the New York girl who
went TO her death with the man who
took her away 10 marry her. four
months ago, are the little hillocks shell
tering the bodies of those whose
strange Spanish names are craven on
the hesdstones. There is no name
above the grave Of Grace Mclaughlin
only a bit of faded ribbon futters
from one Of the decaying wreaths.
From George to Grace" is stamped
upon it.
This is the farewell Of George Stevens
to the girl he married on her deathbed
by the special dispensation of Cuban
bishop. The banns for the ceremony
were read last Sunday, and were to
have been repeated next Sunday. Father
Mendez heard the girls confession and
granted her wish TO wed the garage
man, although Stevens is not free TO
marry until next week.
Miss Mclaughlin made a will on
March %, leaving her fortune TO the
man she chose as q husband and the
aunt she fed. This she did when she
learned she was in danger Of dying.
An American resident Of Havana wit
messed the document.
Stevens Snarls at Questions.
Upon the civil register Of the little
suburb Of Havana where she died her
name is entered as Mrs. George Ste
vens." The cemetery register gives
her name as miss Grace Mclaughlin
The man who took her away still
turks in the Cuban boarding house
where Grace Mclaughlin died. He Is
sullen-savage when questioned.
GO TO my lawyer. Clarence W:
Gormly. Of 81 Broadway, New York,
he snarls TO all questions. "He will do
my talking. ] want no more publicity
When asked II he and the girl had
been married he made no reply.
All the weeks while the girl was
slowly dying in the warm, damp air of
Cuba she and Stevens lived In this out
of-the-way suburb. Both knew that de-
tectives were looking for them.
Neither ventured from the shabby lit
tie house save at night.
For week or more before her death
Grace Mclaughlin never left her bed
even then. To hasten the tuberculosis
which was slowly eating her life aTA7,,
came an attack of bronchial pneumonia;
stevens engaged a physician to attend
her. but there was little 10 do. The
girl was doomed On April 10 she died.
While she was dying. detective finally
found Stevens and the glrl.
Detective Sent Back News.
II was through him that the news
Of her death came North. II he mad
come a few days later, the last bitter
secret Of Grace McLaughlin's life would
have been buried forever beneath the
rank grass which is beginning 70 cover
the unmarked grave in the Colon Gene
terry.
Mrs. Katherine Ingles, Of west
i29th Street, aunt Of Grace McLaugh-
lin. lay all day yesterday in coma
the after effects Of violent hysterla,
which had seized upon her when she
learned Of her niece's death. Only by
the use Of hypnotic influence was Dr.
John McParlan, her physician, able TO
quiet her: ~, 7.
- -,.bo hos heen hopino against hope Z