Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-07-11
London Society Agog
Over Suicide Of Beauty

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! fathomable feminine fascination
which once caused Kitchener to ex-
claim petulently, "Women and flies
follow an army, and both are dan
gerous."
Faced Disgrace for Her. g.
For her, men faced disgrace, for
getting their war duties, when she
reigned supreme at the Mount Mel
son hotel at Capetown during the
Boer' war.
For her, other men gambled with
their souls in London's high life,"
facing ostracism and the wreckage
of their home ties.
Through it all she carried high
head, crowned by masses of hair
the color of FURNISHED Roman
bronze, Drawing the scorn of envi-
Gus sisters and the Haunting of low
ers with imperious black eyes-un-
til Tuesday night. Z
Then, for reasons not yet known,
she retired shortly after midnight
to her gold and crimson boudoir,
lighted only by two tapers under
crimson shades, there put on a neg
ligee gown, placed the muzzle of a
ble-barreled shotgun against her
cheek and pressed the trigger.
When Mary Lane, many years
her personal maid, with the aid of
a policeman, broke open the door,
they overturned a pile of furniture
barricading it from within. On the
dresser were two envelopes, one ad-
dressed to her husband, the other
to a friend. Each contained but a
single sheet Of paper. These en-
velopes, seals unbroken, were hand
ed over to the coroner.
Throw Light on Tragedy.
From Lord Henry Fitzwarine
Chichester, aged IS, who has known
Mrs. Atherton since she was baby
daughter of Sir Edward John
Dean-Paul, some bits were learned
that might throw light on the tragic
triangle of which she was a part
during the last few months. Col.i
Thomas Anterior, whom the dead
woman married in the first flush Of
her beauty, in 1892, and who d.
vorced her in 1906 following a trial
involving, Reginald Yarde-Buller,
has in later years repented his ac-
ton and has been the staunchest
friend at the time when her one
time host of friends began falling
away
The elderly colonel, pursuing the
most scrupulous honor code, despair
ingly in love with his beautiful ex-
wife, has done hundreds of acts of
chivalry for her. 1t has been even
limited that he desired to remarry
her, but that she refused.
hTen, April 26 last, she married
Capt. Arthur Elliot, by many years
her junior. But the spell which had
shared so many men seemed power
less to hold him, because the couple
separated after a few months, with
rumors of violent scenes preceding
the separation.
Husband Refuses to Talk.
Today the correspondent saw Cap
tain Elliot at his apartment
Il do not care to hear anything
about it, and I do not care to say
anything about it," he said.
So passes one of the super-women
Of that class of society which dares.
Once she caused Lord Roberts to
fume when she almost disrupted
military discipline by her salon at
Capetown. Once she threw the
whole English colony in India into
an uproar such as Kipling described
in Mrs. Hawksby's Tales. Follow
ing the divorce she sued Yards
Butler and recovered 100000, which
she refused to accept. Again, she
was the correspondent in the notori-
Gus Sterling divorce case at Edin-
burgh, where the charges were de-
clared "unfounded."
Her first tragedy came when she
saw her infant daughter killed by an
omnibus.