Year: 1873

Boston Girl on Her TraveIs-Her


COnnecficut Rival Beats Her.


Correspondence of the Boston Advertiser


HARTFORD, March 5.-On or about the
1st of February the following item appear
ed IN the Hartford COurdnt:


'One of the fair daughters of Hartford
cultivated and wealthy lady-is to marry
an Italian Count. Correspondence on both
sides the ocean has passed between our
Minister at Paris and one of the distin-
guished citizens of this State, and develop
ments ale satisfactory to both parties. The
lady is now abroad"


The lady alluded to, as very many people
here understood, having obtained the story
before it appeared in print, is of a wealthy
family, and possesses in her own right,
from her fathers estate, handsome for
tune. Considering her wealth and social
position, nothing strange was thought of
the report that she was to make q titled
alliance abroad, as very many American
girls have done the same thing. Of course
society talked the matter over, but rather
in congratulaLory vein than otherwise.
That the arrangements were progressing
satisfactorily was believed to be true, be-
cause it was known, or at least reported,
that the distinguished citizen of this State
who was in correspondence with Minister
Washburne on the subject was Gov. jew
ell, himself friend of the family to which
the lady belongs. After a few days society
talk, when the newspaper paragraph above
appeared, the gossips seemed to have ex-
hausted themselves, and were contented to
Wait for the announcement of the marriage
before going into further details. Now fol-
lows the romantic part of the story.


A few days ago an elderly lady, accom-
panied by a beautiful daughter about twen-
ty-two years of age, arrived IN this city and
took rooms at the Allyn House, and very
soon after were in consultation with one of
the ablest lawyers in Hartford. These peo-
pie were from Boston, though they had Just
returned from Europe, and had a common
interest in the matrimonial item which l
shall endeavor to explain. In the first place
they declared the alleged Italian CounI to
be sWindler and cheat, and gave this ac-
count Of him: His name, they said, is
Luigi Dana, and he taught music in Bos-
ton for six years, having been in this
country about eighteen years. 1t was
while taking lessons of him in Boston that
the Hartford lady became intimately &C
quainted with him, and at the same time
she was there, the young lady, who had
come with her mother, was not only pupil
Of bis, but was under an engagement of
marriage with him; and it was because of
this association at that time, and knowl-
edge OF other facts, that the Boston lady
and her fair daughter were able to discover
in the newspaper item the precise reference
to persons by Identification.


The Boston girl while here said that she
was deeply infatuated with him, though
her mother said she herself had strivan to
break off the engagement, and was so much
under his influence, believing in his prom
ise of marriage, that she trusted implicitly
in his word to the extent of going abroad
as she did to meet him. Though music
teacher, he represented that he had a nice
house in Naples, and that he would return
and make Preparations there for a settle
ment, and would then send for her-and
this he did. He wrote to her to take GER
tain steamer for Boston and he would meet
her in Liverpool, and in the same letter
suggested that it would be better for her o
get her wedding outfit in Paris, rather than
make any preparations before leaving. Her
mother thereupon disposed of certain prop
erty, and when the time arrived sailed, and
on reaching Liverpool Dana was there to
meet them as agreed. The we'd
ding trOuGSSeau was purchased, but the Ital-
ian, who had at first proposed that the mar
riage should be celebrated at once, delayed
action, suggesting that he had business in
London, and they would go there and be
married. On reaching London he again
made an excuse, and then decided that they
should proceed to Naples and be united in
his own house. The mother and daughter
had been led to expect that in the Italian
home,if to their Imagination 1t had not been
painted with all the glow of Melnotte's de-
scription of the palace by the lake of Como,
they should at least find an attractive rest
ING place; but the illusion was dispelled
when the spot was reached, and it is proba-
BILE that the willy music teacher fOresaw
that he could best rid himself of the girl by
introducing her to the realities of his home
life. And it appears that he had motive
for getting rid of her.


The Hartford girl had already gone
abroad and had found her Italian to acher
toward whom, it seems, she bad lingering
affection, and matrimonial propositions
were faVOrably considered almost at the
outset. But they had falling out, and it
was during this that the "Count" had
written to Boston for his Annie 10
meet him in Liverpool. Subsequently,
before she arrived, friendly relations ad
been restored with the Hartford traveller,
and he was now desirous of carrying out
that engagement and disearding the other;
and so at Naples the break occurred, and
the Boston girl and her mother started