Show SDCROIS SORROW The Story of a Baltimore Belles Unhappy Fate HER SPEECH IS SOFT AND SWEET The Baroness Arrives in Ness York and in an Interview Tells the Tale of Her Wrongs Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YOKK May 1SMmo Von Sucrow whose matrimonial experiences with a makebelieve nobleman have been telegraphed tele-graphed to the Examiner arrived yesterday yester-day on the Saab alone and unsuccessful This ends the second chapter of this American Ameri-can girls sad romance Mme Von Sucrow is a most attractive young woman being not more than thirty with auburn hair good complexion big brown honest eyes aided by eyeglasses a pretty small mouth with flashing white teeth and as bright a smile as one would wish to see In figure she is neither maternal nor girlish but very shapely She was dressed yesterday in a dark plaided cloth gown brown jacket black velvet turban with the soft suede gloves and neat shoes of a refined woman Her voice is low and sweet and modulated to a degree It is but just to myself and my friends I think she said that I should correct some statements which have been made It grieves me inexpressibly that my folly should have put my friends in such a position posi-tion of notoriety But it is better that the truth be told simply at once and for all I was as you know Miss Constable Baltimore was my home and there my parents par-ents died They left me a little money it is true but that I spent upon my voice I had hoped to do a great deal fermyself with my voice but I have always suffered from the fact that I was unable to read music at sight The connections of my family still live in Baltimore but they are not as wealthy as has been suggested The first thing which Baltimore people liavo accused rob of I see is eccentricity So far as that sort of thing is concerned I dont believe I ever did an eccentric thing in my life No ones life could have been more bounded by conventionality than mine and at the same time have been that of a girl away from her fathers house When I left home to commence my studies stud-ies I was not alone as has been stated I lad with me always in the first place a middle aged person as maid and also a young lady who belonged to as good i family as there is in New York Again when I first met Von Sucrow it was not in a small Italian boarding house It was in he house of some connections of mine cousins of my cousin in fact on Madison avenue Von Sucrow came to us with letters of introduction He is a charming man the ort of man in fact whom every woman admires The result of our meeting was a pure simple love match He is not a hand omoman but ho is every inch a soldier with as fine a figure as I ever saw in my life I was proudofiim as a brave soldier but I never took the name of baroness upon myself I know too well how little it means either for myself or a man of family No matter what any one might say I did not marry him for a title nor did he marry me for money I told him plainly before ve were married that I had none that I lad no expectations I have been betrayed in ways enough I cannot believe that I vas man led on a bare suspicion of having money As for the marriage being either sudden or private it was not so My family was not only notified but the marriage took place in Baltimore in St Pauls church only after every member of my family had met the man I was to marry and had fully approved of the match It is true that I nowjfound that my husband hus-band was poor but many a woman has married a poor man and welcomed every privation So it is with me I knew that ny husband was crazy about an island in he southern seas and I myself took to three competent jewelers rough diamonds which he had They each said they were genuine brilliants but a trifle off color They were afterwards pawned but I never knew of the letters said to have been writ ten to the Baltimore American in regard to he expedition Had I known it I should naver of course have permitted it I knew my husband was embarrassed for money I know now that what he told me of himself him-self was untrue but I do not bcleve he willfully deserted inc I believe he was fond of me This was the way he went Everything almost had been sold Then one day in gay spirits he went away He left me some money He left me too a note say ing that he had not deserted me He had gone in that way without saying goodbye because he knew how disappointed I would be that I should beg to go also In a month he said ho would send me money and that as soon as possible he should return Foolish Fool-ish woman that I was I ceuld not wait I followed him on the Gallia thinking to overtake him I arrived in London There I sought to trace him but without avail Then I applied to Henry White of the American legation I was bewildered I could hear nothing of my husband I was without money Mr White was very kind He advanced me money which of course will be immediately repaid He sought to find any trace of Major Von Sucrow He learned nothing save what I had learned for myself that is that for some reason best known to himself my husband married me under an assumed name Ho was not though I am perfectly confident married before That leaves me as much as ever his lawful wife In the telling of this pitiful talo of unbounded un-bounded faith that no shock could break she showed a spirit too thoroughly proud and truly American to admit of any such word as desertion Mme Von Sucrow was frankness itself With corrections of some statements made by over zealous friends however the interview in-terview ended I go at once the pretty woman said with grave dignity to my friends I will place myself in their hands What I will do what they will do remains to be seen I can only say I will bear the name I now bear for the shortest possible time To the extent to which the wiping out of that name will put a stop to this scandal to just that extent you will find it forgotten |