Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-04-07 | Page 21 | The Borghese Ghost

THEjBORGKESE GHOST I T1jBORGHESE I The approaching marriage of Don 1 Marco Borghcse with Mile Ysahe Porges has revived Interest In the fa I Jnoua Borghese ghost story The lady who succeeded to the honors of the beautiful but notorious Pauline Bpna I r partis was Lady Gwendoline Talbot daughter of the Earl of Shrowsbury She was a very lovely woman and adored In Rome on account of her charity Sho died a victim to duty cur ing the cholera visitation of 1840 when rhC devoted herself in the most heroic manner to nursing the very poorest i Her funeral was made the occasion of an extraordinary demonstration the lxtrordlnary demonslraton I t 11 I students of the university Insisting t upon dragging the heavse to Santa r r Maria Mnggloro where the body war J purled In the gorgeous family chapel l I j I built by Paul V The Prince Borghcse I JIit himself placed a sapphire ring of reat value upon his wifes linger on lnBcr g her wedding day and insisted that it 1 lholld bo burled with hr nnn himself watched he soldering of the leaden I coffin A few days after the funeral a poor woman was arrested charged with the theft of n sapphire ring which had evidently belonged to the Princess Borghese since It bore on the reverse her name and the dale of her marriage 1S3S The woman asserted that while she was praying In the Borghese chapel the saintly Princess had appeared to I j her and had given her the ring On recognizing the gem Prince Dorghesc ordered the coflln to be opened in hlG I own presence and in that of several other well known persons who had watched its scaling None of the seals were broken but the hand was slightly moved and the ring was gone Much struck by thll strange coincidence the Prince withdrew the charge and educated edu-cated the children of the accuse one of whom is still living and is well known In the Italian literary world From the London Dally Chronicle