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Show PROYO SUNDAY HERALD. SUNDAY. AUGUST 8. 1926 J 0 F5! tires . m If f G V'V.. Beautiful Mrs. Brewster's 4 -- - ruin Shocking End 0 ifie .y 0 3 Romantic-Shipboar- d -friendship: ' (7 v- 4 - Mra. France Tracy Brewater, Talented and Beautiful Young Wife of the Jealous Society Man, Whose Interest in the Middle-Age- d Mining Engineer Resulted in thr Awful Tragedy of Murder and Suicide in Her Long Island Home. iv Kf - Friends of Jfri, 7B " i PjlM'-tosv- claimed that this frleiwcMt) betwttn th mining engineer snd Ui fcifcttf toolety woman was- - ehiiruly ybSli few strolls on.fite tick to admire the dcnuLng troqical tnoon, two voice! bloMdml (6;oti f in ioms esa otten melody it. King 'in limate .periods '4f iilonee h man ".'irtnd A. woman lesned tvgthef 6vf ihe pfow potderitijt tAgeihtr .ftii thi hho "":-- ;', T half-for- g T. tick mta kills the thing he lores, etch let this be heard. nome co it wita a onter loot, Some with a flittering word, The coward does it with a kiss. ' ! t'Pt Terether, With the First Few Nous et iiit Oil AwMlstsd .BpanUh Lays Song, WhltN tWs Mrs. WUh the Mettinf on Shlpbusyd BU ' - Brewster aiid Her I?mnmit A.imtr,' ths " Mykterious "Ivwf or Jtad.- v- .- Abort: y Whfch Brewster Feund la Hll IfaikH nd l ittfd -- Mle .wife's l.tart ,l f.lh ;Coji -- I ''phorescent - r... tfme, "Hardly had tne stTcn notes, la J& caliber Jied away titan two shots from funeral dirge," arm ij.UiU.itic followed six-eig- ht The brave mth with a sword. it was a single bar of music, a snatch of tropical love song, that a grizzled ngk Beer, unknowinglyj used to bring death to his. beautiful sweetheart, three thousand miles - ' lin BUT away fromjiira, in the heart of Long Island -. society. Sydney Brewster and bis wife 4iad been told quarreling, the listening servants later ' the Coroner. In a fit of re- scornher husband's bellipn.a.t ful words and her own society bound life, the woman turned away, was heard to stroll to her "piano in the adjoining room. A few noisy chords,, and then her fingers strayed into a song of romance, a melody she had learned from an unconvent nal man who had wandered into her - married life and then disap- peared before it was too late. The tragedy lay in the fact that the music was also known to her husband, according to the ., .CoronerThe -- .torn - bits- - o-fwere later found near Brewster's body, a romantic letter written io his. wife by the man in for away Mexico. And the letter had ended with that some bar of music his wife was now playing, music that .' ecnoed or madness and moonlight. Hardly had the seven notes, in time died away than two shots from a .45 ..caliber army automatic followed a funeral - dirge. - Sydney BrewBter had dragged his beattti- ful wife away from the piano back into the 'bedroom, slammed the door and then had killed both her and himself. Back in 1923 the New York social season was of Frances brilliantly opened by the marriage Tracy Lyon, member of the - New. York Junior League1toSidneyKJ. Brewster,. wealthy dfiieen dant of the Mayflower Brewstera. The wedding was performed at Calvary Church and practically notable of New York society Was present. every The young couple at once took a prominent place in Long Island society. Their entire lives functions and they were wer, devoted: universally- popular -- and respectedr" Yet as one season followed another with their only interests in each other and in the formal entertainments of their set, friction gradually began to occur between them. According , to friends, - however, ... they might have -life acclaimed as a happily married , couple but for a fate- ful intervention. Mrs. Brewster developed an attack of appendicitis if Winter. And not . s,r, ' last i& x V rallying aa fast as she ahould the doctors Tec- t -ommended a sea trip lw ? as beneficial. , A- trip to the Pana- i k, s ma Canal as thr.ruest- of Samuel Sturgis, wife of the American gen- -, oral commanding the . xon, was finally de- -j cided, pn.- - Mrs. Brew- 'ster was accompanied, ' .' by 'her sister, Mrs. " - Sherman Haight, and - Mr. Seven Haight weeki; were "spent" in the Canal Zone, and at 1 waves Shd thslsewa mnhrolbrtd thoughts, , t ; . , ; ,B before either ronri (r wetnelt kptw thelt bwn. mind, perhaps; the iamer hoti rfSc .Mew.Tork. . On th whalt i gift lis? J'or a i(iA hew f rtend wasforgottitii.. futlxif mufK br In i v -- v U : a jiJt KtiA IrnnH.l.il fnnrA nciai fayny, if I , stcf 'I 1 , t llfl kmt JUr. sd.Mrt. jkfT(vCiur wetj (hvted along - m...hhnrt Willi, aovpfitl ituitrla ;,-- ..a' j ''' .-- - Si 'h.r- i hr.-thi- lejstV.hat WedWetfihHt M levt vtrilntf . 1 1 . V V'WTvat took ttae twmcblha , i. -- - ... ; Glen Cove, L. I, Polico Examining the 5- Calibre Army Automatic With Which Sydney Brewster Slew His .Wife and HiinselL .7 pp;lAncr hrbsbandv ha Jeslstuy aioused rweweu n Dy br ,is believed w hate witnessed .between the: htexa thiiiini 4 ; scene-whlc- i ingiiteer and h!S.Wife.'.bad rarviu!:!1' cicrod. A frhm hi 'i "1 ffoni.i,lt la," the, letter ',the waste Wket. V7 J",V -j"; j " tdgi-thfj- f the end of Mrs. that-U- Brewster was . once more In radiant health. Then came the return journy on the S. S. Santa .Ana o the United Froit line. Mrs. musician. At times, under the. Brewster . ,i woumi enujr-rays OKMe bojnoeni moon-- , ane "tanr hertnends oiLthe deck with tiaunQnir senti mental songs that she had picked up in the tropics, accompanying herself - on r . ;.u, wa Among the other passengers- who were attracted by her charming voice, was a bronzed man. old- enough to -- be her . mining. 'engineer-- . - father, who had grown- ' gray wanderup -- - g toughtened by a struggle with " the world and the dements. But while he reflected the adventurer's life, and his sunburned hands had frequently demonstrated their ability with agun, those hands were alao known in a hundred mining camps for the music they could transpose on the 'jangling keys of some .music hall piano. For music was the mistress of ' and lis?'''' tiiw kntflnl life-lon- . ing WahlJe?"' 1"" "tlZJ '.n: r;MadJ.riioliti.liH-tyue. a man 1 The letter read !n bartf rTrstfjr Dearest: ram junt back trow a'Jonft trlb 1. fpund your t in the mountains of "Durango.' letter, and this is Just saline or two to eatch the post, vhich iroer eut' vsrv toon. 1 was ; 4appy to, tiavs your Utter ,ou, fof'I have thought, nd held QMirni vmlnd end thoughts io much and so, h.iig 'yoi "tnusfhav fU some vcX It across, ths niUes me imwno . . ua.' Vi r..--- SodrwittVrsiteyoitnbittfrrtyWlf hidm I'm apings, rare at my intemtjng lho!;.t wm-int miserable as can be inn - Just-nav- wnere -- .Vi.r, vh '7' - ihould. 1 " how harcF it was totair'to' hut-BAv- e s. be. :wrdeK;stw;l,Ti! whos ham' the wiljd ungs- - in the irei-enwhose' fact -' lingers in the dusk of twijlcht ' that- - floods tll nd tiit all ADi8eQl4 talis. AretyoU n - have 1 mean. . Of drefitnuJ ' ' d xr . i i - - TI i ITT ' ! lsJB!asMlsiu,'', s Y J .i - . v- fill :':: Photograph of ' .i , Before She Ihe Trip to the' Canal Zone for Her Health, t " ' r this. Pleaje' let me ntx sopa abct fou,' iiU.yo4V4rt Jtlmt yoirs,V, 'tt,bb. t riifplQw- theiittipassiohed sentences wss singM ' bar ,of music Irom.lhe "bauntiog --Spanish love theisteamerTomanca. i 'And Brewnt song nsa .learneii mat 'od-- ; was the, mt ham on ,nJV: Jif.U' .ni I . f1i.:'RniWHiMiri - Mrvnts serd.thenk biekofln thM, as had been their habit increasingly tit late. F.xaperaii hi:t . hei -.- ataer,iMra';Brewterf trn?iAhp rtgMtei-mist- ht 'husUai. rspMer.-Ssth Vuusoand -- . . voyage., s;vth- Spanuih" I6rs the" other Jmm and siptiedJ htt'Wve 'ti$.-Uie'tnelW- : es tt.a te "r "L 4 eft e. ry I W.wf.iiK lelur.'. 'r But he had done .more' than fascinate these a fatal choia,.ori,hdr part;f4sUrv new friends with his music On the lilt ot $m.'-- 'Spanish love song he had edged bla way .Wlthithe Uttsr lu LiVpeckct, wnh tlil)a this grinled adventurer's souL His was the rest- - -. eerie Frances Tracy searing his brain, leupcd thrill the door, less' wandering of a composer without a medium, , into the polished heart of the icMitiiiil wewbti arr.vri he fsfy Brewster, 'Each night she begged him a musician Xoced to turn has. hand's to the that strange melody of casual gypsy-lovher draggwf inidith. ledmrc'l There be .'rTf;!v of 1ife . her It reflected not only the heart-hungiVotd singer, trvif kornBiA. Jw- taught ao-hbut it also echoed all the romance and. adventure re the femes te z .Timfdly, at first, he edged his way into the Itt ti :..ii!y cm . gay group of society folk who made np the deck ' that her own hie had never known. . ihree IhousaaJ inilts reali---TU- - A'U'jny thowght is with yoii lBh ri,arty4-- He begiri'd that Tie ehoiee that phe ha: madr .bl bet. fol-;-:" be allowed l accom-- " V eacha aii4hfcil4dvs pany interesting Wyriurt?; biee as Mrs. Brewster's on4i(v.ATany rate she,waniihrej in rti ixfrfioin and satiltfo ths bln atol.,'J;'r1fiisiirtJtPayd the piano, Wore the evening had closed, his playing had made him a welcomed member .pver tne kpiano ktys, ' smkipr-peauajiuchords oi .ue.ntue group xor me remainaer.,oi ino ?ana- Tnen- unosv ;ncon8nuuiy iwintensf- J.ire - The Brewster Home at Glen Core, L. L, Where the Popular Young Society Couple Lived and . Where the Terrible Double Tragedy. Occurred, : ' the ship. ! HFatod ? jijgftt, 1 wonder-- fiyid of you, nd' agaiu'Jor fourhand tnust hurrjr .,4cfoesjthe hiitesbelweiMis,.! ' Sre onrtettompanion Me hadshesahis. wifej . T LSydney: Shortly- lkpn Sailed On 'J V vi ? - I' . . i MtSrtJrfcwster had ,tr?Ut J ' Icit 'T" Hrflnl .far away Msxico. Sh Jiad tvldently torn it 1is ,,-- ;f , Officers H. R. King and 'Herman Huck of the . ( nevtf ."' ' . - CtoneK-the- ' Li s i vi wlH id the evideierof Ihtimkte fiiendi T.'.f.tHe iamfl, -have pretty iwetf- wpenllfueted the 'U ; ' ' tragedy, . t I- lhUr tm dls niad wt ttfcvtr' Vork'Dn testimony of tb -- drifted-on-throug- . naircfetaili If pinow art ilihh rr7 . r wier ltfr)tbat'-S.vdny'"- J .'1- -1 . six-eig- ht jtws otl!efvn ..,IieM'hetin6uuulns : fx nt. ay - |