Show 11 I 1 13 n VI I 2 3 COL COLI MURPHYS ROMANCE Lender and Wife WIo Did rot Not toy for Thirty I t 2 Years tr c mm H n known afUr the death of ot otc Co Col c Michael C 0 Murphy that a ft I wire wife ur tB him She Bhe ills his funeral L anil mourned unnoticed In thu In largo large part I rt by y old oh f the doad ll Tammany lead eed leador I or although for tor ZO 20 or more she ehe he L lieen estranged tram from him hini mid ud not nol noli i oven even Willing to 10 I he e supported out of or hit hili plenty no one une who witnessed the Rc marriage ceremony emony Is II to be ie found It Is la that In the years preceding the civil war Mr Mc Ir and Mr Mrs II Michael C Ci i Murphy lived together In I tro trot t then a II tine line old neighborhood her tier marriage Mr r MIll Drennan The f tAW few w V I lI who i ve known o of the macri I f n U age e my ay y that ahe he came ORme from Ireland ISM and that thit she ahe ah lived with her husband for tor more than 10 0 yean yea before they thoy were separated SI As lis Minx MI Drennan the young oung lived with II ir T relatives the Ihl Hergens of ot De street l I After the I it neither to retain her hUe bus i bands II nor to 10 her hor own il u I U Uhe he begun to live 1110 under tinder the tho immo of Bergen According to an nn old friend who consented to tell the story yester yeater yesterday day the quarrels of ot tho thu young couple came Mme about because of ot his ide Jeal Jealousy Jealousy OhM Mike Ik Murphy the friend said eald was wasa a big tallow folio In those days dal He lie Was wan a II favorite with the wo woo women women men And that hat caused the trouble Mary Mar rew Jealous Bhe Rhe never eesI to 10 lov him him but nhi told him their relations relation nil ne husband and wife must cease and from that day to bIN liin death If It they the met at ot all nil they met InH ns nil strangers Living within a Pt afew few blocks 11 of or each other they dill did not speak It In II said Bald for tor more than 30 80 yours years More Moro than once he offered to 10 Alii ahi her wr hut but sh h would not havo have It She Sho her dally br d 11 by Mewing and doing other work ork Her very clo eloPe e efriend friend were ere the only ones to whom hom she eho ever mentioned the th colonel but b t If the she dill did recall him It Il wa Will always with a note of at affection Sho Tho wanted no divorce i C to the friend chroniclers of Col ol Murphy life have h V made a nils mis mistake la take kc about ml illS his age ase ager They r when shen he hI died 1111 1 the other lay day the tho friend added I ell that ho hI waR little tie more mor than 60 50 years yearn old 1 know hH ho Ito was 70 or Ot more It waa haC about 40 y earl ars at ago that lie ie e married Mary Dren Drennan nan Thy The speaker sneaker ker IM dill not know tho the da do dato to of ot the marriage ceremony nor oven even that It was performed by b a 1 priest I havo h lO heard hoard It 11 was WIlS u IL common law la IV wedding was added 0 Mm Mra John Hergen of or fi r widow of ot a man who was Willi a COUll I IIII In III rf ef Mary Drennan l rennan sold yesterday I Mary and nod Col ol 01 Murphy wore oto tied mil about 10 40 years ago aU I 1 never my cn abut about the Iho wedding and I J Lilly know lived here In this er Cr atral year lt They had hall a n daughter who died In InfancY InCline Mr Ir Bergen the tho couple cOUlle lived lIvel t pother gether perhaps ha as u Ion long IonS M Ill 20 O yearn Eh Eli did not 1101 know knI wh they the were sep separated orated n but hul Mrs Mr Murphy took tool tho the name annie i and w nt to work a II urn uric Mrs thought The Wall M aa not permitted to 10 supply u ply any nn an funds fonda fr the support According to ti t Mrs Mra Mr Hereen Mm Mrs IMI Murphy never attain again Vh her u until she ahe attended 1 the thu ser on oil Saturday Mm Mrs ergen MIll ald she hi hUll hail not nt seen Keen lie HIP widow for tor years l lore tho the funeral They did not ir reak k then Of lato litto Mr Murphy Murph not nol lived at nt 5 6 r Dor Dos street lit I Her lieI relatives there thoro did not hot know her 8 but they the thought It II wag lUI In the h of ur the th Bronx MCI Col ol 01 friends generally were of at his hie old marital tie In Ii h was excise excle commissioner they Ihl he hI II wa Will a bachelor They Thoy 1110 hud had heard rumors of J other 1111 ance tincel but hut not of ot the tho unit one with Mary On Oil the day lay of ot the till funeral a 1 veiled v lIed In lii company it h Michael i Murphy Jr n II or ot the till colonel The fhe nephew the lU woman us widow of his ide uncle Only a t few t 1 good friends wore were presented but bul butth th Ui news spread through the t i which wh cli already had heard of oC coining deputes over ocr the tha late pro pru When hen tho the nephew lie phew who Is a s truck men lien lilt n was ua soon Boon yesterday yo at nt lila hili home homeM M St Watts street he said Mid saidI L I dont deny dOli the el l nce of ot a II widow V Yell YeH n I did take t a 1 woman to tJ tile the funeral She Is Ia out of oC 1 town today I 1 urn thin In n II peculiar p position I dont rant vant to ay aay anything Later Luter Mr Mi Ir Murphy admitted the ex ox existence 1 Isit lice ace of or the tho Willow widow ido but he lie would not tell lell her hor story atory Mr WillIs of or 17 rT Hudson on street who sli hC acted an hR Col Murphys secretary lot for eara auld h hb would neither deny nor the tho rumor the marriage He Ito explained that lie he h WItS was on Ull good l ti ins with lIh both factions In the over oer the estate tul and thal I t could not spook peak their family ratters Ho lit 11 hiM bis hl questioner r to IJ Michael f C Murphy Jr and t tO Frank Fr a n k L I BoC It W R In the home nf f Mr Ir Dacon a at 2 street that Col 01 Murphy died Friends unit had always thought that till the th It I were vera the colonel and It was wa known that k I p K giVe ve Mr Ir much prop PropertY On 01 however hover there then was liS published a H statement that no nil led between Vil iii Murphy and the The Tiit statement Rt was lIas made by Ii h Mrs lIra Alice I or of Third avenue Mrs Ir SwIft who was V H was Miss MIliA Alice lIl Murphy Murph HM seti e H nt at her home My ty original JH correct she Phe he wild I urn Lila a II first ou ln lit of f tho the colonel colun 1 The matter will Ili come imp tp III In Incourt Incourt Incourt court and amid until It docs I dont don want to speak further It ft was learned Ihn Michael f P Mur Murphy lIr pIty phy ph Jr and aul Mrs drs Irs sift be bl prime movers In a tal n tight fight lit Mr la Ito con coil Oil It is lit by the that undue Influence was wa used on their de ik deceased II ceased kinsman to pot JOt his money mono They say Pity ho he left no will It li lit claim that he h B 11 gave VP all nil ho litt lind 1111 to 10 Mr It and to Mrs III HIlIO wl who o Is la to have died several year ago Inquiries at nt M 2 ot nd ed In the tho appearance of ot an elderly wo woman I O man flail Who to era through a n email opening In III th tho front door She hitt said Mr 1 r beau was 1111 very uy III ill antI and Dm could not mio bo be Interviewed He lie did dill not wish she Rho to of family matters at ot all nil Mr Huron Hacon Un on IH ts tho the men who gave gao fond foid to 10 Col 11 Murphy for Cor many canny yearn The flie colonel could It t eat cut like liRe other folks As A the th result of ot an nn old operation he had to take nourishment through a 11 r tube tithe In tile his stomach Mr Ir Bacon pre prepared pared the 1111 food tood and pumped It through the tube He Ito to appear at n t the colonels odlee nt at regular hours luring during the tho day und timid tho the colonel would stop nil all allwork work until the Ihl peculiar process had been completed Then Mr uncoil Hacon would RO go o away awny again r |