Show THE OGDEN STANDARD F Y A MTNFR—SUNDAY MORNING NOVE1MBER 25 1934 QIIIQ giiy n-- B'n ' Deati of tje seventh Marquess rourtj of tje tte to meet a violent recalls the tale of the prophecy made 200 years ago that tragedy would be visited on the noble Irish ft " :" 4&&flt- " JJ -- - Watef© MOUSE of dMe (Me ' tf3k—5 B - a- - '' family for seven long generations ?4fmsk -- k" r a couple" of other deaths not mentioned in current records they concluded sometime ago that the stipulated seven tragedies had taken place and that the curse was now lifted rhe career of the seventh marquess— up to the moment of He his death— seemed to support that view seemed to have a charmed life He was educated at Winchester and Cambridge University and like his father before him he Served as an officer in the Royal Horse Guards from which he resigned several years ago at the time of his marriage to Miss Juliet Ever since the old crone pronounced the curse superstitious folk of M unsler have believed in a blight on the ancient family and have told tales of ghostly visitations banshees Lindsay he had seemingly miraculous escapes from death or injury in hunting Once the steering gear of his autoaccidents mobile failed and the car went off the road and turned over pinning him beneath — but he es-caped with uinor bruises In 1923 during the Sinn Fein troubles in Ireland he was shot at several times but was not hit All in all it looked as if the power of the old curse had run out The superstitious folk wholept track of such things went about tell ing one another that the old crone's vengeance had been satisfied As she had said the curse lasted seven generations and took seven lives— ' TWICE and dark 1 fee r' Ii '' ' V Vi v-- i7 "1" i ii '!(i f 4 f "T 7 W Xf HEN LONDON the Irish peasants of the folk-tale- i late John Charles de la Poer seventh marquess of Beresfocd Water ford and one of the most distinguished members of the Irish nobility bore his body to the gravea few weeks ago the specter of a withered old crone who died two centuries-agwent along with" them-- unseen but remembered by every- superstitious soul — o - of all the similar legends that have taken form in Ireland the home of bizarre tras ditions and chilling Joined 'with it is the story that a banshee watches over the Waterford family— a banshee who takes the form of a white ghost and wanders wailing along the banks of the river Clodiagh when death threatens a member of the house And other psychic things have happened to the Waterfords too according to legend There was young Lord Charles Beresford who rose to a distinguished position in the British navy As a midshipman he was on a British man of war cruising in South American waters One night he suddenly peheld the apparition of his father the fourth marquess of Waterford lying in his coffin back in Ireland He had had no known ' - V present' Or so at least says the tale which is whis- pered up and down Munster these days a dark and eerie tale of an ancient curse which has exerted its baleful power once more to strike down ' a bead of an ancient family The seventh marquess - of Waterford died tuddenly on a morning in late September ' He had he given orders to be called early" as his was going out hunting A servant came to room and found him lying mortally wounded groaning in agony Near him was a freshly- -' He died soon" after discharged gun The coroner's jury agreed that he had either dropped the 'gun or- - had slipped and fallen— causing its accidental discharge- m either case Why should such a perfectly ordinary acci-- v 'dent — tragic enough to be sure but not at all uncommon—set all of MunsterY peasantry talking about ancestral curses and the power of black magic? Because of the old tradition of a family curse and because many other members of the marquess family had also died by violence The legend of the curse' runs like this: warn him- - of his father's death but this weird vision He made a note of the day and hour when he saw it —r and learned later that at -- rThat -- 4 i - then was the curse probably the best- - ' I- - 1 ' '"! ' "i f ' - st f f--- i v ' -- great-great-grandfat- K 1 r &K ' V - - J ' ' v v : - '- r : - i i-rv- " : -- f tf - Vi i y - i been lying in his :Ay cof-- - fin at Curraghmore there is of of a former Lord Tyrone"— one of the titles in the THEN family ' — which the-ghos- Kcfim -z " - - r an accident — or an cncra curse? The late Seventh Marquess of Waterford photographed at the time of hh marriage to Miss Juliet Lindsay o his son and heir was about to be born he dreaded the power of that unlucky number so much peared to a woman member of the family and predicted that she would die in her 47th year The youthful heir to an ancient title —the 14 months-old Marquess accidental died an in uhose father shooting of Waterford Lying beside' him: is his baby brother 'born a few months before T he woman s m i birthday that s- t ap-- passedither 4th lived Vx' t " that very moment his father had indeed " years ago when the great nobles had all the privileges and the common peo- pie had none at all 'a member of the house of : Waterford w&s" riding' along a country lane on his horse An old peasant woman was in the when she did' not get out of the way pathand quickly" enough" to suit hirn he flicked her in the" face with his riding whip The old crone thereupon stood in the" grass by the roadside hands on her hips and cursed him as only an old Irish peasant woman can curse She' laid a curse upon him and his for years to come the curse she said would last for seven generations and seven heads of the house of Waterford would meet death by - x v 'III ! from home letters hinting at sickness or danger — nothing to O OME 200 s a- ' 1 1 1 I ' - violence my death warrant" T"he next morning she IThe peasants was found dead in her bed say there were marks of a ghostly hand on her wrist ' the Those are the stories that cluster about Beresford family And it is worth noticing that violent deaths do strike down the male members of the family — conclusive proof to superstitious peasants that the old curse is v working The third marquess of Waterford of the man found dead recently died of a broken neck sustained by an accident while out hunting The fifth marquess was terribly and per: manently crippled by a hunting accident For years he was the only man allowed to speak in l! x -- i' j! ! " r-- By Miltpn Broriner -- thetragedy ! through year and celebrated her 48th birthday with rejoicing Then a clergyman hi was present when she was christened told her that she was mistaken as to her age she was really a year younger than she supposed' i She turned pale and said "You have spoken the House of Lords while sitting in his chair He "suffered terribly from his injuries and finally shot himself to death in 1895 His son the sixth marquess feared the legend His London of the curse very house was at 1 3 Cavendish square and when Copyright 1814 by EyeryWeek Hagaxlae) whole-hearted- ly fhis sixth that he moved to another house marquess also met his death on the hunting field He was returning from a hunt and his horse slipped down a steep bank into the river Clodiagh where the marquess was drowned i of the family have also died by in recent years Lord Delaval Beresford was killed in a railAnd way accident in Texas not long ago Capt C C Beresford was killed at the great military camp of Aldershot while trying to stop a runaway horse There are five violent deaths The peasantry Waterford estate in Ireland on the 65000-acrhad kept close tabs on them and by adding in members rpWO otherviolence e and now the family was free of it And then accidental death struck down the seventh marquess of the Incidentally by ho means all members Waterford family have any belief- in the legend A sister of the sixth marquess not long ago vehemently denied the whole legend She said that no peasant woman had ever cursed any member of her house that there was no legend of a banshee at Curraghmore the Waterford estate and that what ghostly legends did exist concerned another branch of the Beresford fam' ily living in Ulster But the belief in the efficacy of curses dies hard "especially in Ireland whose 'folic lore contains an inexhau'stihle mine of tales about banshees ghosts fairies "the little people"- - and second sight r 1 I iiiciiiiifniiiiiiiiiiiiii O v I-'- on $ -- iiilllllllllIIIIIIIDlllllllllllllllillii' miiiillllllillllllllillllllllilllllllllllillllllllllillllllllllillllllllllC irn |