Show I VEILED MURDERESS VI VAS W AS WIFE OF LORD LORD 1 1 r 1 Woman Convicted of Poisoning I IWas 1 Was Lady Charlotte Charlote 1 Wood Wood Wood-Elot DESERTED CASTLE HOME I Married Against Her Will and Later Later Returned to Politician Politician Politician Poli Poli- Sweetheart New York lork Jul July 18 According lo to loa loa toa a story In the World this morning Henrietta Robinson tho tile famous ramous veiled murderess of ot Tro Troy who died diet In Mat Mat- asylum for tor tho the criminal Insane In 1905 was none nono other than Lady Laty Charlotte Wood Elliot Ellot once mistress of ot the Scotland whence she disappeared In 1851 According to the tile stor story Lady Elliot was Born Dorn Charlotte Wood a member of an aristocratic aris English family amlY of or Quebec o As Asa As' As Asa a school girl Charlotte attended n a n fashionable seminary In Troy N N. Y and as the attendance at the school took look more or less Jes part in the social activities of that city Miss Wood met meta a number of ot fashionable young un men there Among them was John C. C Mather Mat Mat- her who later became a power In Republican politics in I New York ip- ip state where ho was something of a e bo boss s I Before Charlotle Charlottt Wood fell el In love Jove with wih Mather and when she sile re returned ye- ye turned to her hel home in Quebec the two kept up a regular correspondence ence Mathers Mather's social rank did liti dd not satisfy tho the 1 proud roud Wood family and the they frowned f on further friendship of the tho two Soon afterward Charlotte Charlote Wood In once enCe to tho the wL wishes hes of ot her hel family Wits was married to the eldest ion on on of or Sir Willam Will Will- J r lam am Francis Elliot Elot of Scotland She was wa an unwilling bride and after an an 0 unhappy married life lre of or foul years in 1 Scotland to America disappeared and came di direct direct di- di 11 f fI t t I. I to Xe v York rl L ll to u me lle ono s OrUS s Story lor stayed for a while In New ew York anti and ant established communication with wih Mather Mattier Mat Mat- r tier her her tile the sweetheart of or her school chool days Later late she moved etl to Troy find jed lisi-jed herself in a bla beautiful home hom Hero she lived a life o of mystery She appeared to l receive cel c no visitors anil wont nowhere From the time she lunched landed In America she e went wont under th tho thu i name namo ot of Henrietta antI her real Identity was never nover revealed Mather Mathers Mat Mat- hers her R association with wih her was clandestine clandestine clan- clan destine and none that the the- powerful political cul V va n a reg regular nt at tile tho woman hom homI I d P zB hlat In L iu ni r n i Uen iT ui or seized d the woman and he she hf re resolved reSoled re- re solved Soled to return to her husband la JI 1 Scotland co and throw he herself ell upon lug his 1 mercy tn i- i She got lot n nit R r r. r riu l' l Roston loson whan i iI i slather I ther her nod and i to to return From From- Fron Ul this ho ho Aver the l politicians politician's ians ian's attentions nl waned y Ava th i. 1 that U ii Henrietta Robinson RobIns im l r t r realizing f tl t sh she h wim i b d I 19 t sh Sh r 1 b began an to lo act strangely Shi A In public about Mather finally claiming that he ht had married herCul her it Cn-it Oil OIT Woman oman After Atel It a number of or scenes that caused Mather ather considerable notoriety he 10 began planning some means 1 of ridding himself of or her He was engg en- en to marry another woman nail ami completely gg cast oft off or the tile beautiful Can Can- adian idian In Ill May 1853 the woman woman was arrested ar- ar j rested ested on the tile char charge e of poisoning a r. r I relative of or a grocer near her home a During the trial she appeared in incourt incourt court ourt ha heavily veiled and refused to remove the covering Several Sever I times durin during tho the trial sho sIlo created scenes and amI was vas finally found guilty ul She was sentenced d to life Imprisonment anti and SpOilt spent tho the remainder of her 1101 life le In COM COM- dying in in 1905 According to th the story the the- Wood and anti effort effort efort ef- ef Elliot families used every even possible Elot alleged fort ort to conceal her Identity and ale burled in Scotland Scotland Scot- Scot that hat she slIe died anti and was r I- land and in |