Show father laic he a miar A isnard me the deith liili luct the sign of her abe hisae iari nr fa cat hoi c brict special sen ice NEW YORK nov 10 news baa received hereof the death in san francisco ot arsi esaa gi nevera lake widow of kev S lake brilliant young catholic priest who nearly seventeen years ago farook the church to marry lie woman lie loed 0 the mimetic career of this couple wai told to your correspondent spon dent yesterday by aa iati mala father alve was the fon 0 of henry lake senior partner of alie of lake mccreery leading dry gooda inen of new york fifteen yea ra ago lie bad been brou elito in the protestant folh and at the ago of fifteen acara caused macch consternation in im lually by the announcement that he had been converted to the catholic Ca holic ta ali he was sent to st jolina college at oliero he passed through various grade until ready to miller the priesthood to better prep tie himself lie to go to home he entered the american college having ai brother tre hey lr mcalynn alue in it me lie collected lie kice eaid to be equaled in country only hy thai by a jesuit father in this city for the arst six years of hia priesthood lie belon ird to the Pai ilist order but sevorid hid connection with it aid became an to father priest now clain bellor of hie ivr york cabalic Ca bolic church in a course 0 study oi oa be met albai sara Gi cevera chau a girl of 18 years and nho wag eludy ing under the bame teacher she was a young poet and public reider atho made her debut ai an under sheridan shook in lie square theatre lake and tin tell in loo but for a long time dept the feeling alad floii aali other alia between duty to the church and love for thi airl wn very bitter one but love naturally won nad like de hie they married secretly and lived in hew york tor a short time under the baue ot ilford Il mord lakes vas commented on hy the litwa but none discovered that he young waa married the who were privy to the secret did rot ie it be known till mr and arc i monda had left the cita tim it was a dal of a ibay r alie couple macd red waa i ot known tor beveral leara by the anen s left bo hied ut in 1874 a letter was from a lady confidant in this city from ban francisco tilling of ahe bai py life they were living the next heard was by a received on christmas daiy diy efrom ganta cruz anjou ang the death of father lake airs lake returned to sn francisco and made a ahme for in a quiet litle house on fifie street when her grief had kiib ended she wrote a letter t ft friedl which was evidently as a of her oan and faher lakes action she says in it 1 I have been blamed for inducing my liu bind to break his vows and leave the chunh this charge is false when he told me of his love and wo dr covered the peculiarity of hia I 1 advised him to ety in the church ha led up abo question of celibacy anil this led him to and be concluded that the had DO divine orgin or authorization of course loving him I 1 was passive to his wishes we ee crelly for california reaching san francisco on the ath of november 1874 in lir of finding a more climate as be was consumptive we went to banta cruz and fettled dawn for lifa he started a Dene paper but hai no heart for the gle even in this UT off favored and lovely land but we lived and loved until death claimed him here I 1 am in a great city alcoe thousands thou ands of miles franf any of my trien dg I 1 luve written to mr lakes friends in bew york but I 1 do not know how they look upon roe now that lie is dead most of my oft n friends in new york have ignored me entirely and yet in alie great rime or act that I 1 have done I 1 simply obeyed one of the purest noblest instinct that god has planted in the linman breast nothing boora bail been heard ot lire lake until her deah wa made known by a letter a few days ago |