Show ENDING of A SAD LIFE A once rich and honored jurist and statesman dying la in poverty I 1 A lansing Lansi og mica fich 3 dispatch to the philadelphia press pren bays says isaac P christiancy ex chief justice ol 01 the supreme court of 0 michigan and ex united states senator and ex minis mints ter in P peru ara is dying at his lonely home hom st in this city a broken down mined rained man the etory story of bis his life is to a asadore as sad adone one paw few men in the state ever attained higher honors lie he hid b ld rare learning perfect probity and an unblemished reputation until bis his unhappy marriage late in life with a young and pretty treasury girl in washington ilia ills misfortunes date from that day ills cape case is in a striking example of liow how abort it is from honorable fame and political success to total obscurity Teny ten years cars ago judge Chriatian christiancy cy was a prominent figare amo K g american judges and diplomats mow now he is dying almost in poverty and ver very y few people outside of mich michigan gatt can mention bis his name unless it be in connection with the scandal which caused his retirement to private life for forthe the past month he be has an suffered intensely from a cancer near the roots of the tongue and the hopeless old man will welcome death in 1875 he resigned from the bench to become united states senator and a nd two t wo years later resigned that position to accept a cc ept the post of united states minister in in I 1 ate r to peru the death f bis his first firs t wife left him with several sons it w was no not t long after his ills election to the united states senate that bis his michigan friends were startled at the news of his marriage to lillian lugenbeal gen beala beal a bewitching young employee of the tre sury department he ile brought bs we bride with him when be returned to lansing to arrange far for his journey to peru pera and his friends did not wonder that the dignified jurist had lost his heart his ills young bride with her petite rounded figure auburn hair and dazzling complexion waa wai a rare beauty not long utter the minister went to peru grave stories were told about the young wiles conduct it was said that she soon tired of the minister and had transferred her affections to a young lieutenant with whom she bed been fascinated before meeting the senator and find who had bad boldly followed her from washington to peru the scandal culminated in an exposure before the expiration of his first year in lima mrs christiancy returned alone and gossip was again revived when minister christiancy returned to the united states after a chance of administration he at once applied tor for and secured a divorce enoth ground of infidelity neither the th e youn YOung wife nor the lieutenant who w was as named a as correspondent made defence to i th the 3 0 bu suit it mrs became insane one cold night in be december cember fihe shei was found wandering the of washington arrayed only in a thin nightdress when taken home it t was w as found that she bad had maida manned ed to escape from tb the house ehouse without alarming the family but how ehe she had dono lone it neither she nor they could tell sho she was very ill for some time follow following 1 ing on december Dec embar I 1 13 I 1 1883 she died a maniac in brooklyn for several months she had bail been staying at the residence reside of dr dapre under t ler er maiden name A physician who was called to treat her for failure of eyes discovered her mental conditi oc and also her identity it was believed that ehe she had become crazed by chloral and wag was killed by the drug she was 29 years old the atory story of the liance lance 1 the pretty young cifes faithlessness I 1 ersness and the divorce bent and crushed the aged judge and be he was a changed man ever afterward |