A STRANGE ROMANCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1328, 23 October 1884, Page 4

A STRANGE ROMANCE.

.No romance is stranger than this page of his.tory. When the Tweed ring ruled supreme m New York the youngest daughter p,f Boss, Tweed had a superb marriage, her bridal gifts alone totting up' to over 25,000 pounds sterling. The costliest pre« sent of" all wai given by Thomas ; Fields, asking of the ring, whose wife that night m her dazzling baautyjiandl queenly i.mien j eclipsed; •very woman m the magnificent and diamond decked assembly, . That is icene the first. The Tweed ring broke ; Fieldsyno ldriger a financial king, fled from the law into the w^ds of Canada; J and with him a noted courtesan. His deserted wife took to drink; tS'e dresses and jewels she had secreted found their way into pawn : .and m two years the iragnificent queen of the, Fields' mansion . became;, a com mon drunkard and a tramp. f One winter's night, when file «t and hail drove citizens home, a Vagrant m a; thin calico dress was teen by a. policeman to drop, down' in the freezing sluth of the stteet. Next day,-scene two closed with the burial of Mrs Thomas Fields m a pauper's grave. When Fields deserted hir wife; 'he had placed their daughter/ then eight years old, m a convent '"'.Brit the money for her education ceased to come and she had to leave.; ; Unabje to/,, find employ men,} i p\ New T orjc, h er few dol». \%r» meWed away, and she was turned out of her lodgings m the city to ■•BfaVteV 5 Standing faint and Bhivenng.in the* very street where her mother' hitd'fallen, the girl born m a palace, and jeared : m, luxury, took her haggard beauty to the police station and begged to be ' taken m, to save her virtue and her life. The entry m the police 'sheet told the 4 clpting scene of' this romance of New York, „.'.•..':■