MARRIED HER BUTLER.
SOCIETY LEADER OSTRACISED
London, April 2
Terribly tragic is the story that comes from St. Louis (U.S.) of the fate that has just overtaken a society leader in that city, Mrs Gerhart. Little more than a fortnight ago Mrs Gerhart figured in thp divorce court, when her husabnd secured a divorce for the dissolution of their marriage.
Fifteen days later all St. Louis was startled by the announcement- that the city’s well-known society loader had actually married. aj negro < chat has been in her service-as; iai butleri The grave social offence she had «’ommitted was soon brought home to her. Her friends would have nothing to do with her, and she found herself completely banished from society.
Realising then the degradation to which she had been reduced by her ill-conceived marriage, Mrs Gerhart fled from her home. The negro promptly followed her, and finding that there was no escape from the man to whom she had tied herself the unhappy woman ended her life yesterday by talcing a dose of poison.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 81, 12 April 1913, Page 5
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174MARRIED HER BUTLER. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 81, 12 April 1913, Page 5
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