Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1878 — An Heiress’ Degradation. [ARTICLE]

An Heiress’ Degradation.

In the Municipal Court to-day, Josephine Frail, who has a comely intelligent face, but possessing no other accompaniment of respectability, was arraigned for drunkenness. “Josephine Frail ” is not her name, it is merely an alias to hide her shame from friends and relatives, who occupy a proud position in the most influential and cultured circles in New York city. From her own statements, which are abundantly confirmed by competent and trustworthy testimony, there appears to be no question that “Josephine Frail” is the daughter of ex-Mayor Wm. F. Havemyer, of New York city, and, therefore, heiress to a portion of the handsome pioperty left by this gentleman at the time of his death, only a few months ago. What induced her to leave a home where she had everything in the world necessary to make her comfortable and happy, where she could have remained an honored and respected woman, surrounded by kind friends and loving relatives, is a mystery which she utterly refuses to explain. It is known, however, that she has led a very dissipated and degraded life for the last three or four years, and descended very far down on the broad road to ruin. It is really one of the saddest cases of “fallen human nature” which the old dock, so familiar with human wrecks as it is, too, has contained for years. Josephine was fined $3 and costs, but, notwithstanding she is heir to thousands, she was unable to pay the fine, and is now in the House of Correction. —Boston Herald. There is something inexpressibly sad about the music of a church-organ—-while the collection is being taken up.