Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — DEGRADED BY DRINK. [ARTICLE]

DEGRADED BY DRINK.

i The Countess de Vere Committed to the Door of Hope. The Countess de Vere was recently committed at the request of her father. Rufus Ogden, ex-postmaster of Keyport, and with her own consent, to the Door of Hope, in East Sixty-First street, by Justice Goetting, of Brooklyn. The Countess was arrested in Brooklyn some weeks ago on a charge of intoxication, and sent to Raymond street jail for ten days. At the expiration ol her sentence she asked to i be allowed to remain in jail, as she , feared that with her liberty would re- ' turn her desire for strong drink. Her 1 request was granted and a communication sent to her friends, who made ar- ' rangements for 'her removal to the homb. Ten years ago Lizzie Ogden, then hardly more than sixteen years old, was one of the belles of Key port. Her father was wealthy. At a reception given by her uncle. Judge Walling, she met a young man lately arrived in the town, who was introduced as Count de Vere, of Holland. The Count was fabulously rich, according to his own computation of his income, and Lizzie Ogden, in her youth and inexperience, believed all he said, and finally consented to elope with him. The couple were married, and then the Count appealed to his father-in-law to aid him in getting a lucrative place. Mr. Ogden did not respond cordially, and the Count and Countess sailed for Europe. Shortly after their return to this country the Count deserted his wife, and she, to drown her sorrows, as it is said, sought refuge in drink. Papers have been issued in a’ suit to compel the Count to support his wife, but he had left his old address in New York when the court officer went to serve him with the summons. , _ His wife had been arrested before for being incapable of taking care of herself. She is? sensible of the degrading influence of drink, but says she is utterly unable to withstand its temptation. She will be permitted to leave the home as soon as she declares herself cured of the longing for strong drink.