The story is reported that she worshiped the man to that extent that she was willing to die with him and another is that having waited upon him so long and being herself worn out she too became despondent and preferred to die. Montague, An English artist, yesterday shot and killed his wife and then shot and killed himself.
The cause of the deed cannot be definitely learned, as the parties lived alone, but it is attributed to despondency because Montague's pictures did not sell, and a desire on the part-of both to end the struggle for existence. The Indiana Progress, Pennsylvania, March 16, , p. They Died Together. Washington, March 8. Montague, an artist, shot his wife in this city yesterday at her request [italics mine] and then took his own life. Despondency was the cause. And the reason it can do so is that a journalist who once worked for the paper is clearly staying in touch with his old bosses now that he is in a position to be feeding them the latest political gossip about who is rooting whom down in Washington.
Washington, March 7— About p. Montague, an English artist, aged fifty-five years, and living at Fourth street northeast, shot and instantly killed his wife, Ernesta Montague, thirty one years of age. He then shot himself in the mouth, dying instantly. The cause of the deed cannot be definitely learned, the parties lived alone, but it is attributed to despondency and a desire on the part of both to end the struggle for existence.
Meagre information of the history of Montague and his wife was obtained from Charles Moore, private secretary to Senator McMillan. About a year ago, the senator bought a painting of Montague, not because of any particular excellence of the picture, but to aid a struggling artist. Three or four weeks ago Montague asked permission to hang two of his paintings in the room of the senate committee of the District of Columbia, of which committee Senator McMillan is chairman.
The request was granted, and the paintings were inspected by a number of senators, but they were evidently not fancied, as neither was purchased.
One painting was an English scene near the home of Wordsworth, and the other was a scene, which was described as leaving the appearance of a snowstorm on the Fourth of July.
Montague, the artist's wife, came to the committee room one day last week to look after the paintings, and she was asked to have them removed, as there was no likelihood of their being sold. This she did, saying at the time that her husband was not well.
Moore said that she appeared to be very bright on the occasions she called, but her husband appeared morose and despondent, and believed to be in poor circumstances.
He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, west of Detroit. During his college years Moore wrote weekly columns for a number of newspapers. And when McMillan was elected to the U.
Senate in , Moore accompanied him to Washington as his personal secretary. By Moore had become a founding member of the Commission of Fine Arts CFA in Washington - a Presidentially appointed federal commission of seven nationally recognized experts on the arts and architecture.
Hence his interest in the work and fate of an impecunious artist named Fernleigh L. The best story, however, comes from the paper at the heart of the action — the Washington Evening Star.
Fernleigh L. Montague, the English artist who shot himself and his wife on Sunday, was a resident of Lynn, Mass, during the three years preceding the great fire of He had many friends and patrons there, and both moved in the fashionable circles of society.
They went there from Melbourne, Australia, in , Mrs. Montague being the daughter of a prominent government official in that country. Montague was born, reared, and educated in London, and on being apprenticed to a barrister ran away to America. Shortly after a body was found floating in the Thames and buried as his. Twelve years afterward he learned that legacies that should have come into his possession by right of descent had passed to distant relatives.
He was looked upon as dead, and failed to prove his identity in the courts. Since then his life has been a continual struggle for existence. He was an able artist and musician.
Unfortunately, poor old E. Hughes would appear to be confused. But justifiably so, because Monty was actually an exceedingly tricky bastard who had quite a few things he wished to conceal. One even has to fear that the above report about a lost inheritance may well be pure fantasy — for there must be a strong suspicion that our boy Fernleigh L.
Montague was a cad, a crook and a fabulist. Indeed, despite the sentimentality of the verse he penned which forms the epigraph at the start of this article, Fearnleigh Montague as you will soon see was actually pretty much the very model of the complete lying, cheating artistic bastard.
The highly ironic poetic sentiments of Fearnleigh L. Montague Fearnleigh Leonard Morris might not even have been his actual name. So thank God for an artistically minded strategically placed individual like Charles Moore who was likely to be at least in some of the very little that could be known and was willing to provide a few — possibly accurate although maybe not - details to the press.
Fitzroy was not then quite the stylishly gentrified suburb of Melbourne it is today. And F. Montague himself whoever the bloke going by that name actually is does sound like he too might be doing it a little bit tough in Melbourne by placing this less than top-shelf sort of advertisement. Advocate Melbourne 9 May , p. Argus, 9 Jan , p. Landscapes painted from Nature or Photo. Empire Sydney 2 Aug , p. Imprint: Academic Press. Published Date: 1st January Page Count: Flexible - Read on multiple operating systems and devices.
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