Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1835-11-12
POLICE. OFFICE.-A VICTIM.
i +" When lovely woman stoops 10 folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What art can soothe her melancholy,

What art can soothe her melancholy, --r'
What charm can drive her grief away" 81
A SorrOscfII Scene.-Just inside the door
this Vnorning, We encountered the faded form
and TEXTURES of a once fair creature called
Charlotte Cummins, who had been brought
up to the watch1house for having assaulted a
gentleman IN Broadway, and tried (as was al
legedl to strangle him. This fragile crea
ture, who has not yet attained the age Of Is
years, we remember to have made her lirst
appearance at the police Office just before the
time Of the cholera 10 1889. She had at that
period recently landed from Liverpool pack
ct ship, together with her father aud mother,
two sisters and two brothers. The three sis
tiers were 40 lovely looking creatures as ever
breaihed the breath Of heaven" and might
not unhappily have been termed the Ora.
Get" Of whom Charlotte was the youngest
She came, we well recollect, to the place up
on the occasion above alluded to, for the pur-
pose Of testifyiog to. the guilt Of fellow pas
senger. who had robbed her father ON ihs pas
sage Of large quantity Of sosereigns, and in
whose possession she had seen some Of the
money; but as the money could not be iden-
titled, the scoundrel was set at liberty, and the
family were reduced to state Of poverty, the
amount taken being 1000 sovereigns. '.'
To add to their distress during the season
OF the cholera, the family were attacked with
that horrible disease. The father was the
6rst that fell victim to It,; and he was still
unbur'ed when the youngest boy died, and
soon afterwards one grave enclosed them
both. The two eldest daughters died as they
had lived and grown in beauty, side by aide,
ana one short week saw the father and every
child but Charlotte swept from the land Of
the living, and the places that knew them
once, Know them no more for ever On the
evening Of the day upon which the last victim
was consigned to the tomb, the mother sick
ened, and in six hours afterwards, :CharlottS
was Ieft an orphan. destitute. friendless, an,l
among strangers. She was taken under the
care the Commissioners OF the Alms-house.
.end soon afterwards obtained situation in a
res 1ectable family in Pearl-st. AZ nurse maid.
Nothing was heard Of her for some time, until
she was invited to the house Of an English
family, naSned James, living in Oak street,
who hOnored ,hNr 80 far as to form party on
the occasion OF Charlotte's birth. day, and
here two young fe.lcws who aspired 10 the
honor Of her hand Ia . country dance, quar-
relied, went out Of dooGs and fought in her
!avor. They were both tcken 70 the watch
mouse, together with Charlotte and another
female who had interfered with view TO sep
| arats tho combatants.
Ia the norning they were all Dismissed BY
Justice Wyman. After this one Of the fight.
ing youths became her sweetheart, and con-
tinued to court her for twelyemonth. A
the next anniversary Of her birthday, at the
self same house, he escorted her home. aud
u0der n solemn promise 70 wed her in the
nos0iag. he accomplished her ruin. lie pro-
crastinated the time Of their marriage BY va
rious delays aud excused. and ultimately sail
ed Coz New-Orleans, leaving her enciente.--
Grief and distraction at her unhappy situation.
aud the discovery Of the villains callouS and