The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-04
From the Pitisburg Chronicle.
THE WILD WOMAN.

II will peraa;s be recollected that about a year
and half ago the st. Louis papers gave account
Of woman who had been discovered in the woods
near that city, almost Naked and apparently quite
wild. 1t appears that she had lived in this manner
until lately, when the severity of the winter drove
her to a human habaton, and there, being much
hausted for want of food and badly frost-bten, she
expired.
Previous to her death she became quite rational
and gave the foil wing account OF herself which
condense from the ST. Louis Organ
She was born in N. Jersey whence with her parents
she had removed to Cincinnati, where they lived until
she grew up to WON anhood young man whom her
father did not like paid his addresses to her. and they
elopcd for st. Louis. AT Louisville he persuaded
her to take lodgings with him as his wife, promising
to 20 with her t, clergyman and get married in the
morning He left her in the morning to go for
minister and never returned. All day she remained
almost distracted with fear for the safety OF her low
err, whom she could not think had abandoned her,
but finally she learned that he had taken boat going
down the river in the morning. The shock to her
feelings great that SIZE tainted and fell in the
street She taken up by some kindly disposed
person, who, she recovered, paid her pas
sage back to Cincinnati.
Her heart almost failed her as she approached her
home. She could see her fathers residence the
boat passed along up the river, aud it her Inten
ton to go directly home, and throw herself upon the
mercy of her father and mother, and tell them how
she had been deceived. On approaching the door Of
the DIV ling there appeared To be unusual hustle
in the house, and on entering II she saw her father
wing dead upon the floor. The old man had heard
which way she had ne, and took passage on the
unfortunate steamboat Mosellc, which blew up al
Cincinnati and being Of the I'm ortnate sufferers,
the body had just been recovered and brought home.
AS soon as the mSther saw her, there" said she,
"lhere is your murdered father" She ran from the
house but not before her mothers curse was upon
her. She says it rang IN her for many long
day and night she wandered through the woods
1t was then summer and at times severe hunger
would induce her to 90 near the habitatons OF the
people as she wandered along through the country,
and at one time She slipped in and took the hoecake
from the Ere, while the farmers VIE was gone TO
the spring-at other times she caught the fowls from
the fence and devoure them raw. How she lived
so long she is unable to tell but berries, nuts, fruit
and such game as she enabled to catch, has been
her food aud for two winters she lived in old de-
serted cabin the banks of the Missouri She fill
ed II nearly full OF dried leaves in the fall and would
creep into them in cold weather. Somebody burnt
do an the cabin last fall with little stores Of
nuts and dried fruit she had laid up for winter since
which time she has been sleeping in large hollow
| tree.
She SAYS cher cloth ng being almost entirely gone,
The co d was very severe and thought would come
TO a house and get them to bury How
have suffered no human tongue can tell, hut had
made up my mind to die in the wild woods, and never
again to suffer human being TO speak to me, but my
resolution failed, and am indebted to the kindness
of this poor family for what little comfort they could
afford me my death-bcd."