Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-02-15
The Wild Woman.

| III Will perhaps 0e reculecteu tilat aoou year
| and half ago, the ST. Louis papers gave
count of woman who had heen dscovered in
the woods near that city, almost naked and
apparently quite wild. IL appears that she had
lived in this manner until lately, when the Sc
verify Of the winter drove her to human hab-
i.aiion, and there, heing much exhausted for
want Of food and badly frosl.bi'ten. she expired
Previous 10 her death she became quite ra-
,iona, and give The following account Of her
self, which we condense from the ST. Louis
Organ:
She was born in New-Jersy, whence with
her parents she had removed TO Cincinnati
where hey lived until she grew up TO woman
hood a young man whom her lalher did Eo'
like paid his addresses To her and they eloped
FOR ST.. I.nuis. A, Louisville he persuaded her
10 take lodgings with him as his wife, promising
10 60 with her TO a. clergyman and gel married
in The morning. lie lei; her in Ihe morning to
60 for a minister and never returned. All day
she remained almost distracted with fear for
The safety of her lover, whom She could mt
think had abandoned her. but finally she learn
ed lha, he had taken boat going down the
ri,er in the morning. The shock 10 her leel
ings was So great that she tainted and fell in
The stree, She was taken up by some kindly
disposed person who. as soon as she recovered,
paid her passage back 10 Cincinnati.
Her heart almost failed her as she approach
ed her home She could see her fathers resi-.
dcnce as the boat passed aiong up the river,
aud ii VAS her intention 10 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 dwell
linn thar. o9lni hrStl IN
The house, and On entering she saw her father
lying dead upon the floor. The old man had
heard which way she had gone, and took pas
sage on the unfortunate steamboat M0selle,
which blew up al Cincinnati, and being one Of
the unfortunate sufferers, The body had just been
recovered and brought home As soon as the
mother saw her. There" said she, there
is your murdered father" She ran from the
house, but NIL before her mothers curse was
upon her. She says il rang in her ears for
many long day and night as she wandered
through the woods.
Ii was then summer. and al lines severe
hunger would induce her To go near the habi-
lalions Of the penpe as she wandered along
lhro' The coun'Iy5 and at one time she slipped
in aid took the loecake from the fire, while
Tie farmers wife was gone TO the spring; a,
other times she caught the fowls from The fence,
and devohred them raw. How she lived SD
long, she is unable 10 tcll but berries, nuts,
fruit, and such game as she was enabled 10
catch, have been her food; and for Two winters
she lived in an old deserted cabin Gn The banks
Of the Missouri She filed il nearly full Of
dried leaves in the fall and would creep into
them in cold weather Somebody burnt down
The cabin las, fall, with some hlile stores of
nu,s and dried lrul she had laid up for winiers
since which time she has been sleeping in
large hollow Tree.
She says-.'My clolhitg being almost ehiire
ly gone; tie cold was very severe, and thought
| would come TO a house and ge, them to bury
me- How ! have suffered no human tongue can
tell, bu, had made up my mind to die in the
wild woods, and never again TO suffer human
being to speak to me- ba, my resolution failed,
and am indebted TO the kindness or this poor
family for W hal lille comfort they could afford
me on my dcaih-bed." Piitshurg Chron,
TRemember ha, the william who by periidy
wrought all this ruin-lhe murderer of father
and daugh,er-is shielded from alb punish
menl, and is, in The eye ofihe Law, an innocent
and honorable man! Who make such laws aud
resist their lieraiont.-Tribrne.
The Vision OF Columbus.