Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-04-06

II, ana threatened 10 inform her husband OF
it unless il was at once broken of. She
treated the matter very lightly, and mani
tested no inclination TO follow his advice
ColtOn's friend then went to Corlies, who,
through his influence, was persuaded to re.
turn the jewelry. &C. he had received from
1 Mrs. Cotton. Their intercourse, however.
was still continued; and on Colton's return
to the city he was Informed Of the whole af-
fair by the friend who had already interfe.
red in his behalf Cotton Immediately went
to see Corlies and told him that he was ac-
Quainted with the whole transaction. He
promised, however, for the sake of his two
children, to drop all memory of the past, If
Corlies would pledge his honor that the inter-
course between himself and Mrs. ColtoR
should cease and never be renewed :" you
do nOt," said he, yoH'N find me desperate
man." Corlies Immediately gave him a SOL
emn promise that it should be so. Colon,
however, soon became aware that the init
macy Of Corlies with his wife had been re-
newed; and CorlieS was known to have
boosted of it in the coarsest and most insult
ing terms at public hotel not long after the
promise he had made to Cotton. This, of
course, re-aroused all Co;ton's hatred and
revenge; and he then made the attempt on
the life Of Corlies, for which he was held to
bail.
Cotton after this refused to live with his
wife, whom he LETT at his former residence
in the family of a Mr.. Wallace, taking
lodgings himself at the adjoining house.
Mrs. Cotton soon found herself entirely de-
serted, as COrlics. probably from the ap-
prehension that his life would yet be taken,
which he is known to have entertained, re-
! fused to have any thing farther to do with
| her. Finding herself thus blasted in repu-
tation, scorned and turned off by her hus-
band, despised and deserted by him for
whom she made 80 dreadful and so unprin-
cipied a sacrifice, and cut off even from the
means of living, it is conjectured. and GER
tainly with some show Of reason, that an
attempted reconciliation with her husband
was met by the declaration that he would
listen TO nothing Of the kind while Corlies
was in the way. We have heard rnmor
of such an interview-tho' we cannot vouch
for its correctness. 1t may to many seem
impossible that so terrible a deed should be
perpetrated by woman, in so cool and de-
termined manner, upon one whom she had
ever loved, yet there is deep truth in the
poets strong Illness
Earth has no curse like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell fury fke woman scorned."
ton before the coroner has been closed, the |
jury, after brief absence last evening. re-
turning verdict that the deceased came to |
his death by wound from some person
unknown. Mr.. and Mrs. Cotton were there. |
upon at once discharged. Nothing in the
voluminous testimony that has been taken |
in this protracted case tends 10 fix u suspi- |
cion ofguilt upon any person, and the 0fIair
remains developed in its original mystery.
The fact that a man may be shot in the |
open street, at only few steps from the !
most crowed thoroughtare in the city, at an
hour when the streets are so generally |
thronged, and the murderer escape even a
suspicion of having done the deed, is GER
tainly somewhat alarming. What disclo- |
sures time may evolve remains to be seen F.:
at present, however, the whole affair is in
the darkest mystery; and we see no reason
why it should not remain SO as long as the
circumstances attending the death Of Mary
Rogers have been concealed from the pub
lie eye-N. Y. Tribune, Of March 20.
We find in the Philadelphia Mercury, the |
following account of the origin Of the
INTIMACY BETWEEN MRS. Cotton AND
CORLIEs.-The acquaintance, 1t is stated by |
our informant commenced about Is months
since. Corlies, boarded at house opposite
to that occupied by Cotton. Or several &C.
casions, Corlies had observed Mrs. Cotton
sitting at n window of her house, and had |
received from thence tokens of recognition,
such as blow, or kiss and salute of her |
hand. though as yet no other intercourse had
existed.
As Corlies was one day entering his board.
ing house. prayer book was dropped from
the window Of Mrs. Cotton upon the |
walk, in which Corlies on picking it up, dis.
covered a note addressed to himself. request
ing an interview, to which he paid no atten.
ton.
Two months subsequent to this, Corlies
received another note from Mrs. c. In which
she expressed for him strong attachment,
and proposed elopement. To this he replied
that he was poor, and could not comply with
her request. Soon after Corlies received
third letter from Mrs. C. enclosing two bank
notes of $1,000 each. and requesting him to
meet her on board the Philadelphia boat
specified time. The meeting took place, and
they proceeded to Philadelphia where they
remained, as man and wife IL days, Mrs. G.
having left home with the professed inten.
ton of visiting her friends at Providence, r.
|. During their visit to Philadelphia, about
$3.50 ofthe $4,000. were expended, and the
balance retained by Corlies, with the consent
of Mrs. C. ---~'r-. .' - 1890
AT the expiration Of the 70 days, they re.
turned to N. York, and the intimacy was
kept up from sometime afterwards, Cotton
remaining entirely ignorant Of the conduct
OF his unfaiihful wife and her guilty para
| mOur Meantime an arrangement waS