Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-02-24
From the Mobile Herald.
LOVE AND RUIN

49, ia
Charlotte Jewell, a young but emaciated
and Withholding girl in whose thin aud wan
countenance there could yet be detected
some traces of beauty, was charged yester-
day morning by one William Condo from
New Orleans with having attempted to take
his llie,. Condo had only been in the city
a lewdays. aud it appears that he had sedu-
ced the girl, in the town Of Bayou Sara, La
and afterwards eloped with her TO New Or
leans, where he lived with her as his mis-
trcss, aud finally got tired of his victim,
had deserted her, and in order TO rid
himself of her opportunities had come 10
Mobile. The prisoner traced him to this
city, found out his clearinghouse on Ham
ilton-sireet. and on Thursday evening while
the family were at supper attempted his life
with a Spanish dirk-knife. He parted the
blow and seized hef, When slldA went off ino
Mysteries, in wldSh Condition She was 4
ken to the Guard House.
The complainant having deposed as
above, said he would decline pfoeecnting~
her if she would 60 back niomc to bayou
Sara.
Prisoner. 4 have no home or people TO
go to, William through your means my
people are ashamed of me, and have dis
owned me and turned me out of doors, and
| would rather die of hunger or perish in
some Jail than to return TO them. Home
The street and Kennel have been my home.
and my companions the vilest of the vile.
since you so inhumanly deserted me- ri
C0ndc. WHY you are crazy eri
Prisoner. No, William, | am not crazy
though the great God above knows that
have suffered aud borne enough to make
me SO. II desolation and misery be crazi-
ness, am crazy IF utter ruin, hopeless
ness aud starvation be madness. | am mad
but not otherwise. Oh would 10 heaven
that | was mad, that in madness | might
forget every thing Oh! William, William.
to think that you of all the world should
have so deceived me, 10 think that YOU who
promised so much, and whom | looked up-
on as almost an angH-whom / PRAYED for
night and morn-alasi | cannot pray now
have acted SO perfdiously, IS
enough TO drive me mad, without your
taunts and scorns.' n
Condo. 'lou ought 10 be ashamed of
yourself to talk in this way, CHARLOTTE IN
Prisoner. No, William, | have got even
beyond shame. 1t is high time 10 give
over being ashamed of myself when all are
Of me oh, William, my heart
almost tries 10 break when l think of bow
happy l was but two years ago, when. [
a gay blithe girl, and you used 10 come
and SIT the long cold nights by my old ia
fre-side, aud tell me how happv wep
should be when | was your wife. / am sad .
y changed now, and the tears which course
down my cheeks are scalding my eyeballs
with fire. | remember when | could even
have shed tears of JOY. Alas ! how differ
eit were they from these lf. ra sGsM-
The plaintiff refusing to swear, the case
discharged, but the prisoner detained
n order to see if something could not be
lone for her.
Alas, poor Charlotte ! the hectic on
by cheek told too plainly that all human :
for thee upon this cold earth will
Don cease, and that thy resting place will
'e rpauper's grave. Never since our visits 4,
o the Police Office, have we seen suchsat :
narrowing and heaFt-rending scene as the :
me which we have endeavorcd to describe.
nd which we are sure drew tears from eve,
y honest heart in the room. The plaintiff
Jonde, throughout the trial preserved the
most hardened and unaltered demeanoru
seemed steeled against the pangs Of
.onscience but if he does not go down TO
he grave as a wretched and despised
coundrcl, then heaven has forgotten its
wiul ~prerogative, and eternal vengeancet
ieePs III as deep a lethargy as does human
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