Litchfield enquirer., 1848-02-10
LIEcHFIEAD ccoNN) THURSDAY

SOuNA O0@uIyS IdCls duu WInUIDS aOuT0SS
 managed 10 escape except in February
 lS4S, when she was convicted and sen
 Ito Sing Sing forS years and months HaF maiden name was O'Brien, and
 is said that sume of her brothers and sis ters and also her husband have suffered for eir counterfeiting skill. She was a this lime 25 years old, beautiful in the extreme, and on her way to Sing Sing she gave Sheriff Jones her plac of oper- ations,-she was good judge of human nature and laid her plans 10 suit the principles of the prison-matron.
 sJnst now you keep still; ; said she ad- dressing the Sheriff, during the ride and see how I will work it.! I'll bsa very devil for the first three weeks, and then I'll let Mrs Farnham convert me. I'll be as meek and quiet as lamb; I'll make her think me an angel, and I'll fiat ter the old woman until she imagine that she herself is an archangel. Won't dc it? You see that I am not going to stay in those stone walls long. now tell you. And Honora was rigb.. OG the 18th A. pril lS4S, she was pardoned through the the intercession of Judge Ednonds, Mrs Farnham and other mistaken philanthro- pis,s, by Gov. Wright, and hurri'd off to the banks of the Mississippi, so that with her supposed new and praiscwor,hy resolves she might commence new and praisewosthy career. We have no cer- tain information of her course of life out west, but charitably presume that she lived as the fraiity ot her nature would admit. She c.rrespondcd with Mrs Fsrn' hasa regularly until a year or two sin te, and her letters were frequently read be> fore the members of certain philanlhro- pie associations as proof of the vast benefit of the societies instituted for the anelieraiion of the condition of ths er> ring and unfortunate. Honora was a trump card in all their operations and was ever referred to as living proof of the good effects of their organization.- The hour of trial came, however. and HonorA Shepherd, the reclaimed counter> regenera,ed Magdalen-the ence almost irresistible Honora, fell from hcr high estate and is again in tho clutches cf the law. ..
 What induced hsrto revisit the city, we kaow not. She had been living ;n Alton, Illinois and in St. Louis, where ru mor said her course was toIerab Y upright for the most of the time during her abs scncc, but about two months since, unable any longer to endure her grievous exile, the once dashing lady convict re-ap> peared in her former haunts-faithIe Iessly to her bencfactors, took 10 her former criminal calling, and is now in an undis pu,able road to her former residence al Mount Pleasant. Mrs Farnham will no doubt welcome her with open arms. As v6 UtlOT6 StutCU bu0 tS uOW ouOut oO years oId-the traces of her youthful beauty are still discernable. but time and trouble have made sad inroads, and she has lost much of the attractions whicl were snce to her as shield aud buck
 Ter agaiast legal proceedings.
 Honora Shepherd is above the medium height, has an oval face, with dark hail and eyes, and extremely arching eye brows. She appears somewhat passe, ,bu is yet what may be termed winning woman. She has great powers oflang' uags and well understands the effect o
 female tears upon judge and jury. Sh' has various 4iases; her address in thu western States having been Hannal Shepherd, Ann Forest, &c. She is thu most talented, sagacious, scheniDg an' dangerous female counterfeiter tn al the country, and after this present de
 mons.ration, any attempt to shield he
 will be fruiilsss. Her reform is among thu
 impossibilities of earth.-N. York Globe |