Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-02-14

May sighted woman turn,
And, as a vine the oak hath shaken off,
Bend lightly to her leaning trust againl
o, no! by all her loveliness-by all
That makes life poetry and beauty, no!
Make her a slave; steel from her rosy cheek
By needless iealouscs; let the last star
Leave her Il watcher by your couch of pain;
Wrong by her petulance, suspicion, all
That makes her cup of bitterness-yet give
One evidence of love, and earth has not
An emblem of devOtedness like hers.
But oh, estrange her once--it boots not how
BY wrong sence-any thing that tells
A change has come upon your tenderness
And there is not a feeling out Of heaven
Her pride o'ermastereth not
A dense crowd was drawn together at the
Mayors office yesterday morning TO witness the
| examination Of Margaret Howard, charged with
the murder Of Mary Ellen Howard--said to be
the wife Of one who had formerly been the hus-
band of the prisoner. Tho startling character
of the act--the bold and determined manner
with which it was executed, and the peculiar re-
! lations existing between the prisoner, the de-
ceased and her husband, all conspired to create
an unusual degree of excitement in the public
mind. and to invest the proceedings with a sim
guiar and extraordinary interest.
At ten O'Clock the prisoner brought from
the Jail where she had been confined. and enter
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officer Vance and her counsel. Her entrance
produced considerable sensation, and of course
all ewes were busly engaged in scanning her ap-
pearance. She is said to be about twenty-six
years Of age, though her appearance is that of
one much younger. She is rather stout built
some what feshy-grey eyes-light hair--far
compile xion--and of agreeable features She
wore dark colored dress, ard shawl-with a
bonnet of straw trimmed with light ribbon
Her features were pale. and during most Of the
examination she exhibited much composure. As
she entered the Mayors office, however, a slight
flusl, passed over her eountenancc she
counte red the steadfast gaze Of the crowd: and
whenever, dnrin- the investigation, any aius:on
was made TO her children or any of her own ex-
pressions recalled. she wept bitterly and seemed
under the influence Of violent aud uncontrola-
bic emotion. Meeting her elsewhere. one
would have taken her for the heroine Of a TRACE
dy startling that Of Friday night, or to scan
her countenance. no would suppose that i,
masked those dark passions which had just bee n
violently and terribly aroused
The examination commenced at ten O'Clock
and wa, concluded at half-past The pros
ecu,ing attorney appeared in hehalf of the State
the prisoner. The evidence as elected is as fol-
lows
MRs. LAvIxA Wolf ExAMISED.-Witness sta.
ted. that she kept boarding house on the north
side of Fifth street, between Plum and Western
Row, that Captain John Howard. some three
or four months ago. engaged for himself, ans "a.
he said his wife, who as known as Mrs. Mary
Ellen Howard; that they occupied the front room
of the second floor OF her house. Witness sta
ted that tire woman who lived with Captain How
ard in her house was net in the habit Of receiv
ing visitors-no one had ever visited he. before
to witnesses knowledge, except Mrs. Cosgrove
who lives on Fifth street, between Western Row
and John. Witness, Oh Friday afternoon, hae
been out on business; she went home f- " min
utes before O'Clock; witness was in the kitche D
when shortly after her return deceased came in
deceased had her hanGs clasPeo about her neck
she Immediately sank down, and cried cut, will