The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-04-03
he formerly 50 fondly loved, e10O $4,000 4
year and appointing bis wife whole, and

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year and appointing his wife whole and
tsole legatee to the bulk Of his enormous
lestates
One of the romantic incidents of this case
was this: His daughter, on whose education
The had expended 50 much pains and money,
having been totally neglected, was thrown
upon the kindness of some friends In the
neighborhood of her father' princely man
sion of Hilton. She was actually reduced to
poverty, when Mrs. Manchoon, the kind
hearted Postmistress of the village of Ath-
league, contriyed to establish an interview
between father and daughter, trusting to the
Influence of natural emotion In causing some
change favorable to her protege in the breast
of the infatuated and unnatural parent. The
millionaire and his lone child met in the back
lparlor of the little village post office. The
lold mans feeling was deeply wrought upon.
Memory daWned upon his intellect and many
iendearing "reminiscences obtruded themselves
upon his distempered mind Tears rolled
down his wan and faded cheeks, and he warm
| " embraced her he loved so intensely in for
mer years.
Mrs. Kelly having been informed of her
lord and masters visit to the little sequestered
village, collected her myrmidons and went
in search of the strayed sheep. They made
an incursion on the premises, found the an
Gent truant in the act of his tears and embra-
ces, forced him from the premises, and made
him believe that his daughter planned death
by poison or assassination.
The lady adventurer, having used Malone
for all necessary purposes, to answer the re-
quirements of the law, conceived the idea of
throwing off so disreputable tool, who did
not hesitate to perform the dirty work she re-
quired of him for a consideration.
The wealthy Paryenue was finally induced
to purchase property in England, in War
wickshire, where he lived but short time
previously to his dissolution, in 1915, when
his relict came into possession of all his pro-
perty and effects. When Malone saw that
no chance remained for him of grasping the
object of his double passion-ayarice and
lust-he became furious, and vowed ven
geance. One claimant to the Kelly estate
was silenced by bride of $4,000. But
Malone was not to be satisfied with trife
He gave to Mr. Greer a most respectable
solicitor, a package of letters of the most
criminal and fagitious character, in which
Mrs Kelly laid open her tissue of audacious
and yagabond plans, and which under 2rovi-
dence, led to the development ofthe entanisled
network by which the case was wound up
and surrounded.
1t eventually turned out that there was no
proper and legal marriage in 1927; that Mr.
Kelly made in 1885, bona f7e will and
testament, which was detroyed by the "part-
ner of her soul" that, when he was doting
and mentally incapable, she induced him to
make new will in her favor; and that Ma
lor,s was cognizant of and a party to all these
facts.
Grounded on these developments, and re-
viewing the history of the lives of both man
and wife, incased as they were in robe of the
most singular romance; Justice Champion,
on behalf of his brother delegates of final APP
peal on the merits, declared the second will
null and void, and pronounced the decision to
be against Mrs. Kelly, with costs; thereby
saddling her with expenses amounting to
SIS, 900, and only leaving her wife's share
one third of the real and personal estate, |
amounting in the whole to nearly a MILLION
AND A HALF OF DOLLARS.
The poor girl, who was an outcast and
wanderer, in poverty and obscurity, for sew
eral years, the heroine of the back parlor
scene of the little Post Office of Athleague
County Roscommon, is now an heiress,
worth her half million of dollars. In winding
up our bundle of facts, which are but the
barest outlines of the singular picture, we
would exprers hope tibet the good Mrs. |
Manchoon, the Postmistress, will not be for
gotten in the redistribution of the old man S
estate.