Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-07-30

NSAAtA OCSou W UC0h uOWu HIS SPl-
rits became depressed, and nervous.
ness and irritability supervened to a
great extent. The young and char
ming wife became indispensable to his
being; to soothe his ruffled temper
and satisfy his whims and 'eccentrici-
ties. Finding his health declining
and ideas of death occasionally fit
ting across his mental wanderings, he
resolved to make a will, in which he
rendered certain dispositions of pro.
perty to his relatives and some chari-
table institutions, that were by nc
means agreeable to his better half.
The event of this testamentary docu-
ment and other misgivings, created
uneasiness and alarm in the mind ot
the coFmorant with whom the misera-
bic oldidiot associated his fate, Born
IEessed of decidedly su.
Perior education, this woman knew
the most undoubted security of the lau
was necessary to insure her the pos
session of the vast personal and real
estate accumulated by her victim, in
the event of his death. With this
view she formed a specimen of semi
criminal association with an unscru-
pulous and ~unprincipled attorney.
named Malone, with whom she pre-
tended to be hmitten, and towhom
she promised her hand and fortune
Immediately after the old mans de-
mise. By the advice of this "Oily
Cannon" and in the obedience to
certain instincts in reference to her
marriage she plotted for the perform
ance of second ceremony with her
liege, which she convinced him was
necessary to her social and personal
happiness. Accordingly the ceremo-
ny was performed by the Rev. Mr..
at Werburg's Church, Dublin,
in the year 1888; the only marriage
fortunately for the lady recognizable
by the law in the delivering of the de-
cision. After this Mr.. Kelly was mes
merised into making a new will, in
which he revoked the former behests
only leaving tohis daughter whom
he formerly SO fondly loved, flOO
($50O a year-and appointing his
wife whole and sole legate to the bulk
of his enormous estates.
One of the romantic incidents of
this case was this: His daughter, on
whose education he had expended
SO much pains and money, having
been totally neglected, was thrown
upon the kindness of some friends in
the neighborhood of her fathers prin-
cely mansion Of Kiltoon. She was
actually reduced to poverty, when a
Mrs. Manchoon, the kind hearted
Postmistress Of the village of Athtea-
que, contrived to establish an inter-
view between father and daughter,
trusting to the influence of natural
emotion in causing some change fa-
vorable to her protege in the breast
of the infatuated and unnatural pa
rent. The millionaire and his lone
child met in the back parlor of the
little vileage post office.
The old mans feelings were deep
ly wrought upon. Memory dawned
upon his intellect, and endearing
obtruded themselves
upon his determined mind. Tears
ran down his wan and faded cheeks,
and he warmly embraced her he low
ed so intensely in former years.
Mrs. Kelley having been informed
of her lord and masters visit to the
seqhestered village, collected her
and went in search of the
sheep. They made an in
cursion on the premises, found the
tIuant in the act of his tears
and embraces, forced him from the
premises, and made him believe that
his daughter planned his death by
poison or assassination.
The lady adventurer, having used Ma
lone for all necessary purposes, to
the requirements of the law,
the idea of throwing off so
disreputable a tool, who did not hest
tate to perform the dirty work she le-
quired Of him for a consideration.
The wealthy Parvenue was finally
induced to purchase property in
in Warwickshire, where ne
lived but short time previously to
his dissolution in ls45, when his re-
lict came into possession of all his
property and effects. When Malone
saw that no chance remained for him
Of grasping the object Of his double
passion-avarice and lust-he be.
came furious, and vowed vengeance.
One claimant to the Kelly estate
was silenced by bribe of $50, 900
But Malone was not to be satisfied
with trifle. He gave to a Mr.. Greer
a most respectable solicitor, a pack
age of letters of the most criminal
and flagitious character, in which Mrs
Kelly laid open her tissue of auda.
cious and vagabond plans, and which
under Providence, led to the develop
ment of the entangled 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
a bona .tSde will and testament, which
was destroyed by the partner of his
SOUL" that, when he was dying, and
mentally incapable, she induced hin
to make new will in her favor; and