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having no relatives in this country, save an
aunt, who was unable 70 assist her II her
Aleisled celidi6le1. Her downfall 441 f
iected under circumstances that cry most
loudly for vengeance on its guilty author
Her arms, neck and person are SCARED with
wounds received in defending herself from
her diabOlical aggressOr, and her ruin was
only accomplished when she was drugged
into insensibilily With the innocent evil
dence of her fall in her arms, she was ex-
cluded from the house of the only relative
she had in America, and, bearing it away
with her, she sought in a manufacturing
city, shelter for herself and babe, while she
could, with the labor of her hands, 6nd
honorable support.
| This was anything but the course which
would have been pursued by one conscious
of guilt. In a city of strangers-a mother,
but not wife, what could be expected 7
All doors were closed against her. She
could giUe Gloay her child, but a mothers
heart revOlled against it. Product of shame
thOr gh it was, and born TO infamy though
it might be, she clung to it as all that was
dear to her in her extremity. Finding
every avenue to employment closed TO her
IN one city, she fled to another. 1t was
night when she left. ..... ...
Heart -brOken-Only bound to life by the
claims which bound her as a mOther-she
would, under other circumstances, have
ought the welcome refuge Of suicide With
these feelings called into most narrowing
exercise by The lionel ness and misery of her
Misunderstanding at the babe that slum-
bered on her breast, with the brand Of in
amy b'rn on its brow, is it a wonder that
il mind thus tortured was swept beyond The
bounds Of consciousness The HindOO
mother who bursts the bonds Of nature by
hmglng her infant tO the gaping monster Of
the GAnges, has no such plea as lay in The
roken heart aud frenzied brain of Virginia
Poole. leave her own lips to tell her
story.
q do not recOllect anything distinctly" !"
she said. " alter | entered the cars. The
lights, the crowd, and the MOTION Of the
tars, seemed 10 confuse ma. ! do ROt ibiRlI
| should have remembered anything, if the
weight OF the child which slumbered on my
p, had not reminded me of its existence
aud my own situation. At last, a cloud
seemed to thlcken about me, and everything
.+rmed 10 OOk white that met my eyes.
The child itself seemed like feather, and
appeared 70 float away unconsCi0usly. IL
iId not seem TO fall, but 10 rise, aud l
hought / could STE it Tor some mUmenis
aft rward +"
Now, who, in the name of common JUS
nee, sees anything in this transaction which
should not have been Instantly absolved by
thai ennObling feature in the administration
ofjustice which permits certain mental con-
dllOns to annul responsibility for crime
Where were those, when this poor girl stood
ar Aligned for her life, whose study aud pro-
Il ssIOn il is to understand, and make ia ell
| glble TO a jury, these sable conditions
Why was not some voice raised. that Jus.
tice slnnber not ON the jury-box and the
bench, while the three outraged sufferer
was permitted to go down, undefended, from
scene of wrong despair aud frenzy, to
that grave Of character and self respect, a
State Prisonl
Said |, /" Do you think you had for your
child The ordinary feelings and natural love
Of mOtherr" She lonRerl me full in the
face, with eyes gushing with tears at the
question. SIR, rOuLd gladly hace Lid dopn
my life for H.! could have given it away
while in the full cunsciuuontss of my CON
dltlou, but resolved TO work myself into
the grave before my child should have been
separated from me. Do you think. Sir,
would part with that without which life
would have been an intoleTable burden !"
Then she added, with deep emotion -
Thank heaven it was asleep the last | re-
member Of it and think it never swoke to
3 upbraid me with single cry."-COReOrd
: IN. H. Statesman.