Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-24


W. followed her, insisting upon her fulfil.
ling the engagement, and che told her SER
wants always to deny her to that gentle
man.
She then went again to the continent to
escape him, But he had bribed her cou-
rier. Louis, and the courier showed him,
self quite as destitute of decent and manly
feeling as the CheYalier himself. In Tu-
rim he endearored TO entrap Miss G.. into
q parlor, under pretence that Miss
Austin wished to see her. The hostess
Was suspicious Of courier, but offended
Miss @, by suggesting her suspiclons::-,
| On the way to Genoa, another courier loi-
lowed and she insisted against the courier's
will. upon stopping at hotel outside the
eitv. in which he endeayored to separate
| her apartments from those of her travel
! ling companions. In the other carriage
was the Chevalier. They reached Genoa,
and there Louis naturally lost the pass
ports, and told Miss G.. it could only be
procured by her personal presence at the
office. She went there, and in the Inten-
dents room she finds Mr.. W., alone. and
determined upon every extreme. He
was full of his men, and that he trusted
she would now cheerfully fulfil her en-
rsrement. Three hours she expostula-
ted and struggled with this impetuous
wooer. The remainder we give in Mr..
Weeds words
She then, finding, an opportunity,
seized the tongs, broke the windows
and made an out.cry, but he Immediately
placed his hand upon her mouth ana
forced her back to aseat, soon after Which
he made an attempt to administer Chloro'
form, unsuccessfully ) but he said if dry
en- to make 8 second attempt she could
not escape its effect. This alarmed her
so much that she again promised to
marry him. He said that where so much
happiness depended upon simple
promise, SO easily violated, that she ought
to assure him Of her sincerity ; that he
must have some guarSgty; and finally,
that he would send fef . clergyman and
be married instantdf To this she inter
posed positive objections, but as positively
promised to marry him at a proper pace
and time. He asked if she would give
him written promise of marriage, to
which she replied af1irm&tively. He then
said that he desired to protect himself
against the possibility of another disap-
pointment, which now that he seemed so
near the possession Of the only object for
whom he lived, he feared would drive
him to madness and proposed that the
written agreement should convey to him
half her fortune in case of her refusal to
marry him. To all this she assented to,
and at his request wrote the promise Of
marriage, and the forfeiture, in the form
and manner dictated by the impressive
lover Things being thus arranged, Mr..
w, said he would order carriage.
Leaving the apartment and passing
through another, he was followed steal
thily by Miss e., who hearing the voice
of her old nurse in an outer room into
which w. had passed, she rushed forward
and fell into her arms. They conveyed
her back to the apartment in which she
had been confined, where she remained
with W, and her nurse in high state of
nervous excitement. And finally when
restored, an hour or more was passed in
efforts to tranquilize and reconcile her to
what had passed and then, at O'CLOCK
at night Tor morning rather) shS was
permitted to return to her hotel. On the
Following day, after consultingJ@ith the
British consul, Miss Gamble went with
him to the real Intendant Of Police and
preferred a complaint, on which Mr..
Wycoff with his confederates. her courier
and valet Ia resident ofG enoa,) were ar
rested and committed too prison, where
they await trial which comes on next
week
Mr., Wycoff has his own version. He
insists that Miss G. loved him quite de-
votedly, but had been influenced by 9TH
ers to wrong both herself and him. For
the purpose of giving the affair the cha
rActer of civil offence, he drew up and
swore to statement in which. among
other things, he says that their last week
in London was one of such endearment
and dalliance as their betrothal rendered
proper and natural. This Miss G.. utter
ly denies. She did not, she says, during
that time, see Mr.. w, alone, and finally
denied herselfto him, leaving London, as
she intended, without his knowledge,
though the sequel proved that he had
perfect knowledge of all her movements
through faithless courier,
LITTLE KrNpNEss,-Small acts of kind