The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-18
THE CALIFORNIA sTABBING GASES :


THuRsDAy MOANING JANUARY Tia. 1855
THE CALIFORNIA sTABBING CASES.
sWsnottced yesterday. Two cases Of stabbine In
California, accounts of which were brought By the
Northern Light They were both quite remarka.
pie. Mrs Lizzie Howard Sullivan, who stabbed
Henry kerrison, In San Francisco, n appears is
very young womsn-only 2o-and that she Ia
oook binder BY profession but fading no regular
occupation ather trade there went upon the stage,
aad 'eft that to keep cigar store. She says that
hsrrison seduced her under the promise of mar
rase, and when be deserted her, she took the only
revenge within her reach. The stab is ia the
breast and has wounded the left lung Kerrison
WIN probably recover. Alter striking the first
oiow, she pursaed Kerrison for 5oyards snd when
arrested attempted to take her own life. Upon her
person was found the following letter to him.
written with great passion and some eloquence:
HARks - For the last nine, Harry Kerrison,
Aow write to Jou You have embitered my whole
life; yoa have sive, me no choice but a life Of
prostitution, and. Harry, God will not let me be
unavenged. YOU VII ssy. to the latest moment of
your existence. when fret saw you, If any one
had even huted to me that would fall 50 low as to
associate with you, won'd have considered 1t an
scarcely deign to notice you, when you came where
/ was !; and then was happy and may add, in.
nocent. See, now, through your cursed, cursed
wiies to what am brought Why are such men
a. you allowed to liver You are a curse to the
world Nec mark T7g p1rds-I am about entering
a life that to which | would gladly prefer death,
and God knows my heart, knows how hard have
struggled against it. By your dastardly treatment,
Now, Harry to tell you that have loved you
that would have laid down my life for you-that
1t sickness had laid you bed, | would have
worked for and tended you as tenderly the fond
est mother would her chiid-that II crime
proach had been yours, would have chung TO you
and loved you through all--that nothing on earth
would have damped my love for you so closely had
l entwined you round my heart This, Harry, has
been my love for youths, Harry has been the
heart you have thrown from you Your own heart
will best tell you why; if from the caprice of the
moment, or from passing fancy OF your tickle ma
ture, It matters all the same The die is cast now
you were about to offer in the sight OF man to own
me as your wfe-if you were to lay fortune at my
feet, would refuse 1t ALL for stronger passion has
laid hold of me-and a sweeter one Have patience,
Harry and read When / left home my mother
gave me Bible. Since that have never looked at
1t till last night. Do not treat this as the fancy OF
moment. ] am very calm-the cool calm ofhate,
deadly hate-and knet on my knees on the cold
earth with other witness but the stars above me
and, Harry Kerrison / took an awful oath on
that Holy Book-an oath which would make your
blood run cold to hear.
lis you have known my love-now you shall
feel my hate. Months may elspse but my revenge
will overtake you. No sudden, open act Of vio-
lence, for my late fury has settled down into deep,
calm revenge. If meet you openly, ! will meet
you with q smile-I will meet you proudly. 1T you
leave this city, will leave too. | will have those
watching you that you little dream Of You need
not If you avoid coming near met is all the
same
Now, II you will, show this letter around to your
friends My own writing-this letter-wil no
doubt one day be shown against me. | can bear
II all, and more when am revenged; | would will
lingy die for 1t; will devote my life to the accom-
plishment of it, Did you ever think, Harry Kerri-
that it would GENE to thisl Did you think
that she who was loving and easy to forgive you,
had such feelings within herr An old ssyiug-the
strongest love sometimes turns to the deadliest
hate. Yes my dear love. this affair with this wo-
luan, as you have styled it, will have quite
mantle termination-a subject for novei-wrter-
ending in tragedy Of death and scaffold! Well,
can think OF no more for your amusement in this
Ietter-all, all came from the heart. Now go on,
Harry go. with the deep, deep curses of broken,
biighted heart Got for you are doomed for, so
sure as the rises and sets, so sure will my
words come to pass.
In the other case Of the stabbing of James Nc
Cabe by David B. Akey, it appears was the result
OF unfounded jealousy. Akey had failed to sup
port his wife and she had left him. He suspected
McCabe, who was formerly judge of Michigan
court and member of the Legislature of that State,
OF alternating her affections. 1t was universally
believed to be unfounded. Akey did not know
MeCsbe who is said to be one of the most sober
~. I'd simple hearted old bachelors 10 the world,
IS years olo, whose only offense was that when
coming on the steamer from New York and across
,he Isthmus, he showed such attentions to Mrs.
Akey as twas proper should be shown to lady
who had no other gentleman to take charge of
Fer.