Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-06-16
A FALsr.urAnrEn LovER TRYIXG To

A FALsE.HEAnrED Lover TRYING To
DRowN HIS SwEETEEAET.-An English
paper gives an account Of an examination
al Saford, of ELwd. AspinaI!, charges
with attempting to drown bis sweetheart,
May Conlcy, under the following extra
ordinary circumstances :-Mary COnley.
a young woman, twenty years OF age, but
of very girllSh and dIminutive appearance,
said she lived with her mother. The
prisoner had paid his addresses TO her,and
she left home with him to 90 for walk.
After going through Hume, lie took her
along the canal-sde towards Stretl0rd.
After going some distance along the ca
nal.sile she wished 10 return home, but
he said she would never turn back any
more, for he intended to drown4fer. He
got hold OF her round the waist and tried
10 put her into the canal, but she clung to
his neck handkerchief with one hand, and
TO his body with the other, and struggled
with him. She said where she went he
should GO, but he said he could swim,
and he did not care if lie did 90 into the
water with her. She struggled With him
a long time. She said : "He had me
down on my back once, with his knee on
my chest, close by the cana-side, and
throued me. There are marks on my
throat now. was rescued al length by
two boamen. If these boatmen had not
come when they did | must have gone IN
10 tie canal, for my strength was gone,
and | could have resulted no longer. He
had taken Liberties with me before lie at
tempted to drown me, but | had resisted
him. Last Sunday fortnight he threaten
ed to take my life, and a witness who
heard him is in court. have kept com
pany wiki him about twelve months.
On the cross examination she saId she
went with him after he had threatened
her life because she could not get rid Of
him. The prisoner, it seems, was JeaI-
ous of Young man named James Slubbs.
He was fully committed for attempted
murder.
A DrpRAvED WIFE.-About a week
since the wife of Mr.. Henry Wilt, who
keeps a livery stable IN York, Pa, sud-
denly disappeared from that borough,
without her husband or friends knowing
whittier she had gone. The husband
finally became satisfied that she had come
to Baltimore, and accordingly followed on
and arrived here couple Of days since
He Immediately set to work to find tie
Whereabouts Of his missing wife, and yes
terday afternoon succeeded, with the as
sislancG of officers Bishop and Taymon,
in discovering her abode, in house OF Ill
fame on Davis Street, near l'ayeue. She
accompanied her husband to The Central
police Office, to which place her trunk
was also removed, under the direction of
the officers, it containing clothing TO the
value of over $3.50. a great portion OF
which bad been but recent y purchased
at tie expense of the betrayed husband.
The erIng woman is about % years Of
age, quite good looking and was neatly
and handsomely dressed. She ayowcd
her determination never to 90 home or
live with her husband again, and after
seeking TO change her intention for some
time without effect, lie told her to 60 her
way and follow the path she had marked
out Tor herself, at the same time telling the
officer to let her have the trunk and its
a melancholy feature in the
affair is the fact that the miserable woman
has deserted three small children who are
now in York, deprived Of that maternal
care so difficult to be replaced. The hus-
band and wife left the police station at the
same time, she vending her way up Sara
toga street, probably 10 the evil spot
where she had been discovered, and he
taking the direction out Holiday street
toward the railroad depot, He stopped
for moment at the corner of Saratogl
and Holiday streets to gaze at his lost
wife, and then, with an apparent deter
uined resolution, proceeded on his way.
MURDERED BY INDIANs.-The Shasta
Courier, Of the 9th of May, learns from
a note addressed to J. r. Landrum, Esq.
IF Shasta, by Messrs. i. FIumIng, W.
+ Farr and |. Tuttle, that two men-Nil- T.
lam Cochran and Jesse Brown-were re-
Gently murdered by the Indians Oh the
south fork of the Cottonwood. 1t is said
that Brown had with him about one thou
sand dollars, and Cochran four or five
hundred. 1t was the freedom with which
he Indians spent this money at Fairs
trading post that led TO the discovery OF
his crime. MeSsts. Farr aud others suc-
'eeded in capturing the squaws Of the
nurlers, who dIvu!ged the whole matter.
They say that they carried wood 10 burn
he murdered men, aud then pounded
heir bones TO pow der so that the whites
should not find them. They furthermore
state that this tribe has plenty of stock
md money anb that the,- have M TO the