Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-08-21

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t were good to me sometimes when other
: were unkind, they were good to me :
: They came to me when | was sick, an,
! sent their children to stay with me.
never treated human being ungratefully
: Ny heart is a kind one. l have with m
own hands taken care of rich people, an,
r cooked up things for the poor, and hav,
: helped them as much as [ could. =
Now these enemies who accuse me know
that | am not guilty-that never dream
ed of poisoning my friends. do no
know about it She began to talk wildly
L had been sick; | was mad for while
because --- gave me something that
took away my seuses try to think over
a great many things that happened, aud
L can't understand them [ cant tell
how got here know | am a wicked
woman, but did not do that | am the
victim of conspiracy \ political party
wished to crush John c. Mather and Ny
ron H Clark, and SO they took me up =
They could do it, YOU know, a poor
lone woman
You have confessed everything to your
priest
! Oh, yes, he knows I'm innocent, but
he teiIS me III Is D1lleT iOf ule W Oie; al u
so [ will die
Were yon happily married Are you
willing to let me know all bout your ear
ly life2'
Oh, yes. [ was married very young,
and to man | could not love. He was
a good man, but did not love him, and
my first sin was in deserting my family
Much that she here told me about her
parentage and family, and her sorrowful
often tragical experiences, is not essential
/ to this communication. | am convinced
she has no consecutive memory ofthe past
/ She thinks, she talks coberently, when
much of what she says Is mere Jargon.-
/ This mode of mind is entirely distinct
1 from her religious one, the latter being
new one and a very harmonious one in her
present exigency, enabling her to ignore
/ the past and look calmly into the brief
space of life before her, revealing never
ending, blissful future. 1t seems as if she
had arisen from terrible chaos, and she
breads life lest she should again relapse
to It,
Turbulent as has been her career with
her stormy passions, she could not recall
it without shudder; aud yet she laugh
/ ed wildly and gesticulated In an almost
! frantic manner more than once. As 1t
regards the past her whole mind is In
/ fragments She remembers indeed : a
mass of things, but naught distinctly"
She holds no definite relation to the ex-
te-nal world. and [ much doubt if she
ever could have done SO. | doubt if she
ever could have been able fally to realize
the relations Of life, and yet she told me
of sufferings, mental and physical, fright
! ful to have been endured by any human
creature One case OF deceit and purju
/ ry practiced upon young girl, worthy
/ onlY of fend, and fer which day of ret
ribution must come if there Is a God su
perintending the affairs of men, she told
me- The cruel deeeiyer was one of whom
! she stood in relation. Her memory seem
| ed pernaturally vivid in this case. She
told me the pity she felt for the innocent
victim-her womanly pleading the mel
ancholy journey of the child to New ork.
and her death in less than twenty four
/ hours after her arrival.
As she recalled all this it became more
aud more evident that these persons had
maddened her A vivid Imagination. nev
! er rising to the ideal, had feasted and
horrifed itself amid its terrible experien-
ces till she was irretrievably mad, and
that too IN way that required the wisest
discrimination to be sure of the fact.
Many might suspect her assertion that
she was the victim of political conspira-
cy to be sham, mere piece of atecta-
tion-and they might think her violent
iparoxisms glddy mirth or mere freaks
fof excentricity but she is insane, and
probably was so long before she commit
this crime, if indeed she did commit
" These people might not have died by
Aroison Our scientific men are far too
ready to give this kind of testimony
iChemical tests are by no means reliable
testimony. The human system is a grand
chemical laboratory. We cannot, indeed
we dare net, affirm that several causes
may not call into action deadly chemical
agents Who shall say that the stomach
may not generate fatal products the llv-
er secretes sugar aud the brain starch
With these known scientific data, | know
J of no limit to be given to the secret;ons
either in a healthful or morbid point OF
view.
Before | left the prisoner she gave me
a message for the Governor, begging me
I TO denver 1t TO MIN IdiluiUily, NAicH vi
course | did not fail to do:
Tell him there is political party
wishing to put him out of Office They
wish to crush Myron Ii Clark and Jobr
: c. Mather and if be commutes my sen
tence they will make political capital out
, of it: and [ would rather die than b.
, used as an Instrument to ruin a good man
Tell him to let me die, as ! wish
The Prison. as | passed through, look
t ed clean and orderly, and the physician
in attendance modest and attentive to hi
r duty One thing further | must say
and the remark will hold good in othe
. cases. | have visited many women incar
\ cerated for crimes when they ought t
have been sent to hospitals and [ hav
! felt the urgent need of dignifed matron
in our prisons, who alone should have az
:. cess to this department No man shoul
i bold the keyssto the prison-room of tn
: guiltiest woman in the world No ma
!, should be allowed to come and 90 at hi