Smyrna times., 1858-10-28
Love and Suicide in WiImington.

lr course of the week just past very mourn
ful and traglcal occurrence has aken place in
our midst. creating quite a sensation through.
out our city, and Casting loom over portion
of our community. 1t is the old time story OF
a con6ding fair one who loved not wisely but
too well; her misery; the anguish ola bleed
ing heart; despair, desertion aud death. Ii
appears that a young ship-csrpenter by the
name of Nell Noblett, for more than year past
has been paying his addresses to pretty young
girl named Hannah Holt a very exemplary
young woman, apd a member of st. Andrews
Episcopal Church. AS natural consequence
of these attentions she bestowed all the affec-
tion of a loving heart upon her suitor to whom
she expected to be married. Some two or three
weeks ago he left this city and went TO Chester,
Pa where his mother resided, in search of en-
ployment. IL was not long before his sweet
heart heard report that he was paying atten-
on to a young lady in that town. No one can
know what misery filled her bosom or what con.
hlcting emotions lacerated her bleeding heart
She suffered, however, as long as she cou!d en-
dure 1t, and at length, on Saturday night last
she went to Chester to ascertain if these painful
rumors were true. Her lover was staying with
his mother. She arrived there on Sunday
night. Her lover was out She did not 90 to
bed, but waited with an aching heart until he
returned, which was not until one or two
o'clock in the morning. They had some con-
versatiOn, and in a short time each retired 10
their beds. On the next day, as her lover left
the house after dinner to attend to his business.
she started out with him. He asked her where
she was going! She answered that she was
going with him. They then returned into the
house. In the course ofconversation that then
took place, he informed her that he dd not in
tend to marry her. This caused her cup of sor
row 10 overflow, and the iron of despair entered
her soul. She remarked that he should take
her or her corpse home that night She went
out and asked for Strychnine at drug store,
telling them that she wanted it for the purpose
of killing rats. The druggist refused to let her
have it. She then went to another store and
asked for that deadly poison, saying that she
wished to kill dog. 1t was given to her
She then procured from confectionery a small
quantity of candy. When her lover, who had
IN the meantime gone to his work, returned in
the evening she. gave him portion of the candy
TO eat, and eat some of it herself In about Il
minutes she appeared to be ILL., A physician
was sent for, but ere he arrived this ill.fated and
wretched girl was corpse. Upon chemical
examination of the candy it was found that il
had been sprnkled or rolled in Strycbnine.
and the druggist and confectioner both identi.
ned the deceased as the person who had nur.
chased the poison aud the candy. Asthe Nm |
fortunate young woman had predicted, her false
lover had to take her home, and her corpse was
brought to this city, where her mother resides
on Monday night, and Inferred on "Wednesday
last. Thus ends her sorrows and her history
u After LIfe's fitful fever, she sleeps WE'LL
Commonwealth.