The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-12-18
Grlctt 4iliatciIollD.
| From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser Dec 9
The Way OF a Transgressor.

HARLOW CASE The GovERNMENr De.
FAULTER AND HIS WANDERlNGs.
In introducing the correspondence which
| we give below, II is necessary that we should
recount some prectd ding incidents to which
It alludcs. If the plain recital of these cir.
cumstanccs, or the agony Of remorse which
speaks in these letters. can teach the lesson
Of marital fidelity to one who wavcrs or point
out the weary pathway of sorrow Witch
awaits the betraycr, they wi have accom-
plshed the object Of their publication.
Some twelve or fourteen years ago Harlow
Case was a respectable and esteemed citizen
of Buffalo. He held the pace of Assistant
Postmaster under Mr.. Dorshemcr, and was
for many years entrusted with the mole I'M
portant duties of the Office.
A member Of one Of the Baptist churches
respected in every walk Of life married and
the latherd of family. lie seemed to be os firm
in the straight forward paths of virtue
as any other. Removing to Sandusky: Ohio,
he received the appointment of Collector
Of that port under Mr.. Fillmore The ap-
poinlmcnt was one universally approved, and
the numerous friends Of Case in This city were
Icjolccd at his success in life. While holding
that Office he was intimate in the family of
Mr.. f.. one Of his assistants. Mrs L. was
young, beautiful, impaSson,d. and fatal
attachment grew up between the two, which
renamed unsupported until the truth was
made known by the sudden cloprmcnt of Case
with Mis- f., and the simultaneous discovery
! that he had absccnled with government funds
10 the amount of some $4,000. From that
time forward nearly all trace Of the guilty pair
was lost. The family Of Case. beicay,d and
betrayed, remained hopeless in their grief
Mr.. +. engaged in u long but fuitlcss chase
Of the fngilvos. And now from of he sea
came tidngs-a broken, half-told story Of
| lorcly wandcrings in foreign lands a fun
recital OF never ceaSng rcmorse, with pitiful
and solitary deaths in far away islands and
on The stormy waters Of the Indian ocean,
Both victims Of unhalloWcd passion are asleep
the mother III the groves of Ccylon, the
little Child III the coral forests of the sea-
The hctraycr still wandcls the Garth, the
heavy hand ofan avcnging God upon him. and
sends to his abandoned home this message of
his sorrows.
We give first the letter Of Mr. F. 10 a resi-.
dent Of this city, and follow that with the
two letters Of Harlow Casc-the lirst to the
father Of Mr.. f., enclosing second directed
to Nh. +. himself. 1t i, unnecessary to say
that the letters of Case ale genuine his
chirosraphy being readily recognised: -
-, Wis, Nov %, So.
To-DEAR SlR-Wlll you be pleased to
pardon this new obtrusion, after the lapcs of
50 many years! You knew me (not. perhaps,
urluvorably) III 1880, and nearly twenty
years previously. when used to leave the
| Buffalo Patriot at VOW office. Your memory
may fail to recall me from that far period but
you will readily recognize me VIXEN name
| "A M ar sn mot, ION,
aud MIR. -; and more dsastrously with
the Custom House and Harlow Case, at San
duSky, Ohio. 1t was the writer who was the
victim of that misguid,d man S unlock ed for
vlllainy, and it was my unlortun .tc and errng
partner he seduced. Blu. the most terrible
affection which his crime brought home to
me arose from his robbing me of my little
daughter and only child the one who once
with comb in hand, climbed in chair by
! your side, at your visit to my house, and
eSsayed to comb your hair But where is
now that young and once baoyant spirit 3
III heaven, trust, and the lovely Tenement
| that held it rests deep bencath the still or
stoimy waters of a far Indian sea.
| Still as | clasp this burning brain,
| a death scene rushes on my sight
| 1t rises, er and Ger again.
Both these fated victims of his guilt have
| looked their last on earth, while he, their
worse than murderer still walks unscathed
of the vengeance Of God and human Justice.
| followed the fugi,lvcs to the Isle of Malta,
in December, 1888, and lost all trace from
thence. | at last have tidings of their fate
| in the enclosed letters which have lately
| reached me fom over the sea. How far ell
tire reliance may be placed upon his state.
| mcnts | canHot tell, but fear it j; too fatally
true in its leading announcement that both
mother and child are gone to their last ac-
count. After many Years Of suffering and
suspenSe-which wrung my brain and drove
me at times during the first two years after
the occurrence to the very verge of distraction
i had at last rrgaincd, to great degree,
my wonted elasticity of spirits; had sought
bill legally releasing me from my deserving
spouse. and INDUCED new visions of future
enjoyment, when these sad lidings of most
fatal import whelm me again in wretchedness
that knows no hope. As the best part of the
life of the miserable man was spent in Buffalo.
undci your intimate acquaintance, and as he
was for some twenty years well and iavorably
known to nearly all the cilzents of Buffalo,
in which city l also learned my trade-in
| Ellicott square-(the printing Office being
once directly over the Post office where
lie was employed Il have thought it
proper to enclose his communication to you
because, also, wish to ask the favor that
| you will certify to the genuneness Of the