Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-07-03
ROMANTIC STORY

The following extraordinary narrative from
late number of the Cleveland Ohio. Herald ia
said by good authority to be literally true.
The reader will admit that an air of prafsey.-
DfH"Ce Pervades the narrative, such as Is sell
dom found In a manufactured story:
Some twelve years ago, two Young men.
named Ciyma and Paule, lived in small viii
lage not Tar from the sea coast in the extreme
west OF England. Both were miners and worked
In the same tin mine near the village Both
paid their addresses to the same maiden, thou Oh
not with equal success. Clyma prospered so
well with his suit that day was appointed for
their nuptiais, and in due course of time the
pans OF marriage were asked in the village
church on the first of the three Sundays pre-
scribed by English cannon law.
Before the second Sunday came round the
rivals met at wrestling match in the village
and It chanced that the turn came for them to
wreStle together. Paule was excited and en-
deayored strenuously to give his successful ri
val In love " wicked fall, but his eagerness
worked his defeat. He was thrown to the
ground amid the shouts of the villagers. On
sPrinSlng to the ground he swore that he would
De reYensed, and that Clyma should never
marry his intended bride. From that day he
took to drinking deeply, and wa. fierce in his
1mprecatiOns on his rival
The day before that fixed for the marriage,
Paule told all his friends that he would be
at the wedding and would And means to pre-
vent its taking place. Knowing his deter
mined character, Clyma appeared alarmed at
the threat, and got some friends to intercede
with Paule, but in vain
Late that night Clyma left the house of his
intended bride for his own cottage, The way
lay across patch of barren moor, where there
swere several open mine shafts, which had been
deserted, and the bottoms of whose black
depths were now covered with several fathoms
Of water. About the same hour Paule WAS
seen crossing the same patch of moor from nno-
ther direction. miner. who passed n little
later towards the mine where be worked-it
being his turn for night work-averred the
next day that he heard a noise as if of dis
pute and a scuffie, but ii was too dark to dis
tinguish any one.
The marriage was to take place at eleven
o'clock In the morning ut the village church.
Long before that hour the village was a scene
OF great excitement. The hat and neckerchief
of Paule, the latter torn and bloody had been
found near the deepest of the abandoned pit
<6hafts, and of Paule himself nothing had been
saohnd, nor had he been seen since he went to-
ward the moor on the preceding night. The
ground where the articles had been found bore
traces of a scuffie having taken place. and to
crown the whole, two buttons recognised as be-
longing to China coat were discovered among
the earth and stones. To these ominous facts
China could only reply that he met Paule at
the place mentioned, during the night; that
high words were succeeded by scuffle and that
he had beaten Paule, who retired cursng him.
This account was not considered satisfactory,
and China was taken into custody to ait fur
ther developments.
Several days passed away; an examination
was made of the pit and the surrounding local
lty, but no trace could be found of the body 1t
was argued, however, that If stone were at
tached 10 the body before it was thrown into the
yit, so as to sink it, there would be no proba-
bllity OF It's ever being found. After several
examinations krfore "A M te he accusad
was released from custody, but only to be shun
ned "a murderer by the whole community
In the meantime, the intended bride became
sick through excitement; a violent fever was
succeeded by 4 wasting illness. and after lin
gering for some months, she died of broken
heart. These accumulated ills were too much
for the unhappy object of general suspicion,
AMI in less than twelve months after what
should have been his wedding day, he became
the inmate Of an insane asylum, where he still
remains g hopeless maniac.
Among the relatives of China was a sister.
married to u farmer, who, three years after the
unhappy occurrence related above, removed to
this country and settled down on farm in
northern Illinois. A few days since, this sig
ter, while about taking the cars in Chicago for
home, she suddenly encountered the supposed
murdered man, Her excitement was intense.
Drawing him on one side, she made herself
known to Paule, and was Immediately recOg-
nised by him.
The explanation given by him Of his disap-
pearance, was, that he met Ciyma on the event
ful light with the purpose of beating and dis
figuring him so that he could not be married
on the succeeding day, but that his rival was
more than a match for him. Burning with
rage at his discontinue, he had rushed off, not
knowing or caring what became Of himself, and
on reaching the branch, had taken an old
leaky boat and pulled directly out to sea-
Next morning, when the boat was nearly sink
ing, he was picked up by an outward bound
ship, which took him To New Orleans. Since
then, he has resided several years in Caifor-
mia and in the United States, has become mod
erately rich, and was now on his way to his
communication since his departure. On learn
ing the sad event which had occurred in the
meantime, he Immediately accompanied the
sister 10 her home in Illinois, and after the
necessary arrangements were made he started
with her for England, in order to repair as far
possible, the mischief which had been done
They passed through Cleveland on their way
East, and, happening accidentally to meet
them at the depot, We learned the sequel to
the sad STORY, with the earlier portion of which
We were well acquainted.
They go on joyful, yet mOurnful errand.
The good name OF the unhappy condemned can
be reclaimed, but none can restore bis shat
tered r'aOn, or rescue the broken hearted
dead from her early grave.
How TIE SCN CAUGHT TnIEF IN THE Act.
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