The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-12
A Life Tragedy-A Nero-like Landlord
and his Victim.


The deepest tragedies of life are seldom
written. Tho story Of Medss Is not the less
interesting because Of its antiquity, and does
not fail to create thrill Of horror whenever
read but far moro terrible dramas than even
this are daily enacted in our very midst, al
though unfortunately they have no Euripides
to give the heroes and the heroines unto the
world and fame.
A single death, however sudden, fails 10
awaken an extended interest, and, outside Of
the circle of acquaintances In which It occurs,
is hardly felt. Another comes and fills the
vacuum thus created and the world plods on,
forgetting in little whilo that the Earth has
murdered another Of her guests. Sometimes,
however, . person passes into the life hereaf-
ter under circumstances which, for the 6rst
time, causes him to be known and bis history
becomes a matter Of general inquiry. Suoh q
case occurred day or two ago, and the inter-
est We felt in 1t has induced us to relate II
briefly here.
On Wednesday Of last week, o young and
quite good-lookingsirl, named Josephine Nor
rison, was taken to the Commercial Hospital,
In this city, but In six hours after her body
had entered II, her spirit, freed from the clay
in which It had been imprisoned less than
twenty summers, took its departure for life,
10 which we could fsin wish 1t might find
peace and rest. ~ ~ Il
A year or two ago she met q man with
whom she sympathized and In whose nature
she found or thought she found all that her
own 50 long he'd oraved. She loved him and
was betrayed. For many months thoy resided
together, bound only to each other by the spell
which he had cast about her heart and tho in
terest she caused him 10 feel In her by tho
qualification Of his natures baser part. Shs
knew no law but love, but to hor this was all
sufficient; for although she felt the thraldom,
her chains were linked with flowers and they
psrfumed tho whole atmosphere of her life.
Itwas not so with him. Time past, but as
to her the bond grew stronger; with him II
weakened; and just whom most she needed tho
support Of his strong arm, and the soothing
tones of the voice which through tho ear first
found the way 10 her young heart, he
abandoned her. She sought and found room
In remote portion Of the Eleventh Ward,
where she thought to hide herself until girl
hood could be lost In maternity, upon the
boundary Of which mysterious realm she then
stood trembling with fear aud anxiety.
If now she could have found friend all
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