The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-05-24

| .''9 'NsPSet, c'eu III Il lew weekS.-I Boston
journal.
A CASE OF JEALOUSY AND PRoposED MURDER.
A case OF foolish Jealousy coupled with pro
position to commit the dark crime of murder
recently transpred in our neighborng village OF
Crestline. We had intended TO give the names
OF the parties to this Transaction but at the
earnest sohcitaton of one interested, we have
concluded to withhold proper names. Some two
| years ago man and his wife, with their family
IRON an Eastern State, settled in Crestline. For
the present We shall call the gentleman Mr., A,
de was, aud is passionately attached to his wife;
put his domestic happiness has been sadly mar
\ red oy the frequent calls of lawyer from Mans.
neid, who paid as he thought too MANY atten-
| tons to his wife.
| The husband brooded in silence over the sun.
posed Inconsistency of his bosom companion. -
lie never minated his suspicion to her. or any
one else until the thought Of dspatching his
hated rival took possession of his brain. But
the query was how he could accomplish this act
and escape detection. At last, as he supposed,
he iit upon plan. He went to a brakeman on
the +. +. w. 4 C. r. r., with whom he was on
terms OF great intimacy, and to him commun-
Gated his suspicious, and proposed to give him
one hundred and twenty-five dollars in money
gold watch, and suit of clothes, as a con-
slderation tor killing the Mansfield lawyer: or
as he expressed it, "to make buzzard's yjctuals
OF h'm The money and watch were delivered,
the brakeman entered into q contract, appar-
emily in good faith, but went the next day and
informed the lawyer OF all that had happened
Matters rested for few days.
One evening, as the husband was approaching
his home, he beheld the lawyer leaving the
house, and on entering saw his wife hurredly
shut bureau drawer. On her absence be ex.
AmOp0 drn -ivna v;v,
covering in it large quantity of gold coin,
which he supposed had purchased his wife's
chastity. lie was almost fraatic, but said moth.
ing; still hoping to hear of the lawyers early
decease as per arrangement with the brakeman.
on the next morning the lawyer and the brake
man, by an understanding with the wife, who
was posted" IN the whole affair, called at the
house; the wife received them in her quiet.
lady-like way; the husband treated them with
great GOODNESS and Indifference, and began to
regard the brakeman with suspicious of infidel.
ity to his trust. The wife quietly went to the
bureau, took therefrom the bag of gold, and
turning to her husband, said:
Here is s., TAI which my attorney has, after
q great amount of labor, collected as my lega.
oy, from the administrators of my uncle, whom
you did not know, but who died in New Jersey.
some eleven years ago. His kindly office, for
which he has retained a reasonable fec, .has af-
fected you with a jealousy, l hope this may
teach you never to impute crimes to others.
unless you have better evidence than mere sus-
picon of their guilt"
The brakeman then arose and handed over
the watch, saying:
'This is the price set upon the lawyers head,
but after an investigation, concluded he didn't
need killing, and herewith return it to YOU,
hoping you will become wiser and better
The reader may imagine the effect produced
upon the jealous husband, by being slmulta-
neously convinced of his wife's fidelity and com.
ing into possession of $s,74l in god.-[Craw-
ford County Forum.
HORRIBLE Decentralization Vandusen was
brought before Justice Adams yesterday,
charged with obtaining money under false and
fraudulent pretenses. 1t was proven that Van
dusen had used his daughter for the purpose of
black mailing young men in town; that he would
send her forth on errands OF prostitution and
lewdness, aud then would extort money from
the persons with whom ste had improper inter
course by threatening exposure or legal prose-
cution. He finally attempted to extor. money
from man who was innocent of any intimacy
with the girl, and who had Vsndusen arrested.
His crime is too horrible to be mentioned, and
he would disgrace brutes to be classed with
them.
The Justice found him guilty of the charge,
and bound him over to the next term of Court
in the sum Of 81 600, and 10 default he was
to the county jail-Spring field State
Register, 18th.
JEWELL or QUEEN.-The Madrid journals
Of the 25th ult., relate the following circum-
stance:
As the Queen, on Good Friday, was according
to custom, washing the feet Of some poor old
woman, Her Aajesty's bracelet fell of, and one
OF the women picked IL up, offered it to Her
Majesty. NY good woman said the Queen,
since the bracele: has fallen so near you keep
IT, Of course, the woma was profuse in her
expression Of gratitude. The Duchess dc
Aedina-CDl, who was present, told the old wo-
man lnat she would buy the bracelet Of her, aud
> jeweler having estimated It TO be worth IT,
OOV reals A.2AOf thu Dmchana % "a that ann,