Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-16

six and quarter cent piece bore evil trui
after being planted in my pocket.
"Now, sir, not to be tedious, I vii
come to the present affair. AS counter
feiter, had plenty ofmoney, dressed well
and was regarded IN town where
opened cigar shop as respectable, well
to-do young man. l won the heart there
of Charlotte Foley, the daughter of al
academy preceptor. ShesYas, as you
know, sir for you have seen Der, beautiful
and amiable. 1 loved her aspassionately
as she loved me! l had BEEN married five
months and she suspected nothing wrong
although l was then one Of the leading
men of gang of twenty-four counterfeit.
ers. At length | was bet4gH by one oI
the young men If the gafg who had .
passion for my wife, and wished to get me
out of the way! Yes, sirs that was the
motive of Kendall Morton's informing
upon mel But he has had his reward!-
This hand sent the bullet to his brain
which has avenged me! You know, sir,
how | was arrested after having killed two
of the officers, and that was sentenced to
death-on my trial! That six-and-quar-
ter cents, sir, has thus been the death OF
three men, to say no more of what came
after!
"Well, when Charlotte knew that she
had been married to counterfeiter she did
not give me up, as some would have done!
She clung to me! She strove to see me in
prison; but at the request Of her angry fa-
ther, she was forbidden to visit me as |
lay under sentence of death. But man
had no power to stop her affection for me-!
She sought the Governor! She implored
forgiveness for me! She entreated for
commutation of nv sentence to imprison-
ment for life! When he refused, she
rested not until she had got hundreds Of
signatures to a petition to him. She
achieved her aftectionate purpose. | was
removed from this very condemned cell
where | now am once more sentenced to
die, to the Penitentiary! Now, sir, comes
the bitterest cup | have drank!
ga wicked Que told my poor young wife,
when she was again denied seeing me,
that if she would commita small crime of
some sort that would send her to the Pen
iteDlary, she might be with me and share
my cell! He who told this was that devil
Morton; for, finding that she was faithful
and true to ME, and despised him and his
arts, he laid this trap to ruin her forever
by making convict Of her!j lie took ad
vantage Of her simplicity and her deep
love for me, aware that she would do any
hing to be reunited with ms! All, sir, |
she ST. le The first thing she could lay her
hands on. 1t was the watch of lawyers
wife who lived near her. The 'awyer ap-
peared against her! She confessed her
guilt, as you know! but not the motive!
This now tell you, sir, that the world
may know it,. She was sent to the Peni
.enllary ore year But was she put into
my cell? Did see her? All, sir, you
know how it was
Here he grUaned heavily and buried his
ace in his hands! For some time he re-
NAMED silent and evidently overcome with
erribe emotions.
He said rightly that knew how it was.
| will tell the reader. The theft which
he beautiful and unhappy counterfeter's s
wife had comailed created great surprise.
Her trial created great deal Of interest
md OF sympathy tor her. But as the
watch Was found on her person and she
confessed the theft, the law had TO take its
:ou'se. Who present read her heart?
Who there suspected that she had com
nllted crime in hopes to rejoln her crimi-
lal husband in his cell? What marvellous
Election for an unworthy object! What
lepth of love to sin for the sake of the
owed one himself sinner! When she
vas taken to the Penitentiary, she was
milling and hPppy all the way. The war
len placed ~ at once in the woman's
ward. She had no sooner had her long
lair severed from her head and been clad
n the blue prison gown, than she asked
he keeper eagerly:
"Where is my husband? l must be
aiken to him! Where is Henry?"
"You can't see him, ma nj, here! You
nay be here al 9ear and he wouldn't know
tv'
"Wbat, shall l not see my husband
ere?" she repeated. "rhey told me 500"
"They lied, then," answered the man,
oughly, as he locked the door and went
ut. There were several convict women
She turned to them. They as
ured her she would not see him at all!
One OF the women has told me the scene
hat followed ;-"W hen she was convinced
f it she began to tear her hair and shrek,
nd beat the bars, and call on Henry!
Henry! Your Charlotte is here! Come to
ne-for they will not let me come to you!'
She shrieked and raved until the keepers
ad to confne herl All that night anG
he next day she did nothing but shrek
nd call her husband, till she tainted away
s one dead When they brought her to,
he took on again so dreadlully aad pitt
fully that the prison doctor said she would
o mad, and must see her husband!''
So far the convict woman.
The rules of the prison were then re-
axed, and the prisoner was sent for. He
ad heard her shreks across the yard and
ecognized her voice. When he came in,
n chains put upon him for precaulion,
he was crouched in the asEes OF the open
rel place. (it was summer and no fire in