Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-21
A Romance of Crime.
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ADvEHTisEMENTs.
From tho New Orleans Boe June nj
A resident fthis city, who is poor but
industrious mechanic supporting a large
family in the First district, was walking on
the levee with his little son last evening,
when he observed a young woman, dressed
very poorly, walking out toward the river at
n rapid pace, As she nearly crossed his
path he heard her sobbing as II in bitter dis
tress, and he naturally stopped and looked
after her with some surprise. She had not
got more than twelve orffeen PAGES from him
when the idea flashed upon his mind that she
intended committing gsuicide by jumping into
the river. lie immediately ran after her, and
gmsping her arm tightly in his hand, asked
her what she was about to do. The girl, who
is only about seventeen years of age, and Of
pleasing, almost beautiful features, exclaimed
with great emotion, ''0h, let me gol For
Heavens sake let me goln Our friend felt
convinced 10y her words and manner that his
suspicious were correct and holding her firmly
snid, 81 know what you are about to do, and
shall prevent yon. The girl asked him if he
was a police officer, and thinking he might have
more influence over her if he deceived her
for a while, he told her he was, and that she
must 20 with him. He intended escorting
her TO the Lookup, where he could have her
arrested for safe-keeping. On the way she
related to him her story, frequently Interrupt
ted by bursts of anguish that told how heart
broken she was.
According to her statement it appears that
her parents, who live in Twenty-fourth street.
in New York city, are people ofgood standing
and well of, her father being partner Of a
firm in the wholesale provision business
She had happy home, and her parents loved
her deyotedly; they were even too lenient
and trusting, she says. She attended school
daily, and her companions were young and
thoughtless girls, always ready for fun or
mischief so long as they thoughtit harmless.
One day several of the schoolgirls proposed
that they should writean advertisement for a
husband and publish it in the personal
column of the Herald, so as to amuse them
selves by reading the answers they might
receive from silly-pated young men. This
girl, in an unhappy hour, entered into the
scheme and wrote the advertisement request
ing answers to be addressed to Mary, at the
Broadway Postofice The first day she got
two answers, which she took to her compan-
ions, and they laughed merrily over them
The second day she went in the evening 10
the sub-Postofiice and found but one letter.
As she walked out she was reading it. 1t
opened with q selEintroductiOn by the writer,
and closed with the words: al am following
yOunow." As she read this line she looked
round, and young man who had been walk
ing close behind stepped TO her side. She
then saw how foolish she had been, and that
the punishment of her indiscretiOn lay in
being so much in his power as to allow him
to address her. As matter of course the
first deviation from the strict line of her duty
as a properly behaved young lady led to
many other acts of indiscretion. She fire.
quently met him by appointment when her
school was out, and walked for hours in his
company.
In couple ofmonths this serpent-tongued
villain had acquired such an influence over
her that he persuaded her to elope with him
and go to Texas, where he had to 60 on
business tour. He told her his family were
in Cincinnati, and they would 60 there and
he married, and pretended that he had written
about her to his mother, who approved Of the
match. The girl, who haG not spoken TO her
parents of this person, and placed such con-
fdence in him, as a bind infatuation alone
could create, agreed to all, viewing it in the
light of delightful romance, and expecting
to return with her husband in a month or
two.
When they got to Cincinnati he put up at
a hotel, and he went out to seek his family,
as he Said. Inafew hours he returned and told
the duped girl that an uncle ofhis had died sud-
denly in Texas, leaving his father an immense
plantation, and that his parents had started
off the day before, leaving word for them to
follow immediately He even showed her n
letter which appeared to be from his father to
this effect She then implored him to delay
no longer their marriage, but he insisted that
his parents would cut him off without cent
if they were not present at the marriage
They then came down to this city, and the
poor deceived one soon discovered how ter
ribly she had been wronged. Her pleadings
for the fulflment of his promises perhaps
weaned him from his love for her, and she
soon had reason to suspect that he was un-
faithful She has not seen him since Satur-
day, and Yesterday afternoon she received
letter from him, dated Saturday evening, in
which he coldly informed her that her re-
proaches had disgusted him and he had left
for the North. Five ten dollar bills were en-
closed in the letter.
The name he gave her as his own was
Henry Brown, but she is of opinion, from
letters he has received, and other circum-
stances, that his real name is Henry R. Col
Inns, and that he is either from Buffalo, New
York, or has been staying there some time.
He represented to her that he had formerly
been engaged in some patent right business,
and owned an interest in several patents.
Upon learning these particulars, and OBJ
tanning her real name, the noble hearted
man who so fortunately met her on the levee
determined to take her home, knowing that
his good wife was above the squeamislI pref
udice which too generally obtains among
women. He did so, and will write to the
girls parents tomorrow. At the request Of
his friend from whom we obtained these par
iculars last night, we refrain from publish
ing his name. That of the girl we would
r,b1io for raacous or1ifa 0lrIyioug