The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-18
SEDUCTION, ELOPEMENT, sADULTERY
AND DEATH
A SAD STORY OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE.
From the Springfield Republican. ]

SAD STORY OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE.
From the Springfield Republican,
About five years ago, village singing school
was about to be organized in Cranky, Ct., and
the selection of teachers became a mooted
question. The merits of one, we'll known in
! this vicinity, were canyassed, but he encounter
ed opposition, on the ground that he was a
! licentious man. and adulturer His friends
carried the day, however, and hs was installed
over the school, and became anzianlate of the
family of Deacon Kendall. Mhasaad espoused
his cause warmly believed in -Ais innocence,
and treated him with confidence The music
teacher sued the person in thesvillage promi-
nent in circulating the stories against his char
acter, for SANDER, and the case was pending in
the Courts at Hartford for some time. The
defendant obtained considerable evidence to
sustain his charges, but not enough to cover
and paid the costs of suit. Deacon Kendall
had a daughter, young, beautiful and accom-
plished, and fond of music.
After the singing school season was over,
she insisted on leaving home and taking care
of herself; her purpose was opposed-there
was a family quarrel, but shel succeeded in
clipping, none of her family or friends knew
whittier. For years she was lost to them all.
Meantime her father died, and suddenly she
re-appeared, and claimed her share in the es-
tate. It was given to her, and she departed
again into obscurity, refusing to tell her friends
any more than that she was living in the vi
cinity of Boston under an assumed name
Then came suspicious and reports that she had
been seduced by the music teacher, who had
been befrinded and defended by her father
and the family some years ago, and that she
was living under his protection somewhere
But efforts to solve the mystery and discoved
the place Of her concealment still proved fruit
less. Only last week was the veil lifted, and
that through her death. Her friends received
information that she had died at south Boston,
and her remains were at their disposal They
received them and learned the full story Of
her life for the years that had intervened since
her elopement.
1t seems that she had been seduced by the
music teacher during the season of the school,
and disappeared to beconre, certainly mother,
and as she expected, a wife. But her seducer
already married man, and his family re-
sided in the vicinity of Springfield. He was,
however, about this time clerk in a store in
Boston and established his victim in secrecy
in South Boston, as "Mrs. jones'" the wife of
"George Jones'" Here she gave birth to a
boy, and here she lived, the mistress of her Sc
ducer. lie visited her bat seldom, however,
taking TIE whole tfHrz supported
her in but scanty style. After the death of
her father, he became moro attentive again,
and persuaded her to go and receive her share
of the property. This she did, and paid the
money over to him, under the assurance, it is
reported, that he would establish her in finer
quarters and live with her more constantly
But his desertion now was more marked than
before-he robbed her not only Of character
and home but her money.
Her cruel disappointments and mental and
moral sufferings naturally nursed fatal disease
and this last and most cruel treatment hasten
ed its progress, and last week relieved her by
death. In the last days of her life, the wom-
an with whom she boarded wrote to her sedu-
Ger ky his proper name in Springfield, urging
in her behalf his presence to see her once
more before she died. But he came not, and
she, preserving her mystery to the last refus-
ed to divulge her real name, the residence
of her friends, closed her own eyelids and died,
proud, neglected, deserted, heart-broken.-I
Her child she had previously given to az Cath
olic school in South Boston, and bespoken
from the same institution Christian dispo-
sitioe of her body A few days previous to
her death she called some of the members of
the house where she boarded to her room, and
them to burn all papers in her pos
session at once in her presence in order to pre-
vent, if possible, any facts concerning her fate
from ever reaching her friends whom she had
disgraced.
This was done, and but for an old album,
which contained many good wishes from her
former schoolmates with her own true name
and residence upon the margin of the book,
her history would never have been known
She died ON Tuesday, and on Saturday her re-
mains, accompanied by her interesting boy,
four years of age-the sign of her sorrow yet
the consolation of her life-were brought once
more to her native village. E2
This is but the warp of the story. The de-
tails may readily be supplied by those who
know what sin is, and life may be. And those
who don't-happy few-may well be spared
the recital. We have only to add the name
of the other and most criminal party to the
history. 1t is that Of Edwin w Reed, who
lives, with wife and children, in West Spring
field, has piano store in this city, and teach
es singing schools in the country towns during
the winter season. He is well known in all
this part of Massachusetts and in the northern
towns of Connecticut, and though often the SUBJ
ject of scandalous suspicious, has maintained
the outward character of gentleman and a
Christian. He is, we are informed, member
of the Congregational church in West Spring
field; and thus has blackened his crimes by |
pretensions to holiness that were worse than |
hollow Police officers were in pursuit of him |
on Monday, with warrant for his arrest for |
adultery; and if he has not been warned of |
the exposure of his conduct, and fed is prob
ably already in custody. He left home, we
on Monday morning, for Hinsdale,
where he has singing school in progress.
THE PIeUA MURDER.-T The trial of Hobat- |
ia for the murder of Manning, in Miami coun-
ty, last fall, took place in the Court of Com
mon Pleas at Troy last week, and resulted in
a disagreement Of the Jury-eleven being |
in favor of verdict of murder in the first de-
gree, and one in favor of verdict of man
slaughter. Our readers will remember that
Hcbatta and Manning returned from Califor-
mia in company-the latter having paid the
exnenses of the former to the States-and that |