The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-03-22
BY sCHOFF. VINEGAR & co.

ANU now HldtidlliEs dttt coming 10 -lllS
fearful accident which happeoed TO us about
a fortnight ago the recollection of which
makes II cry impossible for US to remat,t
here
f VI, wife was attacked by brain fever the
i DAY after chat which | am going to relate
took place, and from this she is only now
slowly recovering She WAS i'll in bed When
this happened, and when left the tower Oh
the afternoon Of which am going to speak
size was asleep had to practice difficult
solo accompaniment for the opera that even.
lug, aud bad in consequence gone to the
theatre much earlier than usual. The chill
dren were all at school. excepting the two
youngest. who were under the care Of our
naid-ot all-work She had put the baby to
sleep III its cradle III my wite's room aud
mad taken away the little boy who is about
tw, ears and Il half old to put on his " ak
! ing dress, intending to take the child with
her OH an GRAND which she had to do III
| the town
| She had. however, to wait until our old
est girl should return from school, as she
could not leave my wife alone. After lay
ing the chii,'s clothes on a chair ready to
put on, Sill took hin with her to go aud op
bell, and had afterwards been gossiping a
long time on the stairs with this individual,
ho had proved to be q friend of hers with
out paying proper attention to the little
boy, who had III the meantime Slipped nAcN
into the cliidrens room. This MAS the
riJ lrest account Of the matter lnat couII
80 gwen R,e, when came To inquire after
" ,rds of the servant, it0s il Aas that She
c, uld ha.r b9.n so gig IDS Hy wife
g.. mus, strau-.s
fa- rt,,trnt t. At 500. -,t ,leG,in.n l,tr
hly az = tt7lg - qmck,, o,, of bel -,
e ...u,. s.l,. rep "tt 10, ,Hjit4 e
exti,tmug. Ny Iularg--,ny i.,.... tgs-
where is ne? The s,rvdul nj : up
from the stairs. explained that lie nal beeu
by her side only an inst mt ago, and that he
could not be very far off My wife aud the
servant then searched in every direct ion for
him, but no Ludwig Was to be found In
the nursery there was Il chair standing by
the windoW and on 1t a little shoe, one of
his, was lying. a sudden fear took posses
sion Of my wife she tottered TO the win
dow, which was open, and, after moments
hesitation, an instant of dread to know the
WJlSb, LlIC VI iltSli oiIC SuSEJeCI6l-SIlG
looked out; and there, on the pavement
200 feet below, lay the body Of her child
for alive he could not be- Rushing down
stairs just as she " as in her night dress, my
poor wife ran wildly into the little narrow
street Or laue which lay Immediately under
the window from which the dear child had
fallen.
This was not much used as a thorough
fare, and at the moment she reached it
there happened to be nobody there How
shall | express to you, niadame the surprise
the CONSERVATION Of my wife and the scr
want, when on hunying to the spot where
they expected to behold the child S shape
less mangied corpse they found nothing
Here was a mystery TO De solved IS tins
titng the SCREAMS Of the two women bad
reused the attention. Of the neighoUfs, WHO
eaiilq 5runn,ng TO them for!a the next street
close by.
Where where, is tue chiidy was the
reiterated cry passed on ttom mouth to
mouth till at last the lane was full of PEG
pie asking each other the some question:.
Some of them, not knowing the immediate
cause ofmy wifes distress, and struck by
her unusual appearance, believing her mad,
laid hold Of her, and forcing her back into
the building and up into her room, endeav-
ored to quiet her the best way they could
But no one could answer her repeated ques-
ton, Where is my Ludwig? where is
his poor body?' All, where indeed was it
Before she had we'll nigh been carried up
stairs however, a woman who had with
GREATNESS haste made her way into the
lane hurried up, saying, that she had
something important to say, and on being
admitted, she forthwith told my wife, that
she had seen the child fall from one of the
upper windows, and had instantly FASTENED
down from the top of the honse where she
lived, and which commanded partial view
Of the tower There was, then, no doubt
of his having fallen-no doubt of the poor
child's destruction. Bnt again the ques-
tion-What had, what could have, become
OF the boiy? The general CONSERVATION
increased, as indeed it well might this
was an unparalleled myseery. The wo-
man who had seen him fall was of course
more wonderstruck than the rest were to
| find that the child was not to be found
alive or dead After II .eiving this intell
gence, it was of course perfectly hopeless
to make any further Search sor the poor
child i'll the tower, for, as lie had been st Ell
To fill he could not be anywhere inside the
aa citing tin hoy mt'ist he sra4it for, Hftat
| tt tfltf out ~ .he tuAeI, that as clear to
lno ,isuouded assenlbIage III ,ny wife room
A message was dispatched to me ti,a]
something had happened at honc to require
my immediate return. was taking ny
part in the overture to tie opera and the
curtain was about to draw up in obedience
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interrupted. Dropping my violin, made
my way out Of the theatre with trembling
limbs and sinking heart. con occurring
all kinds of dreadful mislortunes to have
happened. BY the time | reached our little
which was filling it up to the very door o
the tower and part of the way up the steps
But as SOON as was recognized way wa'
made for me with one consent On al
sides, heard. There is the child father !
1t was then something which had happened
to one of the children My suspense wa
soon ended, when heard from my wifi
and those around her what had happened
Immediately determined 60 go at once t
the police. and nstigate proper inquir
as to the child when, just as | was goiny
out OF the tower, a man brushed by me
but, seeing who was, turned and put int
my hand-what! child's hat and peIisse
| hese INSTANTLY recognized as belongin,
to my little boy,
4 live at the end of Tower Lane, sal
the man, my little girl has brought n
home til csc things which she tells me sh
| picked up about half an hour ago as sh
+ was passing under the tower, and of cours
: Thought they might belong to you
1t was teen otiy the clothes that IN
| wife had seen. A dawnmg Of hope bega
! TO awaken within ne vas it possibl ths
! the woman had mistaken the clothes fallin
E for the child falling, and that it was all III
: true aud the dear child would still be found
e Il went immediately back to my wifi
f and the people up stairs, amongst whol
, the woman who had said that she had see
e him fall was still lettering. put some e.
9 ger questions to her, but her replies banisl
4 ed all hope She told me that she had bee