Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-25
ONE MORE .UNFORTUNATE.

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SEQ metIon OF "A sScKOOI Girl and Her
Subsequent Aba1donment--Shs lBe-i
colnes Lgsane a. pd ~ flOIneless Wallrl
ddererT7sshe Browns herself and ilnr-s
FAINT Son. n
lFrOm the Detroit Free Pressl ..,, ~,
At Paihesville, Ohio, is a very. popular
female seminary, whers tKeqy0nng ladies'
are kept under the most stcareful surveillance
and where one would naturally suppOsera
tempter could not gain admission. Except
on Wedne- day AFTERNOON, male visitors are
not admitted, aud then. no Opportunity is
afforded for obtaining private Interviews.
Attractedby the reputation Of this school,
and anxious to afford his child every adj
vantage in his power, Mr.. John COlwell. a
farmer living near Erie, Pa, sent his daugh-
ter Della, very pretty girl, some sixteen
years OF age, to this seminary For some
time her conduct was such,as to command
the respect and esteem of her teacher and
to win for her the enviablei position of tue
model scholar in the institution, She ex-
celled both in scholarship and conduct, and
the most fattering ACCOUNTS were forward
ed to her PARENTS Z. ID -n. .a5ayo -.qi4aY
During one of the Wednes lay receptions,
a young man named Henry Brand, plausi-
lar occupation, became acquainted with
Miss Colwell, andlfrom the sequel it is APP
parent, succeeded in making a favorable,
impression, Evading the rules of the
school, stolen Interviews were managed be-
tween the pair, and elandestine corres-
p0ndence kept,up for some weeks without
detection. Tbey at last became careless,
and the matrOn of the Seminary discover
ing tire affair, forbid Miss Colwell leaving
the hopse after dark, and put stop to the
visits of young Brand upon reception days.
The precautiOn was taken, too; late for the
happiness of the poor girl, who. loving the
young man, had placed herhonor and her
life in his keeping. She determined not TO
be debarred the pleasure of his society, and
a rope ladder having been procured, he was
enabled, under the cover of darkness, to as
scend to her room, which was intlle second
story, and there pass hours in her company,
sometimes the whole night. .f
Excitement, loss of Sleep, and the preoc-
cupation of mind consequent upon this
courseoflite, gradually toldupon the spirits
and habits of strldynof the young girl, and
she surely and rapidly retrograded in her
studies until her position became one of
the worst and most unehvable In the
school. Such q course could not be carried
on without exciting uspieiOn and remarks,
and 9 watch being pntu upon her, Mr.. Brand
was detected while in the very act Ofenter-
Ing her window. After such adiscovery it
was, OF course, matter of impossbllity
that she could longer be retained in the in
Stitution, and she was, the next day, after
being formally expelled in tie presence of
the school, confined in her room until her
parents could be summoned to conduct her
home. . .... ....I...f. ... ..... q ...
In compliance. with a request which
Brand found means to communicate to her,
Miss COlwell met him at one of the hotels
In the town, and Arrangements for an
elopement and marriage Were perfected be-
tween the two, they having settled upon
Cleveland as their future home. Before
this plan could be carried,0ut. Mr.. ColwelI
arrived, and found his daughter at he de-
pot waiting for the train upon which she
contemplated leaving PainesYille. lie at
once took charge of her, and, after deliver
ing well-deserYed ehastisement TO Brand,
started with her for home. The punish
ment he had received al olf,ed all the worst
passions in the breast ofIthe young man,
and he determined to succeed in attaining
the object of his desires at any cost or
trouble. He therefore, unknown to Mr..
Colwell, took the same train with them,
finding SOME means to Communicates tile
fact to2Delia, who, in obedience to REQUEST
from him, managed To evade the vigilance
other father, and at Ghard where train
moving in the opposite direction met them,
to change cars and return with her lover to
Painesville, whine her father was rapidly
being whirled along in the opposite direcO,
ton. fSithe first station at which the train
steppedThey left it, and, on loot, proceeded
to place whence they procured a convey
once to C0nneauS Ohio, and there took pas
sage for this city on the scow Sea Bird,
which was bound for Saginaw for load of
lumber Arriving in Detroit about the
first OF July, they procured board at a Ger
mans on Hastings street, and there lived
tOgethertor a short time as man and wife, ;
although they had never been married and
Brand refused to legalize their connection.
The natural results having ensued, Miss
Colwell found herself about to become A
mother, and the fact being apparent to her
seducer, he, either being afraid of the cen-
sequences, or becoming tired of his victim,
abandoned her In Strange city, without
money and without friends. ''Wgro ...
The. people with whom she was boarding
GOULD not keep her without that c0mpensa-
tlon which it was not in her power to give.
Her situation preeluded the possibility Of
her working for a living, and overcome by
came wretched wanderef, without a shell,
ter and without food. In this condition
she remained mtilabout two weeks since,
when she was discovered in an alley hearai
Hastings street, in the very pangs otlabor.
Some charitable personsliYing In the picfi-
ity took her'to their own home, tended her
through her great trial, and cared for her
and her infant son until yesterday morning
when theyeWisssd her and her, babe, the
room she had occupied being vacant. A
search for her resulted in finding, at the
foot of Hastings street, the shoes whichshe
had worn, and the clotbiog of the child.
In all human probability she has sought, in
a watery grave, thatpeace which she could
never find ON earth, The river has been
dragged, but without finding the bodies of
either mother or child. Z" .'.'.' nWo ''91.
Although Henry Brand did not with his
own hand take the life of this young, con-
tiding girl heis al, guilty Of murder as
though he had done so. 1ISwil 20 through
life with the brand Of, Caih on, Ills brow, 4,
man accursed and Stunned. AS for the
victim of his wiles, may we not hope that
she has in this lie eXpiated her errors, and !
that in another and a:;hetter world her sins I.
have been forgiven her. iva ~ ~ ~.
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