The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1866-11-15
A SAD STORY.

October, contains the following sketch
OF the melancholy career of school girl
AT Painesville, Ohio, is very popular
female seminary, where the young ladies
are kept under the most careful surveil-
anee, and where one would naturally
suppose tempter could not gain admis-
sion. Except on Wednesday afternoon
male visitors were not admitted, and
then no opportunity is afforded for OBJ
tanning private interviews.
Attracted by the reputation of this
school, Dir. John Colweli, farmer. liy.
ing near Erie, Pa, sent his daug ghter,
Della, very pretty girl, some sixteen
years of age.
During one of the Wednesday recep-
tions young man named Henry Brand,
plausible and we'll dressed, yet having no
regular occupation, became acquainted
with Miss Colwell, and from the sequel it
is apparent succeeded in making a favor
able impression. Evading the rules of
the school, stolen interviews were manag-
ed between the pair, and a clandestine
correspondence kept up some weeks with
out detection. They at last became care
less, and the matron of the seminary dis
covering the affair, forbid Miss Colwell
leaving the house after dark and put a
stop to the visits of young Brand, upon
reception days. The precaution was ia
ken too late for the happiness of the poor
girl, who, loving the young man, had
placed her honor and her life in his keep
I ing. She determined not to be debarred
the pleasure of his society, and rope
ladder having been procured he was en-
abled, under the cover of darkness, to
ascend to her room, which was in the
second story, and there pass hours in her
company, sometimes the entire night.
Excitement, loss of sleep, and the pre-
occupation of mind consequent upon this
course of life, gradually told upon the
spirits and habits of study of the young
girl, and she surely and rapidly retro
graded in her studies until her position
became one of the worst and most unen-
viable in the school. Such a course
could not be carried on without exciting
suspicion and remark, and a watch being
set upon her Mr.. Brand was detected
while in the very act of entering her
window. After such discovery it was
Of course matter of impossibility that
she could longer be retained in the insti-
tuition, and she was the next day, after
being formally expelled in the presence
of the school, confined to her room until
her parents could be sent for to take her
home.
In compliance with request, Brand
f0upI N
Miss Co'well met him at one of the hotels
in the town, and arrangements for an
elopement and marriage were perfected
between the two, they having settled
upon Cleveland as their future home. =
Before this plan could be carried out Mr..
Colwell arrived and found his daughter
at the depot waiting for the train upon
which she contemplated leaving Paines-
vile. He at once took charge of her, and
after delivering well-dressed chastise-
ment to Brand, started with her for home
The punishment he had received aroused
all the worst passions in the breast of the
young man, and he determined to sue
ceed in attaining the object of his de
sires at any cost or trouble. He there
fore, unknown to Mr. Colwell, took the
same train with them, finding some means
to communicate the fact to Della, who,
in obedience to request from him,
managed to evade the vigilance of her
father, where train moving in the op-
posite direction met them, to change cars
and return with her lover to gainesville,
while her father was rapidly being whirl-
ed along in the opposite direction. At
the first station at which the train stop
ped they left it, and on foot, proceeded
to place whence they procured con-
veyance to Conneaut, Ohio, and there
took a passage for this city on the scow
Sea Bird, which was bound for Saginaw
for load of lumber. Arriving in Detroit
about the lst of Jnly they procured board
at Germans on Hastings street, and
there lived together for a short time as
man and wife, although they had never
been married, and Brand refused to legal
ize their connection. The natural results
having ensued Miss Colwell found her
self about to become a mother, and the
fact becoming apparent to her seducer,
he, either being afraid of the conseqren-
ces, or becoming tired OF his victim,
abandoned her in strange city, without
money and without friends.
The people with whom she was board
ing could not keep her without that CON-
pensation which it was not in her power
to give Her situation precludcd the
possibility of working for living, and
overcome by her misfortunes, she lost her
senses and became a wretchcd wanderer,
without shelter and without food. In
this condition she remained until about
two weeks since, when she was discover
ed in an alley near Hastings street, in the
very pangs of labor. Some charitable
persons living in the vicinity took her to
their own home, rendered her through
her great trial, and cared for her and her
infant son until yesterday morning, when
they missed her and babe. \ search for
her resulted in finding, at the foot OF