, 1866-09-22
TIE FEMALE BORGIA.
Martha ErfDder-Uer EVIL Living After
Her
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Martha Grfnder-IIer EVIL Living After !
Her.
From the pitssbnrg Gazette, 17th.]
It is With an i'll grace that evil words ure
vile, has ended and the will that moved to
evil has stfllcd Its energy In the grave hfler
the life which was employed as an opportunf-
~ to accomplish harm has opened into the
life that brings lnc1orable doom. it is best to |
ofthc life that is past. But the wickedness
OF vile lires echoes long after the lives are
spent, and whether we speak of II or not 1t
is forcing Itself into all cars and making
mony lives wrctchcd. Now aud then this
wretchedness eliminates in some life and we
musf speak Of it and the cause that led to It,.
None 81 Us will ever forget or will ever
cease to shndder at the monstrous deeds OF
Martha Grinder: No woman that ever lived
IN this scontnMnity-perhaps no woman that
ever lived In the nation-roused such univcr-
sal adherence by the deeds Of llorrid cruelty
she wrought. or caused such sense Of relief
and renewed safety BY her death, No crimi-
nal OF modern times has terminated so fearful
Tint T. eSs Is desS 1s people s slow sn almost
| universal disposition to silence the imprcca-
| tions with which they visited her before her
death, and strive to forget the crimes that
made pcrdition her future, rather than TO
she was terror and a monster, who dealt in
death as pasifmc md poisoned babes In or
der that she might judge The effect her drugs
would havc on adults. Now she Is dead, all
arc disposed TO let her sleep well. While she
was being tried for the murder Of beau.
titul woman, the crowd would hare torn her
limb from limb Il they could have laid their
hands on her, Now she has met her doom,
none would dishouor her bones, even II tho
hidden grave in which she sleeps were re-
yealed.
4 In the murder Of Mary Caroline Casathers
| VIC all thought that the hcndtshncss Of the
Borgia had reached Its saddcst elimination.
A young woman-a bride, Just commencing
stances; beautiful to such degree that she
caused the universal admiration even Of her
own eek: as good As she WAS beautiful
happy wife and beloved daughter, blessing
I an ursladowed home-such woman WAS It
/ thnt Martha Grinder murdered With tho cold
blooded 1nalignity Of .ticud, that u few
household articles and q little money might
fall to the murderese. She murdered her,
too, with such needless torture, playing
vi with IL her M yist5n,,s ,, MISERY; and lasehtae.
scene camc, md the poor girl lay dead.
All this was bnd enough, but Martha Grin.
der did worse. Mary Caruthers had hns-
band, youpg, vigorous, happy, and prosper
worse than murdered him. For every dose
Of fpotson she gave to his w.:c, she gave one
to him, hoping to xii! them both. The deli
cate, woman died, the more e&aiwart man
| uTeu. WlttCQeQ WfCck- Inc Letftblc Qc3tn
Of bis wife LETT his home desolate. bis lifo
darkened, his future blank. The
; poison his enemy had fed him continued
dercr was Wondering In her felon's grave.
II had shattered every nerve and had Wreck-
cd every joint. Grief stricken; with his
: memories kaddencd BY the blight that had
, withcrcl bis life; with every. hope dead
.. With terrible mental suffering added daily
and nightly to his mental anguish, and yet
too strong to die-what else but one thing
, could haFIen to hin He went mad. On
,, Thursday last Jas, Caruthess was taken
, a hopeless lnnatic from bis home In
New Castle to DIxmount Hospital.
) To our minds, this crime for which Mar.
tina Grinder did not die, and which she was
unconscious, for the most part, Of having
! committed is the most terrible Of all hei
. terrible list. II anything could make us
. think our charity for tho dead sinner su
perstition. and lead us to curse the memory
Of the cofAncd wretch, this proof Of how tht
crime reaches out active and potent after the
: criminal IL only dust, would do It. Verify
i the evil that abe did lives after her.