The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-31
A Sad SfOry-Abandonmen Insanity,
and Probable Suicide OF q School
rom the Detroit Free Press.

from the DetrOt Free fresS.
At gainesville, Ohio, is a very popular
female seminary, where the young ladies
are kept under the most careful suryeil-
lance, and where one would naturally sup
pose tempter could not gain admission.
Except on Wednesday afternoon, male
visitors are not admitted, and then no OPP
portunity is afforded for obtaining private
interviews. g e'.f.Hs.a
Attracted by the reputation Of this
school, Mr.. John Colwell, a farmer, living
near Erie, Pa, sent his daughter Della, a
very pretty girl, some sixteen years of age.
During one of the Wednesday recep-
tions, a young man named Henry Brand,
plausible and well dressed, yet having no
regular occupation, became acquainted
with Miss Colwell. and from the sequel it
is apparent succeeded in making favor
able impression. Evading the rules of the
school, stolen interviews were managed
between the pair, and clandestine cor
respondence kept up some weeks without
detection. They at last became careless,
and the matron of the seminary discover
ing the affair, forbid Miss Colwell leaving
the house 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 her honor and her
life in his keeping. She determined not
to be debarred the pleasure of his society,
and rope ladder having been procured,
he was enabled, under the cover of dark
ness, to ascend to her room, which was in
the scond 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 refrigerated
in her studies until her position became one
of the worst and most unenviable in the
school. Such a course could not be car
ried on without exciting suspicion and re-
mark, and a watch being put upon her,
Mr.. Brand was detected while in the very
act of entering her window. After such
discovery, it was of course matter of i'm
possibility that she could longer be re-
tanned in the institution, 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 summoned
to conduct her home.
In compliance with q request, Brand
found means to communicate with her.
Miss Colwell met him at one of the hotels
in the town, and arrangements for an elope-
ment and marriage were perfected between
the two, they having settled upon Cleye-
land as their future home. Before this
plan could be carried out, Mr.. Colwell ar
rived, and found his daughter at the depot
waiting for the train upon which she con-
templated leaving gainesville. He at once
took charge Of her, and after delivering a
well-deserved chastisement to Brand,
started with her for home. The punish
ment he had received aroused all the worst
passions in the breast Of the young man,
and he determined to succeed in attaining
the object0f his desires at any cost or tro,l-
BILE. He therefore, unknown to Mr.. Col
well, took the same train with them, find
ing some meansto communicate the fact
to Della, who, In obedience TO a4request
from him, managed to eyade the vigilance
of her father, where . train moving in
the opposite direction met them, to change
cars and returnwith her lover TO gainesville
while her father was rapidly being whirled
along in the opposite direction. AT Inc
first station at which the train stopped,
they left it, aud on foot proceeded to .
place whence they procured conveyance
to Conneaut, 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
LIST of July, they procured board at Ger
mans on Hastings street, and there lived
together for short time Is 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 Q
mother, and the fact becoming apparent to
her seducer, he, either being afraid Of the
consequences or becoming tired OF bis VIC
tim, abandoned her in strange city, with
out money and without friends.
The people with whom she was board
ing could not keep her without that COM
pensation which il was not In her power to
five. Her situation precluded tho posi-
bility of working for living. and over
come by her misfDrtHnes, she lost her
senses and becauae Q wTetched wandsrer
Ndthout shelter and without food. In thil
condition ste remained until about Two
weeks since. when she was discovered IN
an alley near Hastings street in the very
panes Of labor. Some charitable persops
iivlBg In the vicinity sook her 70 then pJr
hons, tended Aes thpoaoh hef e{ess t!aei,,
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