Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-06-23
ASHTABULA, O., SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1866.
HELEN yEwnrres iouosT.


~ The lower part OF the city of New York
may be said to be regularly rebuilt 10 ev.
cry twenty years. There are but few
buildings in the frst and second wards TO
day that are older than that Tine was
when the most elegant of our private res
licences were in the vicinity of the Battery
aud Bowling Green, aud tho time is with
10 the memory, too, Of yonng gentlemen
whose boards are uot yet grown. The Fifth
Avenue, Madison Square, aud Central Park
we're then unknown, while the utmost verge
OF up town was bounded by Fourteenth
street, between which aud Blocker Street,
some half dozen squares further down, Will.
lis located his famous upper ten thousand.
Inc SAM law OF progress aud OF change
is still st work. Streets that heretofore
have been composed 3. Of dwellings are un.
dergoing Transformation into stores and
warehouses, under the ever pressing exi.
gencles OF trade and commerce. Church
apd. Thomas streets for many years past
having been composed almost entirely Of
bad repute. ...., .,.., Ia ..,.-5 -
1t was AZ Thomas Street that was the
scene Of The memorable Helen Jewett mur.
der, aud at 100 Church Street where lived
aud died the i'll fated Miss Missouri Miller,
whose name was ASSOC ated, not creditably,
I4h The B9wsry Theatre Passing slong
Thomas Street 10 day. curiosity led mo 10.
TO The house where the fest mentioned trag
edyl was perpetrsted A policeman se-
companied me. The house, was one of the
nlest 10 all that part of the town when the
murder was committed. Now, il is sq1al
10 tenement. swarming with ,hieves and
on,Slsts. aud disreputable characters, blask
and white, male aud female Bat nobody
occupies tbs fatal chamber. Lodging
rooms are SO scarce that tbs miser able
watches Who crowd, 10 aud around the
piaoe aFrs of'sa obliged, to sleep iR,,he pass.
age vays. ihnt Lor blsss yea honey said an
old aegsesss who seemed 70 DO The internal
deity Of ,hs Place yeuo ssu'.. get any o. dc
boys or de gals to suooze iu daT stel pats
imsCtI psHtud fstheg sleep sutsat dsaprs,
cold asith 9sy ,,udsi .vnInsys yobp5N 70
Ho"'S that Nancy? said my .suardian
angeluthe policeman. sg-osp i1ad sdT
" HoT's-da'l JesIg Yon sleep in dar ono
ute, and see for yes self. GorrOnite chile.
ye'd never come out wild de bar on ~
head -i.... ..-,..-.
Ptckpockets aud burglars, eh, Nap2
No. sab! no such thing. Helen Jewett's
ghost is in dat.room. 1t has been in dat
room desc maay Years. Use seed il often,
and de oder folks hss seed it too. 1t makes
such rpmpus that folks can uevor stay ID
10 de chamber, no sab. De poor murdered
woman often walks bout dere wild de big
cash dat Richard Z, Robinson made 10 her
skull Hid de ak. She moahs, and mosus
awful, tn ugh it's more'n twenty five years
since de murder happened. l..i.
Bat Nan, don't such sights scare the
other lodgers?
Sometimes dey does, sir. and sometimes
d'y dosut. Folks dat lives here sm not
de kind to be skeered Of any thing much.
Most of 'em are murderers demselves.
AS it was growing dark, there was moth
ing in This assurance to impress one with
the agreeahleneSs of further stay on the
premises, and so, after look uto the cham
Der Of death, without getting q glimpse OF
the ghost, We descended the rickety stairs,
and were glad TO got cut from among the
scowIing faces which peered out from every
nook and Granny, into purer atmosphere
beyond -Nelo York Letter. .....