New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-26
a woman's Revenge.
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f Some eight months ago, a well-dressed lady; in
deep mourning. made her appearance at the city .
hall and desired TO see Mayor Tallmadge on busi-
ness of importance. She was conducted into the
mayor ofices aud In a short conversations gave
her name and address, She said she, her husband
and one child, had left the East to locate in the
West, but that in Chicago her husband had sud &
denly died, and that it required all the money she
possessed to bury him, and that she and her child
were now upon the cold charities Of the world
She did not know what she should do for support.
She was asked if she had no friends to whom
sfe could apply for aid, and replied that she had
not. She felt that she could take care Of herself
but she feared for her child beautiful little grE
| mayor in getting the child in one Of the orphan
homes in this city, until she, the mother, could
secure home for it, which she believed she could
| soon do, when she would take the child. paving
| the asylum for its trouble. The woman told her
story in such plaintive tones, and there appeared
4 50 much of sorrow and anguish about her, that
the mayor was interested in her case, and told
her to call the next morning bringing her child
with her, and during the day he would see what
could be done. He assured the woman she should
not suffer. .'-t
During the same day Mayor Tallmalge did in
terest himself, and succeeded in finding family
with no children OF its own, and who desired7to
adopt child. He knew it would be a delightful
home for the child ,.aad the next morning when
the mother called, bringing the child with her, he
: took her to the house.
II Il ne m0tler appeared grateful tt3t such home
was found for her little one and that it w0udnot
= be cast in its tender years upon the world She
objected at first to parting with the child forever,
apparently with much sincerity, but the family
! would not take it under other circumstances, she
, at length submitted, and, embracing and kissing
her child many times, she had but one request to
make, and that was that it should be called Ada.
She then left and since that time nothing has been
heard Of the mother The child was bright little
creature, and very soon bore the love and affee-
tons Of its adopted parents, as if il had been
their own.
Il A few days ago, detective from Chicago Eas
in this city, and in consultation with tile officers
here, He said that a little child had been stolen
from its parents in that city months before, under
peculiar circumstances woman claimed to
have been deceived and betrayed by the father of
the child, and, when she was lost, he cruelty de-
i serted her aud married another woman. The mana
4 was merchant in Chicago. 4 stse
Although nearly heartbroken from the wrongs
she had suffered, it was evident that revenge was
! not dead, but only slumbered in the E0man's
4 breast! When her seduoer's child had attained
i the age that its parents loved it deyotedly, abe
\ determined to strike them where the blow would
be the most severely felt, and, watching her op-
1 portunity when the child was out with its nurse
managed to take and secrete it. From the nurae's
story, the father feared the worst, and iname-r
dately set out with a detective in pursuit. They
traced the woman and the child to St. Louis, then
to Cincinnati, to Louisville, and to New Orleans.
Then all traces were lost, and the father, nearly
heart-broken, returned to his home, when the.
child was mourned as lost forever, it being sup
stroyed it, The mother of the child however,
could not be satisfied with the idea.
Some days ago she dreamed that the child was.
Il alive and near her. She urged her husband to
further and continued efforts, and he, more to-
satisfy her than in any belief that he would sue
e ceed renewed his searches. He sent Chicago
detective out, with instructions to leave no stone
q unturned to find his lost child. With this view he
= came here. While in conversation with Chief Of
u Police Beck, the case of which we have spoken
was mentioned. A description of the woman and
child was given from memory, as well as it could
be, and the detective felt that his abors were at
Z an end. He atonee telegraphed to the parents of
c the child and they came to Milwaukee by the next
M train. Upon going to the house of the gentleman
Is who had adopted the child the joy of the mother
M can well be imagined whan she discovered the
idol of her heart, but the Joy at once turned
to despair when the child did not reeOgntae her,
81 and could not be induced to go to her In fact it
2 cried piteously whenever the mother attempted
to approach it,
This nearly broke the mothers heart. She sat
ised the adopted parents that the child was hers,
and, sad as it was to part with the little one they
:. could not do otherwise. The child. when taken
away cried itself into spasnls, refusing tl be COM
forted; but it was taken to Chicago. Yesterday
Mayor Tallmadge received letter from the pa
rents of the child, saying that their darling had
= died, evidently from grief at being separated from
those whom it had learned to love better than its
own flesh and blood 1t had, when recovered
" from its spasms, settled down into strange grief
moaning continually, and calling for its mother.
1t refused to easpr be comforted, and the day
before yesterday it breathed its last
The affair is most strange ane. The detective
q. informed the mayor that no trace OF tae woman
~ had been discovered since she left New Orleans,
~ ~ and it is believed that she. having succeeded in
Et accomplishing the desire of her heart destroyed
to her own iife tt e5ta