Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-11-03
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1866.
The Sad Eventful Story Of a Suicide,

lne pau bVeublul pJ0ry OF a suicide.
We find in the Detroit Post of the goth
inst, the following eventful story and
sad end of q ruined and deserted girl.
the daughter of respectable parents.
About year ago farmer named Col
| well, one i'll good circumstances, having a
farm near Erie, Pa, on which he lived,
sent his daughter, girl about ls years
of age, to the female seminary at Paines-
vile, Ohio, to have her education finish
ed before "coming out" in society The
rules of the institution allow the young
ladies in attendance to receive male Wis
itors every Wednesday afternoon, and at
no other time. AT one of these recep-
tions Della Colwell made the acquaint-
ance of a worthless scamp named Henry
Brand, who was well known in the town
as an idle, dissipated roete whose pleasant
ways made him popular among the la
dies. Brand, who was struck with the
young girls appearance, Immediately
plotted for her ruin. He visited her a
number of times on the allotted DAYS,
and became so intimate with her as to
induce her to leave the seminary on
pleasant evenings and walk with him in
| Cne grounds surrounding 1t.
These violations of the rules of the
place came accidentally to the ears of the
matron of the seminary, and she called
the girl and forbade her seeing Brand
again, under penalty of expulsion. But
her precaution did not prevail The pair
were subsequently caught in the most
fragrant act possible for school, or any
other kind Of a girl, or young woman.
Della Colwell was called before the whole
school and publicly expelled, but kept in
| the building until her father could be sent
| for
| On his arrival the state of the case was
laid before him. He resolved to take his
erring daughter home, and before doing
so to give the seducera sound thrashing.
This last resolution he Immediately carri-
ed into effect, doing justice to his angriest
vows III the matter. But Brand was not
easily stalled of: When the father and
daughter started for home, he, without
the knowledge of the father, took the
same train, and by some means informed
the daughter, and agreed to elope with
her. AT Girard, Pa, two trains met, and
the guilty pair, who were on the eastern
bound train, got aboard the one bound
west, just as both trains started, the girl
making some excuse to leave her father
! for moment. The twain left the cars
at a small station, the next one west of
Girard, and i'll order to clude pursuit,
| took to the woods.
After travelling round for some time,
| they met a man travelling in wagon to-
wards Conneaut, Ashtabula county, Ohio,
They rode with him, and OH reaching that
place took the scow Sea Bird and came
to this city. In order to throw their pur-
suers off the track, Brand and the girl
took board at the house of a German on
Hastings street Brand repeatedly prom
ised in answer to the opportunities of the
grill, to marty her. After living with
her as his wife about year, she found
that she was deserted and worse ,e,aciente.
When two weeks elapsed and the man
with whom she boarded, was calling fol
his pay for her board bill, she was turned
out of door, and wandered about town
in most wretched state, living as best
she could on what she picked up in out OF
the way places. About four weeks ago,
Esome people passing by an alley in the
vicinity of her former boarding place,
heard groans and discovered the woman
III the pangs of childbirth. She was pick
ed up and properly cared for After par
TALLY recovering, the memory of her
shame and ruin impressed her so that
she became partially insane, and she pass
ed under the sobriquet of ''Crazy De" {"
On Thursday she left her home, taking
with her the little child, and nothing was
l. g L.
some of her clothes were found on the
river bank, above the Milwaukee depot,
and it is supposed that she has in her de-
spair committed suicide, drowning herself
and child. -Ao
Brand has not been seen or heard from,
but should it prove that the poor unfor-
tunate has killed herself, he will in his
inmost heart feel that he wears the badge
of double murderer. Her sorrows are
ended, and his will begin with her death.
1t is an old, oft-repeated story that
gathers pathos with every repitition.
1t is due to truth to say that no occur
renee of the kind ever happened at Lake
| Erie Female Seminary-no such uIan as
that ever lived here-no girl ofthat name
was a student at the Seminary at the time
named or bofore-therefore the whole
thing, so far as the Seminary is concerned,
is all fiction; and we trust the newspa-
pers that have given the story circulation
will make the correction.
| Trustees Lake Erie Seminary.
Sale of a Princely Estate.
A few days since, Micheal L. Sullivant;