Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-09-21

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The Nashville Press Of September 2lst
snys: We can rouch for the usual re-
racity Of the gentleman who writes tho
following account Of a very strange
affair. We allow him to tell the story
in bis own way and refrain from work
ing his narrative up to q sensational
tale, prefcrring to let the naked, un.
vanished truth 60 into the world and
let the author be accountable
CHARLOTTE, Dickinson Co., Tenn.
EDlroR Pass AND TIxEs.-l will send
you ON item in this letter which you
may work up into o long article, because
I cant do it. Every word Of what am
going TO tell is true MS tho gospel, for
have seen the most of it myself, and !
know. In order that you may know oil
about it, I'll tell the whole circumstance
from beginning. -,
A gentleman lived zeal here, called
Maugan. About four or five years since
he fixed up n nice house for himself,
which cost him five or SIX thousand dol
lars. He was after getting married
there. The wife was very pretty, and
about two mouths afterward her mother
died-ths only parent she had living for
many years before. The old lady had n
diamond ring, which she wore only
once q year, and which she brought
with her from England, where she came
from. She often said she would not
part with il for NIL the gold in the
States. When she was dying she left
tho ring with hcr only child, Mrs. Maui
gan, telling her to leave it to her cid
ost daughter, if she ever had one, or
else to bring 1t with her to the grave,
which Mrs. Maugan promised to do.
| Well, all that was very good.
Last week Mrs. Maugan became un-
well, and she called for the ring and
nut it on her finger. That same night
she died, to all intents and purposes,
and the weather being very warm, she
was buried the next day. Well, there
was q fellow in this town who pretended
to be q doctor, and able TO cure any sort
| of complaint. He came 10 with q car
pet.bag full of pills and clothes and
this fellow attended the lady, and the
servant said he tried to wrench the ring
| of her finger after she died, when there
was nobody present but the old cook in
tho room, aud that he lett of pulling ut
it tho moment he found that he was
seen.
Well, she was buried, anyhow, in the
evening late. She was only IS years
| old, and the ring was buried with her,
because she had no children. The old
man was upward Of 80. The family
went back to the house, sud and sor-
rowful enough, and were sleeping away
their tears, when, just as the moon was
sinking behind the hills, and everything
as still as death, the young lady, Mrs
Muugan, raped ut the window where
the old man vas sleeping. When he
woke up he saw her white figure and
pale face, and she holding up the bloody
hand, with ono of the fingers cut of,
and signing painfully. The old a
hnlloed, but he was afraid to stir. He
h.l;ocd three or tour times, and at last
the old cook, Mandy, who had nursed
the young lady, ran up to the room, and
when she snw Mrs. Maugan, went out
on the vcrandah and caught her us she
vns finting away. She was brought
into the house, the lamps lit up, and
then it was found that tho finger which
had the ring on was gone, cut clean of
from the upper joint. The best That