Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-12-28

ASad Story-One Of the EIfat 1seoiss 81
mEssslas"afS rea:Ss 81 ,se War. 'a'
Wednesday evening the attention Of
the police was called TO . man and .
woman, who were lying in the grove on
the bank Of Walworth Run, Twelfth
Ward. On reaching tho place the
police found the man and woman lying
on the ground in the cold night wind.
The man was somewhat intoxicated,
enough 10 to make him obliyious to the
fact that his guilty companion WAS alb
solutely freezing to death a. she lay OF
the ground. The woman was drunk to
inssnsibility. By direction OF Sergeant
Burlison, she Was taken to . house and
revived BY the FIRE, and then transferred
to the station. The mans name WAS
Robert Yuill, and about him there was
nothing to distinguish him from the
scores Of others whose tastes lead them
in the same shameful path. The
woman, it turns out, has . history-as
sad a one ~ may be hoard In many .
day. When she recovered conscious
ness she gave her story in fragments,
stopping now and then IS the tale
brought back to her the happier sesnss
Of her life, in such contrast with her
present fallen state a. to make speech
impossible. At these times she would
beat her breast and cry in . moaning
tone, "Oh me- What 10 tho use Z
What is the ussT Then, With q little
encouragement from the officer, she
would resume her narrative.
She is known here AZ Fanny Wilson,
and 10 an inmate Of . notorious bagnio
on Hill street. She came here about
three weeks ago. On Wednesday Yuill
came to the house where she was stay
ing and invited her out. She went with
him, both got drunk, and but for the
opportune arrival Of the police would
undoubtedly have ended her miserable
life in the drunken debsuch. Fannie
Wilson 10 not her name, however. Be-
fore the war she belonged to one Of the
frst families Of Macon, Georgia. Her
father was Major Wilson, aftsrward OF
the Confederate army. She married
Mr.. Frank Jones, and they were in pos
session Of one Of the finest plantations
in that neighhorhood, in afluent cir
cuustaaess, loved and respected by q
large circle Of friends. Then came wal
with ito many misfortunss, and left them
psuniless. Her father went into the
rebel army, her husband supported the
fortunes Of JEFF. Davis, until finally they
had no fortune Of their own. Then the
father lost his life, and Mr.. Jones and
wife removed to Massachusstts and en-
gagged in a small business. But misfor-
tune still followed her, and finally, ut.
serly discouraged and heart-broken, she
left her husband and came West.
Temptation bsset her IN every hand,
and want stared her in the face. She
did as many another has done, and took
the step there is no %rstraeing. Coming
to this city, she entered the bagnio
mentioned, where she has been living
ON miserably for three weeks or so.
Mrs. Jones IL intelligent, and has been
we'll educated. She shows even IN the
company Of the low inmates Of the sta.
ticn, than whom she is now no better,
the u%nmiatakabls proofs Of better cul.
turs and associations. Her conversation
is pleasant and intelligent, but her sense
Of degradation Is Of course the more
acute because of her carly advantages,
and she will not talk long on any sub.
jset without breaking utterly down and
moaning pitsously over her fate.
Thursday merning she sent from the
Central Station o note to the mistress OF
the house where she had been living,
asking that ten dollars, which had been
left there, might be sent her to pay her
fns, and protesting with much humility
that she was sorry she had been drunk,
and that she would never do so again.
She would have no shelter or money
after paying her fine and being released
from the prison, and she humbly prayed
the mistress of that den Of sin not 10
shat her out into the streets. The name
she goss by here, Fannie Wilson, is
probably hsr maiden name, as her faith
or was Major Wilson. What will be-
come of the poor outcast when released
from prison, no one knows. She has a
brother in Idaho, who has asked her to
come out there, bat she has no means.
.-CQevtIdnd Herald.