The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-12-17
A SAD STORY

One of the First Ladies of Macon,
Ga, Rescued from Death by
Freezing-HertM MournfulS Story
Ofthe NIisfOrtunes brought by
the War.
Wednesday evening the attention oi
the fifth Precinct Police was called
to man and woman who were
lying in the grove on the bank OF
Walworth Run, back of Jennings
avenue, 18th Ward. On reaching
the place, the police found the man
and woman lying on the ground in
the cold night wind. The man was
somewhat Intoxicated, enough so to
make him oblivious to the fact that
his guilty companion was absolutely
freezing to death as she lay on the
ground. The woman was drunk to
insensibility. By direction of Ser
geant Burlison, she was taken to a
house and revived by the fire, and
then transferred to the station. The
mans name was Robert Yuill, and
about him there is nothing to bis
tinguish him from the scores ofoth-
ers whose tastes lead them in the
same shameful path. The woman,
it turns out, has history AS sad a
one as many heard in many a day.
When she recovered consciousness,
she gave her story in fragments,
stopping now and then as the tale
brought back to her the happier
scenes of her life in such contrast
with her present fallen state as to
make speech impossible. At these
times she would beat her breast,
and cry in moaning tone: ooh me
Ch, me! What IS the use? What
is the use ? Then with a little en-
couragement from the officers she
would resume her narrative.
She is known here as Fanny
Wilson, and is an inmate of a no.
torious bagnio on Hill street. She
came here about three weeks ago.
On Wednesday Yuill came to the
house where she was staying and
invited her out. She went with Kim,
both got drunk, and but for the op-
perfume arrival Of the police would
undoubtedly have ended her misera
BILE life in the drunken debauch.
Fannie Wilson is not her name,
however. Before the war she be-
longed to one of the first families of
Macon, Georgia. Her father was
Major Wilson, afterward of the con-
federate army. She married Mr..
Frank Jones, and they were in pos
session of one of the finest planta-
tions in that neighborhood, in affiu-
ent circumstances, loved an d respect
ed by large circle of friends
Then came the war with its myriad
misfortunes, and left them penniless
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 Esr. Jones
and wife removed to Massachusetts
and engaged in a small business
But misfortune still followed her
and finally, utterly discouraged and
heart broken, she left her husband
and came West. Temptation bese1
her on every hand, and want stared
her in the face. She did as many
another has done, and took the steE
there is no retracing. Coming to
this city, she entered the bragnie
mentioned, where she has beer
living on miserably for three weeks
or so. Mrs. Jones is intelligent
and has been well educated. Sh'
showes even in the company of tht
low inmates of the Station, thar
whom she is now no better, the un
mistakable proofs of better culture
and associations. Her conversation
is pleasant and intelligent, but hel
sense of degradation is ofcourse the
more acute because other early ad
vantages, and she will not talk lons
on any subject without breaking ut
terly down and moaning piteously
over her fate.
Thursday morning she sent from
the central station q nOte TO the mis-
tress of the house where she haC
been living, asking that $40 whicl
she had left there might be sent be
to pay her fine, and protesting witt
much humility that she was very
sorry she had been drunk and tina
she would never do SO again. Sh'
would have no sheltsr or money
after paying her fiue and being re
leased from prison, and she humbly
prayed the mistress of that pen o
sin not to shut her out into Jh'
streets. The name she goes by
here, Fannie Wilson, is probably
her maiden name, as her father wa
Major Wilson. What will becom'
of the poor outcast when released
from prison, no one knows. Shs
has a brother in Idaho, who ha
asked her to come there, but she ha
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