The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-09-23
,ams ssainless for generations, and had,

name ssainlets for generations, and had,
slorsovsr, murdered his wife. Did
require him 70 solecs this special VIC
man Is recipient Of his gratitude:
With these feelings unchanged, he
died. about : year after tho catastrophe
that had broken up his home, HE hopes,
and happiness and 10 his will Gabrielle
VA formally disinherited. s
My friends, in al this I have not
spoken to you Of myself. How could
any words give an idea Of the bitter.
meas Of 4 trial such u mine2 i I can
relate naked facts, tho .do,,latioh, Of q
hearth, the degradation Of name, the
deaths'of astricken woman and broken
hearted mao, my Own voluntary exile
for long and weary years, tho rum Of
my hopes. tho blasting OF the youngest
and what should have been tho bright
ct portion ofny ifs;. but to describe
j.. o. detail the sufferings that such thing.
bring With them ia not in the power Of
nero language. '%s ~ ~
When I left England Is aNacAe to I
foreign embassy, it was partly to shun
tho laud Of such cruel experiences, and
partly because my father feared that, if
At home, = morbid desire to find out
what had become Of Gabrielle Heath
might prompt me to seek hsr out.
Certain it is that I listened eagerly to
oil news from England, in a stupid, I'M
reasoning way. Is though it wore posi-.
Bio that any dispatches could contain
Intelligence Of an obscure cottage in
some remote part of Wales. The feel
ing may have been presssntiment-,
foreahadoving Of the future that some
people possess, for there vas yet anoth.
or link to be added to that hapless
chain Of vents.
One morning, while scanning ~ usu.
Il The Eogush newspaper, my heart
gave sudden bound ~ the familia,
name, Gabrielle Heath, caught my eye
Once moro that fatal namo Wa destined
to b associated with calamity, and chi.
time with guilt. The paper stated
briefly that a young woman known y
Gabby Wynn, daughter Of the late 81,
Andrew and Lady Gabriells Heath, Of
Glsntwyr Castle aud Rocklauds, &c.
&c., Was arraigued for the wilful muir
der Of her. husband, james Wynn
My frst instinct was a Wild desire {.
start for England, which I should Ger
tainly have yielded to but I was mos
unexpectedly chained. I could not ge
leave Of absence. I did not then know
that my father had sent word to detail,
me but if ! could have thrown up m!
appointment with honor, should eer
tainly have done so. I lived IN a kim
OF dream during the progress Of thu
terrible trial. With feyerish anxiety
watched for the arri al of the mails
and then, With copy Of the public pa
pcrs, hurried of to battle alone will
the horror Of the awful details. I'll
accounts were ritiless and precise. TIL
case for the prosecution was short, AM
TO this effect: That Gabrielle Heat
had fallen violently in love with AM
!! married the man Wynu,-and her
some painful retercoces to the disparit
Of their social positions, and her broken
ne'1teo parents, ~src gwen, .-----.4
had brought her, homc to his father
farm, and. had been good husband t
her, in spite the objections of hi
family TO teeing a fine lady anon,
them; that she was proud and violeu,
unwilling to conciliate her new relations
and accustomed to exssperate her hus
band BY imceas.nt scenes of scorntul re
proaeh and visuperaiqn that on one o
these occasions, returning home, tire,
out from days labor, she met hin
with euch a volley Of unprovoked an,
bitter taunts, that, in fit of indigna
ton, he raised his hand aud struck he,
That night he WIS found murdered j,
his bed. Such was the substance of tn
accusation, without the comments an,
remarks With which it was interpreted
The prisooer-my soul revolte1 at th,
expression--pleaded guilty, and snllen
y refused to saya word in extenustio,
other crime But the unhappy voma.
we not wholly foraker: Some dist.u,
connections Of the Heath family, anx
ious, if possible, to lessen the additiona
disRaes which threatened their doomed
houss, had engaged for the defence on,
OF the .blcst lawyers Of the day; and h,
certainly made % much opt Of his mis-
cradle materials u vas possible. In
geniously avoiding any attempt At refu
tation Of the crime, Or any direct refer