Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-08-11
4 DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
The Fatality of Love Finds n Curious
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From the Nashville CTenn.) Press, July 25.
A voung gentleman named Joe White,
q very respectable, industrious quiet good
looking fellow of about IS years Of age,
and a resident of Germantown, went to
South Nashville Saturday night to visit his
Iadv-love, a Miss Barnes. He had been
frequently to visit her before at various
times. They were engaged to be married.
He found her in the parlor, sewing, as
proper young girl should be. She was
anxious to finish the article, and therefore
concluded not to throw it aside when he
entered, particularly as he compllmented
her on her pretty appearance, with her
beautiful face, bending over her slender
fingers flying as she piled the stitches with
as much grace and rapidity as other girls
display when Swimming over the keys OF
nasty piano. He took his seat beside her.
They chatted very gaily.
After waiting few minutes, which to
him seemed hours, he became impatient,
and longed to imprint a chaste kiss upon
her ripe and pouting lips. With the view
of carrying out his design, he let his arm
circle her waist furtively, and, as be was
drawing her close to himself, she objected
being disturbed until her little work was
finished; but he insisted. She made q mo-
generally. This motion proved fatal to her
happiness and to his life. He became I'M
petuous, and drawing her to him with much
violence the needle, which was caught IN
her thimble, got between them, the point
toward his heart It entered, and as he
was about to imprint kiss of love upon
her lips his own became ashy pale. His
vigorous grasp relaxed. and then the fire OF
owe died out as If by a celestial puff, at the
moment of contact. He sickened, fell back
upon the sofa, quite helpless. The young
lady was much alarmed, and ran for assist
ance. The family all ran into the room
and proceeded to open his shirt collar,
thinking that he was in a tainting fit, and
that the usual restoratiyes would suffice.
In undoing kis vest it was found that the
needle had penetrated his side very deeply
a circumstance which the young lady never
noticed in her fright The doctor was
sent for. He administered what remedies
he could Partial consciousness was re-
stored, and the young fellow enabled to
talk. The scene between him and his first
last love was extremely affecting. She
wept like one who feels that all happiness
on earth is lost, and he seemed to re-
gret her loss and not his own condition =
lie consoled her by saying that she
would soon get another lover to fill his
place, who would be me more worthy OF
her than he could hope to be, and who
would make her happy. This but increas-
ed her sorrow. She sank down upon the
floor beside him and cried aloud. When
he was becoming worse, and the doctor
gave the emphatic opinion that he could
not live, she started suddenly to her feet
and. running into another room, swallowed
a heavy dose of laudanum, which was kept
there for the use of a young member of the
family that was sick. 1t was some time
before she was discovered, and it was with
the utmost difficulty she was brought back
to consciousness. The first words she ut
tered was, so, where is he? let me go to
him; I will be with him. At the same
instant the young gentleman was signing
his spirit into the hands of its Maker in
the adjoining room. He died about IL
o'clock. She is still in precarious con-
dition, and evinces symptoms of insanity