Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-04-30
A Very Strange St0ry.

The Newton Penn Enterprise says
Our readers will recolect the attempted as
sassination Of Samuel Temple, at Yardley-
vile, Bucks county, Pa, he having been
shot at three different times while working
in mill. We now have to record al other
phase in the mysterious business.
On Saturday morning last, Mr.. John r.
Biting found letter under his store door,
addressed to Samuel Temple. When Tenn
pie came in it was handed to him, and he
opened and read it. It was afterwards
shown to and read it. It was afterwards
shown to and read by other persons. It
was dated at New York, March 90 con-
tanning four pages, written in an excellent
female hand, and signed " Viola" and the
substance is as follows
Some two years ago she was riding with
an attendant near Paramount Park, this
city, when the horse took fright and she
was thrown from her saddle, her foot being
fastin the stirrup. In this dilemma, Temple,
who happened to be on the road, came to
her assistance, disengaging her, and thus
saved her life. That she is wealthy and
highly educated, and IL gratitude to Tenn
Pile, she was anxious to become his wife,
She shortly addressed two letters to him,
expressing her gratitude and love, but
Temple disregarded them. Then deter
mining that no other woman should ever
possess him, she attempted his life, and
for the purpose employed four Spaniard
assasslns, offering each Of them one thou
sand dollars to accomplish her object
That she wrote him the letter, request
ing him to meet her at Bordentown-
She had concluded to make no more at
tempts at his life, but she had an opportu-
nifty to get word to her hired accomplice
hHf la St att mt 40
she intended to have an interview with
him al Bordentown, but changed her mind,
and saw him from q second story window
That HOW she is growing to Europe, and
that he is IN no more danger, las she now
has lost her love for him, and would not
marry him. Temple says he remembers the
circumstance Of rescuiDg the lady; that he
asked her il she was hurt: she answered in
the negative, and they parted He says
he receivedthe two letters, but did not see
proper to reply to them.
The letter is III the same handwriting of
the one asking him to go to Bordentown,
and was in a white envelope. She stated
that she had employed 4 person to carry
it from New York to Yardleyville.
Another Singular enIeide-A Father Conn
pels his sot 10 Arrange the Prelimina-
ries
The suicidal mania lately so prevalent,
last evening claimed another victim in the
person of John J. Miller, native of the
United States, 81 years of age, who for the
past two years has resided and carried on
his business as a halter, in the basement
of No. 13l Amity street. The details of
this last self-murder will show it to be one
of the most deliberate acts of the kind up
on record.
Yesterday afternoon Miller and his son,
boy IA years of age, were out together,
and shortly before their return the father
and son entered the drug store of DR.. o.
B. Price, where the former purchased
something in an envelope for which he
paid thirty cents. AS he came ont from
the store the son asked his father what he
had bought, to which he answered in an
excited manner, 81 want to kill myself"
but instantly afterward corrected himself
and said he was only joking, and that,
feeling sick, he had bought some medicine,
which he was going to take. When they
arrived at home Miller told his son to pre-
pare place for him to lay down in the
water. When the boy had fulfilled these
directions, the father told him to go and
get his supper, which the boy accordingly
did, and was absent about an hour and a
half. When he returned about 5 o'clock
and entered the back room he found his
father lying dead upon the bed. An alarm
was, of course, instantly given, and among
the first to come was DIR. Hessler, who occu-
pies the upper part of the house, and who,
Immediately upon entering the room,
found an envelope upon the table, which,
upon examination, he decided had con-
tanned morphine. It was therefore easily
inferred that this envelope had contained
the drug which he had purchased during
the afternoon and which he had nsed to
put an end to his life.-New York Times.