Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-21
Tragedy and Attempted
Murder.

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immediate neighborhood of what is call
ed Brooklyn heights, were thrown into
great excitement on Thursday morning
of last week by the attempted murder OF
very accomplished and amiable young
lady, and the final suicide Of the would
be assassin.
II appears that Mr.. Talbot, young
man of twenty-one years, had been re-
siding in the family of Mr.. Benjamin
Flint, for some time and had been try
ing to pay his addresses to Miss Lizzie
Scribner, neice of Mr.. Flint, which
she politely declined.
A few evenings ago, after dinner, Mr..
Talbot came into the parlor exquisiteiy
dressed and announced his intention OF
going to the theater, with therequest that
Miss Scribner should accompany him.
This she politely declined to do, giving
what appeared to him to be frivolous
excuse. He has seemed to exhibit since
then forced pleasantness, though every
thing was done by the family to dispel
his evidently bitter feelings of disap-
pointment. On Wednesday night he re-
turned home at III o'clock and entered
his apartment on the third floor. Mr..
Flint heard him entering by the hall
door, but shortly after went to sleep. On
the same floor with Mr.. Talbot were the
bedrooms of Miss Scribner and a son of
Mr.. Flint. 1t has been the custom of
the young lady, before retiring, to open
the window and leave the door slightly
aiar to admit current of air. Mr.. Talbot
was not ignorant of this, as will appear
from the sequel. Shortly after o'clock
Miss Scribner was awakened from her
slumbers by person pressing violently
on her face a towel saturated with chic
reform and morphine. She dashed it
aside, and recognized by the light from
the street lamp the person of Talbot,
who still attempted to press the towel to
her face, notwithstanding her screams
and violent struggles to get free. The
household being alarmed, Talbot beat a
hasty retreat to his own room, and en-.
sconced himself beneath the bedclothes
pretending profound sleep. A sister o.
the terrified young lady rushed up stairs
and conveyed her to her own apartment
on the floor beneath. Mr.. Flint, his son
and the servants at once began to explore
the house for the supposed burglars
Every room and closet were examined
by them, and on their visiting the apart
ment of Mr.. Talbot they found him il
bed, snoring profoundly.
In the mean time, the true story wa
divulgcd by Miss Scribner to her sister
and the latter going up stairs to Mr.
Flint, remarked, "Pa! it's not burglars
Lizzie says it's Mr.. Talbot" While re
turning down stairs from the room, MI
Flint was astonished to see Talbot rush
ing wildly past him. dressed only in hi
pantaloons, under linen, and socks. Th
desperate youth pushed open the door 0
the room now occupied by Miss Scribne
and her sister, approaching the former
who shrunk into the farthest corner, lev
eled pistol at her head, and fired twic
deliberately. The first discharge Craze
the temple, tearing away a small porto
of the flesh and inhicting slight woun
near the left eye. Miss Scribner LITE
her hands naturally to guard her heao
and while doing SO, a second ball ente
ed her left hand, breaking two of til
bones and passing through the flesh in
spiral direction midway up the forearm
She then fell insensible, and remained
that condition until taken up by DR.
Cochrane, Ayers, and Bates.
The wretched young man, supposir
that he had accomplished his purpos
rushed up stairs to his own room ar
locked himself within. The third r
port of the revolver was now heard
the officers ON duty in the neighborhoo
and heavy fall on the bedroom flo
told the inmates of the house the stol
of the would-be assassin's fate.
On entering Talbot's room he w
found dead, having shot himself throu,
the head, and presenting a most CORY a
pearance, as the blood had run over
face.
Miss Scribner came to Mr.. Flint's la
fall to spend the winter, and is about
years of age, of dark complexion, gre
personal beauty, and her department al
language show high culture. She is sa
to suffer much pain from the wounds I
ceived, but will recover.
. A CURIOUS STORY. Michigan pape
J state that a young man named Geor
. Denslow, living at Rome Centre, in tn
State, dreamed on the night of Mare
: IL that he was deaf and dumb, and
r awaking was Mortified to find that
a could neither speak nor hear. Fro
that time till the 4th of Nav. fifty-tbr