New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-30
Do not be frightened-nO one shall hurt

| "Do not be frightened-nO one shall hurt
you"
| She smiled up in my face with sweet con
| fding innocence.
Our stay in Exmouth was but brief; blu,
during the delay, l could see that the
| watchful detective had changed his seat for
| one nearer the british man in the shaggy
coat.
See faltered the young girl, 'they
locked the car doors at EXmouth; they are
unlocking them now
She was right.
Probably they were fearful that the Grim
mai would escape" l remarked i'll an under
tone.
viii you-may l trouble you to bring
me glass of water"
rose and made my way toward the ice
cooler by the door, but with difficulty, for
the train was again under rapid motion
To my disappointment, the tin goblet was
chained to the shelf.
NO matter said she, with winning
smile, .! will come myself
drew the water and held up the cup;
but instead OF taking it us she approached,
she brushed suddenly past me, opened the
door. and rushed out upon the platform.
Stop her! stop herr shouted the de-
tective, springing to his feet - she Will be
killed. conductor, brakeman. hold up y
There was 4 rush, a tumnlt, Il hustle. l
was first upon the platform; but it was
empty and deserted, save by halfirozeG
looking brakeman, who seemed horror
stricken.
''She went passed me like a shadow, and
jumped of as we crossed Cairn turnpike
road, he stammered.
Jumped off the express train. Well"
said the conductor, Struggling his shoulders,
81 she must have been killed instantly.
What mad folly!'
Its five hundred dollars ont of my
pocket" said the detective ruefully. II
didn't want a row before we got to Bays
water. but / was a confounded fool. \
woman cornered will 90 anything, | be-
lievc.'
"What!' l calculated, you surely do
not mean that child"
Il mean," said the detective, calmly,
.'that child. as YOU call her. is Atila Barton
"a married woman Of twenty-six years of
age. who last night murdered four persons
in cold blood, and was trying to escape to
Canada That's what mean
The train was stopped, and a party of us,
headed by the conductor and detective,
went back to search for any trace of the
beautiful young creature. whose loveliness
and apparent innocence had appealed 50
strongly to my sympathics Nor was 1t long
before we found her. lying quite dead by
the side of the track, trightfully mangled
by the force of the fall, and mutilated
almost beyond recognition.
.Weil, she's escaped justice i'll this world,
if not ia the next" said the detective.
gloomily. as he stood looking down upon
her remains.
''DO you suppose she expected to he able
to spring off the moving train without i'll
jury ~ | asked.
Without much injury; women are nm
reasoning creatures Rut | never dreamed
OF such insane folly. or | should have taken
prompt measures to prevent it,
They lifted up the dead fair thing, and
carried it to the nearest place of retugc-a
lonely farmhouse among the frozen hills,
and we returned to the train, reaching Bays
water only a few minutes behind our regu-
lar time.
And when, in the next mornings papers.
L read an account of the murdercss.
thought OF the slender creatures blue eyes
and rosebud mouth with strange, plying
thrill at my heart.