Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-28

A few DAYS ago we mentioned that q
Mrs. Brown, to get rid of hated hus-
band, had dared even the refuge of the
grave. Since that time Brown has desert
ed his young wife and gone eastward.
1t seems that E. III. Brown was married
to Sarah j. T, of Princeton, Bureau
county, Illinois, September 18th, 1869.
Brown first became known to her while
he was acting as a peddler for a tin-ware
mandatory at Aurora, Ills Mrs. B. is
apparently about sixteen, of timid ma
ture and rather comely She is Just the
his victim. He assiduously laid siege to
her heart and succeeded in winning her
affections. Her parents, with many
misgivings, gave their consent to
the marriage. Since the mar
riage he has hardly had s'local habita-
ton and name" He came here about
three weeks ago, and left his own and
wife's trunk at the depot. Stopping at
the National, he paid weeks board in
advance, and then went to boarding
house, pawning his coat for security. He
subsequently got money and paid his bill.
Here his wife tried to commit suicide,
and the landlady felt it due to her house
that the couple should leave, so they got
board at house on Mechanic street.
Last Thursday Brown went to the de-
pot, took from his wife's trunk musical
instrument, some fine quilts and other ar
ticles, which he disposed of and left. He
told his wife he should leave her till next
May; that if she would live true to him
and take care of herself till that time he
would send for her but, to other parties
he said he should leave her forever. Mrs.
B. is now at the house of lady who
takes motherly interest in her welfare,
and who wrote her parents at Princeton,
who promise to send her money to bring
her home and to offer home to her here
after.
Brown had treated his young wife with
such inhuman brutality that the young
creature was absolutely afraid of him.
He had manifested most foolish jealousy
of her and accused her to her parents of
being untrue to him but the parties here
who have sheltered her say they have
never seen anything in her but the most
modest and timid conduct.
Brown is said to be a native of Pawlet,
vt. A letter has been received from him
since he left, dated at Utica, n. Y, and it
is supposed he has gone home.
Some two yers ago we read an account
of little girl of twelve being raped in
Illinois, from the effect of which she died.
The perpetrator of the act took the little
child into the woods, ravished her, and
then brought her insensible form to the
roadside, intending there to leave it. A
passing teamster saw her and demand led
of the man what was the matter. The
raper answered him that he found the
girl lying insensible just in the edge of
the woods, and asked the teamster to take
her to the first house on his way. Ere
the teamster was aware the man was
gone Brown answers the description of
the ravisher. All along the route of his
travels he registered under false name.
This is the first point where he used the
name under which he was married in H.
linois, and probably his true name. Here
he exhibited that restlessness and fear pc
culiar to the hunted criminal, and we
hope Illinois papers will pass his name
around for Identification.