Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-01-27

From the st. Louis Tribune.
Some six weeks ago, the ladies of High
Street Mission, while engaged in their err
rands Of mercy and charity, came across a
man anil wife who lived together in a room
IN the second story of building on Twen
ty-second street. Their stock of furniture
was very scant. The bed was made upon
the floor, there being no bedstead upon
which to place il A little stove without
the proper fuel to heat it, stood in one cor
ner of the room, and the general appear
ance of the abiding place gave evidence of
the most abject poverty. ~ ssl..a
The man. who. it turns out, is named
Charles Boell, was ill-so much so as to be
confined to his bed-suffering from hem
orrha9e of the lungs. He was very quiet,
and, in his conversation, gave the impress
sion that he was possessed of more than or
binary educational attainments.
The woman, so far as could be judged
by her actions and speech, was coarse as
we'll by nature as by habit. She was an ex
traordinary creature. Sometimes, in the
presence of ladies. she would enter the
room of the sick man, and shaking her
finger. in accents of malignity, would say,
Louie going to die, and I'm glad OF it.
At other times her nature would soften, and
she would lay across the foot of the bed
and fondle her husbands feet most tender
", at the same tine weeping. A peculiar
look from her dark eye was invariably suf-
ficient to cause the weakened man to go
into spasms, when he would jerk his limbs
systematically and violently. He prayed
at times in piteous tones to those who were
in attendance, to keep his wife away from
him, but their efforts were useless, az she
STA of nn. of
the ladies of the Mission washed some
shirts for Boell, and after he had put one
on, the discovery was made, that fastened
in the left side of it, near the region of the
heart, was a sharp blade, about three
inches long. which it is supposed the wife
had placed there in the hope that in a mo-
ment of paroxysm the unfortunate man
would kill himself.
The conductof this strange pair of course
excited inquiry. Here was man of re-
finement and culture, helpless, united to a
woman whose very slave he was. There
was nothing attractive either in her looks
or mental qualities. In points of tempera-
ment and tastes they were antipodes, with
the existence of such great diversity With
no little springs of affection bubbiing up
underneath the outward show of discon-
tent and hatred, how YVES it they even came
to be united2 The sick man furnished a
partial and somewhat incoherent account.
He had been raised by wealthy parents
in the city of New York, and they had not
been chary in expanding their money for
the purpose of giving him those advanta-
ges which first class schools are supposed
to afford. Near unto his fathers house
dwelt a young lady to whom he was aft.
anced. HIS present wife was servant
pirli his fathers iamily. She loved him,
and determined that if he welded not her
he should not wed any ott,er woman. He
woke mp one morning to o realization of
the fact that the servant gi i was hislavful
wife. The genuine certifc ate presented to
his astonished vision set rest al doubts
he might have entertained in reference TO
the matter He had no idea of how such a
marriage was ever brought about. but there
Was the fact, incontrovertible as hateful.
He surmsed very naturally, that the infiu-
ence of drugs bad beer brought into requi-
sition, but all his inquiries as to the exact
cause proved futile.
His health became poor, and in the hope
of lettering il and Kidding himself Of wo-
man he could not love, he fed to Europe.
After traversing through various portions
of that historic continent, he hired suite
OF rooms on q street in Paris, intending to
settle in that city and pursue the art of
painting. for which he had genius. He
had not been there more than three weeks
when he discovered tina, living about two
blocks from him. on the same street, was
his much dreaded wife. They met ske
told him that his efforts to get away would
be of no avail-thas she would follow him
to the ends OF the ealth. Despalring of
ever getting out of her tolls, he returned
with her to New York, and afterwards they
came to st. Louis.
We have related how and where the Ia
dies of the mission found them. Boell was
taken by them to st. Lukes Hospital and
having partially recovered, he now SUES for
a divorce.
This is one Of the strangess things la
real life we have ever heard OF. 1t is the
opinion of those who are inclined TO super
stition, that the woman has the power of
exercising a sorcere. S. spell, and that, in
her relations with her husband. she put
that power in operation. ~