The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-26
NO. l2
Ter, ,ible. but too True.

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recently caught there go.
Many years ago, in the Dominion OF
Capada, lived family Of wellto-do
French people, who iminigrated hlther
| in the year 1858 a fair young flower
was the dark-eycd Celia, and her thrcc
sturdy brothers were jealous of the man
who might in future years secure the bud
ding rose full blown ard break the chain
of happy hearts around the social hearth.
Time passed. The var and its rewards
had called the brothers from their home;
| the father, allu.cd by the rewards which
smuggling presented at the time, and
| which was engpged in to such an extent
on the lake shore in the years 1S6l-64,
had turned his honest fish boat into q
dark sailed smuggling craft. sFf Celia,
fattered by the conmoncrs and recog--
uized by the sselcct" on account Of
HER GRACE AND BEAUTY,
Ali unconscious of the lawless father and
4 the fate of the three warrior brothers,
laughed on, all needless Of what was IN
store for her-becomipg vain, careless,
and fond of-dress Vanity is always the
,hin ice OF destruction, and in Cclia's
case it proved noexception. The spoiler
was on the watch he recited to the
!
! her brothers death in Southern prisons,
and ended with the fairest proposal OF
marriage. In her terrible dependency,
caused BY these horrid revelations, the
I girl Celia accepted the proposal of her
DESTROYER, in the recklessness of her des-
pair. Shortly after one OF her brothers
returned from the war, alive and we'll as
ever, and through his instrumentality the
real character of the villain was discov-
cred aud made known to his sister.
Knowing the disgrace aud depreciation
into which sLe had fallen, her reason be-
gan TO fail her, and in short time
SHE DISAPPEARED
FROM the neiglborhood, going no ono
knew whittier. During the fall OF 1860,
some two years after the disappearance OF
the Frenchmau 5 daughter, two hunters
from the township Of White Rock discov-
cred in Wild and un,enanted forest the
footprints 0! human being, bare footed
aud alone Their curiosity was at once
aroused, and by the aid OF dogs, after q
chase Of eighteen hours, they succeeded
in obtaining a view Of the object of their
pursuit. Nearer they approached, the
form becoming more palpable at every
step, when The object hearing the ap-
pio1Sli tuiilS i0ti Pu.i AhS'r - 80 -
horrid semblance Of the humanity it was
$ not Revolving and hidcous as was its
: appearances, the hunters recognized
through all lis ehoul-likc aspects the
ferscn Of
q FEMALE LuNATIc.
:, The dark, Wild, insane eyes, the mat
ted ard ensan4ied hair; the shreds Of
= filthy covering the scared and fostering
: skeleton forn.-aIl told Of reason lot, oi
: life wrecked. Of soul perished. With
!. a scream wild and unoarthly she gathered
!, up bundle FROM the ground, flung il
: across her shoulders, and disappeared
with the swiftness of tho wind. The peo
), pie of the neighborhood were aroused
= the excitement ran high, and long into
II the early part Of the Winter hunting
:, parties were securing the woods in search
: of the lunatic woman. At last she was
= captured, just over the line in Sanilas
county, and taken to the common Jail
7 People gathered in crowds to see the
= strange phcnomeIton. The bundle which
y she was always seen to be carving while
= on he, flights in the forest, was orened Il
: the public gaze, and there--oh, horror o
: horrors lay the skull and
r. SKELETON OF AN INFANT,
RS Her babe, which she had carried through
J. all her tedious marches by night aud b,
r. day for two long years or more. She wa
d an inmate of the jail during the Who'll
r of the Winter and the following Summer
n The only service which she rendered a
n the time was knitting, at which she wa
n an expert. There arc many yet VIII
ly recolicct the cold crazy woman" an
but a few who saw her will believe u
when we state that her age; instead @
nc being frola City to- sixty, as 1t real
ut seemed, was less than thirty years. A
5 !: times she would humble over list {
al names, which the jailcr would hurriedl
re take down as near as possible in the
er jumbled state, and then inquiries woul
Iy, be Instituted and letters written to a
ly parts, but all to no purpose.
HER NAME AND HISTORY
ny Remained a sealed volume The follow
nd ing A utumn, however, she took advautne
X ofihe liberty allowed--wandered ava
pg and was never heard of noie. Followir
sone igais .fafuus of her unsettled brai
she died perhaps alone, unknown, vii
en- only the wild beasts to listen to her e.
ar piring cries. And this was Celia-ti
nc lost link in this chain Of circumstanc
was only discovered short time since, ar
ed the writer of this article is one of I'll
IN three who knew the real facts. The
uc may be some slight errors in the dat
ne above given false name has been Civ
we the subject, aud the picture may
'eo slightly crlored, but in the main the
'er taiis are correct and .hc statements fac
nfo 9, The brother above alluded 10 is yet ali,
ing an orphan, sullcn, in his desperate p'
'ns pose OF ing vengeance, and the trs
lad edv NAV he bnf hall told ss'G1- 9len1ia
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