The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-17
A Sad Story.



The readers of the Bulletin will some
Of them remember the sensation created
by a report of funeral sermon
preached over the corpse of young
cyprian, named Lizzie Mavis, by the
Rev. Robert Irwin, at the Grant House,
December 3 The affair occasioned so
much interest that three editions of the
paper were insufficient TO meet the de-
mand.
Nearly two months have passed away,
and yet the memory Of the dead girl
may not rest in quiet. At intervals some
envious scribbler publishes fictitious let
tiers purporting to come from the be-
reaved friends of the fallen Lizzie, with
thanks, etc, for favors granted. The
deceased left some personal effects,
trinkets, etc, which were the cause of
a correspondence being held between
parties here and the friends Of the girl
living at Jacksontown, Licking county,
Ohio.
A we'll known business man of this
city waited upon us yesterday, who had
just visited the village home OF the re-
claimed and repentant girl. From him
we received the following account Of
her early life, which we reluctantly give
as finishing chapter to our first account /:
The affections of Miss Mavis were
sought and won by a man nemed Ga
maliel Headley, hard-hearted, worth
less "roue," son of the proprietor Of the
Headley House, in Jacksontown. This
man was at that time already the hus.
band of q young wife aud father of two
children. These he deserted to pay his
courtship to the young and artless Liz
zie. After time he succeeded in in
ducing her to become his wife in every
thing but the ceremony, and afterward
took her to his home at the village no.
tel. But his love and his promises were
as frail as the SHOWS Of winter, for when
the warm suns of spring smiled upon
the green village of the Licking river,
Lizzie found herself a neglected mother,
but not yet a wife. In grief she re-
turned to the shelter of her mothers
home, and in a few short days was in a
raging fever, during which her infant
died.
The brutal nature Of the man for
whom the trusting girl had thrown
away all was here developed to itsfullest
extent Being notified that his child
was dead, he procured horse and sled,
and, after purchasing a cheap pine cof-
fin, marched deliberately to the house,
took the dead child, and placing
it in the coffin, started off with it
alone, leading the horse and sled
through the village to the graveyard.
There, with his own hands, he dug a
shallow grave and buried the first me-
mento of his infamy; the second me-
mento was inferred here at Kansas City
in the person of his victim.
The sorrowful girl, on her recovery,
followed her betrayer to Columbus,
Ohio, but was again deserted, and after
wards married man with whom she
went to California. Here she became a
widow and friendless, and became what
we found her here. Her brother and
sisters became aware of her whereabouts
ahd her tragic end by copies of the BuL
letin forwarded and letters from Mrs.
Hipp. The parents are aware Of her
decease, but know not the whole truth.
The name of the house she died at is
known to the mother, but the character
of it is not known. This pain was
spared her. We have written this to
set at rest the careless romancing upon
sad incident long ago exhausted
NV