The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-09-07
WIFE sEN leans IN MANS
CLOT0l Ne.
singular Case OF Female Adventure.
Devotion and Death.

singular Case or Female Adventure
Devotion and Death.
Froa. ae OSHKOSH Northmestern, august IS.
One of the most remarkable instances o
| womian'- attachment and herOism under ad
versity came to our notice to-day. To he
gin at the commencement, we will state that
| in 1860 young lady in the city of Auburn
n. V, The daughter of wealthy parents
eloped with Il young man named Miles, a
railroad engineer, and both proceeded to
Cleveland, Ohio, and afterward to Toledo
They were pursued by an infuriated brother
of the young lady, and in the latter place, to
avoid detection after the marriage ceremony
was performed, the young lady arrayed her
self in male attire. In this Disguise, and
while selling apples, she passed her bro;her
several time on the street without recn.ni-
ton Oh his part. Shortly afterward,
early in the war, the two went south to Nash
Vile, Tennessee, where Miles procured en-
plOynient as a locomotive engineer. his wife
engaged a. a fireman, still keeping up her
disguise. Between Nashville and Chatta-
n, osa shot from a rebel inflicted serious
wound upon the engineer, and he was taken
to the government hospital at Murfreesboro,
Tennessee His wife followed, and to her
careful nursing Miles owes his life. When
sufficiently recovered to endure the hardships
of travelling they returned to Cleveland. A
few month later the alleged gold discoveries
at Mandock, Canada, attracted them thither,
and the wife accompanied her husband. still
in masculine garments. The vicissitudes OF
her career, exposed to hardships and acct
dents, were too severe. however, and few
weeks since she died at Cleveland after a
L. N.io, h., -, s,,s 81 OF
is man abou, forty years of age, and does
not refer to the heroic devotion of his wife
but in terms o. the warmest admiration
FerO~ity Of AN Alligator -lle Setaes .
Woman mad Drags her into n Canal.
The Planters Banner, published at New
Iberia, La, thus refers to the following as
narrative:
This week DIR. Maguire's alligator story
appears in our columns. Those who are ac-
quainted with DIR. Maguire's reputation for
varacitv will not doubt the truthfulness Of
the statement, strange as it may appear.
Those at a distance may rest assured that
This is DIR. Maguire's true story AZ told in
The Banner:
want to tell an alligator story that
knocks to pieces all sensational romance, or
he most horrid forms ofnightmare ever pro- |
iuced by eating sucking pig for supper. 1t
reminds one Of the fight Of Clubin with the |
pieuvre or jelly fish, in the ''Toilers of the |
Sea
yesterday colored woman the wife of |
GEORGE Harmelin, on Nine. o. DelahOus.ay's |
was washing her clothes on the |
,anks ofthe Grand Marais canal, about four
Get deep at this time, whena black alligator,
welve feet long, which had lev days be-
ore captured large hog, and which was
probably hidden in the bushes, seeking it,
,rey, darted IN a noiseless, stealthy way, and
aught the woman by the arm, dragging her
n the water. She succeeded in disen-
aging her arm, when the monster
nclose her head in its jaws, and brought her
nee more under the water. Then fright
vi struggle took place; the neighbour too
n of to hear the the cries of the unfortu-
ate woman, she was left to defend her own
fe. She can't give an exact account of the
,andkr by which she exrricated her head
-Om the monsters jaws, but said she never
ut presence of mind and her fixed purpose
reaching the bank. She succeeded at last
nd offered then a pitiable aspect indeed.
Ter arm presented several deep cuts one of
lem comiK very near the artery Of the
ulse. The forehead had also some deep
ounds, but the fangs of the alligator had
II pierced the back hair or chignon. None
these bites were torn or Jagged, but all
Tered 4 clean, linear shape, like that Of |
,e-edged knife saw the woman about an .
,ur after the accident, and could detect no d
nee of excitenent in her manner. sup
ne she oves her life to her sang froid and q
lfposesion. Old hunters remark that 4
amp alligators are more ferocious than the '
ke or bayou specimens. This one had a u
aDed-up snout, like the Nile alligator, 80 O
ii known for its ferocity-at least, 30 say o
e neighbors. The noiseles approach Of d
E animsEnot creating ripple or crack c
3 in the weeds- seizine the arm Of the r
alarmed woman, are very remarkable. a
'ery reader can picture his or her feelings a
the same case. r
81 am, verv respectfully, yours, n
"a. MAGUIRE-" m