Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-22

saw, and knew that if my mother wa
living she would never let me do it. Ii
tried to talk me out of my foolishness, a
he called it; but when he found how stub
horn was. he asked me if | would b.
willing to stay there as his wife, which
after another lengthy talk consented to
and we were married that night. l sup
posed it was a minister who came ant
married us and then went away. | hat
lived there about year, when one eve
ming q man who was in the habit of visit
ing there, stopped me in the hall and adj
dressed me by my given name, and tolc
me that he loved me better than any one
else did, and wanted me to 60 and live
with him. / was SO angry with him that
could hardly tell him should go directly
and tell my husband. He held me back,
saying, land who is your husband?' "Y on
know well enough, you wretch" cried.
'No; on my word do not, " he answered,
without getting angry. The man you
live with you were never married to, and
he who married You had no more right
to than l." | was too angry to reply, and
so hewent on, 'If you don't believe me
60 into the little closet over the library
that Edwards calls his. This key will let
you in; you will find hole through the
floor where you can listen, but as you val
ne your life, don't make the least noise. :"
| was stunned, frightened, angry, still
anxious to prove he lied took the key
and went, found them making counterfeit
money, learned that Edwards true name
was Ruloff, and that | had been most ter
ribly deceived She finally escaped from
the house. Ruloff was very angry, and
offered reward for her, alive or dead
After various adventures, the poor woman
had come to Auburn, having heard that
Ruloff was confined there. The Chaplain
adds:
She was becoming drowsy, and | knew
by the wildly fluttering pulse that what
she said, she would have To say soon. so
| asked her: do you believe he murder
ed his wife and child?n she started quick
~ up. and gaspingly said Il know he
would have murdered me if he could
This story had been very painful and tedi-
Gus, as she told it with her hesitating.
coughing, sinking aud gasping for breath.
At last she sank into heavy stupor,
breathing with the greatest difficulty. yet
not seeming conscious of anything. She
never rallied, but her pulse beat faster,
and her breathing was more labored, I'M
til both ceased; and man having no more
power over her, could never again make
the fragile frame culver with fear at the
sound of strange voice, or the trembling
feet fly from an approaching foot-step.
Tomorrow they will carry her to the
strangers last resting place-the potters
field. After work houss went to Ruloff',
cell, called him to me and said, Rulofi
did you ever know girl by the name o
Alice Edwards ? He turned white and red
and then rested his face in his hands, bu
soon with a mastery effort of self-contro
he replied with faint smile, as he locke,
up frankly, why, did you?" knew i
was useless 10 attempt to make him ac
knowledge anything, so | said, youn:
woman calling herself by that name. die
at my house yesterday. she was buried TO
day. She came a week ago, she was in
deed an object of pity, sick, wasted, hun,
CRY. with barely rags to cover her
leaving her without protection agains
the piercing winds and pelting storm
WELL" said he, impatiently, 'wha
has this to do with me; one might sup
pose that had quite enough to bear of my
own troubles, without being afflicted with
other peoples distresses" Had this been
no concern of yours, l replied, should
not have taken the pains to tell you of it.
'.How does it concern me ?" he asked
sharply. Because, said /, she spoke of
you very often in her delirium. 'Only in
her delirium," he replied in sneering
tone. No, answered, with some asperi-
ty; she told Of her life with you, how you
ruined her, and then sought to kill her be-
cause she had discovered the fraud and
some of your secrets. For a
] thought his curiosity would get
the better of his caution he wanted to
know more, but Twas determined not to
tell, unless he asked. Then his counte-
nance assumed social appearance as he
said: ''Of course, whatever this or any
other person might say of me that was
evil. would find willing ears, and ready
belief" People are not apt to tell false
hoods when they are dying. l replied. Il
once knew woman" he said, "who
thought she was mistress of King George,
though she had never crossed the water,
and In dying she repeatedly begged her
medical attendant, whom she imagined
was the dissolute King to have mercy on
their children, and remember they were
his own flesh and blood" Not long after
this last incident we find another attempt
TO arouse this obdurate man to some kind
of sensibility, the journal says: II was
informed to-day that box had beeen fish
ed up in Cayuga Lake, which was lost after
coming to the surface. The general be-
lief is that it contains the relics of Rulofi's
wife and child. So this afternoon, as |
was passing Ruloff's cell, | stopped before
it; he was standing by the door, and babe
me pleasant good afternoon Without
returning his salutation said hastily, 'Ru-
.oif the box containing the remains of your
wife and child has been found in Cavuga
Lake: lie smiled and said quietly, You
are always finding something pleasant that
belongs to me, Chaplain. The next thing
that l expect to hear is of whole regi-
ment Of infants to whom have given ex-
lstance and then served them up in all
manner of ways, even to such fricasse
as the woman of Jerusalem made of hers "