The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-10-12

der was never solved. The articles of
dress and iewelry on the corpse were
recognized by Nancy as taken from the
bureau in her cottage.
One morning in 1861 New jersey
wharfman complained to his ''boss" that
a barrel of pitch had been stolen from the
pier The same morning the clerk of
New York hotel complained to his pro-
prictor that Mrs. Ada Ricard-once well
known to Cincinnati under another name
q woman of marvellous beauty of form
and no small charm of feature, but SEN
suous as Lola Montez, and as frail of
characterized suddenly and ineXplicably
left without paying her bill. The next
day there was found floating in the North
River barrel of pitch, and tied to it by q
rope around the waist was the corpse Of
beautiful woman, clothed only in night
dress and a pair of stockings. A gag
fastened in the mouth was the only mark
of violence, but that was sufficient to evil
| dence murder. The form was of wonder
full beauty-such voluptuous beauty as
must have served for the model to Titan's
| Venus. 1t was noticed though the stock
ings were almost too small for the shape
| " limb, they were two sizes too large for
the foot Upon one of the lower limbs
was the cicatrice of an old wound.
The body was inferred without recogni-
ton, but the head preserved. A few
days after, a gentleman intimately ac-
qualnted with Ada Ricard recognized the
face as hers beyond the shadow of Il
| doubt. The police then interviewed her
| quasi husband, Charles Ricard, cautiously
concealing from him her Supposed death
He freely entered into description OF her
history and person, spoke with some pride
of her being obliged to wear stockings
too large for her foot in ordor to tit her
well rounded limb, mentioned the mark
of an old wound and its position, regret
ted the injury to her beautiful teeth by
! the loss of one on the left side. and laugh
ed at her having worn earrings so heavy
as to cut her ears and necessitate Il second
piercing very high up. The stockings.
the wound. the lost tooth. and the marks
on the ears. coincided exactly with the
corpse. Ricard was then shown the
preserved head, and fell back in utter hor-
| ror of sudden recognition. The mystery
was solved-but only for a day. OF u
sudden Ada Ricard, beautiful as ever,
returned from months wandering among
the soldiers at New Orleans No further
discoveries have ever been made.
Our third and last case occurred in the
summer of 'G6, in Luzerene Valley Of
Pennsylvania. Mark Wilson and Miss
Wallace, u lovely girl of eighteen. had
been engaged for some months, when she
suddenly Tilted him, and without explana-
ton forbade him to enter her house Viii
son plunged into dissipation. and rapidly
lost his character, his business, and his
small means. He was frequently heard.
with tcvered energy, to lay ruin at her
door, and to VOW revenge with most de-
termined bitterness. Shortly after he
made preparations to leave for Europe,
but, before doing SO by some means per
suaded the girl TO take drive with him.
He gave out at the livery stable that he
was going to an occasional picnic resort,
in wild gorge among the neiGhborng
hills. Neither OF them returned and two
days after the body of the girl, stabbed to
death with a pocbet-knife sworn to as Will
sons, was found in the turbid waters of n
| brook that threaded ''Picnic Gorge She
was buried, in an agony of sorrow, by
her loving parents. and the day after the
funeral Mrs. Wilson, nae Miss Wallace.
I returned from New York with her newly
welded husband Who was the murder
ed girl, and how 4 knife like that of Mark
Wilson's came in her heart, the most rigid
investigation never could discover.