The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-19
Love and Harder.


Y. World writes as follows: "In Ell
than resided Stationor named Pook;
he had in his employment young SER
want girl named Jane Clousen; and his
son, ayoung man, who, up to the press
ent time, has borne good character,
lived with his father. Jane Clousen
was of coinely appearance-as English
servant girls often are; she had q warm
heart and an affectionate nature; size
was an orphan, but her uncle and aunt
lived near by, and by them she was
loved and esteemed. A few weeks ago
however, she began to be low-spirited
and distressed, and she finally told her
aunt that her young master Edmund
Pook) had seduced her ander promise
of marriage, and that she was eaciente.
She soon afterwards left her situation,
ard Il few days ago came to her aunt in
great Slee. Edmund, she said, had
been to see her, and had promised to
make an honest woman of her. He was
going to take her away with him to
pleasant village some distance away;
there they were to be married, and
were to. be 'oh, 80 happy!' He told me
to tell you,' said the poor, foolish girl;
$50 that you need not be alarmed at my
disapI,rarance. His family must not
know where we are, and SO am not to
write any letters, OF to tell any one
where we are going untilafter my baby
is born, and then am to be allowed to
write to you, and tell You whether it is
q boy or girl. Oh, am so happy, now!
I love Edmund dearly, and now l am
to be his own lawful wife and have my
maria lines. l am to meet him to-
night in the lane, and then he is to
give me the money to get lothes to go
away with With these words, and
with her aunt's kisses on her lips, Jane
went out, in the spring evening, With
the nightingale singing in the hedges,
to meet her lover in the lane. She
went to her death. The lane is lone
ly and unfrequented ore, and after 9 or
10 o'clock that night Edmund Pook
made his appearance at a confectioncr's
shop in the village. He was heated
and flushed as if with running; his
clothes were muddy and disordered;
his hands had stains upon them, and
there were red blotches on his shirt.
He asked for q brush, and cleaned his
clothes, saying he had fallen into a
ditch, and then he went home. The
same night, or rather the next morning
before daylight, q policeman passing
through the lane where Jane Clousen
had gone to meet her lover heard q
faint moan. Behind the hedge he
fonnd a Young girl lying on the ground,
which was trampled as by footsteps in
struggle. Her face was so Horribly
battered as to be almost unrecogniza-
bile. From horril wound in the fore
head the brain protruded; her skull
was mashed in dozen places. She
was still alive, but unconscious. Neal
her was found new hammer, cover
ed with blood and hair. She was re-
moved to hospital, where she linger,
ed day, and then expired, without
being able to utter a word. She wa.
recognized by her aunt and others wht
knew her, ard then, after the lapse o
a day OF two, Edmund Pook was taker
into custody. The young man, charg
ed with the murder, did not at all lose
his self-possession. He declared no
only that he did not murder the girl
but that he had no reason to murdel
her, since he had not seduced her, hai
never had any improper intimacy will
her, and was in no way concerned will
her. He could account, he said, foI
every moment of his time during til,
night of the murder, and shSw that III
had not been in her company. PHI
murdered girl, lie said, had a lover wh'
was sailor, and whose arrival HON,
sue hadbeen expecting. If he had ar
rived, and had discovered that during
his absence she had been unfaithful t.
him, he perhaps had killed hei; but a
for him, Edmund Pook, he washed hi
hands of ller blood. So candid ant
sincere did the young man appear, g
little like murderer did he seem, an,
SO fervent we're his protestations of in
nocence; that the coroner was puzzled
But then, had not Edmund proteste,
too much7 The girl told her aunt tina
he had seduced her; that he was t
meet her that night; that he had prom
ised to take her away and marry hel
Now her mouth was sealed, but woul
she have invented this story out c
nothing7 1t did not seem propablt
and so Edmund Pook was committe
to take his trial for the murder.
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