New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-14

possible "votress of the future !" and had done
this as an expression of her faith in the worn
out theories of cODjugal proprietOrship. She
had, in short, committed q cold FLOODED muir
der, in which there was no ray of the gospel
preached by Victoria and Theodore, those
gushing evangels Of the new doctrine of cleo
ton.
This is what that gentle lady had done.
Her husband, Mr.. Savier, had been living for
month at the principal hotel of Stockton
with a married woman named Lake, believer,
like himself, in the law of divorce by caprice.
Mrs. SAVER not recognizing this law, but
believing firmly in the cognate doctrine of
trial by revolver, sought out the hOstclry where
Mrs. Lake was sitting and sewing, and here is
the account that unfortunate woman gave, on
her death bed, of the interview: "SOme per-
" son came to the door and raped. | opened
" the door and let in woman. | had sick
"headache, and had my head tied up. The
woman asked me if | was sick. [She could
"not deprive herself of that qualification !;
" besides. il afforded her the opportunity for
ga brilliant repartee] / said, yes She said
she would make me sCller [She immedi-
I" ately proceeded like COmyns, to make
"'gicker.,l She got up-we were sitting down.
" and shot me three times. She said, There
" and went out She said her name was
" Julia SAVER" What cool, prompt, energetic
fend it was She then went down to the OF
fee, and politely requested the clerk to snow
her to the sheril's sOiiice. On the way there
she met her husband, informed nm OF "hit
she had done, tried to shoot him, but beng
prevented colared him and took him OIL 10
ioil with her. He soon escaped, however, from
her loving fingers and went back to the death
he'd of the woman whom he and his wife to-
eether had destroyed. Her condition was not
observed for some time. She bore her fatal
wounds with true Bohemian stolcism, and the
firing of pistols in Stockton tavern seems TO
he too common an event to attract much at
tcntion.
There is one curious detail mentioned in the
California papers. The unhappy victim OF Sc
duction and Jealousy had apparently repented
of her fault and had written letter to her
| husband, accepting lis proiiered forgiveness
| which letter was found in her room unfinished,
after she was murdered. She seemed anxious
to live only to see her children again. She
WAS 4 person of outward decOrum and decency,
and the religious habits of her innocent youth
were mechanically retained IN her eirlnS ma
turty. "She was a member of the Episcopal
"Church," says the naive chronicler, and resu-
"larly offered prayers, morning and night "a
custom noticeable from its rarity in that longl-
tude. There is one guarded comment at the
close of the detailed statement from the calm
historian on the spot, which would seem to m
dictate that the rapid recurrence OF events IKE
these is beginning at last TO point moral
even to the beiigerent-PaciHc apprehension.
Public sentiment waivers" he says; people
"are getting tired of this life-taldng under
any pretcxt." II there seems to be prospect
that this murder will do anything TO cure Chat
unwbocsome sentmentaity which has so lone
infected our border society, it may be that
this poor woman's death will accomplish more
good than her itful and faulty life could have
| done.