Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-09
A Sad Story.
"Reminiscences of n Blighted Life,
FROM the Kansas City Bu1letih-

~ From the hanSaS lily bulheLA-H-
The readers of the Bulletin will some
of them remember the sensation created
by q report of 40 funeral sermon
preached over the, corpse of a1young
cyprian, named Lizzie Mavis, by the
Rev. Robert Irwin, at the Grant House,
December 9, The affair occasioned so
much interest that three editions of the
paper were insufficient to~meet the de
mand. f71fl- --.
g Nearly two months nave passed away,
and yet the memory of the dead girl
may not rest in quiet. At intervals some
envious scribbler publishes fictitious let
tiers purporting to come from the be-
reaved friends of the fallen Lizzie, with
thanks, ETC., for favors granted. The.
deceased left some personal effects,
trinkets, etc., which were the u OF
a correspondence being held between
parties here and the friends of the girl
living at Jacksontown, Licking county,
Ohio. 10
A well known business man of this
CITY waited upon us Yesterday, who had
just visited the village home of the re-
claimed and r~epontant girl. From him
we received the following account OF
her early life, which weireluctantly give
as a finishing chapter to our first account /:
The affections of Miss oMavis were
sought and won by a man nemed Ga
mabel Headley, a hard-hearted, worth
less ~"roue," son of the proprietor OF the
Headley House, in J~acksontown. This
man was at that time already the hus,
band of a young wife aud father, of two
children. These he deserted to pay his
courtship to the young and artless Liz
zie. After q time he succeedediin in
ducing her to become his wife ipr every
thing but the ceremony, and afterward
took her to his home at the village no
tel. But his love and his promises were
as frail as the SHOWS of winter, for when.
the warm suns of spring smiled upon
the green village of the Licking river,
Lizzie found herself a neglected mother,
but not yet a wife. In grief she re,
turned to the shelter of her mothers
home, and in Anew short days was in a
raging fever, during which her infant
died. &C -l1gt.gr 8gjTq bua ID
The brutal nature of the man for
whom the trusting girl had thrown
away all was here developed to itsfullest
extent. Being notified that his 1child
was dead, he procured a horse and sledl
and, after purchasing a cheap pine cof-
fin, marched deliberately to the house,
took the dead child, and placing
it in the coffn,5 started OFF with It
alone, leading the horse and sled
through the village to the graveyard
There, with his own hands, he dug a
shallow grave and buried the first me-
mento of his infamy !; the second me-
mento was inferred here at Kansas City
in the person of his victim. eds sseaJ.
Z The %sorrowful girl, on her recovery,
followed her betrayer.1 to Columbus,
Ohio, but was again deserted, and after
wards married "a man with whom she
went to California. Here she became a.
widow and friendless, and became what
we found her here. Her brother and
sisters became aware of her whereabouts
ahd her tragic end by copies. of the But
letin forwarded and letters from Mrs.
Hipp. The parents are aware of her
tdecease, but know not the whole truth.
The name of the house she died at is
knowntoth mother, butthe character
of it is not known Thisapainswas
spared her. 7 We have written this to
set at rest the careless romancing upon
a sad incident long ago exhausted
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