Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-07

she IL Accused of Poisoning Two Uus-
bands md tn. wife OF Her First Hus-
From the Louisville tKy.) Ledger, Feb. g.

bands and the Wife OF Her First Hus-
band.
From the Louisville tKy.) Ledger, Feb. 8.
Some twelve years ago there came to
louisville, from Germany, a very at
tractive- looking German girl, of about
eighteen years of age, named, if our
recollection serves us right, Catharine
Melchior She was what is termed
beautiful woman, finely developed,
with faultless form and graceful mo-
tion-a woman who would attract at
tention wherever seen. She remained
at Louisville but short time, when
She left the city for the town of Rock
port, on the Indiana side of the river,
about fifty miles above Louisville,
where she soon obtained serviceSin the
family of an old and wealthy farmer
named Sharp, residing some two and a
half or three miles above the town.
Mr.. Sharp and his aged wife lived
alone together, their children having
all married and removed from the old
homestead The old people were very
highly esteemed, and were well known
to nearly all the citiD1ns of the county.
Catharinc found her new home IL very
pleasant one, and was apparently well
contented and very happy. About two
years after she Ind entered the Sharp
family Mrs Sharp was taken i'll She
was confined to her bed for some time (.
but growing better her speedy recoy
cry was fondly hoped for by her hus-
band and children. Very suddenly,
however, she was taken worse, suffer.
ing intense pain in the abdomen for
some hours, when she died. The symp-
toms of her fatal illness, it was remem.
bered few years later, were decidedly
those of poison from arsenic or strych-
nine.
Nh Sharp and his children mourned
her death, but no one seemed to feel it
more deeply than Catharine, and this
was remarked throughout the neighbor-
hood aud so Mr.. Sharp prevailed upon
her, which was not difficult, to remain
in his house us his housekeeper and
general superintendent of the domestic
department of his extensive farm. pay
ing her handsome salary for her ser
wees. Time wore on, rs time is always
doing, and the wounds that grief at the
demlse of his wife had inflicted upon
And then it bethought him that, with
Catherine as his wife, his declining
years would be full of comfort and so
he paid court to the young maiden.
She was aycrse to the union proposed
bv the old man it would be too much
like uniting June with December, she
argued, rs she looked up languishingly
from her luStrous black eyes and beau
tiful face INTO the countenance of her
aged lover. Those glances, she well
knew, were not to be withstood and so
the old mans passion was onlyiuhamed
and his suit pressed with moro earnest
determination.
Catharine took n few days to deliber-
ate over the matter, and then she re-
turned answer to her porsevering but
gray-haired lover that she would marry
hlm ON condition that he would deed
her his farm, valued at about twenty
five thousand dollars, and certain other
moneys and property This the old
man agreed to do, and in due course of
time ali the necessary papers for the
transfer were legally drawn and placed
in Catharine's hands. Then the we'd
ding took place, and for a couple of
years or more the infatuated old man
hathed i'll the sunshine of her smiles,
and received her loving with all the de-
light of "a child. But suddenly he died.
HIS disease was a lan6uishing one ut
first, ana indicated toward its fatal
termination a speedy recovery. But
those dreadful pains that had been no.
uccd in the illness of his wife immedi-
atcly prior to her demise supewened,