Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-07-20

,ut those few words went against her
n the trial she was called on to pass
through.
zone morning she was going to the
village, and he asked her if she
would get him some arsenic. He
said he was old aud nervous, and the
nice annoyed him SO he could not
sleep. The clerk at the drug store
asked her what she intended to do
with the arsenic. sOhr she said
8 1 wish to remove pest,
and poison is an easy way to do it,
is it not Those few words spoken
without a thought went against her.
"On the ninth OF April there was a
party at one of the neighbors, to
which Mrs. Morgan went, with her
sens and daughter. When they re-
turned Mr.. Morgan was dead, and it
was proved that he died from taking
arsenic
"Mrs. Morgan was arrested, and
although her friends did all they
could for her, she was found guilty
and sentenced to BIZ hung in August.
A petition to the governor was writ
ten and signed by hundreds, but it
was of NO avail, for from the evidence
he had read he believed her to be
guilty.
g Time passed, and it wanted but
one week from the day she was to be
hung. One night there came up a
fearful storm of wind and rain, which
took the roof completely off of Nor
gan's barn.
"sOh r said one of the boys, every
thing goes wrong with us. l believe
the curse OF Heaven is resting on oui
family
{. Their grain was all ready to &c
into the barn, and the neighbors went
TO help put a new roof on for them.
8 In clearing away the rubbish they
found a tobacco box that Mr.. Morgan
had used for years, but how it came
there was mystery. On opening it
they found 8 paper written by Mr.
Morgan on the fifth of April, and
deposited in the roof on the ninth
lie said he wrote it for the sake o.
his children. He did not wish then
to bare the disgrace all their liti
of having their mother hung fol
murder. He knew he had not long t.
live, and if he died before she did lt
was afraid she would marry again
and he was determined to put it ou1
of her power to do SO. She had pro
cured the peisen at his request, and
it was his intention to take it after
they had gone to the party. HI
further stated that he had lever in
| tended to sell the place, and only pre-
tended SO to have the jury think tha
was her motive fer poisoning him
He assumed that the roof would neet
to be reshingled in about ten years
and they would not feel the disgrac'
so keenly.
As soon as the men recovered
frsm their astonishment one OF then
mounted horse and rode at the toI
OF his speed to the station. He sen
a dispatch ahead and followed in tn
cars with the proof of her innocence.
MRS. Morgan is now living Will
her daughter, and you will not I'm,
many ladies of seventy-five looking a
young as she does.
Nov, Jeapette, promise me not t
give Mr. Glen ap answer Sunday, an,
we will drive out and make Mrs. MOI
gan visit, and ask her opinion {
marrying Cor . howe.p
81 should ike te see her very mucl
Mrs. Mason, but there is no occasio
Of asking her advice, for I have ssn
to the conclusion never to marry NJ
til some one proposes that l Low
Thanks to your story"
81 am glad to hear you say so, &
/ have secret to impart to 70,
Frank Nugent, You know, is my p'
grandson. There you need not bins
SO at the mention Of bis pames for 4
is the snartest young man in Il
county il be is my grandchild. Bu
as was saying, he comes to me vii
all his troubles Last night be can
to me and SAID: Grandma, / lo'
/ Jeanette Tracy, but if should t.
, her SO know she would laugh at m