Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17

A Captain of Dragons. Who Me-
duced ~ Young Lady Thirty Years
without Knowing Him, and fs in
Hts Turn Killed by the ~Ofher OF
the Murdered Mar. the Victim of
Thirty Years Ago, Who Lastly
Kills herself
Independence Beige Of the 10Th
ult. gives the following account of an
awful tragedy which lately happened in
Brussels:
NJ. Edmund f. was halfpay captain
of cavalry, who left his native town of
Chateau. Chinon about four years ago in
order to accept a position as manager
of an iron foundry in the vicinity of
Brussels.
In the year ls42, at the age Of twenty
four, he was sous lieutenant OF regi-
ment OF dragons garrisoned at Lille.
There he seduced the daughter of a re-
spectacle merchant and abandoned her
to her shame. The poor girl soon found
herself in condition which rendered
exposure unavoidable. In order to con-
ceal her fault she fed from her father
house and was seen no more.
Last week Captain F. visited, in the
company Of few friends, one of the
most freauented beer gardens In Prus-
sells. While there, engaged in a game of
cards, quarrel arose between one of
his friends and a young officer of the
rife corps. Captain F. took the part OF
his fsiehd High words followed and
insults The upshot was that Captain
f. challenged the young officer to fight a
duel with pistols. They met on the fol-
lowing day and Captain F. killed his
adversary by sending bullet into his
heart. This was on Friday morning.
Captain F. now hurried home in order to
prepare for escape to France. Last
Sunday after having settled all his
affairs, he packed his valise aud was
about to leave when woman in black
presented herself abruptly at the door,
Her face was covered with thick veil
and she appeared greatly agitated, her
body trembling all over. Captain F.,
highly surprised and something like
troubled With q gloomy foreboding, asked
her into the reception room. Scarcely
had he pronounced the first word when
the unknown lady in black drew up her
veil in a sudden, conyalsive manner,
and shpYed him face pale as death aud
eyes tHll OF anger and tears. At the
sight Of that face the captain retreated
step andAttered a cry OF horror and as
tonishment,
In that woman in tears and dressed in
black, with faded features and hair all
gray, he recognized his victim Of thirty
years ago-the daughter OF the Lille
merchant.
"Wretchr' she exclaimed, advancing
upon him oil pale end thFeatpnilgi "ac-
cnrsed being villain murderer 1t was
not enough to have dishoRored woman
to have basely abandoned her You
had to kill her child-to assassinate your
own SOM And such crimes should go
unpunishedl The most monstrous of
misdeeds should leave you in possession
OF tho name OF halest man No, mis-
erable destroyer Of so many innocent
beings, you shall perish by the hands OF
your victim"
Scarcely had she spoken these words
When she drew forth o revolver from
under her cloak, fred twice and blew the
captains brains out. She then tired a
third and fatal shot at herself.
Hearing the sound of three shots the
servants and neighbors came running IN,
very much frightened. A fearful sight
presented itself to them-two bodies
lying side by side on the floor and well
tering in blood. The body Of Captaip
r. gave no sign of lie that OF his TOR
mer victim was breathing yst, aud by
diut of exertions revived, for a few
hours only. She was taken to the near
est hospital, where she expired in the
middle Of the following night, after hav-
ing answered an interrogatory, and told
the facts We have related