, 1872-12-26

How PIuclzY Kentucky Woman
OntyVifteG the Vengeance OA q
Wronged Father and Son.
From, the Eotezin1 Green {Ky.) Democrat.

HOW Il FlucIkV heutuChT woman
Outyvitted the Vengeance Oh
VFronged Father and Son.
From, the Eotcziag Green {Ky.) Democrat.
4 little more than two years ago, as the Unitd
States mail steamer Bowling Green, from Bow
ing Green, KY, to Evansville, Ind, was ap
preaching the landing as norganto'Tn, ky., an
unusually large crowd Vas seen upon the bank
Of the river-so unusual 3 crowd, in fact, as 10
attract the special attention OF crew and passen-
gera. Upon landing, three men. armed cap-a-pie,
brought prisoner aboard. The Oldest OF tho
party, afterward ascertained to be the father of
a1s ss espa a5d aangsT gTs @ En- sPP sPpSdiose 4oos
ing history: He said that he lived
somewhere in the interior OF Indiana, and THAT
several years prior to this date the prisoner was
school in the vicinity Of his home, and, part Of
the time, boarding at his house. Pdterfami!ias
had q daughter just budding into womanhood,
and of course at the most susceptible age:
The reader anticipates me, no doubt: The Oft
repeated story was re-enacted. The young
schoolteacher aud the maiden becane attached,
engaged, ard, alas, with the result also not un-
precedented, she slowed not wisely, but too
we'll" Before the discovery, the faithless swain
deserted to parts unknown, leaving the poor girl
to meet the horrors Of her situation alone and
unsuBtGined.
The law of Indiana makes seduction felony,
and the girls father sworo vengeance against
her seducer. Annually, after his crops we're
'1laid by OF gaInered, when he had tho most
leisure, he and his son we're accustomed to
devote one or two months to methodic and pa
tiert search for the culprit. Sometimes travel
ling by rail, then by river, and yet, again,
through more obscure and unfrequeotca parts Of
the country, ir buggies or carriages. AL their
1871, when, pursuing their search through the
Green River section of kentucky, they, by some
accident, found him teaching school on Mud
River, Butler County. Armed With requisition
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proval and order Of arrest from the Governor
Of Kentucky, they took charge Of him. The
young man had, in the meantime, married an
estmable lady, who was, at this time, the
mother Of q baby only three weeks old. His
exemplary habits had made him many friends,
and the peculiar, aud to all interesting condition
OF his family, caused this affair to exasperate
them in no slight degree !; and, in connection
with serious threats toward the aEresting party,
application wos made to Hon. John .. Halsel,
then the Judge Of this judicial circuit, and sit
ting at Morgantown, for writ OF ha6eas
corpus, which was granted, and the prisoner
brought before hun. Upon presentation OF
respectively, Judge Haleeu, while feeling, in
common with the whole community 3 pro-
found sympathy for the prisoner, was compelled
to remand him to the custody Of his prosecutors.
Fearing mob and violence, which we're threat
ened, they, instead Of returning in their car
riase, waited for the steamer Bowling Green,
aud came aboard as already related.
The old man, while ezultant over his success
was painfully appreLensire Of an attempt to res-
water below, and near the home of the prisoner
and his friends-and therefore ho hired young
-, ask and half foot Kentuckian, as an
assistant guard, furnishing him with g. double
barrelled shotgun and navy revolver They all
declared their determination to die rather than
surrender their charge, and appealed to the Cap
tain for assistance in case OF attack. The Captain
respectfully declined to order his crew to do
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faith OF his perfect neutrality, and that he would
place no obstacles in their way. Thereupon,
rather startling and impressive preparations for
defence we're made before arriving at Rochester,
and an attempt may hive been contemplated
and abandoned in view of the desperate resist
anca indicated. There WAS quite crowd
sembled ut the landing aud soma trepidation
manifested by both parties but fortunately
there was no attempt to release the prisoner.
Instead, there came aboard small, delicate,
babe N her arms. This woman had ridden
about twelve miles through mud, cold
and sleet, to intercept the. boat that was
bearing her husband to felon's cell in an In
diam Penitentiary. Whatever may have been
his indiscretions-as she mildly termed them
in his earlier youth, she said to the Captain
that he had always been noble, kind. and true
to her. She knew OF this sad affair in his his
utterly worthless, and that. in this affair, her
husband was more the victim than the girl
"more ainned against than SHINING" Many
persons present knowing and bearing Witness
to his exemplary life aud impressed with tLeir
evident mutual affection, tho lively sympathy OF
all on board the steamer was soon manifest.
But autlciplte.
Delicate though the little woman evidently
was, she had tue air af one onthuscd with some
great passion and neryed for so1ue desperate
purpose. Her step was as firm aud stately IS q
Queens, her eyes almost ecintllated sparks from
exalted nervous excitement. and her thin, pale
Hnte
the imprint of her small teeth through them.
The prisoner was sitting near the stove in the
forward cabin, encircled by his guard. saw,
slight though it was, the thrill or start as the
wife's eyes fell upon him and his surround
ings. Her sa1utation was constrainedly quiet
and undemonstrative. With but slighI pause,
she rather peremptorily said ''come!" as
she started toward the ladies' cabin. Tha
guard rather. heaitatngly objected, but
shan coner' He arose, and the guard accom-
panying, Ill walked aft and sat down in the
ladies' cabin. With q sort Of fascination, fol-
lowed. Here there waa but little conversation
for GONE time, beyond mutual inquiries in re-
gard to health, and some expressed apprehen-
sions on the part OF the husband of injury to
both mother and child from exposure to such
weather 80 soon after her accession to maternity.
The steamer had progressed many miles by
bedtime, and meanwhile, 3 etateroom had been
assigned the woman, in which, after being well
warmed and snug1y enrapped, the little babe was
sweetly sleeping and, as mothers fondly fancy,
smiling in reBponee to angels whispe1s-at any
rate happily unconscious Of its parents troubles
About 10 o'clock, Mrs. - said, John, It is
bed time know you need sleep. Come into
my room and go to bed"
The guard thereupon arose and positively OBJ
jected; but she turned upon them with q with
ering glance and 9 desperate resolution in her
face, saying, IS You need not open your mouths.
You have Kept him in that loathsoma jail for o.
two nights, he needs eleep and ho shall haveit'
You are three great, brave men, to fear little.
unar1ned man like him! Guard the outside Of
the doors as you will, but in here he shall
A'1e: Her taunt prevailed. Tfe guard yielded, and
the prisoner retired with his wife. I was aston
ished at her SUCCESS, and wondered at the lmbe-
cility OF the guard; !; but, at several successive
landings, while the lady was still up, they would
demand admittanco to her room, look in upon
the prisoner, see that he WAS theEa, and then
retire.
The steamer Was about arriving at Calhoun.
The boat had b1owed, OF whistled, for TINT land
ing. had noticed some suspicious maneuvres
| among the passengers. and, to admit the truth,