The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-15
ASToRY OF SORROW, SHAME AND DEATH.

A Young Girl, Fifteen Years Old, the
Daughter OF Wealthy Parents, Dying
I'm a Jersey City Boarding IKouxe-The
william Who Ruined Her u Married
Man and tho Father of Two Children
He is Arrested by the Police.
On the Sd OF December last a man and a very
young girl called at the boarding house OF Mrs.
Corneilson, lO7 Hudson street, Jersey City, and
applied for board, stating that they were man and
wife. They had no baggage with them, but they
accounted for this by saying that they had been
burned out in the Boston fire. and had lost all their
effects Mrs. Corneilson's suspicious were not
aroused, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. JOnes--as
they called themsclves-were provided with apart
ments. The girl, whose name was Josephine was ex.
tremely youthful-nOt more than fifteen years old
and her beauty and interesting manners soon won
the heart OF her kind-hearted landady. She had
not been long on Hudson street when she gave way
to melancholy, became subject to nervous fits and
spent most OF her time in the solitude OF her cham
Der. Soon after she was taken extremely ill., and
Mrs. CornesOn on finding that the assumed hus-
band was out OF money, sent for her own physi-
clan, Dr. Petrle, to attend to the sick girl. He
pronounced the disease from which she was suffer-
ing typhoid fever brought on by mental depression
and excessive melancholy. The necessary rene.
dies were prescribed, but, in spite OF all that skill
"hu nihuhCSS eouiu wv thc yOuuS girl grew rapidly
worse, and on the 18th of December she
died. During her sickness she was delir-
Gus, and in her delirlum she frequently called
out, "Oh, mother, mother, II had my motherl'
On one occasion when the man Jones was absent
from the house she said to Mrs. COrneison, "Oh,
when get well l will do everything for you Hove
you SO; but / am advertised am not married.
have only known him six weeks, and want my
mother" Mrs. Corneilson supposed that what the
girl said was the result oil dSOrdered aginatiOn
and she was about to question her upon the state
ment sne had made when she was Interrupted by
the entrance of Jones. There was no further OPP.
pOrtanity to renew the subject, as the girl died
the next day. All the time she was sick Jones was
never absent from her side lie seemed to have
particular aversion that any one but himself should
would, II opportunity offered,
MAKE sOME REVELATIONS
which he did not want divulgcd
Mr.. CorneilsOn and DR.. Petrie repeatedly urged
Jones to write or telegraph to his wiies friends,
put TINS ne oost,nateiy refused to do and declined
The kind-hearted landady took up0n herself the
expense Of the funeral and the unfortunate girl
was decently Inferred. Before the funeral took
place Mr.. Cornes0n urged upon the undertaken,
II. Rowland, Jr the prOpriety OF having the Coro-
Treated the matter lightly, and said it would be
better that the girl should be quietly buried. The
only persons
PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL
besides Jones were the landlady and her daughter
and couple OF the other boarders. Jones and the
girl seemed to be very much attached ;ii to each
other, and 1t Is alleged lie did all in his power to
minister to the girls wants during her illness.
Josephine was extremely pretty, had a beautiful
sfa an Of
height, with black, curly hair, black mustache,
black eyes and pleasing address. He is just the
girl and It seems strange that suspicious were not
aroused on account OF the disparity between the
reporter " Of jersey City paper who was in
police headquarters on Sunday, had his attention
attracted by notice on the board offering re-
ward OF $500 Tor the apprehension OF George Sher
burn, aged twenty-eight, ana Josephine Drew,
aged fifteen, who hadned IRON Concord on the 2sth
OF November last. The reward was offered by John
Marshall CITY Marshal OF Concord. The REPORTER.
who was in possession OF the facts attending the
death OF the young woman on Hudson street. was
resided there were those who were wanted
He informed Captain McHarney II the suspicious
he entertained, and the Captain a. once proceeded
Of the man and woman which had been sent on
from New Hampshire. The first call was made
body. On the Captain showing her the girls PIC
ture she Immediately recognized the likeness as
being that OF the person who died on the 18th Of
December. Miss ITALIA Corneils0n was then
RECOGNIZED THE PICTURE.
Mrs. COrneilsOn was then sent for, and the three
ladies accompanied the Captain to headquarters
where the picture Of the man was also fully
identified.
track of the right man, and ne laid his plans to
catch him when he returned from his work, Mr..
CornesOn having procured him position as con-
ductor on the Erie street line. The Captain re-
NAMED at the house until near eleven O'Clock, and
when Sherburn, alias Jones, entered he was In
formed IN was prisoner. lie was thunderstruck
at the announcement, but he walked quietly TO the
station house and offered no resistance He ac-
knowedged on the way that he was the person
for whom the reward was offered and that he had
a wife and two children in Concord. The girl was
the daughter Of wealthy parents, who reside In
Baskerville, near Concord, and she was seduced
from her home by the prisoner. Ii was the old
story of woman's trustfulness and mans treach-
cry. Love opened the way for seduction, ruin and
death In the end.
II was supposed that the girls death was not q
one; but DR.. Pctrie ridicules the idea and
says the girl died OF typhoid fever. Her relatives
have been communicated with, and as soon as they
arrive an examination Of the prisoner will be held
who Ia in the meantime detained In jail.
NILSSON HALL ARM0RY AND DRILL ROOM
meeting OF the Committee OF SupervtsOrs spe.