The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-05-08

will take her post. MIR. lhrockmorton
i a member Of our oldest club, where he
spends much Of his time. When the old
clubhouse was ON jefferson street, square
below this Office. the writer OF these lines
has seen the unfortunate woman place her
self In pas>age-way opposite his window
and Their remain for hours and hours-of-
ten in letting rain or the biiterest wealth
er-watching for Mr.. Throckmorton's
egrt-ss from the door. When he would
come out she would follow him. half a
square behind, TO his destination, and there
continue her watch until he should come
out again. This was and l. her daily habit.
When Mr.. ThrockmOrton would first leave
his rooms in the morning she would he
across the way waiting for him. DOggedly
she would follow him To the Gait House,
wait until he had finished his breakfast.
and thenceforth. through the day. ner
shadow would fall across his path. until he
had gone 10 bed al night. Ii is said that.
when occasion called him 10 a distant city.
there, too. she was with him. She has
kept herself advise of his movements.
how. no living man can tell, and neither
stralagem nor threat, nor any device which
ingenuity could suggest. has ever served
10 divert her from her purpose.
APPEARANCE OF THE WOMAN.
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comedy and graceful. She is undoubtedly
A woman Of more than ordinary cultiva-
ton. and on every other subject seems per-
fectly sane. Now she is woman Of thirty
odd. and exposure and an unsettled mind.
perhaps. have robbed her of what beauty
she had In youth. Tall and gaunt, wrap
ping faded shawl about her. over a black
dress. with fixed eye upon the house
where Mr.. ThrockmOrton may chance 10
be or upon his form a little way in advance
Of her. she i known 10 everybody i'm
Louisville. Curiously, though. the IRE
pres>lve street gamin never m0cks her. nor
does any man ever attempt 10 modest her
a she goes her lonely way. She Is known
by a familiar nickname, and is so pointed
out 10 the strsnger who happens to meet
her. But caring not a whit for comment
or curious glance. she pursues herpurpose.
The effect of this upon MIR. Throekmor-
ton may he imagined. With another man.
reason might b. dethr0ned. but even TO
him il must have brought gricyious an
nOyance. He Is rarely accosted by her.
but occasionally she has written him let
terS. begging for meeting and promising
him thereafter never 10 trouble him more
Exhausting all other means. he has ac-
ceesied 10 her wish. only 70 be told by her
that the appointment was only a ruse by
which she might see and speak 10 him.
Several times she has been interviewed by
his friends who represented to her the
pain she has entailed upon the man she
PROCESSES 10 love and the wrong she i do
Y ing Ia society. To these she has reiterated
her statement that Mr.. ThrockmOrtOn has
never wrOnged her. but that she follows
blind fatality which she cannot resist.
Mr.. Th-ockm0rtOn has also in his pos
session letters from the unfortunate
woman. written twenty years ago. which
give the same assurance that she can lay
no accusation at his door.
10 these many years have passed.
Some weeks since. however. proceedings
were instituted against her In the City
Court for alleged threats she made against
person in this city. Upon this charge
she was convicted and placed in heavy
bonds TO keep the peace. This bond was
promptly given BY some OF her friends.
Last week she was brought before the
Y Chancery Court on a writ Re llpiafico in
I gsfirsado. and the trial occupiedall the four
last days session Of the Court.
IHE EVIDENCE.
The case i prosecuted BY the County
Attorney. Mr.. Albert Willis. in the sick
ness Of the Commonwealth Attorney.
Col. Lee. and by Col. w. X. Thompson.
Messrs Mundy and Parsons. appointed by
the Court. are defending for Miss God
win. IL i pronounced BY those compe-
tent TO Judge a one of the most cxtraOrJli-
nary in medico-legal records.
Mr.. Mercer. a brOther-in-law. testified
to the general fact that Major Throckmor-
ton was never considered as attentive 10
the defendant; that. on the contrary, his
visits 10 the house OF Mrs. Goodwin We're TO
an elder sister. whom he Mr.. Mercer) sub
sequently married.
TESTIMONY OF MISS GoDwIN's SISTER.
Mrs. McGinnis. sister of the defendant.
testified that Major Throckmorton had
only visited her mothers house three or
four times while she and her sister were
girls and these visits were addressed TO the |
witness. and not to the defendant: that /
Major Throckmorton had no opportunity I
TO ever have favored the defendant in any |
way. and that the defendant had never. i'm |
any Of her conversations relative 10 Major /
ThrockmOrtOn. claimed that he hal 4
wronged her. The witness considered l
that the defendant followed Major Throck-
morton purely from malignity. The fami- I
~ Of the defendant were very much grieved \
al her conduct and had often tried in vain \
TO stop her pursuit of Major Throckmor-
ton. Witness was not for a number of Il
years on good terms with the defendant.
a number Of witnesses were introduced i
who testified 10 the persistence Of the de- \
PENDANTS pursuit Of Major Throckmorton.
through period Of over TWEEN
ty-three years during which time she had 4
Swallowed him while In Louisville. his 4
home. and on one occasion had followed
him 10 st. Louis, and on another to New
York. that the pursuit was 80 notorious
that il was mentioned wherever Throck-
morton was spoken of; that she was always
recognized by the name of $ Throckmor-
tons Ghost"
MAJOR THRocKNoRToS's TESTIMONY.
which was very long and elaborate. was 10
the same effect as the other witnesses i'm
regard to her pursuit Of him through a
long period Of years. He said he had made
all efforts to stop her pursuit. but In vain:
that he had never given her any occasion
for the pursuit; that he had never seduced