The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-04
A KENTUCKY TRAGEDY.
A SAD CASE OF NEGLECTED AFFECTION.
WARNING TO DESCENDING LOVERS.

a SAD CASE OF NEGLECTED AFFEcIoN-A
WARNING To DESCENDING LOVERS.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 30th inst,
contains the following revised version of a
painful tragedy: y day or two
sad suicide of young Brent, at Paris.
KY. We gave place to a paragraph headed,
'IIe Died for Herr 1t was founded on in
formation that came from a gentleman
whose sincerity and truthfulness is beyond
all question, but who appears to have been
misled. 1t intimated more strongly than
the author, in the haste which necessar lily
accompanies much of the writing on daily
paper, intended, that the cause of the
tragedy was discountenance on
the part of the young mans father OF bis
marrying, because of the absence of wealth
on the part of the young lady to whom he
was bethrothed. The true facts are now
painfully Before us, and, shrink as we may
from any word that may reopen a single
wound in the bereaved family, we must, in
justice to ourselves as public Journalists,
and in justice TO the living and the dead, lay
them before our readers and the readers of
the former statement. 1t is true, then, that
Miss s. had dismissed young Brent on ac-
count of the objection Of his father, but that
the latter's reason was
BECAUSE SHE WAS POOR,
or because he did not in every way APP
prove of his sons choice, is an inference
totally unfounded. Mr.. Jas. C. Brent was
an estimable young man in every way, but
his pecuniary resources were slight, outside
of his fathers aid, and the latter, with
many children, married and single, claiming
his equal love and assistance land all agree
that both were bountifully given accord
ing TO his means, which were overrated by
implication in the article to which this is a
correction), counseled Jimmie, firmly
but not harshly, against marriage at
this time. In the wisdom of this decision
all of the friends of the deceased and of his
family-and they number many does
the community in which they live-coin-
cided. Even the noble girl whose name has
been so cruelty prominent in connection
with the tragedy, had seen the truth of the
reasoning, and so had conscientiously broken
an engagement which promised present hap
piness to neither. On the night of the hop
she refused her lovers prayer for renewal,
or more kindly. declined an immediate an
swer. With the gentleness of
rarely beautiful character, she babe
him come to her at her home
the following day, and had his impatience
agreed, no doubt all would have been well,
for waiting and hope would probably have
been the solution OF the problem. But we
need not again repeat the sorrowful story
the threat with which he parted from her,
"that neveragain should she see him alive"
proved not to be, as she thought, the iule
poetry of "a loyal and impetuous lover. He
rushed from the ballroom to his home, and
it is more than likely that the storm
without, which drowned to the ears
of the sleeping family the report of the
fatal pistol, met with too much rapport the
storm within his breast; suggesting as it
w a
throwing around his bitter honr deadly
glamour of romance. Mr.. Brent, the father,
borne downtown by years and sorrow, is
utterly PROSTATE. He has been kind and
indulgent father, a citizen above reproach,
and has the respect and sympathy of all
who know him. We deeply regret that any
word of ours should have added to private
woe which is past public realization, and
which so far as we are concerned, shall here
/ after be sacred from public intrusion.