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

exhaustive character. she stated the reasons
and defense of her conduct in substance "a
\ follows:
She said that IN ls49 or 1850, while she
was vet a school girl. Major Throckmor-
I ton visited her mothers house 10 call on
/ her eldest sister, whose Acquaintance he
made at the theater; that becoming ac-
Quainted with her ELLEN Goodwin. he had
sought to gain her affection. and that be
being then an. attractive man OF the world.
and nearly twenty years her senior, and
she being an inexperienced and trusting
school girl, he had won her heart, and ac-
Quired an influence over her which enabled
| him 10 control her every action. that he
visited her house while her sister was
away teaching school that his visits were
10 her, and when her sister met him there
il was only when he stald until her sister
returned from school that she and Major
fhrockmorton became engaged 10 be mar
ried. and that he then accomplished her
ruin. Their intimacy continued thus for
year. az the end of which time, on some
/ trifing excuse. he broke of the engage
ment and ceased his visits 10 her. and ig-
nored her acquaintance, and even her very
existence. denying that he had ever known
her. She was still infatuated with him,
perienced and knowing no other way of
winning him back TO her. she began to
walk on the street where he was accus-
toned 10 pass. in order that they might
meet and that he might reconcile himself
10 her. After long and fruitless effort of
this nature, finding that he had deter
mined TO abandon her forever. she dcliber-
ately. and after earnest and long conside-
ration. reviewing all the past and calculat-
/ ing on the future. determined that as he
had wrecked her life and her hopes and her
happiness. she would wreck his that as he
had abused her. SO she would follow
him even unto the end of his days-that
her shadow would be always across his
path 10 remind him OF the wrong he had
done. She felt that she could marry no
other man that in doing so. she would be
a living fraud. She had weighed the effect
of this upon her own life and upon her re-
lations: but that the wrongs 10 her out
weighed all other considerations. Her
purpose was fixed. and she had followed
il faithfully ever since. Ii was not mono
mania. Ii was a deliberate act. which she
had begun Willingly. and could forcgo
whenever she chose. She had no purpose
70 iniure him bodily. but = left his health
and his life in the hands OF God"
OTHER TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENSE.
Other witnesses were examined i'm her
behalf. who testified that she was woman
of extraordinary business capacity and
mental power. il was testified that she had
been employed upon "A newspaper i'm New
\ ork for several months. while She was
there in pursuit Of Throckmorton. and was
offered d permanent situation upon its edi-
tOrial staff. but declined il for the purpose
of following Major Throckmorton back TO
LOUISVILLE In her own testimony the
witness. referring 70 this fact. stated that
her pursuit in life was not literature, but
Throckmorton." Some of these contribu-
tons We're read in court, and also poetry
Of quite superior order. which had been
composed by her. and legal documents.
which she herself had written, and which
lawyers stated were drawn with greater
skill than many lawyers would have ex-
hibited.
THE OPINION OF MEDICAL EXPERTS.
DIR. Il. ;. Bell. an old practitioner. who
had known Ellen Goodwin from child
hood. expressed his belief I'm her entire
sanity. ON the other hand. DR.. Chipley.
Superintendent of the Asylum for the In
cane az Lexington. says that taking the
whole history of the ease her persistent
pursuit through rain and hail and snow.
and the heats of summer and the evidence |
in her letters. he had come 10 the con-
clusion that her mind was not sound.