Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-19
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Hailorao applied to Warren Wilton, Of Water
vliet, Tor job as tarm-hand on the lutters farm.
Mr.. Wilton, being busy at the time and want
ing man, hired him and put him at work dig
giug potatoes. Hallorao was apparently about
twenty-three or twenty-four years of age aud
said he was only few months from ireland,
where his parents and family were 10 good
circumstances He was a man of good educa-
ton aud hne conversational powers and made
favorable impression on Mr. Wilton aud
his family, especially on Jennie, Mr.. VII
tons eghteeu-year-uld daughter. During
the day the new farmland worked faithful
y, and at night he opened school at which
he gave to his employers chidrcu lessons, for
which service MIR. Wilton paid h III additiouai,
y to his days wages. Things VIZ gu in this
way tor awhile, until Mr.. Wilton began to no.
tice that bis daughter was never at rest unless
she was receiving her scholastic lostructop
from Halloran. Mr. Wiou admouished the
Iaborer not to think OF bestowing attentions on
Miss Wilton, when Halloran resented what he
called an insult by leaving the farm. i lew
days after, Mr.. Wilton got a letter in the W est
Troy Postofhce directed to his daughter in the
| handwriting Of his late workman, opened it, and
found it to be warm love letter from I1aoran
The father scaled it aud gave it to his daugh-
| ter, who soon after wrote au answer aud com
| mlttcd 1t to her brother to be delivered to the
! postottlCe. Ii was Intercepted by Mr. W llton,
who read 1t and then had it mailed Sry-
era letters were sent by them to each 9TH
er, and intercepted by her father in this way,
until finally it WAS arranged that Mr.. Hal
oran was 10 comc and take her away last
Saturday evening. Mr.. Wilton though, that
he had everything arranged so nicely that
when HalIoran came be would fall cap.
tive 10 his hands, aud he Gould do just as he
had mind to with bin. Bus it seems
the young lady grew suspicious aud did nat
wait for the appointed time OF clock Tor her
lover to make his appearance but slipped Jut
quietly 10 her everyday clothes and disap-
peared A little way rom the house her
father diScovr red her old dress. apron and
shawl, which she wore outside her best
clothes to avoid detection. They secured the
country in all directions to iu4 her Y4stcr-
day morning Mr.. Wilton received a letter,
daled at Utica, and begging tier father TO
send moooy to her to return houc, as the vii
lain she rcposcd so much cruitcace in, after
accompanying her as far as Utica, had deserted
her, aud she had uOt seen him since about halt
an hour alter their arrival. Ii sent h.r cote
saying he was sorry for her, but in order to be
| rcvenged on the father lie left her aSlray. The
sorrowing father Started for Utica yesterday al
tcrnoon to bring home the e:rlug child
a SAD ENDING or AN ILL SPENT LIFE.-
yesterday niUrnIng about ~ Z clock Lucy Ster-
IIng, alias Helen Ashton, woman abyut TWEEN.
| ty-scvcu years OF age, committed suicide it is
supposed, by taking morphia at house No. 90
kaborg street. uear Pine. Captain Lcpson was
notified and immediately summoned Curoucr
OgIe who empauecd a Jury Of irque>t. The
hIs' witness examined was Hlolc Brown. the
proprletress OF the house, which, ii is needless
TO say, was Of a il,rcpulable character. She
| testified that the deceased sas 20 inmate OF
her house, having been there for nearly three
months, during which time it was her habit to
frequently become intoxicated On Sunday
night she retr, in a drunken state shortly af.
ter 9 o clock, aud this morning, when servant
| had been sent 10 the room, she was found dead
upon the bed. DR.. j. y. Dickinson, druggist,
at the northwest coraer OF Baltimore aud paca
streets, testified hat the deceased had been
regular purchaser of morphia at his store, ADD
wheo she WAS questioned concerning it, always
| SAID that 1t was used only to crafty habit TO
| which she was addicted. On Sunday morning
| she had called at his store and obtained FIVE
grains OF the drug. She was apparently ra-
tlora aud not int 1icated, mentioning to him
that she wished some toilet articles for which
she would call in few days. Lizzie johnson
| testified that the womau left the house on Sun
| day Ught with two bottles, and had stated
within her hearing that she Intended to buy
something that would end her ilfs. She re-
| turned shortly atterward aud was very drunk
and Dolsv. Alter this the wltueSs saw nothing
more OF her until her body had been found
| Maggie johnson testified that the deceased
had come to her on the previous ugnt with
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90 heavy drunk When the servant who
Went to her room The D, xt rlornng failed to
arouse her, the witness had gone herself and
discovered that she was dad
Caroline barley, the servant in the house,
stated that upon Sunday Afternoon The deceased
had been lying drunk upon table down stairs
and had created much disturbance during the
| night. La the morning the witness had gone
to her room to tell her that breakfast WIS wait
Ing, but found that she could not awaken her
She then called DR.. Knapp, who pronounced
death 70 have taken place several hours before.
Sergeant Slebod testf d that Lucy Sterling
had been arrested and confined iu the Western
Police Station, for being drunk aud disordcrv,
on Wednesday night The jury then rendered
verdict of Death by taking morphine, with
intent OF destroying her life." She was a na
tive of Fredericksbu Virginia, where she
bad lived up to her eighteenth year with her
family, who are respectable and weI-knowu.
The body will be inferred at the expense of an
aunt, who Is matron of a charitable institution
IN this eity.-Balimorc -4n,ericuA.
AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS BURIED. The
Cologne Gazette has the following:
The Princess Henem Zeinub-only fifteen
years of sge-a fsvorlte daughter of the Khc
dive OF Esypt and wife of tbrshim Pasha, died
recently in Alexandria Of typhus fever follow
ing shortly after confinement. The khedive
and his family, as well as his guest, the Sultan
OF Zanzibar, and the whole city of Alexandria
were much disturbed by the sad event, and the
theatre VS. closed for three days. The body
was taken to Cairo the same day and placed in
the kasrel- Nj palace. An immense concourse
followed the body to the depot in Alexandria,
and hundreds o! thousands OF lire were distrib-
uted among the poor people. The nterment
took place in the Rilah mosque on the following
morning. Twenty TOUR buliocks, thirty cameS,
and twenty wagons were in the funeral proces
sion. These, animals were laden with brea J,