Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-23
WOMAN,S love.
How a ReantifuI Girl was Bewitched
by Bny OuiiAw.


by Sny OuiiRw.
Omaha Herald.l
There is a morbid sentiment in
society that in a kind of an absract
manner glorifes great criminal,
and he who can boast Of "one virtue
and thousand crimes" has a hold
upon the memory of the public that
cannot easily be shaken off. nike
manner the plebeian boor who
burned the Temple Of Diana was
more famous than the royal archi-
tect who reared it. An instance
in point was the marriage in Coun-
Gil Bluffs yesterday Of SANDY"
alias George Melville, whose Swind-
ling games and greater crimes, and
his frequent marvellous escapes from
death by bullet and halter, have
made him famous throughout the
entire West. Bewitched by the
strange fatalities that have always
followed the man, discovering some
good points that cleaned out of his
dark career Of crime, and admiring
in him those very qualities that
have made him an outcAst in society,
a woman has followed him, often
with her presence and always with
her love, and yesterday she sealed
the compact existing between them
by marrying him under mosthumil-
iating circumstances.
TO those who have not the prior
knowledge of him, Sandy will be
remembered by the people of this
community by his attempt, in con-
nection with Clinton, to swindle
an old man by selling him a lot Of
spurious gold coins ip exchange for
greenbacks. 1t will be remembered
that the men we're both arrested
and were tried before the United
States Commissioner at Council
Bluff, and Sandy sentenced to five
years imprisonment in the Iowa
penitentiary While awaiting trial,
or rather while being conducted to
the Justices court for the prelimi-
nary examination, Sandy attempted
to escape from the officer in two
different instances, and was shot
at and hit by the officer, in the lat'
ter case being wounded so badly
that it was reported that he could
not recover. AS these troubles
collected around Sandy the loyc
of the woman who has at last
married him grew the stronger,
and she haunted the Jail likC
specter; finally gaining the
permission of the officers, sht
entered and nursed him through
1.-THE hours when his life was de
SPARED OF, and at last, when tbt
stern decree of tho lazy interpOseC
its edict, and declared that the'
should be separated by the stronger
firmer bars Of the State peniten
tiary, the woman sought and OBJ.
tanned the privilege Of tho officer
to marry him before he was takei
from her. The necessary arrange
ments were made, and the tw'
strangely-matched beings weF
married in the Jail, the ceremon.
being performed by a justice Of thu
! peace. The witnesses were tn
prisoners, who wege ordered to re
main at the rear end Of the ball
and q few persons who were permit
: ted to LOOK inside through tn
CRATES Of the front DOOR 1t was
queer spectacle, and shows What
S woman will do for the man sh
? loves. There was Sandy, ALA
Melville, or, as she claims, Mel
ody, that being the name unde
which he was married, just read
to be shackled preparatory +
starting for Fort Madison, wber
he is 70 serve q term of fy
. years Imprisonment. There was
woman, young, and of rather at
tractiye appearance, clmging to
criminal, willing and anxious t
bear his name and share with hlr
all the obloquy attached theret'
/. But then, such is woman's mature
and such has always been from tll
:. time of Eve. AS they stood thel
, assuming the obligations of IL
= marriage VOW, the thought was we