The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-03-16

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well, Sir, a bottle or a bottle and q
half day, Sir. She took it quiet and
steady, Sir. She never got drunk-like oil
noisy She went to bed and took il
steady and medicine-like, Sir"
The Coroner looked at the jury, anC
the jury looked at the Coroner, as if they
had never heard of such a case before.
Among the private effects which the
deceased had left was a Davenport, con
tanning many papers of no conse quence
Every thing was in order She left very
little TO tell tales about her frie nds. She
had been woman of business. Hel
handwriting. though shaky, was bold and
handsome. But among the other papers
were some important documents
series OF receipted bills for the board and
education of Miss Elenor Whyte," with
letters from a lady, evidently the wife OF
n clergyman, who had charge OF the girl.
/ The letters were dated from Arleston
/ Rectory, Cornwall, and always give an
account of the child's religious as we'll as
secular education. Another document
was a letter addressed to Miss Eleanor
Whyte dated two days before the poor
woman's death. and unfinished. 1t ran
/ thus:
"LoNDoN: TUFToN-ST., ST. JOINS WooD.
/ "MY DEAREST ELEASoR,-I have not heard
/ from you or Mrs. Young for nearly fortnight,
/ and am getting nervous about IL. have been
\ very unwell, and mostly in bed for more than
/ a week, and to-day feel very sad and sorrow
\ ful and dOwnhearted. Whether / shall ever
send you this letter don't know; but though
! have struggled with myself a long, long while
against doing W hat l am going TO do, feel my
/ self driven by some good or wicked spirit, can
not tell which, 10 do II. must tell you who
yon are, for 1 have been deceiving you and
Mrs. Young, and you are not what said you
were-only the daughter OF a tradesman's wild
real name is Hurlingham; you are the daugh-
! ter OF a country gentleman-at all events, once
a gentleman-Of high family and good property;
and, my dear, dearest Eleanor, your mother il
a daughter Of peer of the realm.
TThe indications about here were wa
terry.
"But ! want to tell you how was brought to
this, and want TO warn you, that you may
avoid the triupter which has made of your
mother, once eautiful, accomplished, and vir-
tuous as you, a-what she Is now! My love,
you must know 1 was very ambitious, and my
poor husband (who loved me dearly enough
then, poor fellow, whatever he has become
since) was not. tried to carry him into the
world and into political life. 1 worked night
and DAY for IL. studied / read, talked with
statesmen; l entertained and went out; few
would believe what did and what was and
was able to do-few certainly who now see the
world but much as loved you, was trying
to push forward my ambitious aims IL taxed
my strength terribly. consulted my physician,
take occasionally little brandy. Darling
Eleanor, listen to your mothers declaration.
took his advice, and i swear before God that,
looking back over those years, / cannot tell
you how IL grew upon me, II came so gradually.
/ was not conscious until found 1 could not
do without it. was noticed by quick, design
ing men. Such man once took advantage OF
it, and in one brief hour lost my virtue and
my honesty and self-respect. How fell and
struggled and fell again, can not tell you.
The devil had got hold OF me- YVES tettered
me! My precious, precious child, 1 dare not
tell you what i am, nor what your father is
Godl When think of you and your pure, holy
life and my own sinful depravity, feel as If l
were in the torments OF hell like that Dives in
the Bible, and looking at you an angel in heav
en-, and asking God to let you cool my burning
wouldn / you for the sake even OF your sinful
mother, who has worked and sacrificed to keep
you safe from the pollutons of your two wicked
parents. How have tried to hedge you round
and keep you away from temptation-and
those dear good people all through these ten
years have brought you up and treated you
like their own child-and you are so good and
so beautiful and so clever, and have been con-
firmed and learned to love your s."
Here il was evident the writer had
broken down in passion of sorrow. The
latest words were scarcely decipherable,
and the pen had dropped upon the paper
never to resume its work The name
of the holy and forgiving One, who had
MERCY even for the sInning Mary and
the poor adulteress in the Temple seem
ed to have excited thoughts that made
this poor woman shrink and cover and
weep Oh, had she truly written it, even
then might she not have seen and felt
something of the grace that turks in the
name of Savior
/ will dryly state the remaining facts
laid before the jury by the police. An
open letter, brought in, perhaps, by the
man who had last entered the room, had
been discovered in a bloody fold of the
uoman's dress 1t had been hastily
opened and thrust into the bosom. They
had deciphered it thus:
"ARLEsToS REcToRY, CoRSwALL, Feb. 1876.
"DEAR MADAM,-I write to you in a state OF
the most terrible sorrow and regret. Our and
your darling Eleanor disappeared fOnr days
ago, and we have been unable to obtain any
trace Of her since. Further than this: some
ton, twelve miles from here. the same night,
with gentleman! My husband is distracted,
search of her. The police are doing their best
We had no suspicion of II. Pray come down.
can write no more. God save our poor dear
--'e' aEDITH YouxG."
The clergyman and his wife stated that,
more than ten years before, Mrs
Whyte, who afterward appeared as a lady
like person in decent but not handsome
mourning, had answered their advertise
ment for a child to educate and bring up.
She represented herself as the widow of
a London draper so occupied with busi-
ness that she could not attend to her
child, then eight years of age. Two
things she insisted on: that her child
should have the strictest religious train
ing, and never be permitted to touch any
form of intoxicating drink. The rest of
their evidence was such as might be ex-
pected from the evidence already educed
The girl, beautiful, clever, and estima-
BILE young woman, had gone away, they
knew not whittier, or with whom. They
were quite unaware that she had formed
acquaintance with any one they could
suspect.
This story, with all its in-and-out de-
tails, drawn forth with the vulgar and
sickening particularly of such investi-
cations. filed the newspapers, and in
spired the moral lessons of the journals
tic staff, from the bishops, or other Ath-
eneum magnates who write for the levIa
thans of the press downward
The jury, with exemplary wisdom, af-
ter a long and expensive inquiry, brought
in the following verdict:
THAT the deceased, Helena Hurting.
ham, alias Bellhouse came to her death
/ by falling out of a window at No St.
Martins Lane; but whether by her own
act or that of any other person or per
sons is unknown"
| II.-AN ESTHUsIAsTIc CONVERT.
Miss Emily, impelled by a morbid in.
clination she could not explain, had fol-
lowed the proceedings of the inquest on
Mrs Hurlingham's body with unwonted
excitement and with sorrowful sympathy
/ Not content with this, she wished her
/ fathar and pnother to share her feaiip 80
/ This was annoying. The subject was
/ disagreeable, and Emily's views about ii
were uncomfortably odd.
The truth is, the young lady had lat
terly adopted very uncongenial opinions
Having gone one Sunday, during the
past season, to a church in Hilton square
] Iuhen she hnd as She smmnosel cnnnlnl-