The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-04-13

! organization, and caused every drop OF
blood to CONCEAL in my veins. saw Miss
Reynolds closely locked i'll the arms OF
a young man elegantly dressed, and OF
singularly delicate appearance. They
were earnestly conversing in low tone
| of voice, and the hand of my fair one
| was pressed gently in the hands of the
stranger. / drew close to the window,
| applied my ear to a crevice, and, will.
the fury of pandemonium in my heart, ]
listened.
The stranger clasped Miss Reynolds
| in his arms.
dearest angel" he exclaimed, ''what
an interruption to our bliss by the return
of my hated rival"
With very fond caresses and endearing
Establishments, she replied, Gear no
thing. I have promised, and must yield
him my hand but you shall never be
excluded from my heart. We shall find
sufficient opportunities for private con-
ference"
I could hear no more. NJ brain was
on fire and, rushing from MY conceal
ment, I, with a bound, sprang through
the window and confronted them.
"Ungrateful and false hearted WON
an % I exclaimed sis it thus you return
my idolatrous love? You have deserted
me. You have perjured your most
sacred VOWS and thus am avenged ''
And placing pistol at her breast, I
shot her through the heart and turning
| to her companion-''And thou, perfdi-
GUS contamination and destroyer of my
bliss, go attend thy companion in iniqui-
ty, death too good for SO foul a crime!
and Immediately drawing my knife, I
! stabbed him to the hilt in the breast.
With the words, "Oh, George Your
wife, your sister!" he fell fainting to the
floor.
My God That voice 1t rang in
my ear like funeral knell It rings to-
day, and will continue to ring requiem
of agonizing remorse as long as tune
shall last.
1t was, indeed, my betrothed wife +; it
was, indeed, my beloved sister, The one
lay dead before me, the other weltering
in her blood.
raised my sisters head into my lap.
In a faint and dying voice she told that,
in weak moment, they had concerted
this plan to test my jealousy. She had
dressed in male attire, intending, as soon
as had discovered them, to reveal her.
self, and laugh at my discontinue.
'.Forgive me, George" she pleaded,
earnestly; forgive me! A mad, un-
womanly freak, has robbed me of the
happiness of lifetime"
She said no more, for, with her arms
entwined lovingly around her murderer IS
neck, she, without struggle, was watt
ed on angels wings to her Creator.
| What words can describe such agony,
| such utter desolation as mine By one
rash act L had robbed myself of more
| than life, and would not live to endure
my pistol to my head but ere I could
fire, my arm was grasped by hand of
steel, and the weapon dashed upon the
| ground.
My firing had awakened those living
close by, and they came just in time to
save me the crime of a triple murder.
I made no resistance, and was convey
ed to prison, there to await my trial,
which came off in two months. I was
condemned TO death. My execution
will take place in four weeks from to-
morrow. I shall cheerfully meet my
fate, for who would endure life when
rendered so peculiarly miserable?
The wretched Melville here ended his
tale of woe. No tears moistened his
eyes ; his grief was too despairing for
tears it preyed upon his heart, drank
the vital streams of his life and burst
in convulsive sighs from his burning
bosom.
The day appointed for his execution
drew near his past and approaching
fate filed my breast with sympathetic
sorrow.
He saw his venerable father, his moth
or, his friends and acquaintances, with
several pious clergymen, who entered
his cell to comfort him. His mind sof-
tened by their advice and counsel. Ere
quently would he burst into tears. Often
in the solitary hour of the night was he
heard addressing the Throne of Grace
for mercy and forgiveness.
But the grief that preyed at his heart
had wasted him to a mere skeleton. A
slow but fatal fever had consequently
implanted itself in his constitution. Ex-
hausbed nature could make but weak
struggle against disease and afiiiction
like his and about a week previous to
the day appointed for his execution he
expired in his mothers arms, with the
name of his loved and lost one upon his
| lips-leaYing a conclusive, incontrovert-
ible evidence of the evil influence of
| jealousy.
THE roads in some parts of Germany
| are lined through the entire distance by
rows of appletrees, the branches of
| which latter bend beneath the weight of
| the fruit A fine of three shillings is
y.