Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1877-09-01

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ness and she was In the agonies of death,
but able to speak. Her clothing on the
left side was burning, and in few mo-
ments more both would have been wrap
pod in flames. The fire was quenched,
and the doctor sent for. In the mean
time, the woman was questioned, and she
gasped ont that the man had shot her,
when she died. The man was also dead
This was the close of an unlawful love. The
man, Henry A. Rosewarn, an English
man, forty-one years of age, was the
superintendent of the st. Lawrence
mine, in Ell Dorado county, of this
State. The woman, Mrs. Jessie Lewis,
an Englishwoman, about thirty-three
yesrs of age, and her husband kept o
boardipghouse in the neighborhooda Of
the mine. Rosewarn, q fine looking
| man. and Mrs. Lewis, a handsome wo-
man, became friends, although he had q
a wife and family in England, and she a
husband with her, they became too inti-
mate. The husband, instead of resort
ing to the shotgun, chose the more peace
full and prudent course of retiring from
the field, and betook himself to Los An
geles. For sundry reasons, which may
easily be conjectured, Mrs. Lewis closed
hor boardinghouse, and in October last
came down to this city, put mp at the
International hotel, and has lived there
ever since. From time to time ROsewarn
paid her visit, and it is presume.
ho cd fn
| some Of Rosewarn's friends, of late the
connection became distateful to him and
he was anxious to break it off. Mrs.
Lewis, woman of intelligence, IS said
to have made persistent efforts to get
| work of some sort, that she might sup
port herself, but after doing her best
could not earn sufficient to pay her board
and lodging. She had sacrificed every
thing in the world for Rosewa1n, and no
her trying situation. This was bitter
enough, but added was the misery of
jealousy, and the suspicion was forced
upon her that she had met the fate that
usually overtakes a woman who throws
aside honor and friends for Il mans sake
had become q hateful burden to her lover.
On the nineteenth of last month Rose
warn arrived in the city from the mine,
and registered at the international. 1t
is probable that there was q scene be-
tween them, Tor he le1t the house the
next day, and up to the time of his vio-
lent death, occupied otier lodgings. Be-
fore Rosewarn's last arrival Mrs. Lewis
had always Geen able to pay hor bills
at the hotel, but during the last few
weeks she was without money, and she
grow desperate The people of the ho-
tel say that latterly she acted oddly, as
if the difficulties of her position were
warn gave her to understand that he
wished to sever their connection. They
were seen a few evenings ago on Kear-
ny street, near the hotel, walking to-
gether and talking excitedly- She sud-
denly turned down a side street and left
him, but presently ran back and rejoined
him. That scene expressed the situation.
She could not and would not let him go.
He had brought her to what she was,
and she determined that she wonld not
be deserted and forced by poverty into
the net that opened before her. On Sat
urday she applied to Rosewarn for assist
ance. Whether he gave her money or
not is not known, but friend of his in
formed q Nail reporter that he advised
Mrs Lewis to retnrn to- her husband.
Yesterday morning Rosewarn, i'll company
with his brother and friend, walked to-
ward the International. On the way he
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entering the hotel he paused in the Office
a few minutes and talked with gentle
man, saying, among other things, that
he thought he should go to church that
| day Then telling his brother that he
| would be down presently, lie went brisk
| ly up stairs. About ten minutes after
I ward the pistol-shot was heard. Not
withstanding the dying statement of the
| woman there is hardly a doubt that it
was she who shot him and herself Eve
rything goes to show this. An examina-
ton of the bodies by the coroner showed
wound in the back of Rosewarn's head
where it would be next to impossible
that he could shoot himself. She was
shot in the left side, and the weapon was
held so close that the powder set fire to
her clothing. The revolver was found
lying npon her body, and she lay upon
tho corpse of her seducer. Although her
| friends assert that she did not have a
pistol in her possession, q search of
the room resulted in the finding of a box
of cartridges in q reticule belonging to
her, and the cartridges fitted the cham
bers of the revolver. On the table before
which the body of Rosewarn was found ly-
ing, and at which he was no doubt sitting,
sheet of paper, on which, in PENCIL, and