The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-16

"oi 'uah |ocol ne OOn I L pay MIN
one thousand dollars year, Pshaw
l will wager thousand dollars agains,
an old hat that this is a trick of Mus
groves. If German rides Tennessee
Tomorrow. Virginia is certain 20 be
beaten"
There was at least five thousand Der
sons present at the race course on the
following day. Betting ran high b.
tween Virginia aud Tennessee.
Mr.. Woodsnn was overjoyed 10 find
that it was FIVE to one in favor of his
mare.
Suddenly. however. be was startled
by the offsr OF one of the most intimate
friends of Mr.. Musgrove, the owner of
the Mare Virginia, to bet ten to one on
the latter.
The race began
When the decisive heat came, Ten.
nessee was beaten by two lengths
Mr. Musgrove was radiant. His
friends. who had won pile, Si money
on Virginia, overwhelmed him with
their most enthusiastic congratu ations
Within few yards from this over
Joyed group a widely differont scene
took place.
MIR. Woodson confronted with fash.
ing eyes German, who had ridden his
mare. Tennessee
You scoundrel." shouted the nabob
angrily. why did you pull back in the
second heat ?"
II did not. sir" but he was unable
to look Woodson in the face.
lyon lie, German ~ thundered Wood.
son. turning purple with rage. You
have sold me out l was warned against
You yesterday"
Il do not lie. cried Go.nln. If
you dare to assert that, shall call you
G Cd id liar :"
Woodson drew a pistol and fired at
Gorman. The latter fell; he had been
shot through the heart, and he expired
almost instantly.
A great commation ensued Wood.
son was arrested and taken to lail.
La the meantime, Cecilia Musprove
was prey to the most conflicting emo
tiOns.
What was she 10 do: Was she to AL
low old Woodson, the father of her af-
fisnced husband, to be sentenced to
long term of penal se-vitude. or was
she to betray and thereby dishonor her
father
AT first she thought she would speak
to her father, but she knew only too
well that he would laugh her to scorn.
The poor girl had repeated inter.
views with Frank Woodsou, who was
greatly depressed on account of his
fathers sad fate. Cecilia was heart
broken upon witnessing her lovers
grief.
Nine days later the grand jury met,
ana Cecilia Musgrove, to her fathers
profound astonisliment, was summoned
before it,
She returned an hour later to her pa
ternai home q prey to the most bitter
anguish. Vainly did her father urge
her to tell him what was the matter.
His conversation with her was ,nter-
rupted by an officer. who summoned
hm before the grand jury. Musgrove
returned from the court house rs pale
rs sheet. Ten minutes later the re-
port of pistol startled the inmates of
the house.
Anson Musgrove had committed sui
eide
For two weeks the aged suicides
house was a scene of heart rendering
grief.
His three married daughters had hur-
ried to Nashville to comfort their
youngest sister. Cecilia. who had been
taken seriously sick in consequence of
her fathers unnatural taking off.
As matter Of course the events we
have related created the most profound
sensation at the capital of Tennessee.
No one, however. knew exactly what
was at the bottom of this mysterious
affair. except the two persons that had
,cen initiated into it
The astonishment of the public was
increased still further when the Dis
.rict Attorney ordered Mr. Woodson to
be uncondtionally discharged, and
when the great nnbeb not only pur-
chased all the property of the late An
'on Musgrove. hut prevailed upon Ce.
lila, who had slowly recovered; to take
up her abode IN his house. Bat he sold
MS mares. Tennessee and Virginia.
which had also become his property. at
! sacrifice
A year later Frank Woodson and Ce-
,ilia were married. Mr.. Woodson took
his bride first to Little Rock. Ark, and
4 few years later to Texas, where be
lied of yellow fever. at Galveston, in
1916.