Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-17


her blood, and threw them into the
corner on the floor, as if they had
been the trappings ola tired horse in
q stable. The hat, an elegantly trim.
med and fashionable Leghorn, was
hung upon a peg. There was kid
glove upon the left hand which was
left untouched. The feet and lower
limbs were eifUased in silk Dalbrig-
gan hose, and the only garment left
upon her was the chcmisc which was
tastefnlly embroidered. Her hair
was thick and dark, and the face that
was turned away from tho one that
lay on the slab three feet distant,
looked as If there was time,not very
long ago, either, when it had some-
thing in it which almost any man
might have admired, which some
men could have loved-which two
men did love. There is nothing
about her appearance to Justify any
mans saying she was lewd, or even
sensual.
is of fine physique, being at least five
feet ten, and with a remarkable we'll
developed chest and muscles. He
was 81 years of age. They disrobed
him quite as unceremoniously as they
did the woman, and threw his appar-
Ell loosely into the corner. Then they
took string and crossing his bands
upon his breast tied them together.
Wet and dirty sheets were thrown
over them, and the two were left alone
in death, as desolate looking objects,
as the clouds gathered thick and the
rain kept on coming down, rs any
man looking for despair could wish
to behold.
THE HISTORY OF THESE PEOPLE,
two of them now out of the way, and
the other one left miserable in this
life, ls little singular and trifle
crooked all the way through.
Bell was found last night in Nine.
SCOTS parlor, sad and detected, as q
matter of course. He told Times
reporter story in which there are
some discrepancies and contradic-
tions, but none of these Bell chose to
unkink, so that the reader will have
to supply what his taste may desire.
Bell married his wife in Moberly,
Mo-, which is an interior railroad
town of that State. He moved to Os-
kaloosa, Iowa, and obtained situa-
ton on the Iowa Central railroad
There he met with Joseph M. Glad
den, the man who cut Mrs. Bells
throat and then cut his own. Glad
den was married, and the two fami-
lies became intimate. Bell was FREE
quently away from home. Last win
ter and spring he went to New York,
where he remained some six months
as an invalid. He left his wife in Os-
kaloosa, but she contracted the habit,
it seems, of doing some travelling her.
self. A few weeks since, when Bell
had returned, they went from Oska-
loosa to New Sharon, where Bell says
her people lived. He left her few
days after, expecting her to make a
visit during his absence to Mt. Pleas
ant. He went to MarshalltOwn, and
while there received letter from her
asking for pass to Ottumwa, which
he sent. She stated in this letter that
she would 60 from Ottumwa to Mt.
Pleasant, where she would meet him.
The next information he received
from her was the letter addressed to
him from this city, which caused him
to suspect something, and which was
the means of bringing him here. She
told the girls at Nine. SCOTS several
stories Of her past life, and among
others, SO they say, was one to the eff
feet that she had kept a house once
herself, in Iowa, and that she had now
reformed. Nine. Scott wanted to
know of her then why she had come
where she was, when she replied that
it was only temporary, her husband
being hard up; and that as soon as he
got work he would take her away.
| When Bell went out on yesterday
to look up his wife, he
MET GLADDEN.,
whom he recognized with some sur.
prise, and asked him where his, Glad
denis wife was, to which GLADDEN. re.
piled that she had been here, but he
had sent her back home the night be-
fore by way of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy road. Bell says that
then for the first time did he suspect
that GLADDEN. was the destroyer of his
peace and happiness. off l had
known it," he said. II would have
saved him the trouble of using that
razor"
THE CORRESPONDENCE
found in the trunk of GLADDEN. shows
conclusively that the intercourse be-
tween himself and the man Bells wife
has been not only of the most fre.
qucnt nature, but has also been sur
rounded with all the endearments
and affections which blubbering man.
hood and womanhood are guilty Of
It appears that while Bell was in New
York she was in Illinois, part of the
time on the heels of GLADDEN., for
whom she had strong and strange
infatuation. Several letters address
ed to him from Oshkosh to Farmer
City, between the dates of the LIST of
March and the middle of April, call
ing him her "birdic" and telling him
she cannot live much longer away
from him. Then, again, similar let
tiers, some of them addressed to Mrs.
Estelle Wilkes, to Decatur, and also
to j. S. Wilkes, No. Cos North Water
street, Bloomington, breathe the same
spirit Of devotion and bear reassur-
ances Of her devoted attachment to
him. The whole tenor Of these letters
60 to prove that the liaison between
the two has been one reaching over a
period of eighteen months. There is
also letter in the trunk of the dead
man, addressed to j. w. Wilkes,
Bloomington, H., from Chicago's di-
vorce shyster, Dexter, insuring di-
vorces for two, man and oman for
$75.
GLADDEN. has been in Chicago two
weeks, during which time lie has
been in search of employment and
finally applied to the Metropolitan
hotel for the position of runner. Fail
ing in this he went to work for his
board in livery stable on Wells
street. When he went to board with
Mrs. O'Brien he told her that the wo.
man who came to his room, on two
occasions before her last visit, was
his wife.
THE INSTRUMENT HE USED
in the terrible deed committed was q
razor of unusual Dimensions, and
l AOohc hlOAC INV III uSCeA
for barber-shop scene on the stage
than anything else.
The coroner will hold an inquest
to-day, and the remains of Mrs. Bell,
the indiscreet mad unfaithful wife,
will be taken by her husband back to
New Sharon, Iowa, for intcrment.
After which Bell says he shall 60 ia
his old home in New York and pass
the remainder of his days.
Mrs. Lucy Stone fought hard fol
female suffrage in the late colorado
campaign, and Rev. DIR. Bliss, of Den.
yer fought against it. The two me,
at the polling place, and. on introduc.
ton, Lucy observed: $50 you are
DR.. Bliss ! should think l have heard
of you, and you may be assured, sir
that my respect for you is very small
sir, very small. Really, sir, if l had
known who you were should moi
have shaken hands with youw DR.
Bliss replied that he chad thought
Mrs. Stone to be lady, but aeas sat.
isfed that he scas mistaken" Then
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