The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-19
announced that Miss Cookies child was

announced that Miss Cookies child was
the offspring Of a negro. He even pro-
duced forged certificate TO substantiate
this unheard-of villainy.
Beanchamp heard the tale, and re-
solved that Sharpe's hour had now come.
He repaired to Frankfort, and, unable to
obtain lodgings at the hotels, passed the
night with Scott, the keeper of the peni-
Tertiary. He retired early, and pre-.
pared for his murderous deed Instead
of shoes he put on yarn stockings. He
handkerchief. He secreted long knife
in his bosom. Stealthily he crawled un-
observed out of his lodgings, and re
paired noiselessly to Sharpe's residence.
Drawing his dagger, he knocked three
times.
"Who'5 there? ?" cried Sharpe.
ssCovington, replied Beauchannp Gov
ington was an intimate friend of
Sharpe's).
The door opened, Sharpe appeared,
and Beauchamp seized him by the
throat. He tried to escape.
Mrs. Sharpe appeared at rear door.
Beauchamp tore off his mask and
thrust his face close to his doomed VIC
tim. Sand do you now know me ?" he
scofingly sneered.
Sharpe drew back and cried, "Great
God, it is he."
They were his last words.
Beauchamp plunged his dagger deep
into his heart. The blood spurted upon
the walls and dabbled the floor. "Die, :"
was all Beauchamp said. And he died.
The hue and cry was soon raised.
The assassin was followed by an eager
crowd of pursuers. Captured, arrested,
he was brought back and tried. He was
convicted; he was sentenced to be exc
cuted. His wife remained with him to
the last. She made no attempt at con
cealing the fact that she instigated and
urged on the assassination. She gloried
in it, and secuted at the threats of in
dieting her as accessory before the fact.
The night before the execution she pro-
cured an ounce vial of laudanum and
persuaded her husband to cheat the GAL
lows if he could. The laudanum was
divided. She swallowed one-half. He
took his portion. Then they knelt and
prayed. They sang for joy; they shout.
ed that their sins had been forgiven,
and in delirium of ecstasy reused the
other inmates of the prison. The poison
did not work. She swore that she
would starve herself to death, die with
her husband, and be buried in the
same coffin.
June 5, 1926, was a great day in
Frankfort. The city was thronged to
see the last OF J. 0. Beauchamp. The
black and ominous gibbet was erected
on hilltop near by. The drums beat
mournful dirges from an early hour.
At II o'clock Mrs. Beauchamp told the
jailer to leave her for a few minutes
with her husband. The jailer left, but
was soon recalled by deep groans from
their cell. He returned and found them
both weltering in blood. They had
stabbed themselves with knife the wife
had concealed. His wound was not
fatal. His wife soon expired. Beau
champ was carried to her bedside as her
life's blood was ebbing fast. He felt
her pulse. Farewell, child of sorrow;
farewell, victim of persecution and mis-
fortune! You are now safe from the
tongue of SANDER. For you I've lived,
for you I die" He kissed her lips he
was ready.
The blood was trickling from his
wounds. He was too weak to sit up, so
they laid him in a covered wagon and
hauled him to the gallows.
He waved his hands to the ladies,
whose weeping eyes cheered him with
sympathy and consolation. They we're
compelled to help him get on his coffin.
He was too weak to sit upon it unsup-
ported.
6 Give me some water. Let the drums
play 'Bonaparte's Retreat from Mos
cow" were his last words.
They buried the self-murdered wife
and the executed husband in the same
coffin, folded in each others arms. Even
in death they were not divided. Their
grave is at Bloomfield, KY, marked by
u modest shaft. III .5~
The excitement over the fate of Beau
champ and the tragic ending of his wife
has lent to the tragedy romantic halo,
and some years since, John Savage, a
New York journalist and play writer,
worked the leading incidents of the af-
fair intoa drama entitled "The Sybil,"
which, however, was performed only
twice. Sharpe's son got out an inlunc-
ton at Louisville against the perform
ance Of the piece, and succeeded in sup
pressing it entirely. ,~a~. sr s-~e---
We're the tragedy to occur in these
days, it is very doubtful if Beauchamp
would have ever felt the halter draw.
Mehemet'S ALPS Death.
Later advices from Constantinople give