The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-07-19
LOVES JEALOUSY.
Strange Outrage On Brooklyn Young
lady.

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MntOn-On-the-H Hudson correspondent of tn,
/ .r. New York World.
Returning from a picnic soon .aftel
10 O'Clock on the evening of the Fourtl
OF July, as has already been related
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles ii. ConnOr,. or
| opening the front door of the house
.ope-half Ofrwhich they occupied, dis
covered what they supposed to be q
| corpse lying on the floor i'm the hall,
With its feet raised and braeed against
the door. Mr.. Common, although very
much alarmed, pushed the door open,
and finding that the body of the young
lady who lay before him was still
alive, threw a shawl over it and car
ried it into the parlor. Mrs. Connor,
who was very much frightened.
screamed and aroused the family, of
Mr.. VIM. H. Townsend, who lived
directly opposite. The nude but liv-
ing body that lay on the floor of the
hall was that of Miss Louisa Heuser,
good-lOOking young lady living in
Brooklyn, who had been spending
some time with her sister, the young
wife of DR. HaSbr9uck, of this place
She had only her stockings on, and
her clothes lay near together on the
parlor carpet just inside the door.
Even her bracelets and necklace had
been taken off and laid carefully on
top of the clothing, and with these
was also found the comb with which
she had kept her rich, dark hair in
place. The door leading to DIR. Has
brOuck's parlOr was wide open, and
on a center-table was a lamp burning
brightly, just as if the room had been
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DIR. HasbrOuck and his wife were alb
sent on a two days visit to Kingston,
and had left Miss HeuSer alone in their
had been out to the same picnic from
which Mr.. and Mrs. COnnOr returned,
but had come home early in the COM
pany of Mr.. VIM. II. Townsend and
his children, with whom She had left
the house in the afternoon. When
found in the hallway which divides
the double twO-stOry frame house, she
had split sponge over her nose, bound
on by long strip torn Off from tow
ell taken from her room, and the other
part of the towel was tied around her
head in such q manner as to blindfold
her.
After the discovery the neighbors
were soon aroused. DIR. Gedney, who
lives about mile up the river road,
was sent for, and 10y il o'clock the
young lady had regained her senses.
She at once related what had happens
ed to her, telling how two masked
men had suddenly entered the parlor,
where she was sitting at the piano;
how she was almost instantly para
lyZed at the sight of them, and that
from that time she remembered little
until brought to in Mrs. Connor's par
lor.
With this part of the story the pub
lie has already been acquainted, but
how the young lady came to be put in
such plight continues to he a mys-
terry. The strangest thing of all is the
fact that majority at least of the cit
iZens of Milton profess to believe that
no men, masked or otherwise, enter
ed the house in the mauner described
by the lady, and that She did 1t all
herself. But when asked to Justify
the known facts with such n theory
they are utterly cOnfounded. and ac-
that they have no eXplana-
that neither the Justice of the Peace
nor the Town Constable have taken
any measures towards detecting the
alleged criminal parties, and whenev-
er anyone breaches the subject to
villager he shrugs his shoulders, and
talks darkly about jealousy" 'jilts,"
"prftfe," and Glove affairs" generally.
called on Miss Heuser to-day (in
company with DIR, Gedney, who is a
practitioner of long standing here and
heard the story from her own lips. As
Miss Heuser entered the parlOr the |
Doctor greeted her cheerily, and said |
she looked much better than when he |
last saw her. She was pale, but the |
Doctor said that was natural with |
her. Miss Heuser is a very pretty |
young lady, with a great abundance |
of black hair, large dark eyes, smooth |
light skin, wide forehead, neatly ia
pering chin and a prettily curved |
mouth. She was demure, but perfect |
ly calm and self-pOssessed. In an |
swer to my questions, Which We're as
shrewdly put as l could make them
under the circumstances, she said:
"When l came home with Mr.. |
was $50 o'clock. The house was |
empty and all locked up. had key
for the back door and came in that |
way. I went up to my bedroom on
the second floor, threw my hat on the
bed, went down stairs and turned up
the lamp in the parlor. Mr.. Town
sends folks were letting off works
in their front yard, right opposite. |
went out on the stOOp and sat there a
while looking at them and then went
in, shutting the hall door, which has
a spring lock. | came into the parlOr
here and sat down at the piano, |
had struck only few notes when |
| heard noise like the 'creak>
ing of some ones boots. l got up and
started towards the door, when / was
met by two men whose faces were
| turned and ran toward the
there. | ran around this side
of the table, and the men ran around
that side. One of them said, "Stop
her, Jack, or she'll scream" That's
all heard either of them say. / was
frightened. l think [ tried
to scream, but was so frightened that |
| couldn't. | tainted right away, and
the next thing L knew was when |
was | was lying on the sofa in Mrs.
Coppor's parl0rs. One of the men
was very tall and slim, and the other |
was short ! can't say which of them |
| saw first, but ! think | saw them |
both together. ! am sure that they |
were men, and not women in mems |
bliC w ilahNA ~ 7plN |
hand, but it was not the hand of a |
woman. The men looked strong and
muscular. can't account for what |
they did. ! have no enemies here |
that know of. After | had laid my |
hat on the bed in my room and started |
down stairs, l thought heard noise
behind me or on the roof of the house, |
but took no more notice of it. Pm |
sure | didn't upset the piano-stOol in
getting up to go to the parlqr door. |
got Hp iqSt as |, wQgld at any 9ther
and' going sfraight towards the door"
There is all Of the young lady's sto>
ry, and yet it is very hard to 'Justify"
with all the circumstances. There
could have tean 40 gEeat out6ry, for
It would have been heard by at least
score of near neighbOrs, who, in fact
heard nothing. The fact that not the
slightest scratch or bruise could be
found on her body on her body showed
that there had not been much Of
strnggle IL any, ,althaAgA {he Eiano
SthHf5hd nue 'bftie paTlOr chairs were