The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-12-27

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to our pity and commisseration, but
he is an ancient sinner, grizzled and
gray, who has had many bout with
the devil during the last sixty years
of his life, and has frequently been
thrown; yet this sharp, keen old
man, wa4o had wit enough to make q
fortune, and manage a big business,
tumbled into the trap of these vile
women as readily as a boy of sixteen
They lured him to their den in New
York, and there quietly, calmly and
deliberately sat down and decided OIL
his murder by poison. The whole
detail, even to the shaving off Of
his whiskers, and the final disposition
of the body was carefully arranged
Not the slightest incident was over
looked and that the plot .miscarried,
was not owing to want of skill or de-
sire, but to the fears of one of the
villainous gang, who saw the ga)lows
in prospective, and did not want to
get her neck stretched. All the pa
pers are now speculating on the num-
ber Of people who are annually work
ed off in this way. Of the multitude
Of bodies tished up from the muddy
waters of the river, probably one
half of the victims are from the coun-
try. There are men and women in
this city, by hundreds, who regard
murder and robbery as a perfectly le-
gitimate business: and who would
think no more of knocking man or
woman in the head, than they would
Of drowning a young kitten or blind
puppy. The scandal and outcry that
this old sinner, Blair, has aroused,
will not have been in vain, if it shall
prevent any number of the old fools
and young fools from doing as he has
done. Let this moral be impressed
on all travellers from the country,
who visit New York or Boston, that
when any lady on steamboat asks
you for pipe or chew of tobacco,
you had better tell that lady that
you are travelling with your mother
in law and can't be interviewed. If
she wants to smoke pipe, tell her to
60 up to the pilot house, or down to
the engiDe-room, or any other place
but your state room, as that is not a
proper place for ladies to smoke
pipes iu when your wife is not
around. Remember this, and you
may escape the scandal aud humilia-
tion now endured by this old fool
from Chatham Four Corners, who has
not only lost whatever little repmta-
tion he ever possessed, but also new
overcoat and gloves, which cost him
$14.5O.
The week has been marked by the
restoration Of the forger, William G.
Gilman, to liberty, and as he is now
utterly ruined and crushed by misfor-
tune, l feel like saying no unkind
word against him, yet, standing
among the ruins of his desolate home,
or by the sorrowful grave of his dead
wife and child, he has nothing left
on earth to hope for more, till the
portals of the grave shall close upon
him. A few faithful friends may still
cling to him, bnt never more will he
be trusted or seen in the busy haunts
Of men. Whatever of ruin or disas-
ter has befallen him, he can accuse
no one but himself; at every step he
can truly say, this is my work, mine
alone.
1t was only week ago, that Judge
Gildersleeve sentenced a poor wretch
to States prison for five years, for the
robbery of dollar, and the chances
are that he will serve his term out to
the bitter end but here is a man
who, surrounded with every influence
and incentive for good, a church trus
tee, an active, Jealous Christian, eel
ebrated for his ostentatious piety and
his lengthy prayers, who sat deliber-
ately down, day after day, month af-
ter month, and year after year, rob
biDg, not strangers, not enemies, but
his dearest, tried and trusted friends,
men who loaned him their credit in
the hour of his extremity and dis
tress, near relatives who sat at his
board and broke bread with him,
these are the men that William G..
Gilman robbed, and for those robbie
ries he should suffer. When he was
candidate for reelection, Governor
Robinson would not have dared to
pardon this man, whose own sense OF
his desert, induced him to refuse Ex-
ecutive clemency, till they actually
thrust him from the prison.
The novel suit of German woman
in Brooklyn is now being tried,
where she sues German widow for
! robbing her of the affections of bel
husband, and of finally appropriating