Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-02

with ttic ulItH vi passion 10
; a new love ho cast the old on
9 off. OK
Then came the challenge.
The policeman charged will
the arrest of Helene Guda foun,
her in sumptuous boudoir, a
> sleep. She accompanied hin
without resistance, only beg
ging leave to take with her som,
of her jewels, as she feared Il
trust them with her servants
The articles she took We're con-
tanned in a sandal-wood case
and consisted principally of dia.
moEds. In addition to them
she slipped several rings upor
: her fingers. One of these. Tho
officer particularly noticed, was
an enormous emerald, sci with
diamonds.
Before a Magistrate. the ac-
tress simply declared:
81 killed him, as I should
have done. He was a false,
faithIess, worthless man. BY
killing him / saved other silly
women from being cursed as 7
was. But / killed him fairly.
L challenged him to meet me.
He did SO, and he died."
"Why did you challenge
bim?" asked the Judge. at
was not a womanly act"
"Perhaps it was manly act
to betray woman's love-"
"You loved him, thep?"
sit does not matter, l hated
him enough 10 kill him. He
came TO meet me with q laugh
on his lips, fancyIng / was play
i ing with him. He has learned
his mistake since by the light
of the fires of hell"
The woman refused TO say
any thing more, aud was re-
manded to prison. A curious.
contest now began. Her VIC
TINS friends demanded her life.
A legion of admirers of her own
requested her liberty. The
most potent appeal, however,
came from herself. One morn
ing the Judge, before whom
she was to be tried. found a slip
of paper under his plate at break !
fast. The Judge was a bache-
Ior, with an old servant who had
waited on him for years. Alter
glancing at the paper he called:
"Johann."
"Sir," responded that worthy.
"Where did this letter come
from?"
aft was left at the door, SIR,
by a young woman, who ran a
way as soon as she delivered il
to the porter
An hour later the Judge was
in Helene Gnda's cell. lie re-
manned there till long after
nightfall, commanding a dinner
with covers for Two to be
brought from his house. Next
day he appeared again, and the
next. and the next. 1t became
4 public scandal that the muir !
leress of Count Belinski had be-
the Judge who was to
sit upon her case. /
The scandal reached its cli- <
max, however, when, one MORN '
ng, the alarm-bell of the prison t
announced the escape of a .pris- I
,ner. The fugitive was Helene
1uda. She had vanished be- {
ween night and morning, and {
udge Druschkowicz was miss |
ng. too. s
The detectives were at their Y
Wits ends, for the absconding +
,air had left absolutely no clew, I
when a girl presented herself I
md expressed a desire TO render e
ome information in the matter. c
t was Helene Guda's maid! S
he same girl who had delivered Il
Ter letter at Judge Drusch- h
Sowicz's door. In leaving War
aw the pair had left her with Il
mt recourccs, and for the sake il
# revenge she desired TO betray f
hem to the police. In
They had driven ten miles in i
o the country on the night of u
he escape in q street hack, hir- +
d a carriage there, and struck L
cross the country TO a lonely II
station, and there taken a
he first train to Berlin. Thith- t
r a skillful detective followed b
hem. On the morning he land e
d in Berlin he found in the ?
ewspapcrs the following para h
.raph: /"
GA Polish gentleman who for y
en- days has occupied apart Is
lents in the Hotel Snperbe at .
empted suicide last night by 9
utting his throat. He was dis n
overed by an attendant in time "
D be saved. The female inIy
hose company he arrived at 8 3
he hotel disappeared yesterday ie
,renoon. She is supposed to
ave been his mistress, and her n,
of him is presunl- SC
a to have been the cause of his l.
tempt upon his own life. The tI
n - r. L.