The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-01-16
/ CASE OF TOO MUCH LOVE.

l CASE OF Too MUCH LOVE.
4 ye.y curious >tOTy comes from PI
comOke City. Maryland. showing what
| reading Byron NAV lead To. Miss Lily
DueT was Young lady Of eighteenanL
belle OF POcOmCke CiLv. She had OH.
y lately graduated with hJn0rs.-
! which may mean much or little. ac-
coruIng u circumstances. Young L.
dies from sixteen 10 twenty generally
affect one style or another. according
10 the novels they read most. Miss
Lily Duer adopted the StrOug-minded
slanI-bang rule. She chopped her hair
nd short and parted il bOy-fashion. Be
ing pretty girl. with large. dark eves
THIS was rather becoming. She studied
medicine and hated men. Whether
Z she studied medicine U=cSUs,. She hated
men, or hated men because she studied
medicine, Is not quite clear. She took
long walks in the woods. PERHAPS 10
Keep OF the abOminabla masculine
sex, she fell into the pleasant little
habit Of carrying 4 small loaded pistol
with her, on all occasions. Moreover.
TINS pOpgun had Il cheerful way of
going of accidental like. -At least that
was what she claimed.
7 Miss Lily was Overwhelmingly in
telIectudL She used 10 sit up nearly
all night reading books. She was pas
slOnately fond OF reading. her mother
testified. The sequel shows that she
was a passionate sort of female any
how. Her favOrite author WAS Byron.
whose nature is similar To nv own
she said. She was vriy honest To own
II, dt any rate
She fOrSw1Ut mItrimuny. Most
girls do. But il WIS unfortunate q.
Miss Lily nusr'S case III she had had
nice young man 10 waste her affec-
tiOnS and her powder on, Miss Ella
HeaTn might have been alive to-day.
Owing 10 the fact that she hated men.
Lily conceived an ardent fancy for
Ella. All history Jestiiies that the
human heart must have something to
lean upon. Is il were. When W WOmen
won't fall in love with Iaen. as nature
intended, they fall in love with each
other. At length. after Lily had
studied medicine, sat up nights read
ing Byron and taken lonely walks with
her loaded little pistol by her side for
= sufficient period. she was in that
frame of mind To do anything rO-
mantle. Ii is said she put On-in
short, that she dOnned i suit of mas
culine clothes. and cavOrted about the
country ut times III trOWserS. Her
StrOng-mindedneSS seems IO have tie
YelOped.
Her love for Miss IIelrn assumed
the violent phase, 50 violent that at
last it annoyed Ella seriously. Lilly
was rs persistent in her attentions as
the Widow Butler Is in WOOing the
people of Massachusetts,. Miss Hearn
seems to have been a natUrll-minded
young woman WHO did not take kind
" to this sort Of nonsense. Lilly used
to visit her every day with queer and
eXtrayagant demonstrations of affec-
ton, although she told her again and
again TO go home, and never come back.
Unrequited love is apt to become a nui-
sance. in male or female. In October
the two young ladies took a walk to-
gether in the woods. They gathered
tea-beTrieS. After while they start
ed home, the She-lOYer. with her little
pistol, walking i'll the rear.
stop she cried. suddenly, to Ella.
Hiss Hearn did not heed, but walked
on. Suddenly she heard Il report, then
another and another, which caused her
to stop very quickly and look behind
her. Lilly had deliberately fired at
her three times, narrowly missing her
Ella ran to her and Knocked the pistol
out of her hand
did you intend To shoot me-" she
asked.
Il only intended to frightcn you and
make you STOP said Lily.
After that Ella never walked in the
woods with her any more. Miss IIeaTn
had another young lady friend 4
Miss Foster, and this fact seems to /
have aroused the ungOvernable jeal-
Ousy of the female lover, who would I.
brook no rival. From sitting up nights /
reading Byron she had learned what /
was the proper thing to do. November
she sent i note to Ella, asking her to T.
call at her Qilly's)hOuse, "On proper f.
business" Ella called, and the weigh
ty concern was pressing request to |
take a walk in the woods with Lilly. !
Ella declined. Next day, November ,, !
the ByrOnic girl marched into Miss
Hearn'S house with her tiny pOp-gun.
She insisted that Ella should walk with
iHISfIUy NIUyr uIrdtU n SIiO ''ss.h - -, I'D
time, she Nilly) would never ask her to
do anything else rs long as she lived.
Ella still refused.
"Say that you love me- exclaimed
the tragic female. SAY that YOU love
me better than ANYBODY else
Miss Hearn would not say il. Lilly
turned to go away, in great excite
ment, but came back, threw her arms
around Ella. and tried to kiss her.
Ella pushed her off, and she slipped
and fell. but arose again. Immediately.
. IN Von love mo =" Shn .TS "a pfi
NO." said Ella.
Then Lilly stepped back Il pace or
two, pointed her pistol at Elias eyes
and fired. The wounded girl fingered
a month, in state of painful suffer
ering, and then died. The COrOnerS
jury rendered a verdict that she had
died from nervous depTeSSiOn'-with
a bullet in her brain. The fact of it.
self was 4 tOlerablv depressing circum-
stance.
Lilly at first declined to say whether
or not the shooting was Intentional.
Her father asked her several times,
but she would not answer. One day
he put the same question, when she
turned over and began to weep bitter
". \ few days afterwards she told
her father she believed she was going
to die, and she wished the truth To De
known. The shooting, she said. was
not accidental. but Intentional. She
then narrated she strange story Is
above.
y New York Herald reporter called
on Miss DUer. To the question wheth-
er the shooting was accidental, she an
swered in 4 tOplOftical manner:
Il am not I murderess. sir. DO look
like One:"
Her appearance was Is tragic Is
might have been expected in 4 young
lady whose nature was similar 10 By
rOn's. She had striking cOuntenance
overcast with sadness and melan-
chOly," and said sir when she made 4
remark to the reporter. She was an
injured woman, she said. She had
been misunderstood from her child
hood up. Every trihing thing she had
done in her life had been exaggerated.
This, too, sounds ByTOnic. All in all,
the poet Who wore turn-dOwn collars
will probably have more sins to ans
wer for after he is dead than even
those he committed in his lifetime
Gin. Commercial
"Ah. Jenny, Jenny" said the kind
hearted DIR. POnsOnby, Bishop Of Der