Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-29
City, where she arrived in safety.
The muse proceeds 10 grind:

City, where she arrived in safety.
The muse proceeds TO grind:
Brave men Of Alrena passed judgment that day.
That the irail aud the fallen no longer must stay,
And the birthday OF Jesus, with songs full of
Brought the shroud of White snow for poor Eva
Leroy.
AS the lights Of Aipena fast fade from her
And the dark, frowning men, she flies in alright
With wild courage undaunted, she flies on her
There's a light in the distance she prays for the
day."
The foregoing is rather pathetic
but very untruthful. No such per-
son as Eva Leroy was ever in this
city, so far as we know or have
any reason to believe. There are
a great many brave men in this
city, but nobe of them passed
judgment on that day. No woman
fled from Alpena on or about that
day. There is only one dark man
in this city, and none of our men
ever frown. On the contrary, they
are always childlike and bland,
sympathetic aud charitably inclin-
ed. Hear him whoop it up some
more:
"But the storm-aend encircled that once lovely
In the arms of grim death she was found on the
morn;
Rest in peace thou forlOrn one Gods mercy is
great,
Thou art free from tbs terrors of men and their
hate"
The firl (who was a married wo-
man and had deserted her husband
and children) did not die until
week after Christmas. There is a
low, filthy sink of iniquity out
side of the city called the Two
Mile House, or Robbers Roost, and
there is another of like reputation
four miles from the city, called the
-Four Mile House. On the 18th Of
December last, the Marshal arrest
ell the inmates of the first mention
ed house, on a warrant, charging
them with keeping a house of in
fame, and lodged them in the conn
ty Jail, to await examination. The
woman Leroy was, it seems, an in
mate at this time of the Four Mile
House, and hearing that the in
mates of the other house had been
arrested, and perhaps believing that
a warrant would be issued for the |
arrest of the inmates of the house
in which she was, she took the
stage for Rogers City, distant Al
miles, where she arrived comforta-
BILE and safe, and put up at the ho-
tel, remained a few days, got drunk,
and was ordered away. She took
a bottle of whisky and started back
10 the Four Mile House, expecting
The stage to over-take her; but it
seems the whisky was too much for
her, so she sat down to wait and
went to sleep, and was not discov-
cred until her feet were badly froz-
en-. She was taken back to Rogers
City, q distance of six miles, or
ihereahouts, and was kindly cared
for by two doctors, but she died on
New Years day. But hear the
arch liar spin his yarn:
From the brutes of Alpena they cast the first
stone;
they are pure, just and holy no sin of their own.
Let us praise these brave heroes of justice
Who would drive this poor creature out on that
night"
We don't know wether there are
many brutes among our citizens or
not, or whether our people are par
.icularly pure and holy, but we are
'ure that if we had among our cit
zens such an arrant, unmitigated
lar as the author of the doggrel
luoted, he would I've "driven ont of
Alpena" in dead earnest. But let
Is give the balance of his Sing
Sing eiFusion:
In the cold wintry snow storm, while angels did
sing,
riS the birthday of Jesus our Savior and King;
lis the blest day Of promises, faith, hope and
We she'd tears for thy sad fate, poor Eva Leroy"
The idea that so wanton and I'M
,rinciped falsifier as the author
If that rhyme ever shed a tear
That creature would laugh if a
nan killed himself. He would
augh because he was dead. 1t is
that the author Of the
4bove rhyme wrote il while in
mania potu, and that when he Sob
red up and discovered what he
lad done, he became a hopeless,