The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-06-17
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Z. with Is Murdered Woman.
It was between the lights on g gloomy
December afternoon. / was the one oc
cupsnt Of the smoking room Of "Lit.
erGry and Artistic Club which faces the
Thamas. Ifiung fresh coal on the gloomy
embers, ard gtirTed them sill they seat
up blaze of2iight that drove the ghosts
out of the shadowy corners, and then
picked up paper haphazard from the
table, to daadle over 1t till the waiter
lighted tine gas, or Boine human being
wandered in. TO keep Me company. II
,yas an American paper EeIaa visitor 10
the club had left Il behind him accident
ally. I turned the pagee llstlessly, until
suddenly my attention .as arrested by
6 o paragraph headed "Extraordinary
Crime" It was the story of the robbery
ofa body Of lady from its grave. The
whole affair Ras slirouded in mystery,
On ehe i4th of Tho month there died In
an American city the beautiful wife oi
an Englishman travelling for pleasure.
In the same paper which contained this
paragraph found the heading Of "Cradle,
Altar, Tomb, the following:
On the 18th Instant, intiiis city. Dfu-
silla, the beloved wife Of Blisset. Elmer
ton, of london, England, agcd twenty
FOUR In due course the poor lady was
buried, an during tile night flls church
yard was entered and the coffin carried
away. No motive ;s suggested In this
American paper for tho crime. The hus.
band ie ieiuteryiewed at his hotel. He Is
incorsolable for the loss Of hia beautiful
.t.,<-l n
! horror &c the desecratiou OF her remainb.
He tells his story TO the reporter. He
had only been marriGsi o few months.
They were travelling for pleasure in
America His poor wife caught q cold O
fortnight since, returning from the then.
ter. He had medical advice, bnt the
cold increased and inflammation ofthe
lungs set In and soon all was over. He
buries his head in his hand and Meeps,
and the reporter leavoa him alone with
paper / was reading by tho fifelight con.
cluded thus; .sUp ID the present 40 clue
to this mystsriot,s affair has been obtain.
ed." glanced at the date OF tho paper,
aud flung 1t down In disgust. 1t Wss two
years old. I had grown interested Ia The
affair, snd hare II was two years old al
ready, and probably forgotten. Where
should I ind out how it ended? Z
Tho shadows bad grown darker and
darker the fltful glare Of tho fire had
died down into q slnlE red glow, and the
flunp fsysejF shacir int she essv chs;r
thrust faylhSti5is into nv T,ncttsts md
half olnsed INV avaa Enndden;y I .gas
aware that sTsa not alona in lie ronn,
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seemed To be lookiny for -Soy,nefhing NJ
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entity Id seizeii somathis,y. at,iS giided
away with n, 10 tho tyintieyyg.S ar Shieh
the fanna withnnY Ti,,ntg 4 sl;st a. s,f iehpi
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in his hand he held khe 6n1ericrn 'r,,,,sr
in which L had iiiat rand the ~ 4
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snnttered something tlist sounied iike
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paper. thrst it int, i,is breast .s1srs Toees
and walked out of sfie room. FTepdIy had
the i0or i1eeh closed behin6 him ryIien
4 tho attendant au.s 4, will Iiohta. n
no ia that rent ana Il IS In lila snst
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