Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-07
AN AvENGING ANGEL.
the Way a Texas Girl Revenged Slight
to Her Affections.

the Way Texas Girl Revenged a Slight
to Her Affections.
From the Omaha Herald.
There are m my things to be seen at the
coming and going of the various trains at
the Depot not dreamed of in thy PM
osophy, Horatio" All phases OF human
life are presented there, with Kaleidoscope
variety. by the people who come anu ~
day otter day. Youth and old age m'hs,e
together, equally expectant ana nopelu',
aud the s,rong and BRAY, RI neing IA
health and eKutsnt In tleir sFene!o,
c,me and go side by side Win
down by the side of poverty, and
contentm-nt shakes hands with de-
sp4ir. Nowhere perhaps IRE the antipod
OF society brought into re CONSTANT or
more striking contrast Than upon the aver
age railroad train. This fact WAS pla'niy
though painfully demonstrated last night.
The outn.bound train had just come IN.
and during brief delay necessary for the
shifting OF mail, we learned the FAD partic-
ulars of how q < nile, tender, loving won N
was transf"r by mans perhdy INTO an
avenglnx Nemesis. In one corner OF the
palace c h sat q woman, young ano
beautiful, but with q settled look OF despair
upon her face, and cold, hsrd, crue!
glitter in her ewes She was ricniy a
tastetuliy attired and about her was I'M
indescrbable atmosphere "n' saS d'e al
of superior education and rehneo' cutti-
yat.d bsbits and tastes. AS was easy To pc
coon sts mad history. A gehtlem IN wh1
49, in .noiher part Of the car. the sheriff OF
Tex.s county, related bril- hy her sthry.
A had been suImised, the lady mad been
brought up under the best influences that
great wealth and hgh social standing could
com and She had been blessed with
every educational advantage, having
graduated al Vassar and spent some time
IN travel thr 1ugh European Countries
While in the NeItheriand her heart and
the promise of b hand we Won by
handso litled scapt grace. This was two
years ago. When she returned to this
country her lover followed after in the
course of few months But meanwhile
the girls father had died and his v, st for
tune had been swallowed up in wildcat
speculations. so that the foreigner found
his promised bride pc lniless. Lice most
of his kind, he broke off the eng cement
and set about seeking more desirable
alliance elsewhere. He found 1t in
the person of young lady livi in the
same Texas town rs the girl whom he
came to NARY. He pressed his suit and
the two were m arri d and imm diately set
out for Europe. The rel 9cted girl found
means to follow them Uwly but surely.
After months of patient and persistent
effort she came up n them in remote Ger
man town. me first intimation the scoun-
drel had of her wa, the sharp sudden
crack of pistol that sent g ball pitilessly
through b heart.
o course she was arrested, and teen fol
lowed weeks of trial and torture. Final y
she was eel red insane and the authorl-
ties placed her in mad house M can
while WEALTHY relative, moved by a
mo- her, tears. followed her, and finding
= her, secured her release, and now she Was
on her wav back to her far away, desolate
Texas home. II relative vas aboard The
train asleep, and the officer was watching
that she did MT do herself harm amosts
supe huous, needless precaution, for she
was chained to the seat upon which he sat
o nderneath the silken robes could be seen
now and then the cold. metallic glitter of
the handouts upon her wrists and links Of
the small but slrong chain which held be
These, briefly, were the facts OF her pitt
full story as hurriedly toll to the reporter
during the short while that the train re-
manned standing at the depot He step
ped off on to the platform rs the conduc>
tors lantern swung the signal to stop, and
the train pullt d off into the darkness bear
ing with t the wreck of one human life
shrouded in the gloom of night more en-
durable Than that without and il which
there are no stars,