The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-07-28

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" SHADOWED FOR LIFE.
A woman silsntly Follows fsr rweaty. .tarsa
/ Years the Man Who Had wro.eed Her-A
! Wonderful History and aa Interesting
| Story. -
| At Louisville, Ky., news has reached of
the death in Mississippi of NJ sior John r.
Throckmorton, of Louisville, man of leis-
ure and of style, . bachelor Of eixty-6ve. .
famous beau of quarter of century seo.
and the lover of the beautiful Sallie Ward
at the time when the bewitchinx Southern
girl captured the son of the Puritan Geven-
or Lawrence, Of Massachusetts. When tho
young bride wentto her New England home
Throckmorton followed. It is asserted
that jealously Of Throckmorton, which Mrs.
Lawrence was too proud to zesent by e1-
planation, was in reality the cause which
led to the separation of lawrence and his
wife. Sallie Ward came back to her faith
ers house, and divorce was granted Law
renee on the ground Of desertion. The
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ton still lowered around devotedly,
but was not rewarded By tie
lady's hand. She married DR.. Hunt, and
after his death became the wife ofa wealthy
pork man named Armstrong. When this
gentleman died, it was rumored that ut last
Major Thr0ckmort0n was to be blessed for
his lifetime devotion, but the handsome
widow drives about in the finest private
turnout the city affords. and has paid no
more attention to the addresses Of The ma
jor than in the days Of her girlhood. The
beauty ofthe Kentucky belle, Sallie Ward,
made her fame worlu- wide, and the per-
sistency with which the major followed
her gave him q certain interest in tho eyes
of the multitude, but it was another woman
that held him up to the gaze ofmankind, q
woman who shadowed him more constantly
than no haunted the path of the famous
belle.
Throckmorton was q pleasing and frivol-
Gus man of the world when he first met the
school girl Ellen Goodwin. He was about
thirty years Of age; she was fifteen. Her
family was at least the equal of his, and to
an older sister he had been paying attention.
He deliberately set to work to feign love
and to gain her heart. Having gained it.
! he threw it aside without concern and went
his way.
Soon alters yelled figure appeared on the
| streets of Louisville-a girlisn form that
moved silently after the man wherever he
went. She never spoke to him, neither up
braided or leviled. When he entered the
hotel she stood at the door; when he
emerged from his club house she was wait
ing. In New York, in New Orleans, she
was at his size, phantom like. He jocular.
" spoke of her to his friends as his 'Hell's
Delight"
Ten years passed. Her old friends de-
cided her crazy for keeping the thing up.
Fifteen years rolled around. The police
knew her; they watched her faithfully, as
some harmless, demented thing, and passed
her from beat to beat, as she ploughed her
way homeward in the wee sma' hours of the
stormy night. No human ever offered her
harm or insult, although she often stood all
night before the places where her guilty
lover was hidden.
Twenty years we're gone; old friends had
died father, mother and schoolmates. Her
hair had thinned and whltened, her form
stopped, a cough sounded hollowly on tho
air; her step Was more feeble, yet none tho
less it trackeda a portly, gray haired, fash
ionably- -attired man from mansion to man.
sion on New Years Day-from theater and
club room night after night.
A"CAtS "AAAcc yC0Ao AdSA phhSCu. IVCA
the little children grew to know the plain,
shabby, black-robed women, and tiny fin-
gers pointed at Throckmorton's ghost.
Young girls looked wonderingly after her as
she passed them silently. Wives smiled or
sighed pityingly-they were SO secure and
sheltered-when her garments brushed
Their own. Mothers grasped their girls
more eclosely-suppose this woman's wrong
should be the fate of their sweet daughters in
the days to come. So, for twenty three
years the phantom, silent, certain, dogged
the betrayer's steps. At last friends of his
had her arrested as lunatic, and through
their misguided precaution the man and
woman were brought face to face in the
court at Louisville. Then it was
that all the city woke up to the matter that
the woman was neither crazy nor fool.
Her language was eloquent, her manner
of her life was tcld-her vow to follow HIM
until the hour of retribution, her persist.
eDt watching, her silence and revenge. Be-
fore the woman he had wronged Throck-
morton quailed, and his bravado was not
equal to the Cross questioning to which he
WAS exposed. At last one evening, as
was walking on jefferson street. near the
court house, great shout ascended; cheer
after cheer went up. The old court house
rang with applause. Men threw up their
hats. Ellen Goodwin was acquitted and
Throckmorton's ghost was laid; for the wo-
man having brought him to the bar and
having told the story of his perfdy, said
that her work was done. and she would
haunt him no more.
Throckmorton, conscious of his gull, had
refrained from arresting her, greatly as she
annoyed him during the twenty three yeals.
and the story would have been untold, and
she would have lived and died regarded
by the present generation as
monomaniac had not the gallant majors
friends interposed their we'll meaning
blunder. There never was . trial in the
city that cqualed this in interest. At it,
close the entire room was filed with shouts.
which those outside took up, until
the whole city rang with the news of the
vindication. The jurors crowded around
and shook hands with the accused, and per-
sons who for years had passed her without
recognition asked pardon of their old
friend.
After the trial my friends tell me that
Ellen Goodwin never in any way noticed or
spoke of Major Throckmorton. A time
spent in retirement, and then the desire
seemed to awaken in this blighted heart TO
know and feel some of the happy things
OF lie from which Sue naQ OeDaffeu 0cr-
self. Her shabby black was laid aside,
plain clothing, but the richest, took its
place; study, books and music filed
the days. One day the guests at tho
Gait House saw IN elegantly dressed lady
enter the dining room with Mrs. General
Preston. This beautiful lady paid her
friend every attention. and poor Ellen
God win awakened wonder afresh by her
ease in the new position. She boarded
some time at the Calf House, and then
travelled for a while. But the purpose
which had kept her up SO long was now
lacking, and she sank gradually from earth
until q few years after her arraik knment.
she quietly passed away.
1t has been mystery how she kept track
of Throckmorton on his frequent tours.
Some persons say say she possessed clair
voyant power, or could read the mind of
her lover; others supposed that the majors
body servant, who always accompanied
him, gave the information. I am told that
in her last days she regretted having neg
lected the beauty Of the body for 80 long:
It was her desire that at death she should