Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-01-01

Most Of them had originally been signed
with initials only, or oftener without
any name, or with some pct name but
Burr, with malignity whose motive !
cannot even yet understand, had writ.
ten ont each name IN full. He seemed
resolved that others should share his in
fanny. Some Of the names belonged to
the most honored families In the land
to have revealed them would have been
to cause terrible anguish, and In several
cases probably the breaking up Of fami
lies. | used to go over and look at them
when ! had spare hour.
They were strictly guarded by Davis.
He was queer man, but he had q high
sense Of personal honor. Why, Mordecai
NJ. Noah offered Davis $4,000 for that
blue trunk and Its contents, but Of
course the offer was spurned and the in
suit resented. Matthew Davis, too, had
his eccentricitics, and one Of his queer
notions in regard to these captured love
letters was that they should oil be re-
turned to the writer's! That seemed TO
me to infict needless pain, and argued
with him about it, but he said tho
writer's w0uld be better satisfied II
they had chance to destroy them
themselves. Some Of them were old
ladies then, mothers and grandmothers,
but Davis undertook the grim task Of
returning oil tho packages Of letters by
the hands Of trnsty friends. A good
many he gave back himself. He gays
me one Of those delicate packages to de-
liver when was going to Providence
one day, but told him ] would sec him
hanged first. But ! know that Gen.
Scott did accept one Of those packages
from Matthew Davis and returned it
with his own hand to lady high in 30
ciety in Richmond. He told me 20. !
always wondered whether she thanked
him OF not, but / forgot to ask him. But
think Of the moral nature Of q man CO.
pable Of deliberately leaving all those
letters to his own daughter as legacy /!
Burr was quite small man. Very
graceful in movement and courteous in
demeanor. A small hand and foot. Not
spirited and dashing at all, but bis man
ner was full Of repose, and his voice was
soft and musical. He would strike one
at first as being slightly effeminate, but
he was not SO; he was q bold, strong,
capable man. In conversation, to the
last ten years of his life, he was brilliant.
But, to return to the subject Of his
wickedness toward women. When he
was in England he was greatly assisted
and befriended by learned professor of
Oxford University, whose name must
not mention. In return for this friend
ship Burr ruined his wife. Six years
afterwards Burr obtained a position for
this professor in New York college, for
obvious reasons, and when they came
over to this city Burr also seduced their
daughter, q lovely girl Of seventeen,
whose confidence he had won when she
was little girl, during his visit in En-
gland. In due time the professor died,
and Burr became q penniless outcast.
Then this mother and daughter, instead
Of hating him and squirting him, took
him and supported him during his last
ten years by keeping clearinghouse
downtown. This was on the well-known
Reese place on Broadway, just below
Wall street. Here his food and very
medicine were paid for by the two wo-
men on whom he had inflicted mortal
injury fifteen years before. He had no
sense of shame or of gratitude. He was
almost universally hated during his last
years, and was really an object Of pity.
! remember being on an Albany steam
boat one night, and seeing crouching
form out Oh deck, / went out, and there
was Burr in the cold. ! asked him why
he did not 60 in. He said he was not
very cold, but we went in together.
There was Gov. Lewis Morgan, whom /
/ noticed that they didn't
speak, SO seated myself between them.
Finally Burr rose and moved off. Don't
You know Col. Burr :" ! asked him.
eyes," he said, 81 know the id rep
tile"