The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-07-28
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should be the fate of their sweet daughters in
the days to come. So, for twenty-thr
years the phantom, silent, certain, dogped
the betrayer's steps, AT last friends OF his
had her arrested as u lunatic, and through
their misguided precaution the man and
woman were brought face to face in the
courtroom at Louisville. Then il was
that all the city woke up to the matter that
the woman was neither crazy nor q fool.
Her language was eloquent, her manner
refined, her face firm. The whole sad story
of her life was tcld-her vow to follow HIM
until the hour Of retribution, her persist.
ent 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 I
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
Ihrockmorton'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 guilt, had
RETAINED 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 a
monomaniac had not the gallant majors
friends interposed their we'll meaning
blunder. There never was Q trial in the
city that equaled this in interest. At it,.
close the entire room was filled 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 life from which she had debarred her.
self. Her shabby black was laid aside,
plain clothing, but the richest, took its
the days. One day the guests at the
Gait House saw an elegantly dressed lady
enter the Dining room with Mrs. General
Preston. This beautiful lady paid her
friend every attention.. and poor Ellen
Goodwin 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 a few years after her arrai, nment,
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
yoyant 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 so long.
It was her desire that at death she should
be handsomely robed. The directions for
her funeral were left with her lawyers, and
she went to her last sleep dressed like
queen, in a black velvet burial robe, with
rich laces, siken hose, and dainty Slippers.