The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1881-07-28
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Louisville, July 7.--To-Gay came news
Of the death, IN Mississippi, OF Major John
r. Throekmorton of Louisville, a man Of
leisure and OF style, bachelor ct 65,
famous beau Of i quarter Of q century ago,
land the lover OF the beautiful sa]llc Ward
at tEe time when the heNitcjing Southern
efrl captured the son OF the Puritan Gov.
| Lawrence of massachusetts,. When the :
Young bride went to her New England +
home. 1hIockmorton followed. 1t Is as I
serted that jealousy Of Throckmorton, /
which Mrs Lawrence was too proud to /
resent by explanation, was N reality the
+ cause which led to the separation OF Law
renee and his wife. Sallie Ward came
hack to her fathers I,uIsc, and divorce
was granted Lawrence Oh the @round OF
desertIon. The lady gave no explanation.
| Throcklnorton still hoycrcd around dc-
voteflly, but was not rewarded by the
EIat!y's hand She married DR.. Hunt, and 4
!. after his death became the wife of Il veal
thy pork man named Armstrong. Nhen
this gentleman died, it was rumored thatI
at last Major 'Throckmorton was to be
| blessed for his lifetime deyotlon, but the
handsome widow drives about in the lin
est private turnout the city affords, and
/ has paid no more attention to the address,
es OF the Major than IN the days Of her
/ girlhood The beauty Of the Kentucky
belle, SalIie Ward, made her fame World
! wide, and the persistency with which the
Major followed her gave him certain
interest in the eyes Of the multitude; but
it was another woman that held him up
to the gaze Of mankind, q woman who
shadowed him more constantly than he
/ haunted the path of the famous belle.
Throcknorton was Il pleasing and 1rlyo-
!otls man of the world when he first met
the schoolgirl Ellen Goodwin. He was
!about 80 wears Of age; she was 10. ller
j, family was at least the equal Of his, and to
an older sister he had been paying attell-
f ton. The girl was impulsiVe, interesting,
and innocent. lie deliberately set to work
to fcign love, and to gain her heart. Hay-
ING gained it, he threw it aside Nlthout
concern and went his way.
Soon after a yeilcd figure appeared on
the streets Of Louisyillc--a grlish form
q that moved silently after the man Nller
Y eyer he went. She never spoke to bin
: neither upbraided nor reyiled. When III
n entered The hotel she stood ut the door
( when he emerged from his clubhouse sh'
r. Was waiting In New ! orl, in New Or
! leans, she was at bis side, phantoln-llke
G He iocularly spoke Of her to his friends a
: his sHell's Delight .
g Zen years passed. Her old friends de
;. cided her crazy for keeping the thing up
Il Fifteen years rolled around, the polio
Is knew her, fiiey watched her faithfully, q
/ some harmless, denented thing, and pass
= cd her from beat to beat, as she ploughe
n her way homeWa1lI in the wee small l1oul
J.. OF the stormy night No human being eve
If offered her harm Or insult, although slI
10 often stood ali night before the place
at where her guilty lover was hidden,
Of Twenty years were gone; old frienf
,e had tlieti--Iati1ei, mother, schooimate
go Her hair had thinued aud Vhitened: he
10 form stopped, Il cough sounded hoiIoWi
n on tile .IY; her step was more feeble, y
i, none the less it tracked q portlN, gray
of haired, f'ashionably attired man from mai
ar sion to mansion on New Years Day, fro
r. theatre and club-roonl, night after nigh
he Twenty-three years passed. Even Il
n little children grew to know the plal
ad shabby, black-robed woman, and tiny II
+, gers pointed at Throckmorton ghos
he Young girls looked wonderingly after h
of as she passed them silently. Wives sig
! ell or smiled pityingly--they were so s
cure and sheltered-when her carmen
brushed their own. Mothers graspee The
ls. girls more closely-suppose this woman
wrong should be the fate Of their swe
,rs daughters in the days to come. 50,
nv twenty-three years, the phantom, silel
1T, certain, dogged the blSutrayer's steps.
as last friends of his had her arrested q;
es- lunatic, and through their misguided pr
nd caution, the man aud woman were broue
ees face to face in the court room at Louisvll
ass Then it was that all the city woke up
of the knowledge that this woman was nett
md er crazy nor fool. Her language
as eloquent, her manner refined, her Il
the firm. The whole sad story Of her lite W
,rt- told-her VOW to follow flim until
yay hour of retribution, her persistent Watt
18th ing, her silence and revenge. Before
les. woman he had wlonged Throckmort
cen qtlailed, and his bravado was not equal
re- the cross-questioning to which he v
hin exposed. At last one evening as | Y
are walking on Jefferson street, near
oht Court House, a great shout ascend
late cheer after cheer. went up. The old Go
six House rang with applause. Men thr
,uld ND their hats. Ellen GodNin was =acq'
lose ted, aud Throckmorton, ghost was Ia
le1r for the woman, having brought him to
der bar and having told the story Of his pert
S. said her work was done, and she Wo
haunt him no more.
Throckmorton conscious Of his 81
had refrained from arresting her gre;
a. she annoyed him, during all the tWel
, bY=I three years and the. story would have b
pub untold, and she would have lived and d
onl- regarded by the present generation
= III monolnan;c, had not the gallant Maj
that friends interposeel their Well-meat