The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-03-15
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-Appcni 90 Women for Her vindicatiou,
An Atlanta tGa.) correspondent of the
cincinnati Commercial writes as follows
Five years ago there lived in Pickens
county, among the mountains, as fair q
lass as such q region is proverbial for
producing, rosy-cheeked, brown.
haired, blue-eyed maiden, with the form
OF model and the grace OF gazelle.
She was the daughter of q well-to-do
farmer, and her smiles were courted by
the brave-hearted young mountaineers,
who engaged in honorable competition
for monopoly of her society. Among
those was a dashing young man, hand
some, OF princely carriage, and whose
fame for courage made him known in
all the counties around. Dauntless in
love as in all things else, he laid siege
to the heart of this mountain belle, to
whom she cRpitulated, and though but
girl in years-seventeen she was
they were married. She idolized her
husband, and clung to him with wcr-
sbipful devotion, happy only when with,
and ready to sacrifice her life il need
be for him. And he, feeling secure in
her love, repaid her attachment with
indifference, and gave more attention to
another, a former rival of his wife, than
was consistent with his obligation as
husband. She bore this long in silence,
and tried to persuade herself that there
was nothing wrong in her husbands
conduct. But the seed of jealousy was
planted in her heart, and found nourish-
ment in the buoysncy that once ex-
listed there. Ere many months the bloom
on her cheeks faded, the brilliancy of
her eyedeparted, her merry laugh was no
longer heard, and the once light-hearted
and happy girl was changed to the dis
consolate and brooding woman. And still
no complaint of her husband. BE would
come back to her, she thought. But
her confidence was misplaced; and at
last, when one night a dancin party
was given at her fathers house, where
she lived, and the source of her un.
happiness was among the invited, she
approached her husband, sand af.
fectionately entwining her arms about
his neck, begged him for her sake
not to dance With the woman she hated.
Playfully chiding her for her jealousy,
he gave her his promise that her re-
quest should be granted. She did not
engage in the festivities, but pleading
illness retired though not to sleep.
however, for she knew that her husband
and her rival were under the same roof.
with weary eyes and aching heart she
watched the dancers, but nothing oc-
CURED on the part of her husband to
excite her jealousy until midnie ht.
when, believing her to be asleep, he
took his position in the next quadrille
with the woman he had promised his
wife to avoid as his partner. Stung to
the heart at this exhibition Of perfidy
under the roof that sheltered her home.
she watched the dance for awhile, her
senses seeming to desert her, and then
she left her room and sought her father,
from whom she borrowed a pocket
knife under the pretext of want
ing to cut a tooth brush Securing
the knife she returned to the room
IN which the dancing was goinr
on, reaching it just as the last SET
ended, and going up to her rival, who
was moving toward q seat. seized her
by the shoulder, and frenzied with
Jealous rage. said, s. You have danced
enough ]" at the same time drawing
the open knife from the folds of her
dress and plunging it deep into the
woman's neck, making a horrible cash
which penetrated nearly t. the heart.
and from which the blood spurted sew
eral feet in the air and spattered over
the late dancers. Again the deadly
blade was .upIifted, and again it de-
scended. plunged into the left breast in
search of the heart, and yet again
another blow, when the victim sank to
the hoor-dead. So quickly and SO
quietly was the awful tragedy enacted.
tbst not until the woman fell, and the
blood from her wounds was discovered,
did any one know what had happened.
When the discovery was made, a rush
was made toward the PROSTATE form,
and voices cried:
"Where is the man that struck that
woman p
10 which the answer came in tone
and an attitude of proud defiance from
the wronged wife:
am the man that did it."
The horror r-stricken crowd sur0ed
about the door, when her husband. re-
alizing what his Irritation had brought
about. grasped his wife and drawing his
pistol, said:
Gentlemen, l am going to leave
this house and take my wife with me;
and we are going through, if have to
shoot through"
The crowd gave way before him, and
going out into the night husband and
wife disappeared under cover of the
darkness, and for whole year evaded
the vigilance of detectives, with the in
centive of $3.50 reward offered bv the
parents of the dead woman and $3.50 by
the State for their apprehension. They
were finally heard Of in North Carolina.
where they We're arrested and brought
back to Piekens county aud lodged in
Iali, and with them a little girl baby
which had become a member Of
the family sinea thar Aiubt M