Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-02-02

between the wife of the defendant
and the deceased render the bloody
act which be was impelled to commit,
most excusable.
"About three years ago, or perhaps
q little more, Harmon began 8 series
of clandestine interviews with Mrs.
Cole. Taking advantage Of the hus-
bands absence he endeavored by
every means possible to deprive that
husband Of the love of that wife, and
to ingratiate himself into her sffec-
tious. How we'll he succeeded this
case shows in a remarkable degree.
He began by assuring her that he
loved her better than any and all wo-
men on earth; that SIZE was the light
Of his eyes, and that without her love
the world would be all blank to him.
He requested her upon different oc.
casions to
LEAVE HER HOME,
her child and her husband, ana follow
his fortunes. He said he would will
lingly leave his own wife and the lit
tie weeping boy you will see on the
stand in this case, and 60 with her to
some place where neither would be
known, and there, withher love, and
his own strong arm, make them a
home in which they could be happy
together. He offered her money and
rich clothing, and everything that a
foolish silly woman could be tempted
with, if she would but aceede to his
wishes.
.sShe listened to his voice, not at
first as a vile woman, not at first in.
tending TO do wrong, not at first ex.
pectlng to bring shame and disgrace
upon herself and her husband and
her family, butin her folly, her love
of appreciation, praise and fattery,
and in her extreme frailty-for ''frail-
ty thy name is woman"-she allowed
him day by day, to pour into her ears
this
SWEET SONG OF TEMPTATION.
"At last, upon balmy evening, in
the early summer, when her husband
was absent, toiling that he might sup
port his little family; while the little
daughter was peacefully sleeping, and
while his house was, as he thought,
guarded even by the holy angels, this
tempter again came and
ACCOMPLISHED HER RUIN.
"He repeated the oft told tale of
love, he declared to her that without
her life was but blank; that he must
and would enjoy her love and taste
the sweets to which only husband and
wife are entitled. Half resisting, half
consenting, wishing he would not, but
wanting strength to repel his hot ad.
vances she allowed him, even upon
the marriage bed that which all true
wives hold sacred and for their hus.
bands alone. ..'
"As soon as this was accomplished,
Harmon cody told her that she was
then in his power, and from that time
on, until the cay of Harmon's death
by the hand of this wronged husband,
their house, the barn adjoining, the
green fields, and even the deserted
houses in and about the town in which
they lived have been dumb witnesses
of their shameful transgressions. OF
course these things could not be car
ried on wholly in secret The very
actions of the wife in the presence of
her husband, the very appearance Of
the seducer in the presence of the man
whom
HE HAD so FoULLY WRONGED,
could not escape the notice of that
husband and of his friends. The
blush of shame and downcast eye, the
hanging head and the hesitating
tongue of guilt told the tale of their
disgrace as if written in letters of liv-
ing fire. He suspected at first-he
heard from others, and finally saw for
himself-that which convinced him of
their criminal intimacy.
"During this time, as if to add most
terrible insult to the injury he had
done the defendant; Harmon pursued
him personally. Upon one occasion
he administered to him a terrible
whipping. Upon another he had him
arrested and caused his trial in this
court in matter of which Cole was
wholly innocent. He would meet him
upon the street, '
TAUNT HIM WITH HIS wIFE's DIsGACE,
iostle him from the sidewalk, and ev-
en- spit In his face, and all this Cole
suffered rather than take the law into
his own hands. 1t will be borne in
mind that Harmon was a young, Wig
orous, athletic man, in the prime Of
his manhood that Cole had served
through the long and tedious cam
paigns of the war; had been wounded
had nearly met death by smallpox
and by fever, and was not the match
physically, for this man who so stead
lily and maIiciously pursued him.
| COLE BORE 1T ALL,
hoping that so far as his wife was con-
cerned it was not so bad as it had been
told him. At last he learned that his
wife and the deceased had visited the
town of Ottowa, Putnam county. and
there at the Steadman house, had oc.
cupied the same room and the same
bed as husband and wife, He learned
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