The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
The Cares aud TribulatiOns of Thi:
Cold, Cold World.
They 60 to a Gloomy Grove in Johnson
County,
Where the Youth Succeeds in
Shutting off this Mortal Coil
While in the Fond Embrace of His
Sweetheart.
The Girl Lives to Once Again wrestle
With Death.

Sensations for months past have been
very scarce articles in this market, the
watchful reporters bsing unable to unearth |
anything that bore eren likeness to a sem
sation. This state of things was changed
yesterday by The report that a
young couple had cnysteriously disappeared
from the city on Sunday. 1t was whispered
about smong thu friends of the couple that
it was more than likely that they
both might shuttle off this mortal
coil. The reporters were soon on
the'rlert and ia a short time had cleaned ali
tbetacts that E5ere known in thecase, which
are as follows: Saturday night Henry G.
Hilgemeier went to the livery stable Of w.
o. Pattersonon Court street and hired horse
and buggy, which he said he wanted TO use
from O'Clock Sunday morning until 6
O'Clock in the evening. He paid for the rig
and went away. On Sunday morning.
shortly after o'clock, he called at
the stable and was given the team. He was
accompanied BY girl, aged about nineteen,
named Ella Wenning. whose mother and
sisters reside on Delaware street just South
of Washington. There was nothing strange
about the actions of the young peO-
pie, and as they remarked they were
going 70 2 picnic, nothing more was
thought about them by the livery men.
Mr.. Patterson received a telegram
from Whiteland little village
on the J., NJ. and !. Read, few miles east
of Franklin, johnson CSUnty, saying that a
horse and buggy hsd been picked up
there that was thought to be-
long to him. As the only team that
was missing from the stable was the one
1oI Nv I'll u De
at once visited the mother of the
girl, who, up to this time, had
not become UDo2y about the
absence of her daughter. thinking that she
had returned from t5e picnic and gone 10
the house in the northern portion OF the
city where she was employed as domestic.
When she heard about the finding of tie
rig she became sOnseH-hat uneasy, but said
she supposed that the young folks had run
away to get married in q portion of the
State where the cd folks could not
interfere. A younger sister of the girl said
that before Ella had LETT on Sunday morn
ing she (Ella} hsd given her a trunk
full of clothes, saying that she
would not need them any more
This brought to the memory of Mrs. Wen
ming that on Sunday morning, just after he
couple had left the b5use, sac picked up
a scrap of paper in the hall upon when
had been written by the young man what
disposition 10 make OF his watch and chain,
ring he wore upon bis finger, IL his
DEAD .ReDx
should be found during the next four 6eys.
This was all the information that could be
thrown upon the mysterious disappearance
of the couple, and all that was left for
Mr.. Patterson to 90 to go to
Whiteland and get his horse and buggy.
This he did, leaving on the 4:40 j.. NJ. and
l. train. Shortly before > O'CLOCK a
young woman, dressed IN a neat black
cashmere dress, which was besmeaTed
with mud whose features were haggard and
who looked the very picture of Woe arrived
at the foot of the steps in which the Wen
ming family reside. She went up stairs and
knocked on the door. which was opened b.
Mrs. Weining, whose establishment can be
surmised upon 5ehOlding her
wAxxARD .GIFsI,
whom she had not seen since an early hour
on Sunday. The girl threw her arms about
her mothers neck and cried
MOTHER, Az POISONED"
and dropped to the floor in an almost un-
conscious conditions. The City Dispensary
was at once notified of the girls condi-
ton, and Dr. Colbert was soon
on hand, with his ever ready stomach pump,
but the deadly drug had taken such q hold
that it was of no use. He then applied
all the remedies known to the profession,
and soon had the girl able to talk. a SEN
tinel reporter had arrived by this time,
and 10 him the girl made
KD2 scsgsMENT.
Her conversation was ia broken sentences.
which was caused by the effects of the drug.
and it was with much difficulty that she
was able to talk at all. The first
thing she said wGs, "He is dead; he died
in my arms" After saying this she
fell asleep and it Was some little time before
the doctor was abe to arouse her. He how
ever, 5y shaking and cOsxing her, was able
to get her awake enough TO tell
had been waited across the river OF Jordan,
and Low near her own had came TO
making the dark and mysterious voyage.
She sail: II have known Eilgemeir about
two or three M onths. j became &C
,quaintssl with him wl.3ileI vas waiting on the
table at the James House on
|. -AlabamG street. He has been going with
szne pretty regularly daring this time. He has
told me that he had some trouble .Eith a
sgxl named Maggie before he knew me-
and that be had often GntendeG to kill him
SCI die all in my power to talk him
on. of il but he TOuld keep saying
thas he woEld kill himself. He never ia ked
love to me Ge asked me Ss be his wife. We
just liked each other, that was all. On Sat
urdey night ae had talk and made up eur
minis to
FILL OURSELVES.
I'VE talked tue matter over and t2Oughtct
best 70 go OCt in 5he country and commit
the deed. On Sunday morning he came
in buggy to the house where,
was wGrking, and got in With him and
we drove down here TO my mothers, and
gave Ey sister my trunk and
clothing We teen drove about town
until BSOB, wSsn we purchased
ten cents vOrth of eaudanum, and started
south on the road keading out Meridian
street 1.-THE TkreeessotcR road J. We drove.down
past Greenwood, END after getting some
six miles south of there we alighted from
the buggy and started the horse toward the
city. We then vent into the woods, lay
down sad drank each half of the laudanum
We then clasped each other about the neck
and
WAITED FoR..DEArH,
bat the drug we had taken was not strong
enough, and after waiting for several hours
and il not taking effect we went to
sleep. Yesterday morning we arose
quite early and walked back to Greenwood,
went to drug store and purchased twenty
five cents worth of laudanum. ard then
went about half mile south
OF that town into dense grove and
prepared to die. He swallowed half of the