The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-09-14
A JUST RETRIBUTION.
A Wretch's Pcrfdy and Young Girls In-
fntuntion---A Plot Which Was Partially
Carried Ont.


Early on the morning of July 6.
1873, carriage drove up to the Parker
house, in Boston, from which alighted
a young and handsome man. He
gazed about him for q moment and
then entered the COACH He had hardly
seated himself when young girl.
scarcely nineteen, with face as purely
beautiful as a rose-blossom, approached
the vehicle and seated herself beside
the occupant within. The coach then
proceeded on its way through the city,
until it reached a retired spot Here
1t stopped, the two alighted and the
driver was discharged. The girl was
Kate Roberts, one of two daughters of
poor woman who at that moment lay
dying of consumption in a room in the
poorest section of Boston. and her
companion was George Davis, gam
bier.
Along path the two walked, and.
stopping before what appeared a
gloomy-looking mansion, the man
Knocked. The door was opened and
the two entered and We're ushered into
an ante-chamber, where stood woman
of harsh and forbidding features, and
beside her was a man who purported
to be the officiating clergyman. He
opened some book, the ceremony was
mumbled over in Il strange indistinct
manner, the ring was placed on the
finger of the bride, the pair were pro-
nounced man and wife,. the book was
closed. tucked under the mans arm.
who, receiving his fee. immediately dis
appeared From State to State the
couple Travelled, and the young wife
soon discovered that her husband was
a brute.
In the spring of 1859 Davis took up
his abode in Cuba, and his treatment
of his wife at this time had become
more brutal than ever. Having estab-
lished a gambling den in company with
one Soares, in that part of Havana
known as the Caldera, he began to
prosper rapidly. a short time had
elapsed when Davis wife mysteriouslv
disappeared, and, though numerous
theories We're advanced as to her
whereabouts, no definite clew was OBJ
tanned.
Among the many rich planters re-
siding in Havana was an old Spanish
gentleman named Angeles Rio. He
had two beautiful daughters, Ange-
lique and 1sadora. The former was a
perfect type of the Spanish beauty, with
lustrous hair, and speaking, sparkling
orbs that flashed like diamonds when
rejecting the suns rays. Angelique
had met Davis and had fallen madly in
love with the fellow. When her father
ascertained the fact he grew frantic
with rage, but his action seemed only
to spur the daughter on, until one
morning Cuban society awoke to learn
that the rich and beautiful Angelique
had clandestinely married gambler.
AS a revenge for the ingratitude of his
daughter, Senor Rio disinherited her
and willed his entire fortune to his
daughter Isadora. 1t was shortly after
this that he died.
Moved by sympathy for her sister,
lsadora brought Angelique and her
husband to the family mansion, where
they continued to live in apparent hap
piness.
Senor Varlville, the famed lawyer of
Havana, sat one morning in his office,
when Isadora, accompanied by her
maid Mercita, entered, and, with a
winning gentleness. informed him that
she desired him to draw up a new will
for her, having decided she said, to re-
woke all others. The lawyer turned to
his desk, and, arranging his papers,
awaited the necessary instructions.
1sadora, with singular infection of
determination running through her
tones, spoke as follows:
81, Isadora Rio, bequeath my entire
estate, with all my personal effects, to
my beloved sister, Mrs Angelique Da-
Wis, Of Havana, Cuba, making her sole
eXecutriX."
The paper having been signed, wit
messed and sealed, ISadora in company
with her maid, left the office. The diff
ference between this last will and the
former was that in the former she had
bequeathed twO-thirds of her estate to
her sister and the remainder to Davis,
besides making him one of her eXecu-
tors. She had satisfied herself that
Davis was villain at heart, though
she kept the secret foOlishly to herself
On the night of April 8, 1880, the
servants in the Rio mansion were
startled by the report of pistol, and,
following the direction of the sound,
rushed to Isadoras boudoir, where
they found their mistress lying dead
upon the floor with blood flowing from
wound in the head. The police were
notified and detectives began an imme-
diate search for Il clew to the assassin.
Davis was found in his room appar-
emily asleep, but the whereabouts of
Angelique were at the time unknown.
The belief that she had met with foul
play from the same source began to be
entertained by many, while the officers
were beginning to suspect her of some
completely in the crime.
In this condition of affairs she en-
tered the room, her hair disheveled and
her dress almost torn to shreds. When
informed of what had occurred she fell
into cOnvulsions and would no sooner
return to consciousness than to again
relapse into delirium. On the follow
ing morning she was arrested on the
charge of numbering her sister.
In her evidence at the trial she stated
that on the previous night, while walk,
ing in the garden adjoining the man
sion, she was seized from behind by
some unknown person, and in strug.
Cling to free herself was felled insensi-
BILE to the ground. Upon recovering
consciousness she made her wav tn the