The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29
GOTHAM GOSSIP,


No doubt you remember the case of
Miss Helyn Leonard, the young woman
who was so infatuated with lawyer
named Callahan, that she made an
attempt to shoot certain Mrs. Smith,
with whom she believed Callahan to be
intimate. The woman recovered and
the young woman was released on
81 ,ohN bail to appear for trial on
charge of felonious assault. Her aunt
became her bondswoman. The case
had passed out of recollection, and
would probably never have come up
for trial had not the aunt last Friday
SUI rendered the young woman and
asked to be released from bond. She
claimed that she stood in need of
the money, and that moreover Miss
Leonard had recently acted in manner
as to indicate that her mind had
become unsound. Now, do not be-
lieve that the girl was ever entirely
right in her mind since she fell so
nadly in love with the ancient beaux,
and | think that since she las been
compelled to give him up, on account
of his disappearance from his accus-
toned haunts she has brooded over her
loss to such an extent as to show un-
mishkable traces of melancholiu.
Last Saturday evening was walking
along the veranda of the big hotel at
Manhattan Beach, 1t was a dreary
damp drilling evening; there were
very few people there, the band had
not yet begun to play, and the place
looked as desolate as desert and the
roar of the surf furnished narrowing
accompaniment to the sadness of the
scene. All of a sudden an acquaint-
ance took me by the arm and said
Come along with me. you may get G
. sensation" We walked to the furthe
end of the pier. In the dim haze could
be discerned the figure of a man attirec
in light gray overcoat walking uI
rapidly to the end of the bulkhead
He was followed by middle-aged lad,
and young girl. THAT man sale
my friend, 'has been trying to commi
suicide this whole evening. Earlier il
! the evening lie wanted to jump over
d board, but his wife held him while hi
f daughter went for some friends. e.
= is trying again We followed shor
, distance so as to be of use in case @
necessity. The sound of our footstep
evidently arrested the man in his nefal
ious undertaking. The poor woma
e stood beside him. with her arm lnke
g in his, and although the tears trickle
). down her face she essayed to spea
= cheerfully to him. Just then til
II daughter came up with some gentlema
and spoke TO him about the races an
so on, SO as to divert his mind, but [
no effect. His face was deadly white
10 His blue eyes had a wild staring loo
in and his small thin lands twitche
nerviously
They Yalked back with him to th
rs yeranda of the hotel where lie brolS
le away from them and going to I'll
=, ticket office purchased ticket fo
~ New York. His wife followed an
/. took n seat beside him in the waitin
Or room. The police meanwhile had becom
- acquainted with the facts, aud numbc
ne were about to prevent him from THROWN
n himself on the railway track The Doc
wife pleaded and pleaded but he mad
I'd no answer. An old Irish porter gre,
pe wild with Indignation at the speciacI
and wanted to 20 over and beat hir
s within an inch Of his life. was unabl
,e to await the result, but ] was told tha
the police managed to get him back
III his room, where he was locked in an
in finally went to sleep. What was I'll
49, cauGo of his strange conduct. no on
le learned. The hotel people though that
in was financial trouble. although lie SCENE
not to lack funds.