Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19

WIN udlI Icu hOSc 1ucy uVeU III q large Wn1Co
house about half way between the Stratford de-
pot and Roses home. Norman raised vegetables,
which was marketed at Bridgeport, Birmingham
and adjacent cities by William Lewis. whose
mother was daughter of Lisle Curtis, a brother
OF Hull Curtis. NOrman's grandfather. Lewis
was a good salesman He had conyiyial dis
position and drank freely, but Withal saved
money. He lived with Norman and Rose The
husband was not particularly attentive to his
wife. Lewis split wood, brought water, and did
odd chores about the house in Norman's alb
sence. For months the wife seemed devoted to
her husband. Then daughter was born. It's
birth had no perceptbe effect on the father He
roistered around as usual, leaving Lewis to do
the chores. Occasionally Lewis rode out with
Mrs. Amber. The neighbors began to talk. and
NOrman's jealousy arose.
QUARREL BETWEEN THE TWO MEN
ensued. Lewis left the house, threw up his sit
uation. and went to his mothers residence in
what Is known as the Llsle Curtis mansion. Not
long afterward Rose left her husbands house
and returned to herfather. She lief her baby with
Norman's mother. and it ia said that from that
day to this she has never visited It, and appar-
emily has not taken the least interest in it's well
fare. She went to work in Warmers corset fac
tory. at bridgeport, returning home every night.
stratford depot was over mile and a half from
her fathers house. She usually covered the dis
lance in forty minutes.
Despite his dissipated habits Norman seems to
have tenderly loved his wife. He hated Lewis
and accused him of being the author of all his
misfOrtunes. Instead of being sobered BY the
desertiOn Of his wife, his dissipation increased
One day he was surprised by Constable Dufour
who served upon him summons to answer the
petition Of his wife for a divorce on the ground
OF brutal treatment He was Infatuated. saying
that Lewis was at the bottom of the whole bust
ness, and that Lewis money was being used in
the effort to obtain the divorce. He swore that
whatever happened Lewis should never marry
her He made no answer to the summons. and
In due time the divorce was granted, and Rose
was again free woman. Norman went from
bad to worse. He was left alone with his little
daughter and his widowed mother. His sprees
were prOtracted. and they gave his mother much
sorrow. From the day that she lett her hus-
bands house Rose Amber seemed
INFATUATED WITH LEWIS.
After her divorce was granted she openly Wis
tied him at the Lisle Curtis mansion It was
fully two miles from her fathers house. The
visits were usually paid in the evening, Rose re-
turning home after dark. Lewis never accom-
panied her on her return. He says she protest
SO early In the morning that he needed all the
sleep he could get. They were engaged to be
married. Lewis had saved few hundred dol
lars, and the wedding was to take place as soon
as he could build and furnish q small house near
the Lisle Curtis mansion.
On Sunday, September Q, Rose visited Lewis
for the last time. She arrived at the cross
roads after shutdown. Her lover greeted her
at his mothers gate. The sky was overcast, and
there were indications of storm Lewis un-
finished house was in plain sight It was to be
finished late in October, and the conversation
turned on what was necessary to furnish it. Rose
agreed to make out a list of the furniture and
crockery that was needed. It was O'Clock be-
black as Ink, and it was so dark that you could
hardly see your hand before your face. Lewis
says he urged her to allow him to accompany
her, but she insisted on going alone, saying that
she was not afraid, and that she did not want
to rob him of his sleep. She turned into the
airline turnpike to Milford. and her lover lost
her form in the darkness. He never again saw
her alive.
THE ROAD TO DEATH.
For quarter of a mile the airline turnpike
has gentle descent. There is but one house
on the way. an implanted, gloomy looking man.
sion on high bank on the left of the road.
The road itself is simple country turnpike,
fringed with dusty ferns, thistles, brambles,
milk weed and golden rod. At the forks of the
road at the foot of the hill Rose turned to her
right over short crOss-road, and entered the
main street of Stratford. From the airline
turnpike to her fathers house there are fifty
dwellings. The main street Is two hundred
feet wide. Wide glass plots stretch on either
side, shaded by mOnstrOus elms and manipulated
the whfms Of the owners of the residences along
the route. In some places there are flagstOnes
and In others boards, but for the most part the
only walk is flinty path worn through the turf.
There had been no rain for weeks, and while the
road was dusty the path was unusually hard.
The night was rendered more dark. possible,
by the shade OF the leafy elms and naples, and
more gloomy by the chirping of the katydids in
their branches. The only light upon the wo-
mans path was the feeble light rejected from
| windows o1o
the road, Most Of them are set well back, with
turfy front yards.
Half way to her fathers house Main street
forks, forming long turf triangle known as
Paradise Green. little school-house squats
on this green, and q belfried church faces the
oase OF the triangle. Roses route lay by the
lower or Ravenstream road. It is hardly as
broad as Main street, and its dwellings, are more
deeply empowered, and more scattered. Corn
fields and meadows intervene. but the turf walk
is stu shaded by the overhanging elms and
| bushy naples. Along this road Rose walked
until within hailing distance Of her fathers
house. Her former husband was then in his
bed, twenty miles from Stratford Her father
was scuddng the waters Of Vineyard sound, and
her mother had gone to sleep: leaving a door
UNASSIGNED for the entrance Of her daughter,
convinced that she would return home safe and
| sound, as she had done 30 many times before
| She never returned alive
The next morning the body was found in q
| neld, bearing evidence that death had resulted
from strangulation.
THE CLUES DISCOVERED.
Since then the ingenuity of detectives andthe
learning Of men Of science have been employed
In vain to discover proofs which will lead to the
detection Of her murder. When the post-mortem
examination was made Of the body OF the un-
fortunate woman. 1t was found that there was
certain matter imbedded under the finger nails,
| and this matter was carefully ecraped out and