New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-08-15
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
The SHEPPARD TRAGEDY
STRANGE INFATUAT1oN .-THE
TELEGRAPERs' STRIKE. q Il.
New York, August II. 1883.

NEW YORK, August IL, 1853.
The Sheppard tragedy, the data lis
Of which the telegraph has already
made you acquainted, has caused
quite a shock in the community,
particularly in families where there
are marriagable sons. The woman
young Sheppard shot. and then fol-
lowed up by suicide, was indeed a
Circe OF the most dangerous type,
and the strangest thing about her
was that age did not weaken the
fiendish charm which she woye
about the men with whom she came
in contact. That a woman of fifty,
a grandmother, should succeed in
infatuating young man in the
prime of life, of excellent family
and with the best prospects in life
to such an extent as to ruin him
self is indeed remarkable. One
reads of such things in French nov
els. but it is.seldom that one runs
across such cases in actual life.
Since she has been in New York
she has led quiet life, but her death
has brought her history to light,
and there are hundreds of men and
women who knew her history, how
she ruined her first husbands ca
reer by her intimacy with a young
newspaper man who lost his life be.
cause she became infatuated with a
physician, and how this physician
narrowly escaped hanging, and how
she worried the life out of Steam.
ship Agent Kelley, who finally
abandoned her-fortunately fol-
himself.
81 don't think that she deliber-
ately meant wrong,'' said gentle
man who met her in st. Louis,
''but she was nothing more than a
big animal, and there was a curse
about her with which every one
who became any way intimate with
her became tainted. There is no
doubt that Sheppard did not know
her history before he married her,
and he learned it a few days before
the tragedy occurred. Tue shooting
was the outgrowth of it,
The case wildly recalls the sui.
eide Of the actor Montgomery some
years ago. He was bright,
charming fellow, destined to
achieve high rank in his profession,
and extremely popular among every
one with whom he became ac-
quainted. He fell in love with a
woman who was also on the stage,
or rather on the outskirts of it, and
married her. One day he was drop.
ped out of his FOOLS paradise by
learning the woman's history which
was anything but a savory one.
The news broke his heart. He
went into the bathroom and cut
his throat.
The telegraphers' strike is near
ing the end, and as might have
been expected the companies, par.
ticularly the Western Union, is win
ming. All these struggles between
capltal ana LABOR are unequal. La
Dor goes into the race heavily hand
icapped and is bound to be beaten
There is no doubt that number oil
wires have been cut. The Tele
graphers' Association is not tt
blame for this, for the Executivt
Committee has always cautioned
the strictest adherence to proprie
ty, but in an affair in which so ma
ny men are involved, some of then
| hotheaded and vindictive, particu
larly when the means Of subsis.
tence are giving out, occurrences
like this will always take place
They always prove that the cause
which they advocate is losing ant
their deeds of folly generally give j
the coup de grace.