Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-07
ROSE AMBLER.
a Romance in the Life Of the
Murdered Girl
How She Was Wooed and WON by
Capt. Brown, the Sailor, Who
Went Away and Did Not
Keep His Promise.
bridgeport, Conn, Letter in N. Y. SUM-

bridgeport, Conn, Letter in n z. SUM-
| Two or three days ago The Sun reporter
waited in Stratfori's littledepot for a delayed
railroad train to take him over to Bridgeport.
An old lady with white shawl and a pen
| chant for gossip was his companion. She
followed the village custom, of course, and
talked Of the mystery surrounding Rose
| Amblea's death She had known the i'll fated
young woman She knew Capt Clark,
Roses sta1waTt fisherman father; she knew
Norman Amber, the divorced husband; she
knew William Lewis, the suspected lover;
she knew, in short, all, or nearly all. of those
whose names had been broughs into the story
OF the crime Recouuting "reminiscences OF
each, she gave-the newspaper man glance
at q romance that colored Roses early Life, a
chapter not hitherto opened to public view.
| when Rose was between II and Is years
old, began the Old lady, toying with the
fringe OF her white shawl, @she was beau
tiful girl, so eTerybody hereabout agreed
People who only saw her during the last few
| years OF her life, since she suffered so much,
could have no idea of the bright, winsome
| face and consely form of that earlier time.
She was the belle of Sratford town. A
dozen suitors so3i:sht her favor. To all she
gave the same cordial attention, and all she
dismissed with the same apparent uncon-
| Germ. Norman Amber, whose father had
grown rich on var contracts from the gov
! eminent, was among the crowd of
young men rho strove to win her
| smiles. She c..red no more for him
| than for others, . it seemed but he was per-
slstent. There came to S5ratford a man
named Brown, James or Jason Brown. He
was Rose ClaTfx's senior by a dozen years or
more He had been sailor from his boy
hood, SO he said, but, withal, ne had the bear
| ing Of man who had seen much OF good So
| ciety and profted by it He was an invalid.
| He had been very sick with Q fever, and had
| come to Stratford for recuporation. He
brought little cedar boat, and nearly every
| afternoon he was out on the water. He met
Rose at a village picnic, and was attracted by
her beauty. She was fascinated by his cuI-
ture and by his ready wit. The girl knew how
| TO manage an car as did few of the young
men Of her acquaintance. Her father had
! taught her tie art. lu was not unnat-
| ural that she aud the Invalid visitor should
become at first fast friends and then almost
| inseparable companions. A large portion of
! their time was spent in boating, she rowing
while he, hardly strong enough for work en-
! tertained her with stories Of the adventures
| in which he had figured in distant lands. And
it was natural, too, perhaps, that the girl,
with love for romance in her composition,
| soon grew to care more for the invalid sailor
than for all younger beauS of Stratford,
| whose aclievenlen5s were bound down to
corn-husitng bees, and the local ballroom
| One afternoon ou5 on the water there was a
! sentiment. Confession, and band Of gold,
bearing roughly carved coral heart, was
| placed upon the black-eyed wonlan's finger.
She was pledged to be the sailors bride.
| Time wore o., aud Capt. Brown left the
village on Ions voyage. Rose Clark was to
be his wife as soon as he returned, and he
was then TO so to sea no more. A year passed
by, and there came no word from him to her,
| though whaling vessels returning reported
| that he had been met and was well. Rose
| Clark was piqued. She had not yet learned
| that patience was among the first of virtues
The apparent carelessness of her PARKWAY
lover nestled her, and she determined in
willful womans way to show the little world
in which she moved in StTatford that the
sailors cavalier treatment could not humble
| or embarIg4ss her. Norman Ambler's hand
| some horsc5 and Norman Ambler's shining
carriage began to show itself with asugges-
| tive frequency under the naples on the lawn
or two the bells of the little Methodist church
| Of the hamlet rang out merrily, and with
| blossoms In her hair Rose walked through
throng Of villagers up the aisle, and heard
pronounced the words which made her Nor
man A1nbler's wife,
Early one night, a month or so after the
wedding, a New York train stopping at
Stratford left single passenger, who care
less of the observation Of the half dozen
idlers at the station, walked away in the
| growing darkness. 1t was the man who in
the last summer time had promised to make
/ Rose Clark his wife, The next train took
him from the village. For a little time he
/ had seen Norman Amblers bride, had met
her at her own gate, there to learn for the
! first time of her marriage. II was q stormy
| scene that followed and Rose heard heated
| denunciatiOn Of er husband, and threats to
| do him harm Were silenced only by tears and
entreaties. The sailor showed that he had been
! duped. Norman Amber, so the allegation
went. had known the why and the where
| fore of the trouble which came suddenly be-
/ tween the sailor and his betrothed, and a
series of circumstances which had misrepre-
sented them, each TO the other, had been de-
vised, not without the jealous lovers cum
ming
'But what Rose Amber thought, the
world never knew; and if she suffered from
any revelation that Capt. Brown had made
| concerning an INSCRIPTIONS rivals work, her
endeavor was to conceal it. 1t is not i'm
possible, though, that when months later
William Lewis came to whisper unI1ind
| things of Norman Amber, he found a
listener who would have been less attentive
had not the seed of suspicion and distrust
been already sown."
'.And what became of BrowHfs
He dfed-so we beard" said the old lady,
drap<ng her white shawl about her shoulders,
and going out from the little stations wait
ing-goom 30 climb upon the cars"