Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-29
A HIDDEN CRIME,


About the year 1875 there removed toa
certain town in Georgia not 900 miles
from Fairburn, an old gentleman, who took
up his abode there. He had daughter of
about Is summers who lived with him., and
was the light and sunshine of his humble
home. She was brunette, beautiful in
face and figure and intelligent and refined.
She was tall and graceful, yet slender, and
1.-the as thelimb of willow. To those who
saw beauty in womanly perfections, in her
girlhood she gave the promise to the beau
tiful and voluptuous Womanhood, into
which she bloomed and matured. AT the
death of her father, which occurred not long
after their removal to to the place, Miss
Blank was left alone, and she sought in mar
riage that happiness that comes alone
through sympathy with one beloved. A
young doctor had also made his appearance
in the place about. that time, and a friend
shin. between the two soon followed. an --ae=
ouaintance which ripened into, affection.
They were married, and lived apparently
happy, and at peace with the world.
After tire, thejdoctor soughta new field
for the practtees s6f his prafessions ssand re-
moved with his young wife to city in Ala
hama. He was successful in his practice,
and bid fair to live long life of usefulness,
but this was not to be. In the same neigh
borhood in which the young people had SET
tied lived man whom we will call Blink,
for the reason that was not his name. lie
was tall and remarkably well proportioned,
dark as a Spaniard, with piercing black eyes,
long, glossys AoWing beard, and 9 gaze
which was magnetism 1tseIf-ln short,
handome man. Blink, although married
man susceptible to feminine attractions, soon
fell a victim to the charms of the doctors
wife while she was enslaved by an admira-
ton for the handsome neighbor. Still the
loye-blind doctor saw no guile in the wife Of
his bosom, and while he received Blink at
his home with the hospitality offriendship,
he Wasnursing the adder that gave, hmhls
death-sting.
Soon after this intimacy and fondness
sprang up between the unfaithful wife and
the dishonest husband, the young doctor
suddenly died and the former lovely Miss
Blank was more lovely young widow.
In quick succession followed the sudden
demise Of Mrs, Blink. The disconsolate
widower and the charming widow sought
each others society ere the clods were well
settled upon the lifefess bodies OF their for
mer partners, and this excited suspicion.
Suspicion grew stronger, and Mrs. Blink's
body was exhumed for examination but
no indication of poison being discovered, it
was again consigned to the tomb.
Three weeks afterWard Mr.. Blink and
Mrs. Blank were married and, removing
to the Atlantic coast, took up their abode on
an island, where for short time they enjoy
edthe fruits of their dishonored love and
of the marital relations, which the sequel
proves had been purchased at sacrifice of
honor and of all the better principles of
humanity.
Time passed on, and Blink and his wife
went back to the latter's former home in
Georgia. There the husband lived life of
utter idleness. Soon after their return
a store in the town was burglarized, and
facts were developed which showed that a
wagon had been driven up to the door of
the store, loaded with dry goods, provisions,
etc., and driven away. Although it was
evident that three persons woman
had participated in the burglary, no clew as
to their identity was obtained. The burg
larry was committed about 1870.
About two months after this time Mrs.
Blink was taken sick unto death; and in
the silence of the death chamber, while
burning with fever and tortured with re-
morse, the once beautiful and blooming
Miss Blank, but now wan and wasted Mrs.
Blink opened the secret closet other '3b g &c SOUL
and -madesSa dying confessions upon winch
this narrative is founded.
The confession embodied all the foregoing
facts and further revealed that she had pois-
ed her husband to satisfy the unholy love
she entertained for Blink, and that ne had
poisoned his innocent wife that no barrier
might stand in the way of their union.
She also confessed that she and her hlls-
band had committed the burglary referred
to assisted by another man whe had Hop-
ned dead short time before her confession
was made Immediately after the death OF
his wife, Mr.. Blink left for parts unknown.