The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-06-06
A ROMANCE OF CRIME.
The Story of Scnhorn Bnbti-In, Whe
Poisoned Her Husband and Fiod TO
America.

| There was good denl OF excitement in
Beaufort yesterday A large schooner APP
Feared off the bar and boat was lowered
Three men jumped in, followed by two
children and a woman. The passengers
were landed ut Morehead City. TIE woman
was fine looking with an sristocratic bear.
ing. She was covered with jewelry and
apparently had plenty of money The cap
tain would not say much about his passen-
gers, but from the mate il was learned that
the woman was n resident Of st. aIichaeps
Island, and Was accused Of poisoning heI
husband. She was tried and condemned to
death, which sentence was rfterward com
muted to perpetual Punishment and separa-
ton from her children. She possessed vast
estates, which, through an agent, she con
vert ID into money and securing the coop
erati,n of the captain aud crew of whaler,
which had made harhor at the island, she
obtained her children, bribing the jaier aud
two guards, whom she brought with her, as
their lives would have been forfeited by her
escape. She was secreted on board the YES
sci and brought here. As soon rs landed
she took the train for this place, where she
was recognized and sad she was going TO
Boston. She is the Senhora Baptista, wife
of the late Senior Dontor Baptista, prom
inent physician in the city of Ponta Delgada,
the capital and chief port of tho island of
San Migoul, largest of the group of Azores.
Two years ago the past summer she
resided for three months at the Valley of
she Furnas, the great watering place of st.
Micbaels, ard, indeed, of all the Azores.
The house occupied by herself and family
was only the second above that of the
writer, upon the same street, and many
times day did she pass our door on her
way to and from the baths, accompanied by
her husband and often followed by servant
with an invalid child. Senhora Baptista
was a lady of quite the average height, de-
cidedly inclining to fullness of figure, with
brilliant complexion. the dark hair and eyes
of her climate and the elegant and slightly
naughty bearing that often accompanies it,
Accustomed in town to the close seclusioa
which obtains for ladies in the upper classes
of Portuguese society, the greater license
| allowed at the Fnrnas was not permitted to
pass unimproved. Consequently, while
groups of ladies' were dotted about here and
there through the lovely pleasure grounds of
the kind old Countess Of Praia, or trouping
down with tiny silver cups to the fountain
'"Agua Azada" (sorr water), the stately
figure and consciously pretty face of Senhora
Baptista was seldom wanting. Her house
adjoined that of the young Baroness Laran-
jeira, kind-faced, comely enough little
body, and in the late afternoons they often
made pretty family picture, sitting outside
their doors with their little people gathered
aboDt them.
Senior Baptista was rather handsome
man, of fine presence. He attended his
wife on public occasions with an air OF great
deyotedness, and few, if any, could have
suspected that there was calamity impend-
ing. Through servants gossip, however,
came strange stories, little credited at the
time, of the Ssnhora's violent fits Of passion,