Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-02

to three attempts to kill her present husband
to obtain his life insurance. These confess
sions were first made to her husband and
since reported to others. She is dying of
consumption.
Saved from a Life of Shame.
NASHVILLE, January lon Wednesday
night last young girl, hardly in her teens,
alighted from a train at the Louisville de-
poi, and vending her way along from the
crowd into College street, walked north on
that thoroughfare and peered at each house,
apparently looking for some certain number
or name on the front doors as she passed.
Arrived in front of the house of illfame OF
which Nettie Moore lie the proprietress, she
walked boldly up the steps, and, ringing the
bell, remarked to the woman opening the
door that she desired to zee the landlady.
She was shown into the parlor, and the per-
son she had called to see notified. The pro-
prietress of the house upon entering the par
lor invited the visitor to state the object of
her call. The little girl thereupon, in voice
trembling with excitement, announced tha
her name was Minnie Brown, and that her
home was in Columbia, Tenn, where her
mother and stepfather at present reside.
That some days ago having been induced to
believe by stylish young man Of Columbia,
that dissolute life was attended with more
pleasure and enjoyment than virtuous one,
she had, at his request, come to Nashville,
to become an inmate, where he was shortly
TO join her, buy her house and lot, etc. Be.
fore leaving home, however, she had gone to
her mother and asked her advice as 10 the
course she had determined upon to pursue.
Her mother, SO the girl alleged, had re-
marked that she could do as she pleased, and
if she wanted to follow that life there would
be no objection offered. At the conclusion
of the little things statement, the landlsdy,
Nettie Moore, seeing that the deluded child
was at heart, innocent, and that she did not
realize the full meaning of the step she was
taking, invited her upstairs and provided
her accommodations for the night. The
misguided girl, having no money, was given
shelter until the next morning, when,
under the charge of Carrie Davis, an
inmate of the above house, she was
taken before Judge Ferriss and the facts in
the case told to him. After a kind and
fstherly lecture, he told the poor girl that
he would send her to the Mission Home.
This she objected to and bursting into tears
begged piteously TO be allowed 10 return
home, at the same time acknowledging the
great mistake she had made. Judge Ferriss
thereupon provided the contrite child with a
pass to Columbia, for which place she took
the train that night. She was apparently
about thirteen or fourteen years old.
The sequel 10 q Celebrated Scandal.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., January 1.-The mar
riage, or rather re-marriage, Thursday night
last, in Chester county, s. c., of William
Legg and Mrs. Crawford, once before Mrs.
Legg under covertue of her spouse of Thurs
day night, recalls the circumstances of one
of the most celebrated scandals of upper
South Carolina. William Legg, a horse
drover and adventurer from Tennessee, but
withal a man of insulating address, was
wont fifteen years ago TO visit Chester in the
pursuit of his ayocation. There he met
Mrs. Crawford, then comedy widow with a
good jointure, two children, aged six and
seven, and the prestige of connection with
ssme of the Oldest and best families of that
part of the Palmetto State, both through
her first husband, Crawford, and her own
family, the Leggetts. The union of the
blooming young widow and the Tennessee
horse-drover was happy one for several
years, until the daughter of Mrs. Crawford,
by her first marriage, was grown into a
charming maidenhood, and the son into q
bold and promising youth, full of chivalric
sentiment and generous impulses. Mrs. Legg
also became the mother of two more chill
dren by her second husband. At this time
it was observed that the father, Mr.. Legg,
displayed an extravagant fondness for his
budding stepdaughter, and again, and in
but a little while, the young girl exhibited
unmistakable indications OF becoming a
mother. OF course a terrible uproar and
scandal was raised, and the result was
that young Crawford, boy hardly old
enough to hold his weapon to his shout
der, shot the stepfAther, making severe
wound in the leg. Lsgg and the young
girl then fed, and were holly pursued by
young William Leggett, brother of Mrs.
Crawford, and others of her family, the
hot-headed young Crawford being himself
placed under bond for the attack upon the
flying stepfather. The latter was appre-
hended with the young girl in Greenville,
s. c., before they were overtaken by the
pursuers. Young Crawford was tried for his
attack on the stepfather, and the famous
Judge Mackey presided at the trial. The
verdict was acquittal, and it Is said that
Judge Mackey was led, of the bench, of
course, to once or twice express admiration
rather than condemnation for the act of the
boy. The father disappeared, but has been
for the last three years living, 1t is known,
in Darlington county, S. C. A divorce had
of course been obtained between Mrs. Legg
and her husband, and she has been since
living with her children, including the
daughter, Miss Crawford, in Chester county.
The boy Crawford, who so impulsively
attacked his stepfather, was sent some time
ago as student to Davidson College, in
this county, where he died, as will be well
remembered here, Of typhoid fever. Miss
Crawford is said 10 have grown into hand
some anc modest womanhood. Six months
ago it BECAME known that the children of
Mrs. CraEford's union with Lsgg were inthe
habit of visiting their father in Darlington,
and the rleighbers began to predict a recon-
ciIiation and marriage. This prediction was
consummated on Thursday night, at the res
idence Of the bride, in Chester county. The
officiating clergyman was the Rev. Robert
Perry, q Eell-known Presbyterian minister
of the Presbyterian Church in South Car
DINA.