The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-03-13
A DEVIL m DIsGU1sE.


4 Young Virginia Bsauty's Horrible
Crime Tries to XIII Her Husband the
SECOND Might AFTER Marriage.
Zen Perley Poore in Boston Budget
Among other stories of real life which
I have heard told at the capital, one
Of the strangest was of widow in Vir-
ginia, who was left with several children
among them beautiful daughter
about fifteen years of age. The widow
finding herself embarrassed, opened
boarding house at the country site, and
among her boarders was Mr.. W., o
wealthy merchant over forty years of
age, but very fine looking man. This
gentleman was the prop and stay OF the
family; gave employment to the sons,
educated the daughter ats fashionable
academy" and, very naturally, on her
return fell desperately in love with her,
when he should have preferred the
mother He pressed his suit with per-
severance, but the beautiful Mildred re-
sisted his appeals and the opportunities
of all her friends. Finally, however,
after two years of assiduity and deli
cate gallantry on the part of Mr.. W.,
and the combined tears, entreaties,
threats and prosecutions of the family,
the fair girl reluctantly stood before
the altar and became his wife. The
next evening large party was given
them, but in the midst of it Mr..
W., being attacked with
vertigo and sick headaches, was COM
PEELED to withdraw. His young wife
hung over him in the silent watches of
the night, apparently in deep distress,
and insisted on giving him potion ;she
poured out wineglassful of laudanum
nature. It acted as an emetic, but left
him stupid and wandering. His senses
reeled. One moment he lay motionless
as if on the brink of the spirit world,
and the next he would leap up convnl-
sively, strong man in his agony. Mrs.
w. denied all admission into his cham
Der. At length he fell into dead sleep.
She then stopped for q moment
over the smoldering embers,
approached the bed, gazed at her sleep
ing husband; and holding heated ladle
in her hand attempted to pour stream
of melted lead in his ear She trembled,
and the kissing liquid, intended to scald
the brain and thus kill without q trace,
fell upon his cheek. He shrieked in
excruciating torture, and the jewellers
in the adjoining salon rushed into the
chamber.
There writhed the still stupid hus-
band, the lead riveted deep into his
cheek, and there stood the fiend-wife,
her bridal fillets, yet upon her brow,
the instrument of death in her hand
and an empty vial labeled laudanum,
lying on the floor The fearful realities
of the cause fasded upon every one, and
in the confusion of the moment she was
hurried away and taken to a distant
State. On searching the apartments an
old magazine was found containing the
confession of woman who had murdered
five husbands by pouring lead into their
ears. The laudanum and the lead, it
was ascertained, she procured from the
store of Mr.. w. few days before the
marriage, and the ladle was part Of his
wedding gift. The grand jury next
morning found bill against the fugi-
tive, and the Legislature, being in ses-
sion, forthwith decreed an absolute div
orce. What rendered the case more ex-
traordinary was that Miss T. was prov
erbial for the blandness of her manners
and uniform sweetness OF dis
position. The sequel of this
romance is yet more singular. Years
rolled away, and w. codtinued a
wretched and solitary man but the spell
of the enchantress was still upon his
soul. He closed his store, sold his es-
tates, collected his ample means and
traced her to her distant retreat to make
new offer of his hand. She had just
married gentleman of high stan ding,
acquainted with all the details of her
career, shuddering at the tragedy, but
incapable of resisting her charms. Poor
W. Then, indeed, did the iron enter his
soul. 1.-THE deadly arrow quivered
in his side," His early love, his fuc-
tuating courtship, his marriage and the
catastrophe, the flight, the divorce,
his yearsof misery, the new birth of his
passion and now his disappointment,
final and forever came crushing over
him like an iceberg in the tide of bitter
memories, and he prayed for death.