The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-08
MANIAC AND MURDERER.
a MAN MADDeNED BY AFFECTION
Sad ani Romantic History OF a Double
Eurder-Ths Church. Choir Singers
Love, and How She Blus-ed
the Hand that Slew hsr.

IlafN, unucr ne sentence Tor murtlCr,
Paul $. Robertson, yesterday gave an
Item representative, the details of his
truly unfortunately career Robertson
shows Enthusiastically evidences of edu-
cation, culture and refinement. His ace
il only 80, and, Notwithstanding the
years Of Imprisonment which no has AL
ready undergone, his iine, commanding
presence, really eloquent language and
polite demeanOr would, under any other
circumstances, create for him respect
and esteem, IL not admiration. His
story can best be told az he gave il:
My great pride is forever gone" he
said, Tor ] would not now tell you eau
dldly and freely what am about to.
MY father died when | was 20, leaving
me the only heir to large fortune. !
was well educated, had been carefully
reared, had plenty of money, and was
considered talented and handsome. |
Travelled on the continent until was y,
anu then ] returned To tlii+ country and
thought IL about time to settle down and
take Il wife | spent one summer few
years ago IN Philadelphia, with occa-
sionaI visi 81 to Long Branch. One
rather fall-lille Sunday in August ! de-
cided to remain in this city, and care
lessiy saunterCd into ono of the down.
town Methodist churches. thore saw
and fell in love with the soprano
singer in the choir Of that
church. Miss ANY Garrett WINS her
name at that me, and while not strictly
speaking beautiful girl in the ordinary
acceptaliOn of that much-abused eX-
preston, she was certainly most engag-
ing and attractive. At least she was in
my eyes. She had a magnificent nezzo-
soprano voice, which had been caro-
fully trained, and | soon learned that
she was considered valuable aconisi.
ton To th choir. OF course | haunted
that church, and it did not take me lonu
10 make her acquaintance. She resided
with an old aunt on Moore street, and
these two constituted the ontire family.
There was one thing could not then
understand While she readily and
kindly accepted my attentions, vet
when alone with me She had peculiar
distracted air, and a queer, frightened
look in her large, expressive ewes.
which seemed to denote that she
was the possessor of some dread secret
which she was momentarilY afraid
might be discovered. This rather singu-
lar behavior on her part used TO trouble
me some, but love, you know, is blind
"l1er aunt was melancholy old ladv.
who said very little. Ono evening when
! called to see Miss Garrett she was tenn
porarily absent, and her aunt, much To
my surprise, invited me to remain in
the parIor until her return. This left
me for little whilo alone with this
stern, solemn old woman. For n time
she maintained an obstinate silence
although | tried to be a. agreeable AS
possible, an then suddenly heard her
murmur: so like my dear dead boy
so Ii 30 my dear dead boyv was much
surprised at this and was about to saw
something, when she abruptly said:
You love my niece, do YOU mott? |
frankly said l did. Then, to nv utter
amazement, this remarkable old woman
broke out in loud hysterical attack, beg
ging me for my own sake not to seek to
marry her niece, violently stating that
! was the very image of a dear son, now
dead, who was once the idol of her
heart, and that | must not suilor. All
or these mysterious words of
course, astonished me. tri d To get an
explanation of what she gctually meant
from the old lady, but could not. Stand
ing just before me, she solemnlv said:
u cannot tell you all. But after all these
years of secret sin my heart will not
allow one who looks so much and talks
80 much like my dead darling bow to on
tail years Of misery on his hesd.' Then
she left the room. In few minutes
Miss Garrett came in, and, Of course, |
at once told her of her eunts remark
able conduct; and while telling her of
her aunts words | made my proposal
Of love and marriage to her. She was
plainly and greatly alarmed at what her
aunt said, and eagerly requested all the
particulars. Her agitation increased
when | tod her other auut's remark
about years OF secret sin. ShO seemed
s" troubled that l passlonately caught
her ia my arms and said, that It did not
make any difference what her aunt said,
that l worshiped her and bog
god her To DO my wife. She
glanced at mo with an expression in her
beautiful eyes which can never forget
and exclaimed: paul, l. can never
marry yOU. ] love and then drop-
ped in dead faint ut my feet. Iran for
the aunt mud soon hid her in the parlOr.
To my earnest 'cquost that be allow cd
10 50 iur Il physician sho sternly said no
that Amy would be better in litrr
while, and plainly minated that hal
better - home, which | did. You can
imagine the state Of mind was hl until
tho next morning, when the ilrst thing
did was TO call upon the young lady.
Tho aunt came to the door and said she
was entirely too sick TO SEQ any one.
"She silently led me through the dark
cutry TO a pair of narrow steps leading
down inlo the dark cellar. say silent,
~, but | could hear her murmur as we
won't: 'lle must he saved! He must be
saved! SO like my dead boyl
So like my dead boyr OF course
| was greatly surprised aud
somewhat alarmed at these totally unex.
pected and irregular proceedings. We
were walking along the sido OF avery
dark cellar. when suddenly ~ door
somewhere, partly opened, allowed q
bright light to enter, and heard my
darltng's voice saying: Is all right,
suniieE Is that Won" In Il second the
old lady had pushed mo into AN obscure,
darkoned corner out OF sight, and, start
ing boldly forward, ont in the holt of
nght, said. 'Of course all is right.
Amy; It's only me- Then the girl
quickly disappeared, and quickly re-
turning 10 my side, the old lady hoareely
whispered, Quick. let MS gei upstairs.
Not Tonight No, no, not to.
nightV We silently went up
stairs, much, of course. against
my Will had 10 put on my shoes and
ieaVc Tue house as quietly as ! had On
~ aANNNAltl " dNAuA NlAlhkN
passed over my head, and at Q o'clock
IN tho evening | stood again in front of
lhat fata. door. Again the auat met me,
anu removing my shoes aS hld done
before, we quietly crept down stairs into
the cellar This we nosolussly crossed,
ana soon stood before what appeared To
NO large, massive door. Ry the
CLEANS OF light shining through tho
cracks nc otco saw that IL opened into
large, brilliantly lighted room ~
apartment ofsome kind. Assunn as we
reached 10 my mysterious nud silent
c0nduc,er after peenng through tho
key hole, told mo TO d0 The same, aud
great God! What did then discovet?
"a countericitor's den in ml blast.
There, bending and working over u pc
uliar'looling mcclure, was u villain
ous-looking man, with figure and face
AL marked bv the uisigurlug hand of