The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-03-23

A Child Whose Psrents Declare &c Wa q
odcoed'-RemRFkAble Directions ,f
aFortune-Teller-As Strange Story.
A few days ago a e-year-od girl dlCId
at Elmwood. Tho parents were and ro
yet firm in the belief that the child as
avictlm 10 witchcrait. Henry Tslllol In,
Gerinen, with wife and now wo
young Chi ldren, has been porter in
downtown business house for 80 mo
year1. BY his industry and economy
ne has been enabled 10 erscs
comfortable home at <iGlpUood.
IN S9o5s ne has reso"p oqh his fam, fam,
cottage lives roe. o.,aole mechanic
named Hitteiibergor, who also works In
the city, and is one OF tho may thous-
and commuters who have homes In the
suburbs. Hi ttenberger's inother-in-law
In Mrs. Johanna Ellsworth, an old lady
past go, who b charged by the TellIohns
with beiag
wITou,
and causing he death o thoir 5-ysa old
Rosa. Mrs. Ellsworth has lived nj Eos.
ter's Crossing over 20 years, and often
visited hor da .ughter az Elmwood. Last
summer she became acquainted with
the Telllohn family, and would FREE
quently call ON them. Tho Old lady
was looked W ION ~ an eccentric char
acter by Tell )hn sud his wife, who say
she was alwal - talking about the death
of children. LRBt fall the child OF ono of
the Deighbors died, and few days ut.
terward Mr.. EllswOrth while at the
Telljohn hOus ,, brought up the aubiect
of the dead child. MIR. Telllohn re-
marked that he supposed Z was
Gods viii that the child was
taken from its porenta. Mrs. Ellis
worth asked him which OF his three
children he co'nld best SPARE, aud Tell
john replied that ho could spare rome
OF them, but II all died he would accept
II ~ Coos will. The old woman then
said that schild's death was not n0ar 80
bad w that OF grown person, aud from
that limo on she paid considerable at
tenLiOn TO little Rosa. some four
months ago the child became III. MICS.
Ellsworth would visit it overy day.
At first Ross took liking to tho old
lady, bnt after two or three weeks the
little invnlit manifested n great dislike
for her, and Instead az running 20 her
arme on her entrance 10 tho house the
child would shrink from h0r. sOne day
the old lady took Rosa.
\ nOwL on SOUR.
The child partook vi little and thon
shrank from y. Up TO that tims Rosa
had always been fond of svllp, and
would ask ior 1t every day, but after.
ward nothing could induce her 70 taxa
any of II. She would awake in tho dead
OF night aud exolaim: "Look, there's
Johnnie'a grandmother" meaning Mrs,
Ellsworth. Rosa's illness con.inued
until her parents thought it best
70 call physician, and DR..
Safiin, Of Carthage, was summoned.
He could discover no especial
affection, although aomo medicine WAS
lett. THIS seemed TO do no good Az
Rosa grow paler and thinner every dav,
She was not confined 10 bed, buE was
able to run about tho house and yard.
IN two months, however, the child had
ieeen reduced from . hearty condition
until IL had grown weak and emaciatod, |
Tho TollJ0hn family began to look upon
Mrs. Ellsworth for the frat time with /
suspicion, and the husband aud vito
beth being OF n spirltuAlistic turn OIL
msnd, they decided 70 consult an astrol- /
ogiBt.
that they had clock which they had
borrowed from Mrs. Tellohu. THIS |
clock had AN evil effect on the child, aud /
IeilJohn was told 10 go &C. his neigbOr
aud yet his clock aa soon ~ ne returned
home. Horror stricken NJ the accuracy
Of the iortnno.telle|s statements, for
hls vie hud loaned the Hittoubergers a
clock which they still had. Telljohn Il
went u MS home In Elmwooi and In.
formed his wife OF his visit to Mime.
Dick.
The neEt thing he did was 10 step
ACROSS the yard and ask the Hlttsnb Dor.
ger family % return every thing they
had borrowed OF him lnoludiny The
clock. Ma. Ellsworth prevailed upon
him 10 let them keep The clock f6r "A
while longer reminding him that he did
not need the time piece, ~ he hau kwO
others In tho house. Talljohn insisted,
however, and took his clock home
Thts circumstance caused bad feelings
between the two families aud they have
not been on good terms since. Mean.
while, littio Rosa Telljohn grew worse,
until she had dwlndied TO
LIVING sKBI.RgoN.
Two weeks ago spinal meningitis SOL
IN, ana IN short tiino the child died.
she waa buried week ago last Thura.
day. The parents still declare the child
was bewiiched by Mrs. Ellsworth, and
claim that tho soup brought to Il by the
old lady had something 10 do with II.
When the soup was b ought, Airs. ELS.
worth said: "lIere, Rosa, you eat this
soup, aud no one Olso.r From that time
Mrs. Telliohn never again heard the ia.
eat soup"
A LoniuNE.rkLt.gR cALLED on
Mr. Ielljohn called upon Mlno. Dick, {
tpe ior'une-teller of Barr street, and d