Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-06
Can Il be True That She is Indeed
Forgotten by Those She
Loved7
The Fearful Results OF a Fast Yonng
LIfe--A Horrible Warning TO
Maynard Girls.
Fun aud Filtration Leading Hand In Hand
Down 60 shame. Dishonor and
the Grave.

The body Of poor Lucille Kirby rested
in the undertaker's establishment al day
yesterday, awaiting Instructions from her
parents In Jones county, but no tidings
came. The remains will he held to-day,
when, II her relatives are not heard from,
she win be Inferred IN the city cemetery.
Circumstances which are cropping out
now that she Is dead, give stronger color
ing to the belief that Lucille Kirby was
the victim Of
rYPE or MYSTERIOUS MADNESS
which amounted TO little less than insan-
ity Every person with whom she came
ia intimate contact here was impressed
with this strangeness of manner, and al
unite in the opinion that she was meu-
tally unbalanced. One peculiarly that
forced itself even upon q casual acqualnt-
ancc was that she could never look per-
son squarcly in the face, Her eye is said to
have never met anothci's except by acct
dent, aud then her gaze was quickly
ayerted The poor creature seems to
have been conscious Of some mental de-
feet, and remarked 10 friend that she
believed she was insane 1t was very
plain to all that the
BURDEN OF a GREAT GRIEF
was prcying ON her mind, and certain ex-
pressions in her delirious moments led
the hearers TO believe that there was
some trouble even greater than the sepa-
ration from her husband To certain
young man who had beirlended her she
was very attentive while he was sick, and
often read from diary that had been
kept from childhood; but there were pages
which she would neither read herself
or permit him to see. These She sadly
scanned, often believing them with a
tear. To those with whom She was inti-
mately associated She talked very freely
about
HER DOMESTIC TROUBLES.
II leaks out that she admitted that She
was nnfaithful to her husband during
their three weeks of welded life, but in
exclamation she claims that he exposed
her, an innocent child OF fourteen,
to temptations which she, not being
versed in the ways OF the world, was
not prepared to resist 1t seems that
at the time of the elopement her parents
were living at Denison, having moved
from Arson few weeks previous. She
became acquainted with Carpenter about
six months prior to their marriage, his
ranch being located near her fathers, and
by her attractive appearance and engage
Ing manners inspired him with
AN IRRESISTIBLE INFATUAroN,
which would stop nothing short of pos
session. This infatuatlon twice induced
him TO condone her offenses, and the
third time he was content to seek no
revenge, but simply returned the mis-
guided child to her parents, giving
her $1,000 in cash, and promising that II
she would do better he might, in time,
take her back 20 his affections. After
the marriage the couple came direct 10
Fort Worth, and stopped at the Mansion
hotel. They remained here about ten
days and during that time the husband
had occasion to he absent several
days. 1t Is said, with apparently good
reason for belief, that while he was gone
another enjoyed those privileges which
should have been sacred to himself.
From Fort Worth they went to Jones
county, residing for the balance OF their
connubial existence on Mr.. Carpenter 5
ranch Here it seems
AN OLD FLAME
caused trouble, and finally separation.
The kirbys moved back TO their ranch
In Jones from Denison, and Lucille re-
stunned her place in the family. The hum
drum monotony OF country life
did not furnish that excite
ment which her daring spirit
crayed, and short time afterward She
came to Fort Worth searching for her
husband. He declined to see her. and
straying into bad company she was in.
duced to take a trip TO San Antonio in
company with young Lothario. Since
then
tf,sn N,to.r
nave been sadly frequent, although
the best evidence would seem 10 indi.
cate that she has never been an inmate
of Il regular house Of prostitution.
A gentleman who visited Jones comfy
recently says he talked with an old gen.
tleman, u neighbor Of the Kirby family.
about Lucille, who was then i'm Fort
Worth. He said that her parents Mt.
tempted to restrain her from coming
here 10 fight the divorce suit, but that
she ran away from Them. THAT Girl -
said the old man, "was
rnE souncE or INFINITE TRoun1E
TO her parents, AZ twelve years
OF age she was the sub
lect OF talk among fast young men,
aud even thcnrumors were adoat derrosa.
tory to her character"
These, 1t seeiils, never reached the ears
oi her husband, aud he always regarded
her as pure at the time Of their marriage,
refusing TO credit stories to the contrary,
even after his own suspicious were made
the subject of
lNpunIfAnIE rROOF.
It's said that warm personal friend
hrst opened his eyes TO her inGdellty, aud
That u was only when confronted
with the evidence OF his own senses thar
he could be made to believe 1t. Ills
affection for her it seems never entirely
died out and II is learned that he was
deeply affected by her death, the ciscum.
stances of which were telegraphed him at
Harold
MYSTERY rNSoLNEp
The Identity OF the Young man
who registered at the brunswick
hotel as the brother of Lucille
Kirby still remains a mystery.
ltislcarned that he came to town on
I saturday morning, and on inpuIring al "a
the whereabouts of Lucille was shown
The paragraph in THr GuErrn, staring
that she was sick AZ the Southern hotel
from morphine poisoning He immedi-
ately repaired 10 her room, where he re-.
NAMED until her death. when ~ Snaannlv