The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-25
AN AWFUL STORY
Ola Once BenutifulWoman' Love, Hate,
and Fevenge-A Terrible Sufferer, But
She Would do Anything for Him."

Ola Once BenutifulWoman's Love, Hate,
and Hevenge-A Terrible Sufferer, But
She Would do Anything for Him."
New York World.
Annie Loughlin sat a prisoner on
trial before Judge Cowing in general
session recently. The charge against
her was an assault in the second de-
gree. Such another spectacle was
never presented in this court OF male
factors as that made by Mrs. Loueh-
lin. Her crime explained her appear
ance, for it was she who, in February
last, visited a Broadway Office build.
ing, called her husband into the vesti-
bule, and after he had distinctly in
formed her that he would no longer
give her shelter, drew from beneath
her cloak a can partly filled with oil
OF vltriol, intending to fling it IN his
lace, but he, by q quick motion,
grasped the can, and while get.
ting a few burning drops on his
hands, sent the entire contents
in one smarting, stinging shower over
her face. Two months OF hospital
care had only succeeded in saving her
eyeslght, but such a face never shock
ed human sight as that which the once
pretty Annie Sinclair, a waiter girl in
a Broad street restaurant, brought
with her to trial. Thecase was a very
simple one; barely two hours were
consumed iii its disposition, but it
gave an insight into the woman's
whole life; OF her love and it's awful
ending; OF her revenge and it's terrible
recoil upon herself. The only materi.
al witness for the people came to the
stand. He was the husband, a low
spoken, mild-mannered man, with
blonde complexion and looking the
type OF the minor otficeholder. He
said that or February 25 he got a
note asking him to 90 over to the Of
flee OF James j. Gumbleton, on Broad
way. He did not know who
wished to see him, but he went over
at once and in the hallway met his
wife. The meeting was not pleasant
one. A few weeks before, after two
years OF married life, he had left her
and gone home to the residence OF his
parentsin Dominick street. He took
this move partly because he did not
have an income sufficient to support
a wife, but mainly, he said, because OF
her temper, (Which was enough to
make a man wish himself dead" No
words were wasted at the interview in
the office building. She asked him
whether or not he intended to re-
sumo housekeeping. He gave her a
distinct negative and turned to 60
down by the elevator. An umbrella
which she carried was handed him as
they went down together, and as she
sat in the descending car she drew
from a satchel beneath her water
proof a tin mustard box in which was
about a cupful OF vitriol. In the yes
tibule she still begged him to resume
married life, which he as firmly refused.
"Then she made amotion with the can
towards me, andI, having becomesus-
picious, grabbed her hand, and some
OF it splashed on my hands and clothes
some on her face and the rest on the
floor. did not know what it was or
what she intended to do, but when l
saw how burned she was l called a
cab and took her to the Chambers
Street Hospital" The defense had
but one witness, the woman herself.
The tears flowed from her eyes as she
told the tale OF the great episode in
her life, OF the instant's work which
had made OF her n living wreck and
her face a hideous mockery of beauty.
Her defense was that, though her in
tention When she went to the building
was to d~istigure her husband with the
burning chemical. yet the sight of him
revived her old ove,renewed her atfec-
ton despite his cruel treatment, and
thatsha took he1uid receptacle from
her pocket in order to tell him what
she had intended to do, and what her
love had prevented.
81 married him." she said, "two
years and a half ago, and I loved him,
oh, SO much! / would do anything
for him. He had left me two weeks
before, and l had not a cent i'll the
world, l was sick for q week, and
when l was able to get up l bought
the %vitriol, and went down town in
tending to ask Tom what he was
going to do, and use it if he refused to
stand by me; but when l saw him I
had not the heart to do it. Before
.n'Nou' nuusc' ~ w ihuc!!
~ harn nun IN the least. l asked
MN aho eseeo MN TO De TO me q
gooo husoand again, out ne would
ny: coulo nave used IL up
s.'t,rs IN Inc hali, Dut l oloh,t,
to show him what / had and what 1
had come to do; but it was the good
uou 1 unty t,ao ourned my mana on
llSsel i.Vei On tne tano she snow,
Gu !le sumo spilio OF ano
soesa'lon ,oi ner nusoaho wnicn sne
oviiceo az uhe hospltal' wher ~ the
asony OF her nrs1 treaIment, WIN the
iesncoihing on lnerea1 charreo nakes,
her ohiy INQUIRY was LOT ION ana
heI Was ZOE nus forgiveness.
IN Ine charge OF Judge COWlnS he