St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12

fIpSS&SSa$ S66NO nently con-
S\S@F$&L S s. nected with
CAMcSsH &8&sea S&o the police
0oSSSYGIEA4SN s force of this
h e: as: .: !; +: !: :;
SA5S$& had unusual
C@)GSSA Opportuniti e S
cNf @I to study the
NANSA Seamy side of
Wh life, and have
made up my
mind that
there is no
truth in the generally asserted theory
that the fates serve out good and ill
luck in about equal quantities to all peo-
pie, says a contributor of the San Fran
cisco Call. 1t sounds pretty enough,
but there is nothing in it. Why, sir, |
can call to mind dozens of instances in
which the StreakS of good fortune were
so few and so narrow that they were
actually buried out of sight and men,
ory under mountain of misery. The
SaddeSt case that ever came to my per-
Sonal knowledge was that of woman
who died recently in hospital across
the bay. Her actual experience was
more romantic and terrible than the
plot OF any tragic novel / have ever
read, and can vOuch for the truth of
her story, as it came within my prov
ince to verify or diSprove it.
In response to a request for the
story, he told it as follows, and it turned
out to be the explanation of a mystery
that puzzled the brains of San Francis
cans some eleven years ago. Taking up
the thread of the narrative the amateur
detective said:
On Dec. 80, 1876, at l a. H., two police
officers while patrOlling the water
front heard a shrek from the end of
Beale street wharf, and on running to
the spot saw some one struggling in the
water. They accomplished rescue
and found they had saved a woman,
who was barefoOted and with no other
clothing than a single undergarment.
Having been only few seconds in the
water she was perfectly conscious, and,
turning to her rescuers, said: MAY the
curse of Almighty God fall upon you
for preventing my death!"
REFUSED TO SPEAK.
After saying this, she refused to speak
another word. nor could the city prison
authorities induce her to answer any
questions, except as to her name, which
she gave as Dora Levy. She was placed
in the prison hospital, and in the after
noon made brief statement to the
effect that she was a servant in the
house of a respectable family living in
Burgoyne place, and asked that clothes
might be brought to her from there
This was done, and shortly after Dora
Levy was discharged from the prison, as
is usual in such cases, under the idea
that the terrible shock had cured her de-
sire for suicide. She was followed,
however, until she was seen to enter the
house on Burgoyne place. and then the
police abandoned the case. | may say
here that when she left the prison in
proper toilet. she appeared to be a
rather goOd-looking woman, twenty-five
OF tWenty-SiX years of age, brunette,
with short, curly hair, bright black
eyes, well shaped but rather sharp
features, a small, firm mouth, and a
rather square chin.
Some two OF three hours after she had
left news was brought to the central
station that the body of a dead man had
been seen through the window of
house on First street, near Brannan.
went to the place with an officer, and
inside, the key being in the lock, but
investigation showed that the window
through which the body had been seen
was not fastened. So we raised it and
entered a room, and saw the body of a
man sitting on the floor with his head
leaning against a bed. He was dead
with bullet in his brain, and on the
pillow was revolver with one chamber
empty. At the first glance | took it to
be a suicide, but this idea was quickly
dispelled. On trunk in the room some
woman's clothing had been thrown. and
evidently hastily. as no care had been
taken to keep them in proper shape.
There was a bonnet, dress, shoes, stock
ings and underclothes. Upon the top
of the clothing were two notes, and in
the mans pocket we found third. We
had learned from the neighbors, by the
way, that
THE MANS NAME
was Christopher Josephson, and that he
was quartermaSter on the Pacific Mail
steamer Granada. The note i'm his
pocket was in German, and, translated.
it was as follows:
"JosEPHsoN: I cannot understand
why you do not answer my letter. Did
you not receive it? Why this silence?
Please answer, SO l may know how to
act"
Of the three notes upon the clothing
the first read was rumpled, and was
found in the pocket of the dress. Lit
ClalOldOCu III ICttu.
Il gaZed on the dark, deep ocean, and
as l listened to the roar of the pillows I
took an oath before high heaven that I
would wreak bloody vengeance on you
if you dared to trif1e with my heart.
Should this come to pass, and should l
fail in my endeavor to carry out my
purpose, Josephson, still beware, for
Count S. w. Won APP. will be nv
avenger. He will hunt you until you
are in your grave, should he have to
follow you the world over. If it is true
that you have wife, and perhaps
child, it would pain me that they should
have to mourn your death; but if you
are untrue, my VOW must be fulfilled.
'ANTONIA Won APPONIG."
The translation of the next note read:
follows you. l made VOW and / have
kept it. You villain with serpent's
tongue. like a worm you shall crawl at
my feet, and there shall be no rest for
you. A. V. A.''
There was this postscript in English:
81 have found rest at last.''
No other people lived in the cottage,
and what have told you were the only
clews we found as the cause of death.
As soon as had read the notes was
convinced that the. murder had been
committed by the woman rescued from
drowning, and 1 hurried back to the
city prison with instructions for her
arrest. She was not to be found, how
ever, as she
HAD LEFT THE HOUSE
on Burgoyne place shortly after return
ing to it, and no definite information
could be gained. The last trace that
could be found of her was at drug
store on Hayes street, where she had
bought 25 cents worth of laudanum
late in the evening of the day when she
disappeared. The entire force were on
the lookout. but nothing came of it UNI
til late OH the night of Jan. S, when A.
j. Bryant, at that time mayor, came
into the police Office and said he had
woman i'm a carriage outside. and that