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

the murder, as to her past, or as to what
she had done since the murder.
After lying for months in the hospital
she was finally brought before the grand
jury on charge of murder. While in
the grand jury room she broke down for
the first time and told the story of her
lie. Subsequent investigation proved
this story to be correct in all its main
points, and l leave it to you if it does
not equal any three-vOlume romance.
Antonio and hertwin brother, Stephan
w. Won Apponig, were the acknowl-,
edged children of the Russian Count
Won Apponig. Whether they were,
legitimate or not does not appear cer-i
tain, although the brother and sister
lived with their father in early child,
hood, and were always addressed as
Count Stephan and Countess Antonio.
The mother disappeared or died during
married when they were about five
years old. just before the marriage the,
old story of '"The Babes in the WoOd'''
was repeated, for the children were
taken long distance in carriage, and
were finally
DESERTED IN A GREAT FOREST .
on the borders of Sweden. The poor
little tots wandered aimlessly about,
and had very nearly reached the Starva
ton point when they were discovered
by the father of Christopher Joseph
son, who was travelling through the
forest with a wagonload of farm
products. He took the little ones
to his heart, carried them home
to his cottage on the farm and
brought them up with his own children.
rearing, to let their, unnatural father
know of their whereabouts, the elder
Stephenson kept up their harbOring
secret, buthe gave them an education
suited to their birth, with the idea that
in later life they might make a claim
upon the Won AppOnig estate. Shortly
before he came OF age her brother be-
came embrOiled in some squabble with
a nobleman, who refused to meet him
In duel, upon the ground that he had
no right to the name of Won Apponig.
Stephan, in blind rage, killed the noble
man and then fled the country, being
aided to escape by his young friend,
christopher JOSephSOn. Stephan is still
alive and is in the United States, but he
is living under an assumed name. Not
long after this event the entire Joseph
son family emigrated to America, bring
ing Antonio with them, and settled in
New York city. Ere three years had
passed. both of the parents were dead,
and the children scattered to different
Pah 10 VI uiiO CouuIiy. ALlIOIlld was III
dire want for while, but finally OBJ
tanned position as governess in a Jew
ish family that lived on Fifth
avenue. 1t was during her time
of greatest trial that Christie
pher. ,IosephsOn promised to marry
her; he postponed the marriage from
time to time Oh various pleas. Finally
she sought and obtained the position as
goyerneSS in hope that the separation
might tempt him to fulfill his promise.
Instead of that being the case Joseph
soil disappeared from New York and
Antonio heard nothing from OF of him
for some time. One day she learned
from
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
of the family that he was in the employ
of the Pacific Mail company on this
coast, and she at once started for San
Francisco. Having saved just enough
from her earnings to make the trip pos
| sible, reaching here without money
enough to keep her week, and finding
that JOsephSon was absent on the Grab
| ada, she obtained a place as house
| servant, the only honest employment
| that offered. n / s
When the Granada got back to port,
Antonio received very chillingiwel
come from Christopher, although he
| still promised to make good his word
and marry her. His ship left again..
however, without the marriage cere-
| mOny having been performed, ttand
when JOSephSon again returned he,
| found Antonio awaiting him on the dock.
He then told her that he was already
| married, but that he would get divorce
| from his wife and marry his old play
| mate. From some of the officers of the
| ship Antonio learned that the marriage
story was probably false, and them the
idea of revenge first came to her, Jo-
sephson avoided meeting with her,
| and left her letters unanswered, butts she
| discovered that he slept3in the cottage
| on First street. On the fatal evening
| she went there, waited until he came
and forced her way into the house with
| him. According to her story. of what
| then occurred, JoSephsOn then threw
| off the mask, declared that he was tired
of her, that knowing what she had done
before marriage, he could not tell what
she might do after marriage; and
finally, after applying vile epithet to
her, said that everything between them
must be ended. Then she shot him.
she rushed down to Beale street wharf,
which was just below the cottage, and
threw herself into the bay.
She told pitiful story of what Oc-
Cured after she was discharged from
the prison on the day of her rescue.
Leaving the house on the BurgOyne
place she went to North Beach, and
waited there for some time with intent
to drown herself. When the time came
HER COURAGE FAILED,
for the horror of the last attempt came
over her too strongly to permit repeti-
ton of it, Then she left the beach and
hn I'm Of ,1,nr L.
lights in the druggists window on
Hayes street suggested poison. With
her last coin she purchased laudanum,
and then wandered on until she came
near the corner of Pine ard Mason
streets. Here she crawled under a
house, lay down upon the ground and
drank the laudanum Whether it was
impulse, or whether her nervous state
was too strong for it to conquer, the
drug only threw her into profound
sleep, from which she awoke
day, still alive. With ter
ror and despair eating into her brain.
she determined to starve herself to
death, and stuck to that resolution for
two days. Toward evening OH the sec
Ond day she saw young servant girl in
the yard at the back of the house, and
in an instant the gnawing pangs of
hunger conquered her resolution. She
crept forward, called the servant in
whisper, and implored her for food and
secrecy. The girl was frightened. but
promised both, and kept the promise
for two days longer. Then she became
SO scared by the evident illness of An
tonia that she told her mistress. The
latter, a good Samaritan, took the poor
wretch into the house and nursed her
there, Notwithstanding Antonia's utter
silence as to her past. The old lady be-
came so alarmed by AntOnia's extraor-
binary melancholia and continued ST.
lence that she applied to her friend. Me