Milford chronicle., 1889-09-06
TWO LIVES DARKENED.
SAD RESULTS OF THE MISTAKES
MADE BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE.


MADE BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE.
A Quiet Little Cottage That Has Been tn
Scene of a Tragedy-A Story with
"Richard Hare" In It-A Wife's LIttl
Secret and Husbands Rash judgment
''Thats a pretty, home like little place
isn't itl' asked fellow passenger Of a Com
mercial man on an incoming Lexington train
The "little place. referred to was a cottag
home not many miles this side Of Lexington
"a half mile back from the railroad, and see
from the train window with all Of Its prett
environments did look like refuge for hap
piness in a refined state Of purity, where som
loving couple, free from the perplexities an,
sins of the world, might find foretaste o
heaven. "Wel, - continued the speaker, a
the train few by other scenes just as pretty
There is tragically sad story connecte,
with that place about which but little Ia
ever been published, and the true inwardncs
Of which but very few know Five year
ago 10 was the home of as happy a pair o
moderately wealthy young people as could b,
found in the state They had youth, wealth
a name AS well known and untarnished as
that Of any of the old families In this section
and little daughter in whom was conferred
their combined love- They ought 10 hav,
been, and l believe were, as happy as any
couple I'm the state.
THE FIRST MISTAKE.
"One afternoon the wife received letter
postmarked at a little town in Indiana, near
where she had lived when she came to Ken
lucky ON a visit and met the man she after
ward loved aud we'd She laughingly told
her husband. but with evident ombarrass-
ment, that she had secret and would
have TO go TO Louisville. He at that time
knew but little about his wife's Indiana kins-
people, whom he had only seen at the time of
their wedding and on the two or three visits
he had made at her home during the brief
engagement which followed their meeting in
Kentucky. He never wondered at his wifes
conduct that day at the start and assisted
her oil TO the train next morning, half jest
inglv demanding the author Of the letter
which called her away She never told him,
however, and his parting words were a eau
ton not 10 miss the evening train, as he and
baby would be uneasy and lonely.
THE woman had made the first mistake Of
her life in not telling her husband the truth.
She WIS ON her way 10 meet a scapegrace
OF brother who had written pleading for
an interview and for little money, for which
he dared not so home. She reached Louis
VILE went TO the Gait house, near the depot,
registered. and sent for the brother, who
came, and with whom she talked long
enough 20 miss her train The telegram she
sent reached the station We Just passed, for
some reason, later than the train she should
have been ON, and the minute the latter pass
ed the young husbands anxiety was convert
ed into something like jealous fright. He took
the next train for Louisville reached there
after dark, and at the clerks desk in the Gait
found that his wife was in room -. Have
a boy show me up said he, registering the
same name farther down the page; She is
my Wife and then he looked strangely at the
clerk, who, with a peculiar smile, had said:
'She has visitor nova gentleman, who
called carly in the day
well, TO make a short story Of It. he beat
his card 10 the door, and with feelings he
himself did not understand burst into the
room his face livid with rage, and a cry Of
What does this meanf The young wife,
who was even then deprecating TO her broth
err the mistake which was keeping her away
from home, read in her husbands face and
demand all he thought, and was Mortified in
return Too indignant TO Immediately ex-
plain, she stood staring at him with what he
thought was a guilty look, until crazed by he
knew not what he struck her down, and
turned 10 the brother, who had escaped 10
the hall and down the stairs, leaving the out
ragged sister to explain to her misguided hus.
band Tho latter followed too late to find
him, and telling the clerk in a strange voice
that his wife would remain all night and that
he wouldn't, left the hotel.
BITTER REGRETS.
He guaant the uslrhf a1lrirtr fIt, -tr.,,ts
and watching the hotel entrance for the man !
he fully intended 20 murder, How the young
wife spent that night will never be known .
She must have been already mad, when next .
morning she returned home, and, packing 4
few Of her belongings, seized her child and
was leaving her home never to return II .
was az the head Of the stairs, in blind rage.
with her child in her arms, that her foot
caught in the carpet and she and the little
one were dashed 20 the landing below The
baby head with the weight of the mother
added, struck on the first post Of the banis-
tiers, and two hours later she was dead. The
half crazed husband reached his home five
minutes after the accident, and it was over
their dying child that they came to under.
stand the terrible mistake that each. and he
especially, had made She was wholly insane
before the hearse came back from the little
grave where all their happiness, past and to
come, was laid
"She has been ever since an inmate OF the
asylum at Lexington The ruined man lives
with his aged mother in the little home we
passed. and is little more than hermit You
may occasionally see him at one Of the race
meetings in Louisville, the only kind Of Z
amusement he seems to ever seek, but he (
looks older than men Of twice his AGE and {
shows the burden he hears is a terrible one !
Not a half dozen people who knew them |
know that his mistake drove his wife 10 the |
net which killed her child and made her
maniac. Il was presumed 10y every one that
the little one fell while at play and that her e
mothers devotion was too strong for her
iehcately strung system to bear the shock
which dethroned her mind Louisville Com.
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