San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-09
SAD RESULTS OF THE MISTAKES
MADE BY A HUSBAND AND WIFE.

A Quiet Little Cottage That Has Been the
Scene of Tragedy-A Story with .
"Richard Hare in It-A Wife's Little
Secret and "A Husbands Rash Judgment.
That's a pretty, home like little place,
isn't it!n asked fellow passenger of Com
mercial man on an incoming Lexington train.
The 'little place" referred to was a cottage
home not many miles this side of Lexington,
a half mile back from the railroad, and seen
from the train window with all of its pretty
environments did look like refuge for hap
pineSs in a refined state of purity, where some
loving couple, free from the perplexities and
sins of the world, might find a foretaSte of
heaven. 'Well," continued the speaker, as
the train flew by other scenes just as pretty,
there is a tragically sad story connected
with that place about which but little has
ever been published, and the true inwardness
of which but very few know. Five years
ago it was the home of as happy pair of
moderately wealthy young people as could be
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 a little daughter in whom was conferred
their combined love- They ought to have
been, and l believe were, as happy as any
couple in the state.
THE FIRST MISTAKE
Zone afternoon the wife received letter
postmarked at 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 and wed. She laughingly told
her husband, but with evident embarrass-
ment, that she had secret and would
bo,y 60 TO T 10 hot
knew but little about his wifes 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 wife's
conduct that day at the start and assisted
her off 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 to miss the evening train, as he and
baby would be uneasy and lonely.
THE woman had made the first mistake of
Der life in not telling her husband the truth.
She was on her way to meet a scapegrace
of brother who had written pleading for
an interview and for little money, for which
he dared not go 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 to 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 husband 'ShnXiety was convert
ed into something like jealous fright. He took
the next train for Louisville reached there
after dark, and at tie 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 peculiar SMILE had said:
She has a visitor nova gentleman, who
called early in the day
"Well, to make short story of it, he beat
his card to 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 mean The young wife,
who was even then deprecatinS to her broth
9r the mistake which was keeping her away
from home, read in her husbands face and
1emahd all he thought, and was Mortified in
return Too indignant to Immediately ex.
plain, she stood staring at him with wat he
thought was guilty look, until crazed by he
knew not what he struck her down, and
turned to the brother, who had escaped to
the hall and down the stairs leaving the out
ragged sister to explain to her misguided hus-
oand. The latter followed too late to find
him, and telling the clerk in a strange voice
that his wife would remain all night and that
be wouldn't, left the hotel
BITTER REGRETS.
He spent the night walking the streets
and watching the hotel entrance for the man
ne fully intended to 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
few of her belongings, seized her child and
was leaving her home never to return. 1t
was at 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 to the landing below. The
baby's head, with the weight of the mother
added, struck on the first post of the bans-
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 ali 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 a hermit. You
may occasionally see him at one of the race
meetings in Louisville, the only kind of
amusement he seems to ever seek, but he