New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-27

club had in his insane fury, knocked
Sir Charles serseless and mutilated
me beyond all recognition The lu-
matte fed upon the approach ofsome
farm hands who had witnessed the
catastrophe, and who resuscitated
Sir Charles and assisted in bear
ing my corpse home. Ny
wife was almost killed by
the shock but Sir Charles had
been a constant and unWearied at
tendant and sympathizer, and
touched by his unWearied devotion
she had married him about four
years after my supposed death.
A full comprehension ofSir Charles
Vaccinations then broke upon me.
Tempted by the beauty of my wife he
had plotted to kill me and then win
her for himself. He had given me a
high-strung, nettlesome horse to ride
and headed me toward a wall that
no living horse could clear. His
scheme worked to perfection AS he
had anticipated was severely stun
ned by the fall, and the mutilated
corpse of IN unknown outcast had
been substituted for my insensible
form, and taken home to my grief
stricken wife, while l had been hurried
away by paid tools, to distant asy-
lum, where | was incarcerated as an
unknown vagrant, and had been made
a subject of experiment by a we'll
known specialist on insanity. Full
well did Sir Charles know
how to play upon my wife's
sympathies, and, worn out by con-
slant pleadings, no donbt, had mar
ried him.
Unable to hear the comments be-
ing expressed arose and CROPPED my
way out of doors. My brain seemed
on fire. For a long time-it must
have been weeks-I wandered, know
not whittier, escaping re-incarcera-
ton in an asylum by that peculiar
cunning which divine Providence
alone can give to those afflicted as [
was. When I came again to myself,
properly speaking, / was in a hut on
the land belonging to Mansfield
Grange, and here have since re-
manned subsisting upon the charity of
the communicative last of a race,
once the foremost in the land. For
merly the humiliation would have
caused me to destroy myself, but
now must live for revenge. I have
written this in my calmer moods,
when the memory of my past life has
not caused the hot waves Of passion
to run riot in my being and cast a
veil over my feeble understanding.
Here I live as Looney Jim; and so will /
die. To him only will | make myself
known.
The time is drawing near when l
shall meet him face to face Yester-
day [ noticed preparations for an un-
usual event going on at the Grange,
and upon inquiry found that the mas
ter-Sir Charles!-was expected home
in a few days to spend the winter
after several years absence. Then
oh-h! but must be calm-I must
control myself.
~
At last-at last! The time is near
at hand! To-day while walking in
the wood near the Grange I met him.
How did | manage to restrain
myself? / know not. Surely l
did not betray myself! No. for he
seemed to pity my forlorn condition,
and inquired my residence, and prom
Used to call upon me with view
to assisting me in some manner.
How he has changed He looks old,
CroW-feet show themselves about his
eyes, and he is slightly bowed for
ward, as though age was creeping
upon him. His once jaunty, buoyous
manneri is gone, and he seems to have
a worried expression. All! dearly
purchased happiness! Is he pursued
by remorse? Perhaps-no he cannot.
tits too late to atone for the past,
and yet, if | thought my darling was
happy might, but must go where
the airwill cool my poor heated brain.
IL feel the spell coming on. / cannot
forget the past!
The following paragraph, printed
under f1aring headlines, was printed in
the London Trumpeter of els:
"a SAD HOME CoMING.-It is our pain
full task to announce the death
by violence on Thursday evening last
of Sir Charles Wedhurst, of Mansfield
Grange, --shire, who returned home on
Tuesday after prolonged absence aboard
he mad gone out IN the evening, presumably
for a walk, and as he did not return search
was instituted, and he was found at a late
hour lying in a secluded grove with his throat
encircled by the fingers of a man who
was also dead The latter person was
recognized as a weak-minded nondescript
Familiarity known as tLooney Jim, who had
for several years past been living in a small
cottage near tho Grange, and subsisting up
on the charity of the neighbors. He was
known to have violent fits of insanity at
times. but as he usually shut himself up in
his hut during such attacks he was considered
harmless. 1t is probable that he met Sir
Charles IN one OF his violent moods,
and thinking him an enemy attacked
him with fatal results The ground about
the bodies bore evidence ola terrible struggle
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