The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1889-07-04

and the description Of how TO reach her
house, she put in her pocket The others
she left in her bureau, where Mr.. Parker
subsequently found them. With these and n
small sum Of money in her hand she started
out of the house. but she had not gone more
than a block before she realized that she
was i'll prepared in dress for such jour
ney. Not knowing what to do she stopped
at street corner for o moment in cOnfu-
sion. There she was approached by a poor
" dressed woman who begged for charity.
On the impulse of the moment Mrs. Brown
low exchanged her costly opera cloak for
the woman's cheap but large shawl This
garment so disguised her that no one whom
she met on the journey suspected for mo
ment that she was really in full evening
dress. The cloak afterwards found in the
river may be accounted for in any way
that suits the reader. The police believed
that the woman 10 whom it was given com
mitted suicide, and it is probable that the
body found and identified as that OF Mrs
Brownlow was in reality none other than
that of the woman to whom the cloak had
been given.
Mrs. Brownlow, arriving at the railway
station nearest to the point where Mary
Donnelly lived, had not ventured 10 take a
carriage She felt like concealing her re
treat and had already become somewhat
startled and ashamed of hercourse So she
walked long and dreary tramp through
the night, and it was not until early morn
ing that she finally found her way down the
steep and rickety stairs of the cliff TO the
house where Mary Donnelly lived. The
strain and exposure consequent to her
flight had thrown her iato a distressing ill
ness, and the scanty means for providing
against such calamity in the house, and
her absence from her husband, tended to
make her recovery all the more slow. Still,
she absolutely forbade her old servant "a
notify Mr.. Brownlowor any Of her relatives
of her situation. II was her intention, a.
soon as she should recover, TO make her
way back home and explain every thing
Time had passed, however, day after day,
without substantial progress being made.
and as the people under the cliff never saw
newspaper and rarely met any body from
the outside world, no news came to them OF
MIR. browulow's arrest, trial and conviction.
1t was when Mary Donnelly had gone over
TO Honkers one day for provisions that she
heard conversation on the street regarding
the matter, and, making further inquiries,
she learned the whole history of the case.
On the following morning she had set out
TO New York with letter from Mrs. Brown
low to the mayor.
The detectives sere soon satisfied that
this was indeed Mrs. Brownlow, and they
set out on their return to New York with
strange feelings Of defeat and humiliation,
not altogether unmingIed with satisfaction
that an innocent man was not TO be made
the victim Of their mistakes. The news was
.r.e f-.lr n
knew nothing OF the discovery until his at
torney, Mr.. Parker. told him OF the circum-
stances. Then, for the first time, the iron
nerved man yielded to the pressure OF his
emotions, and tears came freely to his eyes
and his voice was too choked for utterance.
In few days his wife had recovered sum
GENTLY TO DO removed to the city, and when
the officers OF the law had actually seen her
and heard from her own lips the story OF
her experience, there was nodelay in bring.
ing the unfortunate affair TO speedy tfr-
minatiOn.
The district attorney himself move, in
chambers for new trial II was granted,
aud the following day set for its occurrence.
The prisoner was brought before the bar,
and in a speech IN which he fully exoner
ated him from any evil intentions towards
his wife and all suspicious OF such, the dis
trict attorney moved that the case be holle
pressed This motion was granted BIZ the
judge, aud tho prisoner was dismissed
The meeting between him and HE wife
was most affecting, and they resumed their
domestic relations with every augury fof
happy relations In the future. Both seemed
TO take TO heart the severe lesson taught
by the result Of one short moment Of anger
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