Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-11

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 a
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 a jour-
ney. Not knowing what to do she stopped
at street corner for q moment in confu-
sion. There she was approached by poor
ly 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 to 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 to take
carriage. She felt like concealing her re-
treat and had already become somewhat
startled and ashamed of her course. So she
the night, and it was not until early morn
ing that she finally found her way down the
steep and rickety stars of the cliff to the
house where Mary Donnelly lived. The
strain and exposure consequent to her
fight had thrown her into 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 to
notify Mr.. Brownlow or any of her relatives
of her situation. 1t was her intention, as
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
a newspaper and rarely met any body from
the outside world, no news came to them of
Mr.. Brownlow' 8 arrest, trial and conviction.
It was when Mary Donnelly had gone over
to Yonkers 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 a letter from Mrs. Brown
low to the mayor.
The detectives we're 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
| that an innocent man was not to be made
| the victim of theirmistakes. The news was
not taken directly to Mr.. Brownlow He
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 suffi-
GENTLY to be 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 no delay in bring
| ing th> unfortunate affair to speedy ter
| minat!on.
| The district attorney himself moved in
| chambers for a new trial. 1t was granted,
and the following day set for its occurrence
| The prisoner was brought before the bar.
and in speech in which he fully exoner-
ated him from any evil intentions towards
his wife and all suspicious of such, the dis
trlct attorney moved that the case be nolle
| pressed This motion was granted by the
| judge, and the prisoner was dismissed.
The meeting between him and his wife
| was most affecting, and they resumed their
domestic relations with every augur, for
happy relations in the future Both seemed
to take to heart the severe lesson taught
| by the result of one short moment of anger.
THE END.