The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-08-21
SARAH CLARK'S STORY.
Depraved Woman Who Was Once a
Beautiful Belle.

Sarah Clark.
IL is common enough name,
bat il stands for a story as sad as
was ever penned.
II is The story of wrecke / life
wOman's life.
Ten years ago Sarah Clark, as
she calls herself now, was The
petted darling of her parents. Life
seemed bright before her. She had
never known want ungratified
and there came 10 her no premoni-
ton Of The depths of degradation
into which she would sink. And
yet the degradation came and she
fell from her proud pedestal OF
pure .yomanhood, lower and lower
and lower, until she sacrificed her
race pride and became the associ.
ate of negroes
Sarah Clark is The white woman
who was bound over by Squire
llughey Thursday for living with
negro Henry Jones. On The stand
she was sullen apd denied tEat she
was ever known as white woman,
stating that her mother was a ne.
gro. From her no hint of her sto-
ry has fallen-she still has pride
enough to keep her lIps closed as
10 The height from which she has
fallen. But from other sources the
story OF her wrecked lie comes.
She is the daughter Of welto-do
neople who lived near Mississippi
City some 10 years. Her parents
had beautiful home on the gulf,
and-a she was an only child, no
wish of hers was ever denied.
She was beautiful then, the belle OF
her section and the spoiled darling
Of her parents. She had scores of
men IN her train who would haye
given all to call her wife. Her
choice was fixed on a young man,
the son of neighbOring planter.
She had known him from his boy
hood. They had gone TO school
together, and had sporied many a
happy hour on The sandy stretches
of beach near their homes. With
him The girl was all abandon.
There never came 10 her the sug-
gestion that he was unworthy Of
the devotion she ]aviShed upon
him.
But he was. Presuming on the
great love of the girl he induced
her to grant HIM the privileges of u
husband before the priest had pro-
nounced them one. After few
dalliance he iired of his
easy conquest and left The country.
This desertion was terrible shock
10 the girl. Her condition could
not longer be concealed and she
went to her parents with her story
Of woman's trust and mans deceit.
Her father was man proud of
his good name. 1t had never been
blotted before, and the story his
laughter told him drove him wild.
He saw himself the scorn and butt
or his neIghbors. In hIs rage,
leaf TO the pleadings of the girl
md her mother for forgiveness, he
lrove her out into The world.
Stunned by her father and form
# friends, the girls decent was
asy. The most remarkable thing
bout The case was The sudden an
lpathv she evinced for white peo-
lie. She would have nOihingio
o with them. She hved entirely
nth negroes, some say, 10 avenge
erself on ihe father who had
riven her forth.
From Mississippi City she drift
d hiiher and ihlther, a dirty waif
u The ocean of life. Children were
orn 10 her, but they bore The fea-
ures OF The negro race. Her pa
ents moved far IRON the scene of
er shame, but she kept track of
hem and whenever child was
orn she wrote that he had another
egro grandchild. Her revenge
'as complete. for few years ago
er parents died broken hearted,
he mother weeping for the child
he had lost and The father cursing
he child who had di%graced him.
Six months ago the woman came
D Memphis. She selected her ne
ro associates as usual, and il was
OF long before she was housekeep-
T for Henry Jones, for which she
aust answer 10 the criminal court.
The woman is longer pretty,
ut there are yet traces of her once
lorious beauty. Bent as she is on
The wrong done her in
irving her forth by degrading
erself as far as possible, there oc-
come 10 her memories
{ the time when she stood on the
celestial of happy wnmanhood.
uch a memory came in Squire
lughey's court Wednesday when
Ie broke do1n and sobbed.
This is Sarah Clark's story, and
strange story it is. Driven forth
u ouicast hy her own race she
venges herself by throwing her
IF in the aims of an inferior race.
he uses The negro 10 show her
aired OF the father who sent her
drift