The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-09
lifted BY MISS MosgY.
,ehoebox'' Miller Rejected By His
sweetheart.
nom the PhAadelphia Record

sweetheart
E,op, the Philadelphia Record.
,v.sH1yGroN, Sept. 5.-Romance and
Una never more deity or seductively
,',.,d,d than in the Mitkiewicz. Miller-Mosby
-I.,da of recent renown, have been
Sfirorced of late by Miss Mosby, the proud
~, boautiful fiancee of James w. c'Shoe-
~ Miller. So it Is probable that the
Songhtv and more or less valiant son Of Col.
H9a.bv If wartime guerilla fame will not
81 called upon 80 shoot at any more ex-
Isss counts to shield his fair sisters
LH MIS- Mosby has sent back handsome and
srsve Young Miller's engagement ring. She
- Ikewise sent him written request to
Iii no more at the MoSby mansion in War
on+on Va. She has read aud studied and
Ia,dared over "Shoebox" Miller's published
pp,1Jicatiou, only to reach the sad conclusion
ttat if does not vindicate him. There were
80 many missing links in his eighteen-col-
IN story for their imagination to supply.
'fbora we're 81, 000-oills in too great profu-
IN for a white-handed, tender~palmed
I'o1ng man without known honorable avo-
Satioa to have come into possession of, even
If he had been entirely innocent Of the cruel
Catfish bond robbery, as his abb was aimed
toprove.
IMAGINATION, even though were it warpsd
nv, affection for Miller, could not supply
those missing links with any credit TO him,
even though his innocence of the Catfish
robbery had been conceded.
Had the man who escaped in a shoe box
from the Riverside penitentiary at Pitts
burg made a different line of defense for
himself he might have won not only charm
ing Miss Mosoy's heart and hand, but in
GOOD measure also the forgiveness of a
world inclined, it is true, to judge convicted
criminals with caution. Had be said to the
woman he loved as he has to many volun-
teer friend, II was q robber. and one OF the
most skillful who ever cracked a safe on the
western reserve, but I've seen the folly and
crime of it, and am seeking reform and the
forgiveness of mankind" he might have
won that love which is most devoted to mon
who have most to conquer. But past as
Innocent rs she professed aims of the present
reform was too great claim to bear the
scrutiny of @ sweetheart. There was too
much Of Miller's innocence for even the
hand Of love to crowd into years filled so
full Of robbery and passions uncontrolled.
THEIR PATHS DIvERGE.
Hence it is that Miss Mosby hes broken
"for good and all" her engagement to marry
"Shoebox'' Miller. It was onlya suspended
love affair pending his vindication. l. is
now q complete and final rupture, probably
never TO be healed.
Whether the blonde young man, once the
hero, now seemingly the villain of this
romance, will go on in partnership with the
scheming, sandy-whiskered, freckled Rus
sian count looking for new realms of limo
cence to conquer, will be of little moment
henceforth to the Mosoys. Their path and
his diverge any way.
Yet Mitkiewicz, the Kaleidoscope count,
arrested in Rochester, tarashed for lawless-
ness In Baltimore. and finally erecting a
fabric of mimic Oriental royalty in his
own Washington home, with which to fish
for plain, homely, yet more or less rich
American suckers, can go on, with or with
out his "Shoebox" partner. There are
worlds enough yet for both Of them to con
quer, without parting the proceeds between