Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-27
PART THREE.

Will never fade away.
Here, c.. go out to the Harper
hospital and see how that fellow who
was run over on the D, Nj, fow
hours ago, is coming on. Find out who
ho is II You camp
took the assignment from my city
editor and went out 10 the hospital. 10
was last Monday evening. ! was ad-
mitted TO tho bedside OF the injured
man, who was AZ that time holding IN
earnest conversation With his physlcias
He made confession that Will etarll)
oven you. in n slow, lahored voice, l,-
tween gasps, torn from him By IeatW.
pains, no said;
"My name Is CASTOR Bomparl, anl
was born in New Orleans Of rU'aNii
parents; | ain y wreck now phys,c..l9
morally and every other way; bt, r.,,it
| was man with you all. How
l WRECKED MY LIFE
aud the fearful confession 1 haye 50
make is only wriing from mc Ote..A
tho doctor tells me | must die, and I
would 80 10 tho other world with q
clear conscience at least. When but ~
| fell madly Ia love with u creole girls
u beautiful creature, and, my God, how
she loved me. never know until IL
was too late.
"wo wcro married and went to 1.-Two
In u quiet home in company with
her motherloss sistor, o girl OF
Is, who was even then great
beauty. | gamhlod and led wild
reckless life, In spite OF the tears OF my
wife. grew to dislike her. she was
always In tears and praying Tor me Ia
reform. Az last turned my attention
TO tho sister. Oh, you need not smile;
was not always tho poor, broken
down tramp am to-day, | was a gay,
dashing fellow then with plenty OF good
looks and fine clothes, Woll,
WON HER LOVE,
may God forgive me, and She chung to
me, cyen after | had tired OF her.
NV wife found us out ono day, and
going TO her room locked herself H.
Not until thcu did thogrcat love ! had
for her mako itsolf manifest. ! was
wild, distracted, Along toward moru-
Ing fell asleep 10 awake about 10 ia
tho morning. I went 20 my wife'a
room only 10 find Il empty. She had
nod taking all Of her jewels and
clothing. For months [ searched, but
could lind no trace OF her,
One day in Dallas, Tex, hoMd of
u remarkable woman In San Antonio.
] WHO WIS Nltuhlnk N'u0NNA'h ~ NY
wonderful beauty and wild ways. They
| said sho was known MS Joan | went
| TO San Antonio. IL was she-my wife.
Joan. the beautiful siren who had
captured tho hcnds OF half the men In
town was my lost wife. ! met herl
she knew me, but answered my pray
crs for forgiveness with scoriL For
weeks / pleaded begged and prayed
for her 20 come back TO me--thnt |
loved hor and her only. Her escape
dies with men OF tho town
DROVE ME MAD.
wanted 10 kill murder Thorn all ano
ilee TO :ho end OF the world. One night
she won't away and remained out all
night, knew not whore nor with
whom. When questioned her Bhd
said had mado her what she was;
that she hated all mon aud would spend
her life bringing disgrace upon them
that they might suifcf what she had
suffered. think I was insane after
that, for | watched her night after
night, although had given out that
WAS leaving the city. Days slept In u
hidden corner OF one OF the old missions
aud nights ! watched that She might
not steal out.
"Only TOO we'll she knew | was near
One night She cropt out the back way
met man did not know | followed
the two and saw them 20 into tho prl-
yatc entrance OF the Hotel Warwick
long after midnight. All my chunca
had come. As the lonely policeman on
the beat passed on beyond tho hotel {
slipped into the doorway md waited, |
never knew Just how long, but itscemed
wears, 20 keen was my suffering, when |
thought Of my own darling
SUBMITTING TO THE CAItEssEs
If another Iwould kin him like IA
dog; II might tcnch others lesson AZ
Inst heard u foot stop stealing lightly
down the stairs. ! had closed the door
and turned out The light ~ the head Of
the stairs As there was y curtain over
the Qlaes trnnnom over the hall door the
stairway WAS Ia darkness, Slowly my
victim orept tho stairs until could
hear him breathe, | stood on the
second stair from tho bottom to one
side and lot him pass mo. as his feet
touched the floor stopped directly bach,
Of him, as know from the sound Of HIS
feet upon the floor, dark though ~ was,
my tlino hud come ! struck witt
all my might u downward blow with my
Btilotto ! had been holding ready Tor
hours There was q gasp, aprpnn, aud
the body fell forward 10 tho iioOr. NY
aim had been true. Carefully, with
giadness In my heart. | stepped over
the prosilate body aud opened tho door.
AZ tho electric light IRON the big globe
IN frontof the hotel snonci into the hall
way, / turned 70 take Il look ~ tho
villain
WHO HAD WRONGED ME
was frozen with horror ~ the sight Of
the body. IL was woman. Wild with
u fear that was stealing over ue, |
raised the head oftho dead, now ba,hed
In ita own liic's blood, and may tho
good God forgive me, gaked into the
staring, lifclesA orbs u my own wife.
Tho poor fellow broke completely
down AZ this point and sobhed like 4
child. The physician gave him atiInu-
liant and ho ralllf-.
9Now you know why ! am the wreck
you sec me. He'd from that fatal scene,
and for months lived In tho swampH
and on the bounty Of the blacks Every
whero the face o. my murdered wife
pursued mo; even Ia my sleep l could
not escape those wide opcn ryea with
a look of horror frozen w their depiha.
have wandered the country over ard
this evening, while attempting 70 steal
d ride 10 Saginaw, ! fell beneath ihs
wheels and am dying ! thank God FOR