The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-29

INV YoRK, March PA daughter
dead in this town, and bitter ache In a
mothers heart across the ocean. That's
all there is OF this story, and may not be
worth the telling. Indeed, daughters die
daily OF suicide and mothers hearts will
always ache. So there is no reason for the
writing OF this save there is q legacy oil let
Iers thar renders Lizzie Wilson's death OF
more than usual human interest.
In an uptown boarding house the other
day she was found dead because OF poison
she had taken 30 end life out OF which
all pride has not been blolted by sin. An
astrologer by name-whose AS
sistant" she was. had sought to degrade
her beyond description. and she fled
from him. He wrote in his anger
90 the girls aged mother over the
ocean, and told her that her child was a
moral wreck. Then with tho k0enuess
Of diabolism he hunted down his prey,
told her what he had done and promised
n she would return to him that he would
write again to the mother and declare his
previous letter lie This was done. but
yoon abuse again drove her forth and she
was found dead, and beside her poor body
we're letters that were opened today by a
coroner.
The dead girl turned her shroud TO ar
yaign the man Ahmet. She had written
% him
Iwant you. as a right not ~ q favor, 20 bury
You have ruined my life at home. can
sot ever be received again. send the letter
you will find here TO my mother and she VII
Aafunl al L will Please have
ne cremated IL ell ask and keep the thing as
Tell as possible out OF the papers.
This much she reached back from her
poflin TO claim ana then her thoughts had
iurned with bitterness to his future:
You shall never be happy again if 1 have
anything 20 DO in the great unknown, which 1
I'm about 10 enter upon.
Thus the letter ended and here is what
was said To the mother IN the writing she
had asked TO have sent 70 Mrs. Neil
Grossly, RaveTnett postotiiCe, Lisburn,
County Antrim. Ireland:
Mothsr-I am about to take the life which
has always been my Forgive the.
Think no more Of our unhappy daughter.
But. mother. have not done the things that
man wrote home 60 you. Tie Is my murderer.
through the letter he has written to you. lie
Il the one who should bury me and not let me
be put in Potter's field. Please send him, how
shall wait for her, but dOnt tell her ~ once
that have taken my life. Mother, forgive me.
Next, the curious official read note adj
dressed simply. For my boy" and this is
how IL ran:
My DEAR BOY-You alone will know what
i allude 20. / cannot stand Il any longer. |
love you better than life. You are the only
one who has ever been kind 70 me. l thank
you for il. and hope you will forgive me for
what am about to do. Don't ever think OF
me unkindly. We shall meet one day We
should have done years ago. My BOY, goOdby.
and God. # there ~ such a being bless you
and make your life happy.
And who was my boY2"
Was he 10 her nameless SOM No. For
this is the signature: "Iour sweetheart.
Lizzie"
And that's all Of the story-only the
relics OF a human wreck. and a mother :
heart already stricken. but to bear yet q
severer blow.
And the man-Ahmet7
lie has fled and tomOrraw the girls
body will be sown with other dead in a
trench in PoIter's field.