El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
Ell PASO DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1899.

, laughter and her husband. To achieve
careers and a residence for her. her
husband and her Joy was Burr's dar-
ling object
Then the bolt fell President Jefrer-
son, who for some time had been
vaguely conscious Of Burr's project, in
a proclamation dated Oct. ~, 1906, pub
icly denounced it, and warned all good
citizens. The project Immediately col
lapsed. In the succeeding June Burr
was arrested. His trial for treason took
place in Virginia. 1t was impossible
to prove any overt act against him.
Burr decided to forfeit his bail, and he
escaped to England.
After five years of exile he took
heart to return. Sailing under an as
sumed name, he arrived fncognito In
| New York. At the right moment he
caused a line to appear in newspaper
to the effect that Aaron Burr had re-
| turned to the city, and had resumed
the practice of law in Nassau street.
One only wish was left to the strick-
en- father and daughter. That was for
speedy reunion. But Theodosia's hus-
band was now governor Of the state
and general of militia. The war Of 1872
had broken out. He could not leave
his post. Finally, it was decided she
should come by sea. She embarked
December 20, 1872, at Charlestown on
small schooner named the Patriot.
The Patriot was never seen nor heard
Of again. 1t has always been presumed
that she was lost off Cape Hatteras In
a storm which broke out a couple OF
days after she sailed. To Aaron Burr,
waiting in New York for the vessel
that never came cruel stories were re-
ported that the Patriot had been cap
tured by pirates, and that all on board
had been murdered with the exception
of Theodosia, who was carried on shore
captive NO" said Burr, decisively,
"she is dead. Were she alive all the
prisons in the world could not keep her
from her father And now for our
promised story of the portrait: Some
years ago the late DR.. w. G. Pool,
well known physician at Pasquotank
county, North Carolina, was spending
the summer at Mays Head. This is
watering place on the North Carolina
coast, situated on the Banks" mar
row strip of land lying between Abe
marie sound and the Atlantic ocean.
The denizens Of the Banks" are prim-
tive folk, and at one time the land
thereabout was infested by pirates. 1t
happened that Dr. Pool was called in
to see a destitute old woman named
Mrs. Mann. All her surroundings were
wretched, but on the wall hung hand
some oil painting out of all keeping
with its environments. DR.. Pools
daughter, who is now Mrs. John p.
Overman, of Elizabeth City, N. c., wife
Of the postmaster Of that town. fire.
quently accompanied her father on err
rands of mercy to the poor old invalid.
Both she and her father expressed a
desire to purchase the portrait, but the
patient would not hear of it. She said
it had been given to her by her first
husband, a man named Tillett and she
valued it for his sake. The old lady
got well. One day she appeared at the
Mays Head Hotel to pay her respects
to the doctor and his family. They were
astonished to see her wearing a hand
some silk dress of an antique pattern.
1t was an evening dress, cut short in
the waist, and only reached down half
way between the old lady's shoe tops
and her knees. She had come to tell
the doctor that, as she had no money,
she hoped he would accept the portrait
in payment of his services. The doctor
and his daughter were overjoyed, es-
pecially when she related the circum
stances under which it had come into
her possession. She had no head for
dates, but she remembered that one
calm winters day during the time of
our last war with England her first
husband (TilletD and some of his asso-
ciates, lounging on the beach AT Nays
Head, were surprised to see a smart
vessel under full sail making for the
shore.
The men watched her with interest
she would tack. Instead, she
sailed straight ahead, and in little
while was beached. The men got into
one of their boats and rowed up to her.
They found that all the canvas of the
vessel was spread and that her
tiller was dashed. Climbing aboard,
they descended into the cabin. Here |
a table was spread with a half finished |
meal. The berthS were unmade. A |
number of silk dresses were scattered |