Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-13

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+ cologne, and other remedies, and then
busted herself trying to restore the
| girl to consciousness and the misery
awaiting her
She was young, and strong, and well,
| Consequently she soon revived, and
hen tried to brace herself to face the
terrible ordeal before her.
who can describe the wretched days
| that f0u0wed?- days when the house
was ransacked from top to bottom by
officers and detect Is, in search of q
possible implement OF death, and
taronged by curious tragedy-loveIs,
who are always on the lookout for par
ticuIars Of the latest horror; days that
we're full of Wearisome examinations,
and all the sickening details pertaining
70 the double murder, not to mention
the frightful nights that were made
tanfold more CHASTITY by the remem-
brance Of the repulsiye experiences OF
daylight
We will not attempt to rehearse all
the horrors of the miserable time
such experiences are already but too
familiar, for the whole land is tenn
Ing with them, and the newspapers
watch flood the country are filed with
them.
We will only give the result of the
inquest, which was wretchedly unsatis-
factory, and, in some respects, eX-
tremely startling The whole affair
seemed developed in an impenetrable
mystery, and theories were as plenty
and varied as the people and charac-
ters who thronged the house from NOR
bid curiosity and other motives.
The most that could be definitely as
certained was that Mr.. and Mrs. Kings
ley had unexpectedly returned from
Washington late on Thursday evening,
and that they had been found stretched
dead upon the parlor floor, by one OF
the servants, about seven O'Clock the
next morning.
Both had been killed by some sharp,
heavy instrument-it could not be de-
termined just What-and their appear
ance was revolving in the extreme.
There was not the slightest clew to
indicate the perpeTator of the deed;
BUT during the long and Wearisome
examination it came out that Grazia
was the last person who had been in
the parlor on that evening previous to
her parents return; by her own cen
fession, she had left the room only a
few moments before their probable en-
, trance, while her handkerchief had
| been found, saturated with blood, lying
upon the fcCl, n~ar the body Of Mis-.
| Kingsley.
More than this, various exaggerated
statements regarding her unpleasant
relations with her step-mother had
been noised abroad. while, tc3, a viii
had been discovered in Mr.. Kingsley S
safe, in which he had left the bulk of
his property to his wife.
Putting this and that together, it
was finally assumed that there was suf-
fcient suspicious of evidence pointing
toward the orphaned girl to warrant
her arrest.
she had had the opportunity to do
at variance; her father had made a
the deed she and her stepmother were
viii depriying her of the most Of his
forrune-three profound reasons,
which were deemed by astute minds to
! be a sufficient incentive to parriCide;
/ thus, for the want of more probable
victim, poor Grazia was laid upon the
altar as possible offering to appease
the demands Of justice.
lie was allowed to remain at home,
out closely guarded, until after the last
sad rites were performed when, alone,
friendless. and heart-br0ken, she was
borne away to prison, there to await
an investigation by the grand jury, a
/, possible indictment, and then a trial
FIR ner life.
Grazia's first act, as soon as she could
collect herself sufficiently to compre-
bend her situation, was to telegraph
to her husband, to the far western ad-
dress that he had given her, and then
following the message, was letter Civ
ing him the details of the terrible
events which had occurred Immediately
after his departure.
She knew that her telegram could
reach it's ds1,ination before Lloyc
| could arrive in Olympia; but she hoped
that he would send her a reply as soo1
as he should receive it, and she fel
very sure that he would leave every
thing AMI fly back to her, when, upol
t receipt Of her letter, he was made t
f realize how critical was her situation
Consequently, when she was aske
t whom she would choose for lawye
E 10 conduct her case, she replied tina
E she would take a little time to conside
the matter.
. She hoped that Lloyd would himsel
5 come forward, acknowledge her as hi
E wife, as a true and honorable ma
# would have done, and, taking the mai
| ter into his own firm, make every et
/, fort TO prove her innocence.
0 A week of sickening suspense wer
;, by. ard no answer to her TELEGRAM
: cane to cheer her anxious heart.
Thinking that her first message mu:
/ have missed him, she sent anothe
! begging for but one word telling hi
lie if he could come to her; or, if he coul
net, for advice regarding what 81
g should do
at Then she wrote a second letter, g
t NJ more fully into details, but BEN
IS very careful not to betray the seer