Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-28


mornings since, desiring to go down
town right early, took the car ar
irving at the public square at 9:15-
S:15 Irontou time. As / stepped from
the car saw an unusual crowd of peo-
pie congregated in front of Doctors
Office, and of course went over to learn
the cause. / had just made up my
mind to inquire, when down the doc
tors steps came six or eight men
carrying litter, upon which were
piled couple of mattresses, all being
surmounted with the body of a man.
The doctor and policeman superin-
tended the affair, and the litter and
body were quickly placed in spring
wagon in waiting, when all were driven
away. Then / learned from a by
stander that shooting had occurred
fifteen minutes before my arrival, and
they were carrying the victim to the
hospital. As usual in such cases
unless their subject be a president,
with plenty of gougiug and big pro-
fesslonal fees in prospect-the doctors
gave little or no hopes of his survival;
yet he has since been removed from
the hospital to the home of his par
ents, and his early recovery is assured.
He is a young man-about 80 years of
age-of prominent family, and as his
assailant is a woman. the affair is but
the climax of the oft-repeated tale of
folly and sin. She is of lowly family
and fatherless. This inside part of the
attempted tragedy 1 learn .by word
of mouth" for the papers here are
singularly meagre In their details
that is on one side of the question.
They tell of the shooting and state that
the girl shot the man because he re-
fused to accede to her demand for
money-only this, and nothing more.
A stranger and sojourner, like my
self, would, son the face of the re-
turns" SO given, be likely to account
this land of the sky peculiarly inimical
to the safety of unguarded masculinity.
Bless me! I'd better fight shy of
everything in petticoats, else some
marauding female may demand tribute,
and in default thereof present pistol
at my devoted bosomI When the
reader is further informed that the
female concerned in the present affair
is not yet fifteen years of age, with no
father to stand to her aid, he will
better understand how dangerous and
desperate she is-as per the newspa-
pers' accounts-and the recklessness
of her courage in pursuit of money,
withal! And the air is being darkened
with stories of her viciousness and de-
pravity. and of the arts employed to
entrap and ruin her unsophisticated
victim of '.good family"
"Man's inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn" His bru-
tality to woman is something beyond
even british reason. know nothing
of the facts leading to the attempted
fifteen, now securely held behind
locked doors and bars of iron, is
encieate, and was a servant in the
family whose son she tried to kill.
She may be all that is now being
charged against her-my readers can
enter up judgment. each for himself
but how many instances have I known
wherein the wrong of the transgressor
has sought to hide behind the more
multifarious sins of the victim of his
arts! And of all contemplate things
on earth, nothing, to my mind, can
sink to a lower level than the crawl
ing creature who, to tighten his own
crime, affects to have fished up from
the pool of rottenness and depravity,
the being he has wronged. If there be
hell, its utmost subterranean pit
must cape for him! Yet, who can
measure the judgment to be rendered
unto him who murders the soul?
Accompanied by the complaisant
young ladies of this houshold, took q
ride over portion of the Vanderbilt
estate, Wednesday. The chateau and
surroundings were familiar to me from
two former visits, made five years ago,
both of which were duly noted in the
REGISTER at the time. OF course there
have been made many improvements
and additions since then, but the main
features are now as then. Mr.. Van
derbilt and family left for st. Angus
tine, Florida. the day we went out to
see him. else I would have had his
views on the tariff, on expansion, and
various other important questions. No
doubt, when he learns how nigh he
was to fame last Wednesday, bis re-
gret will be greater than miLe. You
know, opportunity knocks at the door
but once.
Mr.. ", with all his vast possessions,
must be lonely at his Biltmore home.
| am told he doesn't associate with the
Asheyillains and all the comDRuy he