The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

w II BEND, lnQ., July ID
II remains for the grand jury
of st. Joseph county to de-
termine whether or not Mrs.
Aline Ellis O'Malley, the
fairest bride who ever went out of this
city, is to be brought back in chains
to answer to the serious charge of at
tempting to poison her husband, DR..
Austin OMalley, head of the English
literature department of the UNIVERSE
ty of Notre Dame.
The people of this community are
aghast at the astounding charges male
against this beautiful woman. They
aver that If but half the detrimental
things said of her be true there has
been remarkable change in her since
she went to school at st. Mary's cor
vent near here.
'If these things are true" said Moth
er, Pauline of the academy, cher nature
has undergone a sudden and violent
reyulsion."
Another person said: eff the charges
against Aline Ellis O'Maliey, are true
the chrysalis of her young girlhood
has burst into an ugly vampire instead
of a Spangled and dazzling butterfly Of
young womanhood."
In the light of recent events the life
and character of the young woman
present mysterious and perplexing
problems. Students of psychology say
that if it is proven that Mrs. O'Malley
attempted to poison her husband her
character is an enigma and her life is
unfathomable to the sluCenr of hu-
man nature.
1t is averred that she may have al
ways hidden herself behind a mask of
beauty and calmness or else her nature
has become ineXplicably revolutioniz I'd
and her soul changed from the SEM
blance of an angel to that of an ennis
sary of darkness.
Stranger Than Any Fiction.
The life history of Aline Ellis O'Mal-
ley, in the light of present events, is
stranger than any tale woven by the
fervid imagination of poet or novelist
Briefly, motherless girl of twelve
years, she entered the austere walls
of the convent of the Sisters of the
Holy Cross at South Bend to find
home and obtain an education. There
she pursued the usual course of a
young girl. Her life flowed pleasantly
in quiet ways. She was not different
from the other young women there
except that she always held herself
aloof. She looked coldly on with great
blue eyes at all things, but never SEEM
ed to enter into the enjoyment of the
| time or the pleasures of her school
mates.
The dark-robed sisters who mothered
her remember now how few attach
mentS she made and how reserved and
distant she always was. She had blu.
| two devotions while in school, ami
one of these was for one or the sisters
of the convent and the other for
| her little sister Buna, who was her
companion for a nunoer or years.
That she loved intensely when she die
| love was shown in these attachments,
| for she laviShed the wealth of her at
lection upon them, anG never seemed
| to be happy when out or their sight.
For her little sister, who was weak
and sickly, she had veritable passion
and would play under the trees for
| hours at time on the grounds of St.
Marys. Before graduating from the
academy this strange girl asked to be
taken into the fold of the mother
church. So it happened that one bright
June morning she arrayed herself in the
spotlesS gown and shimmering veil of a
| candidate for confirmation and went
with others to the altar of the chapel
| of the Immaculate Conception at the
convent and renowned the world the
| flesh and the devil and promised to
i live a new life guided by the Savior of
all mankind. On this day her beauty
was almost radiant, ana she appeared
as calm and as free from all earthly
passion as the statue of the blessed yir-
gin before which, she Knelt in silent
alteration. sfls-rs
Her Prince Charming Comes.
| Aline Ellis left the academy of st.
Marys an accomplished, beautiful wo-
man, loved and admired by all who
met her. She went out into the world
land left the strictness and quiet of the
| life of that place and from that day a
change seems. to have come over her
life. She returned to the convent later,
| beseeching her father 20 allow her to
go back and take postgraduate work
/ that she might be near her little sis
| ter. 1t is thought now that the world
and its allurements had revealed to the
girl that unfathomable' abyss of her