The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-07-28
A LONELY WONAN'S LIFE
lived IN STRANGE HOUSE AND
Guarded BY FIERCE DOGS.
For Twenty Years Mrs. Marshall
Never Walked Beyond Border OF
Yard Surrounding Home.

IT is a tale of lonely, mysterious
woman of great wealth-such wealth
that she herself did not dream or It's
extent-of rare jewels that lay In
vaults for 20 years; of lonely house
among the PENNSYLVANIA hills, and OF
the sorrows of a general of the civil
war. And this tale was evolved, TACT
by fact, from a mass of cracking
close-written legal papers scattered
about tables, chairs, the bed and the
floor.
In the Lehigh Gap, on the summit
of hill that overlooks the surround
ing country for many miles, General
Marshall, who won fame as a north
ern soldier in the civil war, purchas-
ed thirteen acres of ground upon
which he erected a Broom house. 1t
was within of the generals to build
a house from an original design, for
such a house as that was never seen
before. Gables stick out from its roof
at crazy angles. Its doors are num-
erous. its windows few. OF its inte-
rior no living person can tell. Only
two persons ever have entered its
doors, the general and his wife.
She was Miss Jeanette Rutherford,
daughter of a Scotchman of great
wealth who made his money here
during the civil war as a distiller of
liouor. She was married to General
Marshall ten years after the war. A
week after the wedding the couple
entered the house and lived secluded
lives.
Whatever happened to disrupt
their happiness never was told. Or,
at least, if it was told it has been
forgotten. But it is remembered
that they were divorced and the gen.
eral left the state He died several
years later.
Woman Remains in House.
The woman remained in the mys-
terious house with the thirteen
rooms and the gables. She saw no
one. admitted no one, III fact, lived
hermit's life. For twenty years
she never walked beyond the thir-
teen acres of land surrounding the
dwelling. Persons who made at
tempts to approach her fed for their
lives when scarcely within sight OF
the place. For she had surrounded
herself with ferocious hounds, the
having of which could be heard for
miles around; and no traveller ever
went into that part of Pennsylvania
without being warned to watch sharp
for the widows dogs.
AS the widows strange life be-
came known throughout Carbon
county the house, as often is the case,
became a subject of great awe. Not
only beause ofSits strange occupant,
but beause of the tales of its wierd
architecture. It became landmark
to be pointed out to travellers as a
feature of the country, but no one
dared approach to 1t.
And then suddenly the woman left
the house and journoyed to this city.
Her brother had died in Europe and
she was on her way to New York to
claim his body when it would arrive
in this country. That journey added
thousands to her fortune, for the
wealth of the dead man was hers by
beQuest. Then she died in New York
and verified the tales that had circul-
lated among the Pennsylvania noun
tains, for she left afortune of 81 ,50O,-
600 to a younger brother, Henry
Rutherford. of New York.
VainIy Sought Health.
1t was in February, 1911, that Mrs.
Marshall left her home to the care
of the great hounds and she never
returned. While in New York she
suffered from cancer in the stomach.
Whatever had been her love for
money she spent it with a lavish
hand in search for health. Thousands
were offered specialists for relief. She
travelled between this city, Atlantic
City and New York, paying for the
best medical skill. Finally she died
in the Gladstone hotel, Atlantic City.
Her brother died shortly thereafter,
leaving a will bequeathing the great
fortune to his paternal relatives in
Scotland.
Following the death of Henry
Rutherford the auditor generals de-
partment started to investigate the
stories told of Mrs Marshalls wealth,
and the widest of them were veri-
fed. Then the department found
that her will had been drawn up in
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