Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-10-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAMED."  AN UNPUNISHABLE BIGAMIST. • veiled Lady, who was not in mourning, but who trembled as muck an if she had just been made a widow, appeared before me at the Central wie sight in November just after dusk. She bad asked for me particularly, imagining, I suppose, like o..uy more, that I had only to wave some kind esf magic wand to cause all her troubles to vani:h into the abyss of night. She was dressed in a quiet, ladylike manner, and when her thick veil was raiaed I saw that she was little more than a girl, and that she bad been crying. When she gave her name as Mn Sincieir I was surprised to learn that she was a married woman, but her next words startled me more. " You have power to arrest anyone, I think, for intending to commit a crime?" she said, enquiringly. " Well, yea, hut that depends on whither they are old offenders, and we are certain that they are intending to commit a crime." "But—but you surely would not let a person be murdered if you were warned before that the murder was &boat to take place ?" she exclaimed, with some indignation in her choking voice. "No, surely. Do you know of anyone being so threa tailed ?" .  _ . "1 do," and she cried hysterically for soma momenta, "I am threatened—l am to be murdered by my husband, it you do not prevent it." I said nothing, but I suppose I loci'avil impatient and sceptical, for she immediately continued— 'lt. is true he appears to be very fond of me, even when we are alone, but that is mst his hypoc.risy. He has murder in his heart, and wants to be rid of me, but in such a way that be vronet be blamed for use murder."  I resigned myself to listen, merely remarking, "How is it possible for him to escape blame?" "lie pretend', ug that he has done it in his sleep. I hair him muttering when he thinks me asleep, and once he got up in the night time and got a razor and crept forward and humg over me with it, and I jest caved myself by Craning over and pretending to wake up. I had been awake all the time, and watching him. lie put the razor out of sight, and pretended he was looking for the water carafe. Than I often Lear him muttering in the night 'l'll kill her. I've got to kill her.' And onco when he was in the next room shaving himself I heard him say softly, 'What I wish was maggots' meat—l wad wri!e, but Meg wad snot.' I'm Meg, for say name is Maggie; sad when he hatee me Le calla me " Is that all ?" I wearily enquired ; for I had heard the mine compliant about two thousand times —these equally divided between men and women. "I wish it was! I wish it was!" she hysterically returned, too muck wrapped up in her griefs to notice how she was boring me; "but the other day after dinner I saw him begin to scribble a note, and knew by the size of the words at the top they were My Darling,' so I resolved that he would not get that finished, and I kept moving about him till he crushed it op and thrust it into his pocket. It was his loose coat he had on, and when he went out he forgot to take out the paper, and here it is," and sho tremblingly placed in my hand a sheet of notepaper, which had been crushed and smoothed out again, and on which I read— . '  Mr-