Year: 1867

4 slippery Cusssner-A Chnsfe Maid
en- and Her Chased Lover Bring NJ
In Dubuque.


Something over year since, in thu
town of Cascade, Dubuque county, LIVED
young man and young lady. Thi,
is all that has been necessary, since thu
days of Adam and Eve, to constitute {
romance, crime, or almost anything
else. The appear to have been some
what acquainted with each other. How
intimate said acquaintance was we are
left entirely in the dark; but conjecture
that on some occasion they must have
been left in the same way, as some
three months since the Young lady ap
peared before justice of the peace neal
her residence and requested of his hon
or that the proper legal steps should bt
taken to commence prosecution against
the Young man for seduction, and tt
compel him to assist in supporting al
infant with which bounteous prOvi
dence had kindly blessed her virgin
plea put in by the defendant that the
alleged offense was committed i'll Du'
buqne county, while the justice lived in
Delaware county, and consequently had
no jurisdiction in the case. So the youth
was released, and went on his way re.
jOicing.


Nothing more was heard of the gay
LothariO till one day last week, whes
it was discovered that he was stopping
for a season in West Dubuque. An Off
Ger, accompanied by the young lady, in
order that she might identify the OF.
fender, at last got upon his track, and
followed him to the lower part of Du'
buque city, where the trio met face to
face. The maiden requested the officer
to postpone the arrest for few mo.
ments, as she would like private con-
versation with her false lover. The of
ficer supposed that the lady contem.
plated persuading the father of the
child to marry her, and thus put stop
to all further proceedings, at least of IA
legal nature, therefore acquiesced in
her request. They went together to an
adjacent hotel, where the couple were
furnished by the clerk with n private
room, where they would be secure from
interruption, and there they retired for
further negotiations.


1t appears that the room had been
set apart by the landlord for couple
Of ladies, who had not yet taken pos
session; but wishing to do so soon after,
on attempting to open the door they
found it locked. An explanation
brought the landlord with another key,
who accompanied the ladies to their ap-
pointed room, and unlocked the door
to discover the hero and heroine of our
story in the midst of their aforesaid
negotiations" which were ofa charac-
ter to indicate not only that the young
man was determined that if he must be
punished for his crime his work should
be thoroughly done, but that il would
probably never make much difference
to either of the couple whether they
were ever married or not.


The landlord, in his irrepressible in
dignation, seized the young man in one
hand, and the young lady in the other,
and with many objurgations, and force
by no means gentle, thrust them out Of
the first door he came to, which was
not the one by which the officer was
waiting for their temperance.


In the midst of the confusion the he
TO of our tale mysteriOusly disappeared
around the nearest corner. When our
reporter left the hotel the steps were
occupied by all officer in search of his
criminal, Japhet in search of his IA
ther, and Magdalene in search of her
paramour.