Year: 1879

Curtis on account OF young IauJ
boot heels-ired five bullets into him.
The papers giving an account OF the
tragedy refrain from mentioning the
Young lady's full name. They permit
us to know that her initial is c., and
they hlI the space the rest OF her name
would occupy with stars. Therefore
she may properly be alluded to as MISS
c.. Stars. The scene opens IN a shoe-
store, where the young man afterwards
killed was clerk. Some ladies go
through the world without ever having
a horrid male being speak impairment
" to them. They are so unconscious,
50 dull, perhaps, that they would not
be ant to perceive it even if bad male
creatures were to stare at them. They
do not keep up q detective watch for
impudent men, as it were. Miss Z.
Stars was not one Of this stupid sort.


At anv rate, when she went into the
shoe-store she took it into her head that
Mr.. Curtis had insulted her. She told
her story to her lover, and thereby tlred
his heart. After he had shot and killed
Young Curtis she appeared at his eX-
animation " dressed in deep mourning" "
and gave her testimony, which was TO
this effect: She had seen the dead man
only three times. He began his rude
ness the first time she saw him. He Of
fered to put her shoes on for her. Be
inc a shoe clerk it was an UnpardOna-
BILE otfense in him to assist customer
in irving on pair of boots. Miss q.
Stars would none o. that, however
She put them on herself. Then Curtis
asked to be permitted to button the
boots for her. She thereupOn found
"his conduct 80 offensive that she took
the shoe off" Her blood boiled, and
she put on her old boot again, and he
offered to lace it up for her. "He
stopped right down at my foot, and re-
NAMED till had to turn my back upon
him to lace my shoe"


She left the shop, but had a pair OF
shoes made in Philadelphia. They did
not please her. She seems to have been
hard to suit in the mater of foOt-cOver-
ing. She walked deliberately into the
dragons Jaws once more, and asked
the bad shOeman to change the new pair
of shoes for her. He did so, but impru-
IDENTIFY asked her to try them on in the
store. Again outraged modesty was up
in arms. AS Mr.. Curtis had per-
haps foreseen, this third pair of shoes
did not fiji either, and Miss G. Stars
came back once more. This fitting of
her boots was a matter of importance.
1t seems to have occupied much time
and thought.


This third time Mr.. Curtis, having
observed with the shrewdness of prac-
tical salesman, how Miss G. Stars was
absorbed in her foot, remarked that she
wore a small shoe. This was another
outrage, and Miss G. Stars treasured ii
up. She had broughta pair Of bO1ts to
have the heels thereof plated, because
/ they we're worn down. Mr.. Curtis be-
ING commissioned to execute this order,
and wishing to ascertain the best man.
ner of putting the plates on, asked her
| to show him how she wore her heels OF
meaning she should put out her shoe,
with her foot in it, and show him how
she stepped. 81 told him l would do
nothing of the kind" Curtis was then
guilty of another atrOcity. He asked
her how she could walk in such shoe.
That question cost him his life! The
young lady understood that this shoe
clerk was admiring her tiny foot unduly.
His explanation was very different. de
said the heel of the shoe was nearly in
the middle of the sole, and he did not
see how any body could walk on it, and
that was what he was thinking Of. But
it would probably be hard to make the
Young lady believe that; and the wicked
Young man is dead.


Mr.. Curtis went out with the girl to
her phaeton and handed her in. A
friend was with her, and she had to step
across the feet and skirts Of this friend
to reach her own seat. In doing so she
stumbled, and Mr.. Curtis graspsd her
arm, fearing she would fall. That Is
what he said. He seems TO have for
gotten for the moment that she had
given him the money for the plating,
and asked her if she had done so. He
discovered his error almost immediate
| Iy, however, and said Eyes, you did,
too" This insulted the lady frightful-
" again. She said:


"I was very much provoked with
such familiarity from stranger, and
walked out of the store. He followed
me to the phaetou. He helped me in.
and in doing so gave my arm a very
severe grip. was very much provok,
ed, and remarked to my friend | would
never 60 in the store again as long as
he was employed there; that | consid-
cred him not only very unrefined, but
decidedly insulting. That's ALL"


A Juror asked her if there was "any
thing more particularly gross" than this
she mad been telling. She answered
that she "thOught nOt.n The Juror