Year: 1877

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ness and she was In the agonies of death,


but able to speak. Her clothing on the
left side was burning, and in few mo-
ments more both would have been wrap
pod in flames. The fire was quenched,
and the doctor sent for. In the mean


time, the woman was questioned, and she
gasped ont that the man had shot her,
when she died. The man was also dead
This was the close of an unlawful love. The


man, Henry A. Rosewarn, an English


man, forty-one years of age, was the
superintendent of the st. Lawrence


mine, in Ell Dorado county, of this
State. The woman, Mrs. Jessie Lewis,


an Englishwoman, about thirty-three
yesrs of age, and her husband kept o


boardipghouse in the neighborhooda Of
the mine. Rosewarn, q fine looking
| man. and Mrs. Lewis, a handsome wo-
man, became friends, although he had q


a wife and family in England, and she a


husband with her, they became too inti-


mate. The husband, instead of resort
ing to the shotgun, chose the more peace
full and prudent course of retiring from


the field, and betook himself to Los An


geles. For sundry reasons, which may
easily be conjectured, Mrs. Lewis closed


hor boardinghouse, and in October last


came down to this city, put mp at the
International hotel, and has lived there


ever since. From time to time ROsewarn
paid her visit, and it is presume.
ho cd fn
| some Of Rosewarn's friends, of late the


connection became distateful to him and


he was anxious to break it off. Mrs.


Lewis, woman of intelligence, IS said


to have made persistent efforts to get
| work of some sort, that she might sup


port herself, but after doing her best


could not earn sufficient to pay her board
and lodging. She had sacrificed every


thing in the world for Rosewa1n, and no


her trying situation. This was bitter


enough, but added was the misery of
jealousy, and the suspicion was forced
upon her that she had met the fate that


usually overtakes a woman who throws
aside honor and friends for Il mans sake
had become q hateful burden to her lover.
On the nineteenth of last month Rose


warn arrived in the city from the mine,


and registered at the international. 1t


is probable that there was q scene be-


tween them, Tor he le1t the house the


next day, and up to the time of his vio-


lent death, occupied otier lodgings. Be-
fore Rosewarn's last arrival Mrs. Lewis
had always Geen able to pay hor bills
at the hotel, but during the last few
weeks she was without money, and she
grow desperate The people of the ho-
tel say that latterly she acted oddly, as
if the difficulties of her position were
warn gave her to understand that he


wished to sever their connection. They


were seen a few evenings ago on Kear-
ny street, near the hotel, walking to-
gether and talking excitedly- She sud-
denly turned down a side street and left
him, but presently ran back and rejoined


him. That scene expressed the situation.


She could not and would not let him go.
He had brought her to what she was,
and she determined that she wonld not


be deserted and forced by poverty into
the net that opened before her. On Sat
urday she applied to Rosewarn for assist
ance. Whether he gave her money or
not is not known, but friend of his in
formed q Nail reporter that he advised
Mrs Lewis to retnrn to- her husband.


Yesterday morning Rosewarn, i'll company
with his brother and friend, walked to-
ward the International. On the way he
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entering the hotel he paused in the Office


a few minutes and talked with gentle


man, saying, among other things, that


he thought he should go to church that
| day Then telling his brother that he
| would be down presently, lie went brisk
| ly up stairs. About ten minutes after
I ward the pistol-shot was heard. Not
withstanding the dying statement of the
| woman there is hardly a doubt that it
was she who shot him and herself Eve
rything goes to show this. An examina-


ton of the bodies by the coroner showed


wound in the back of Rosewarn's head


where it would be next to impossible


that he could shoot himself. She was


shot in the left side, and the weapon was


held so close that the powder set fire to


her clothing. The revolver was found
lying npon her body, and she lay upon


tho corpse of her seducer. Although her
| friends assert that she did not have a


pistol in her possession, q search of


the room resulted in the finding of a box


of cartridges in q reticule belonging to


her, and the cartridges fitted the cham


bers of the revolver. On the table before


which the body of Rosewarn was found ly-


ing, and at which he was no doubt sitting,


sheet of paper, on which, in PENCIL, and