Year: 1866

its and habits of study of the young girl,
and she surely and rapidly retrograded in
her studies until her position became one
of the worst and most unenviable in the
school. Such course could not be car
ried on without exciting suspicion and re-
mark, and watch being put upon her,
Mr.. Brand was detected in the very act
Of entering her window. After such
discovery il was, Of course matter of
impossibhty that she could longer be re-
tanned in the institution. and she was, the
next day after being formally expelled in
the presence of the school, confined to her
room until her parents could be summon
ed to conduct her home.


In compliance with a request which
Brand found means 10 communicate to
her, Miss Colwell met him at me of the
hotels in the town, and arrangements for
an elopement marriage perfected between
the two, they having settled upon Cleve
land as their future home. Before this
plan was carried out, Mr.. Colwell arrived
and found his daughter at the depot, wait
ing for the train upon which she contem-
plated leaving Painsville. He at once
took charge of her, and after delivering
well deserved chastisement to Brand,
started with her home. The punishment
he had received aroused all the worst pas
sions in the breast of the young man and
he determined to succeed in attaining the
object of his desires at any cost or trouble.
| He therefore, unknown to Mr.. Colwell,
took the same train with them, finding
some means to Communicate the fact to De-
lia,who,i in obedience to a request from him.
managed tn evade the vigilance of he r
father, and at Girard, where a train NOV
ing in the opposite direction met them to
change cars and return with her lover TO
gainesville, while her father was being
rapidly whirled along in an opposite d.
rection. AT the first station at which
the train stopped they left it and, on foot,
proceeded to a place whence they pro-
cured conveyance to Coneaut, Ohio,
and there took passage for this city on the
scow Sea Bird, which was bound for Sag
inaw for load of lumber. Arriving in


Detroit about the first of July, they pro-
cured board at Germans on Has ting's
I street, and there lived together for a short
, time as man and wife, although they had


never been married and Brand refused to
legalize their connection. The natural
results having ensued, Brand, either 6eing
afraid of the consequences, or becoming
tired of his victim, abandoned her in a
strange city, without money and without
friends.


The people with whom she was board
ing would not keep her without that COM
pensation which it was not in her power
to give. Her situation precluded the pos
sibility of working for living, and over
come by her misfortunes, she lost her SEN
SeS anu oec me Wreicned Wanderer,
without shelter and without food In
this condition she remained until about
two weeks since, when she was discovered
in alley near Hastings street, in great
distress. Some cha liable persons in the
vicinity took her TO their own home, tend


ed her through her great trial, and cared
for her and her infant son until yesterday
morning, when they missed her and her
babe, the room she having occupied being
vacant. A search for her resulted in
finding, at the foot of Hastings street, the
shoes which she had worn and the cloth
ing of the child. In all human probabili-
ty she has sought in watery grave, the
peace she could never find on EARTH The
river has been dragged, but without find
ing the bodies of either mother or child.


Although Henry Brand did not with
his own hand take the life of this young
con6ding girl, he is as guilty of murder
as though he did so. He will go through
life with the brand of Cain on his brow,
a man accursed and shuned.