Page 2 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE. PA. Thursday, January 26th, 1911, LEWIS AND CONNELLY TWO FAMOUS ROBBERS (Continued dread of being pursued hy her friends, and over taken; the regret at forsak Ing the house and protection of a widowed mother: the circumstances of her elopement with a stranger, of whose character she was perfectly ig norant, and whose she had never seen, until saw him through the bars of a prison window, all tending to alarm her f« ww. the present and excite her apprehensions for the future; we had not procewded in our flight more than miles, before 1 | discovered from her agitated manner atifled sighs, and suffocated breathing that she repented of the rash step she had taken. A dead silence prevailed and neither of us spoke word for at least half an hour, when all at once she stopped suddenly, burst into tears, threw off her bonnet, tore her hair, and uttered the most frantic expres slons, exclaiming repeatedly Oh! my mother! my poor mother! what will become of my poor mother?” My heart was not callous to the distresses of others, and the sigh of a woman in tears, more especially one who had so strong an attachment to me, could not fail to soften my own feelings, and produce a shower of tears nearly as plenteous as her own. As soon as I subdued this violent expression of sen- from Ist page.) face she ATs It five one let {in which 1 { her ito not { Until sibility, T used every argument in my power to assuage her grief, and mod erate her passion, and at length suc Eloped With a Young Woman. ceeded In pacifying her by my promise of marriage, ported by repeated oaths of sincerity, curses on my own head, If I did not fulfil it In the most honorable manner, the first opportunity that offered. Hav - ing in a composed Melinda's peturbed mind, and painted in glow ing colors the paradasia« njoyments which BESSON POSE ctions n renewin measure the ro x young girl o ed our journey ut interruption near ten miles worn traveler blistered which 1 sup- | | | 4 i expressing until noisy, tre perched or clain the his tree, [ morning ure, un pro ed repeats ke from this | prapared to | new, and con at constant and un- | reached Al- as the city Not forget ! marriage, which 1 | the most solemn | ] r circum hardihood ] /IOW through ircuitous byroads frequened paths, until we bany in the evening, just clock had struck ting the prom seven se of Married in New York City. | 1 As 20 prepare ind bh IX# mor gether esentad 1x! dollar « Eener objecting fered gra refused in the accept more than t instantly handed him h at that time egun to grow some what scarce linda appeared for the first tim year a more cheer Tul intenan 1 st had dons #ince her elopement. The erform ance of my marriages pr had satisfied her i delicacy, and removed a heavy velght of anxiety and hich seemed press upon It that and doubts of Jb yected me if the ! ing advantage uation Improper and guilty a conduct had heen, | Nigate vas my VIrRe other respects and impure sual as might propensiti respect for in, 1 A Passion AR eve of man, the lo won n Wffect) pletely sed od my ( myself, 1 respected vd) tue In her nd only excellent nd the instruction which from her: lps would not be lan guishing in jall apon the bed of death, as I now am, ashamed to live and yet afraid to die. Malinda possessed every mental endowment and personal charm, and had she not been so un fortunate to have mot me, before vears and experience had matured her judgment, she would no doubt, have made a happler marriage with a more , worthy man, and become the mother of children proud to acknowledge their father, Instead of being ashamed to own the author of their being. Her pleasing person, her light and flowing A Tribute to His Wife. hale, the brightness of a complexion that equalled In whiteness the new fallen snow, the rose of heauty and the bloom of youth that mantied her | cheek, and, above all, the expression of a blue eye vying from mildness with an April sky, moistened as It was with the dew of heavenly charity, and | shaded with the longest eyelash I ever beheld, were sufficient to captivate a man whose heart was less warm than mine. Dut destiny had wedded her to ruin, when she became my wife. Alas! she merited a better fate, and what aggravates my present agony of feel. ing, is the distressing thought, that an uncharitable world, may visit the in- fquities of the husband, and of the father, upon his desolate offspring. shro f th of note, and termes to Hars, which 1 silver, whic} now 00 mise, sCruapao distress. = to her spirits WAS e' her chaste m this took filled with cerity, tad design of her unprotected ntil nd ident place fears sus tak sit ase my general and pro of life in and sen my depraved 1d the highest The fact inda pure warmed the breast girl had not only but she had com ide and gain wdh vicious wdmired vir followed her profited by repeatedly fell nis ne entertain F red nr gratit nfldence Alt) ns But that 1 may not digress too far, ) | political aff I my {many ] upon me now resume the narrative the more Important incidents, We remained in Albany the in which we were married, and in morning, 1 imparted to my short history of my past life, care to conceal from her the most criminal of my while 1 only communicated as 1 considered necessary formation, that the course was engaged, part, the utmost good management and Ingenuity, prevent a disclosure of my guilty | conduct, which inevitably would down disgrace and ruin on my ind blast the future prospects of us hoth The explanation 1 gave, could fail to shock her sensibility wound pride and alarm her fear this disclosure was made I suc ceded in making her bhelleve that my commitment for the horse affalr at Troy, was a conspiracy between Root and his accomplices, and that the com- bination thus formed and carried on be- tween them, to charge with the offense, was called a prosecution under of law, but was In reality, nothing short of a prosecution against all law, or rather justice, originating in poli tical revenge, for my refusing to sup- port the election of Governor Tomp- kina. I had entertained a strong dis. like agnin