THE TIMES NEW BL00MFIEL1), PA.. AUGUST 31, 1880.
A Very Loving Young Couplo.
A FEW days ngo Clina. A. Yerrlngton
anil a pretty young woman were
arrested at New Haven on the Charge of
burglary committed at Norwich, Conn.
Young Yerrlngton, who la etlll in hU
teens, has been living with Miss Gabel
lu the houses of wealthy residents of
that city, who were away on summer
vacations, since July 5lh. They spent
their days and nights In the houses
behind closed blluds and drawn curtains
living on the luxuries of arlstocratlo
larder?. As fur b is known, they visit
ed the residences of Eheuezer Learned,
Col. C. A. Converse, E. A. Converse,
and Mrs. Belden, all among the wealthi
est citizens of that town. In these
dwellings they drank the choicest wlues
and liquors, and smoked costly Turkish
tobacco in $'25 meerschaum pipes, and
cigarettes In holders of solid gold with
amber mouthpieces. When they aban
doned the dwellings they took with
them the pipes and cigarette holders.
Their Identity was betrayed, and their
arrest efl'ected by the discovery In the
residence of Mrs. Belden of a pill box,
the purchase of which at a city drug
store was traced to Miss Hattle Oabel.
The couple had fled to New llaveu and
taken a room at a hotel, registering as
man and wife, where Capt. Wlmley of
the Norwich police arrested them.
' The amount of plunder they gathered
-Iri their Norwich raids was not made
public until to-day. The people plun
dered did not know of a quarter of the
goods that had been taken until they
saw them on exhibition in Police Head
quarters this morning. On Wednesday
afternoon Capt. VVhaley set to work to
induce a confession from Miss Oabel.
He visited her cell at the Norwich jail.
He found her in tears. She is a pale,
pleasant-faced, and exceedingly pretty
girl, nineteen years of age. She Is of
respectable family, and her connection
with young Yerrlngton was her first
step downward.
She replied to the Captain's salutation
cheerfully. He earnestly besought her
to make a full confession, and Jailer
Beck with joined in the officer's entreaty.
She fell to weeping afresh and said that
she could not betray her lover. The
officer and jailer continued their efforts,
and at length, overcome by grief and
their importunities, she promised that
if she might go into the sitting room of
the jail she would tell.
In the pleasant reception room of the
jail, with a burst of tears, she said that
a large quantity of the plunder was con
cealed at the foot of a tall pine in a grove
on the west bank of the Thames River,
three miles below the city. She added
that after leaving the Belden House, on
Broadway, Yerrlngton hired a carriage
early one morning, and she and he
drove with a hair trunk they had stolen
from Mrs. Belden, and which had been
filled with booty, to a lonely nook In
a pine grove, where they had buried it.
They dug a hole with a spade about a
foot or two deep, placed the trunk in
the pit, and covered it with earth. They
marked the place with a strap that was
tied around a stake opposite the trunk
of the pine at whose foot the plunder
was burled.
Capt. Whaley procured a carriage, and
with the girl drove to the pine grove.
The road is a lonely one, winding along
by the river's brink. The grove covers
several acres, and is almost the only
cluster of pines in the town. The pines
rise sixty or seventy feet in height, and
throw a perpetual shade over the ground.
As the carriage neared the copse, the
girl said:
"This is the place."
Capt. Whaley drove to the middle of
the wood, and by direction of his guide
the carriage was halted. They alighted,
stepping among the laurels by the road
side. Miss Gabel bade the officer follow.
They passed under the trees several rods
away from the road, following an old
and rotteu fence. It was nearly . night
fall as the young woman halted at the
foot of a great pine, many rods from the
road, and, pointing to the foot of the
tree, said:
" It Is down there."
The strap to mark the place was still
tied to the fence stake. - The Captain
fell to work with a spade, and in a few
moments unearthed the hair trunk,
which be lifted from the pit. There
was also in the hole a common leathern
grip satchel, which was placed in the
carriage with the trunk. It was dark
when the two reached Norwich. On
the way Miss Gabel still further confess
ed that she and Yerrlngton had conceal.
ed considerable Jewelry . behind a hen
coop at the rear of the granite Second
Congregational Church of. that city
Capt. Whaley and his men ' searched
behind the church, which stands on a
steep and neglected hlllstde,and brought
forth $100 or $150 worth of jewelry, that
had been placed In a box among the tall
weeds. ...
The goods were all taken to headquar
ters, and when they were displayed the
room had the appearance of a New York
pawn broker's shop. The trunk con
tnlned several complete wardrobes for
female use. All the artloles were of the
most expensive kind, Including silk
stockings, silk dresses, pieces of lawn,
lanes, shawls, underclothes, several pairs
of white and black kid gloves, black and
white kid gaiters, and Beveral large bot
tles of 1 (orlda : water and perfumery.
The Jewelry , comprised many gold
chains, cameo, Jet, and gold necklaces,
gold and jeweled watches, beads, gold
pencils, gold cigarette holders, several
very large meerschaum pipes, charms,
and hundreds of trinkets of no possible
value except to. their owners.
Miss Oabel acknowledged that it was
mutual love that brought about the
disgrace of herself and companion. Both
are madly In love with each other, and
it is because of this fact more than on
account of the influential position and
respectability of Yerrlngton's family
that has gained for the culprits the
sympathy of the entire community.
City Attorney ltepley said that he be
lieved that the two loved each other
purely, and that Yerrlngton was influ
enced solely by his passion in commit
ting his robberies to the end that he
might administer thereby to the enjoy
ment of the girl. As far as Is known
Miss Gable was a blameless girl before
she became acquainted with Yerrlngton.
The two were presented to the city court
on supplementary complaints mode out
to cover the transaction disclosed by the
unearthing of the hair trunk. Yerrlng
ton was put under $4,000 ball, which his
father, a prominent merchant, promptly
furnished. Miss Gabel was placed under
$2,000 ball, which she was unable to
give, and was remanded to the county
Jail. They will be tried before the
Superior Court this "fall. The plunder
thus far recovered amounts to over
$1,000.
When MIbs Oabel appeared in court,
Mrs. John Mitchell, the wife of a wealthy
iron uianufacterer, by whom the girl
was formerly employed, accompanied
her Into the court room and cheered her
with kind words.
For Tub Times.
NEW YORK LETTER.
Mr. Editou : It would be With dif
ficulty one could come to New York to
stay any time and not say anything
about it, as to no other point in the
land cau you go from the quiet country
to 11 nu sucn a contrast. JNotmnir can
lend interest to a locality so much as its
wealth and business, and in this New
York leads. "Against its bustle no
other place we have can be compared,"
is about what our Ideas form from its
reputation, and the ideal vague or defin
ite, is correct or wide of the mark as
accident has it. In striking New York
for the first time its appearance falls
short of what reputation lias helped you
to form of It. Its general stir through
out hasn't got the ring you look for, its
nuuuings are not or the outward attrac
tiveness, its streets short of the boasted
grandeur, especially Broadway, Nassau,
Chambers and Wall, its leading thor
oughfares. From its name as well as its
authority for fashion one would think
Broadway elegant in the extreme. It
neither has the width nor the splendor
we expect or H. The trouble wltn us or
course has been over estimation. That
the massive walls of hewn stone and
marble enclosing the small offices and
business rooms from the ground up six
floors represent great wealth as the
columns sheer away down the narrow
streets is no question, but the splendor
of it is not shown on its face. The city
being surrounded with salt water is not
without its decaying effect. But : New
York 1b enterprising. Such features as
the wire suspension bridge spanning the
East river at a single leap of 1595 feet,
at a height to clear the common Bail
vessel, ana accommodating itself to the
convenience of the people of New York
ana Brooklyn oy easy approaches ex
tending far back over a series of gray,
stone arches that in their perfection and
beauty promise to stand till the last day,
all at the round sum expense of $16,000,.
000, or about as much as Tweed stole in
his day, and nearly as much as the com.
blued cost of the Centennial buildings,
is one of its giant efforts.
The elevated railways coursing up and
down a half a dozen of the ten-mile
streets, carrying you proudly over the
heads of all foot and driving travel and
in the most comfortable style of anything
in the way of railroads : the Croton Lake
water works supplying the city with the
best of fresh water from the small Croton
river forty miles out of town ; and now
the Hudson River Tunnel from Jersey
City side, of a mile stretch under the bed
of the river and three-fourth of a mile at
each end, thereby connecting New York
with the railroads centering into Jersey
uity, anu at a pruuauie coat or f iz,UUu,.
000, are all characteristic of its enter-
rjrlse.
It might seem enough to bankrupt a
citywnen sucn comuination or sums
with the thousand and one smaller ones
more directly its own are paraded en
mass to its treasury, but when we learn
that a score of its citizens each represent
a weaitn 01 irom rorty to nity million
dollars, and dozens of them are common
millionaires, we find it not so much out
of proportion after all. The debt of the
City at present is nearlv $100,000,000.
To a stranger New York shows a very
cringing and Jewish air, with money
aua immoral lust as the' oniect or lite.
Yet its Vanderbilts and Bennetts and
Danasand As tors are publio spirited
enough in their abundance to see that
their parks, drives, monuments, and
sometimes charity do not fall behind
other centres of similar wealth, ..The
last addition to their already ' costlv
Central Park Is the obelisk, Cleopatra's
jweecue, utKen up iromits ancient asaem
blage of wierd and time worn nionu
ments that have kept Bubllme sentinel
with their bleak, uplifted beads in the
fnr off valley of the Nile to reckon the
ages of Egypt and the world since years
Deiore the unristinn era, anu given a
place here. The dead language charac
ters on Its four face shies are dimly
holding out In association with itself to
tell of the once great people who lived
wnen it tooK birth.
The Tunnel under the Hudson, by a
moneyed corporation aside of New York
and the railroads centering here, has
been building for six months and is 800
feet in tinder the bed of the river, but its
work going on sixty feet under ground
rew people seemed to ne aware or ine
undertaking until July 23d, when part
of the entrance caved in and trapped
twenty of their men. The body of the
tunnel is solid and will resist an age, but
a temporary arch at the entrance of the
tunnel which was started at the bottom
of a sixty foot round shaft or well of
twenty feet diameter, near the river
edge and was left too long before being
replaced wun us permanent arcn, anu
the loss of life was the result. Since
then no work has been done but to
recover the bodies, but the eutclne and
apparatus used In tunneling not being
sunicient to pump out the water anu
soft earth faster than it has been coming
in. heavier no wer Is belnir nrovided and
it may be another mouth before the
iHuiies are reached. Unite a reeling was
manifest among the people for the lost
men, as most of them were buried alive.
and might remain so for several days,
but the feeling has somewhat subsided.
The company will continue the wages
of the lost to their widows until the
tunnel Is completed.
Just now the fruit season is upon us,
and to have the P. R. R. bring In every
WgUt its 1-0, 8N, 84, 7M, 00, 64, 50, and
last night GO car loads of peaches from
little Delaware each day or night in the
order thestllgures show, begets no small
stir with the truck drivers, the ferry
boat people, commission houses, ana
street venders. All trains landing in
Jersey City, the total traffic, must be
carried to New York by wagons over
the Company's large boats, ana this
lends excitement to the trade. As yet
all peaches have come up from Dela
ware, the Jersey tide not having begun
to ebb as their season is later. Apples,
peaches and fruit in general is pleuty.
ut. Tanner ana Politics naa tnepuoiic
field hereabouts during July and part of
the present month, but as Tanner has
gone out of the starvation business, pol
itics has it now. with Hancock still
ahead. In a few days Tanner will be
transported over by your place to bis
home In the West, where he intends to
tell the people how to lay off, should
they at any time be pinched for the
wherewith to replenish their stomachs.
The plan taken Is, lay off one month,
feed up the next, lay off the next, etcet
era infinitum advalorum, anything easy
to digest, lie is getting fat.
IV.
Was She a Witch?
WHEN Lord Chief Justice Holt pre
sided in the court of King's Bench
a poor decrepit, broken old woman,
almost ready, from sheer limitation to
shuffle off the mortal coll, was brought
before him charged with a decree of
criminality which merited the utmost
rigor of the law.
" What is her crime V" asked his lord
ship, with look and tone which plainly
indicated that the forlorn and hapless
creature had enlisted his warmest sym
pathy.
" Witchcraft I" said one, " Bhe's a
witch if ever there was one!" chimed in
another.
M What Is the proof against her ?"
"She has a charm, your lordship,
given by the Evil One himself."
" Let me see it."
The red-nosed, pimple-faced sheriff
placed upon the bar before the court the
charm which upon examination his
lordship slowly and methodically undo.
lng it with bis own hands proved to be
a small ball formed of bits of silk and
linen, of various colors, compactly
wound with threads of as many differ
ent hues, and in the centre of the mass
was found a slip of parchment on which
was writing of a strange language, which
had become very nearly worn away by
much handling.
"And this is the charm, is it?" said
Holt, when he had seen its every part.
The prosecutors answered that It was.
" What other proof have you V
" That is all, your lordship."
The Lord Chief Justloe then turned to
the terrified prisoner, and asked her how
she came by that ball.
" I can swear my lord," she answered,
" that a young gentleman gave it me, to
cure my child's ague."
"And did it effect a cure V"
xes my iora. i curea my poor
child; audit has cured many others;
and I have blessed the good youth in my
heart many a time."
Upon this the prosecutors laughed and
declared that the prisoner had no child
"Ah your lordship," she cried, "it
was five-and-thlrty years ago that the
charm was given me. I had children
then." -
The judge held the charm in his hand
and regarded it for a time In silence, and
then turned to the jury, saying:
"Gentlemen of the Jury, look ye;
and look and hearken, all Five-and-thlrty
years ago, I, with a number of
companions as giddy and thoughtless as
myself, went to this woman's house,
where she provided for us liberally, and
when we found that we had not with us
sufficient money for the payment of the
reckoning, I had recourse to what I
then thought an Innocent stratagem.
Observing a sick child, buudled up in
the chimney-corner, which the woman
told me was suffering with ague I Pre
tended that I could fix a charm that
would cure her. I wrote a line of Latin
upon a slip of parchment, and wound It
up in scraps of silk and linen which I
found in a basket on the table, and gave
H to her as a sure curative agent. She
was deeply grateful, and cheerfully gave
us a receipt In full.and we went our wav.
little dreaming that we had left with the
honest dame a thing which might, in
after years, put her very life In Jeopardy.
That woman now stands before me,
charged with witchcraft, and this ball,
which is the alleged charm and evidence
against her, Is the self-name charm
which I made with my own hands, and
gave to her."
It Is needless to add that the poor
old woman was discharged and went
her way homeward with a lighter heart.
Further, we will say,the story of Chief
Justice Holt threw an effectual damper
upon the eagerness of the publio prose
cutors of that region for arresting
witches from that time forth.
A Darkey Who Had an Engagement.
RECENTLY, while one of the clerks
at the Galveston Court House was
making out the death warrants of those
leading citizens who had not paid their
taxes, a dandyfied darkey eutered and
asked :
" Is you de boss of de G rand Jury ? "
" What do you want?" asked the
clerk.
" Is dls heah de place whar yer comes
when you has got a private grievance
agin some udder nlggah V"
" This Is where the Grand Jury
meets."
"I wants you, sah, den, to make me
out a felony detachment agin Jeems
Webster, and I wants him executed
forthwith."
" Why, what's the matter with Jim V"
" He Is de wussest nlggah on Galves
ton Island. If I was as low down, as
yaller complected,eplndle-shanked moke
as he Is I'd tie a million pounds ob ole
iron to my legs and walk down to de
end ob de waf and push myself off, I
would, sure; and after I had done all
dat I'd climb up a holler tree and die.
He's got 'llglon, too, and tells what de
Lor' has been doing foah him in de
meeting."
" But what has he done V'V
" I'll splaln. Las' Sunday a Week
ago I persented one ob de most refined
and lubly young ladles ob dls city wld a
blue cravat wid yaller tassels. Jess
now, what should I see coming down
de street but Jim Webster tied to der
same cravat. Bes I, Whar did you
steal dat necktie V He jess grinned and
grinned. Bes I, You wont rest till
you becomes a more becomln' nectle den
dat ar, one wid a tassel as big as yer fist,
and de Sheriff is gwine to fasten it right
under yer ear.' All he said was jess to
kiss his hand ter me."
" May be that lady you speak of gave
it to him."
"He stole It, I tell yer."
" Where did yoii get it?"
"Hey?"
" Where did you get it ?"
" Look heah, boss, you is gwine to be
a candidate, and you is de firm fren of
de cullud man, ain't yer V'
" Maybe so."
" Den you don't want to know at
what store I purchased dat ar cravat V"
" But the Grand Jury will ask you,"
"Dey will?"
"Just go right in and tell them all
about it."
" Is dey busy now ?"
" No; they are waiting for you."
" Den it doesn't become me to distarb
'em. Lemme see (and he consulted
large silver turnip), it's nine o'clock
now, smack up. I'se got to write some
letters to go by de mail to-morrow morn-
In', and dis afternoon dar is a water
melon sociable for de benefit ob de
church. I ain't got time jess now.
want to see Jim Webster fust and gib
him one moah chance to splaln his con
nection with dls heah Credit Mobileyer
business."
" 80 you think she might have gone
back on you and given him that
cravat V"
" No, boss ; but maybe Jim got it off
de same counter in de store whar I got
de fuss one. Dem ar neckties war lying
mighty exposed dar on de counter and
Jim ain't a bit too good to pick one up
when nobody was notloln' and walk off
wld it, jess like I did."
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