TRAGIC END OF A BAD LIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6829, 6 October 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

TRAGIC END OF A BAD LIFE.

Like a romance of history and cn'»., the New York Star) reads the story e » 2' life of a woman who was found dead h her repntcd husband, Horace B. Sh«r,i . at No, 211, West Twenty-sacond-street eireer appears to have been a wayward f for many years before she met thia man 'v 6 was young enough to he her son. gj,' ? ( achieved public notoriety about 25 year, at St Louis, when she attracted the ation of Seymour Voullaire, one of the m noted criminal lawyers of the west. At tH time she was a beauty oi 25 years, 'with * peouliar seductiveness of the Creole m„j' The affair resulted in a marriage, and i' conplo lived happily for ten years, which time five children were born to thn three of whom are now in this city, onen L Western convent, while the other is cad Mr. Voullaire imposed implicit conSdereio his wife until her name became assorted with a young man named Wanna RuthiW' the city editor of the Missouri RepuhcaThe husband at this time was the dtn> attorney of St. Louis. Matters eam.to a crisis when Ruth met Voullaire ai tempted to murder him one'day on hi l( j street, between Olive and Pine. Tfchusl band had just left his office to go to hisome Several shots were exchanged, and a ;eam! boat captain and a little girl were kiid by the reckless firing. Voullaire, when at eke/ drew his pistol, and Ruth was hitn tij head by a bullet, which made a da;eroa» but not fatal wound. The shooting-eated a great sensation throughout MissO-i. divorce suit followed it, and when ae recently reputed Mrs. Shephard was ee sia married the man who had tried to ki Voul. lqire. The coupTe found the sociahtraoj phere uncongenial, however, and tty went to Lawrence, Kansas, where Ruthiecamj -the editor of the Journal. One chd was born of thia union. The woman's cil pro pensities again asserted tbemselvi, aai there was a general scandal about a 'ui(W intimacy with a certain Dr. Medlsotfc , skilful physician of high social sjctiiJ, whose visits grew more frequent thii «w the most tender professions for the leklth if the family demanded. Ruth was talon n and died suddenly with every indication o having been poisoned. This suspicion leo to an investigation, the result of whi|h lea to the arrest of both the woman and th> doctor and their indictment for murder. | Pnb. lie feeling was aroused to such an extent that it was found necessary to take the cise to Garnett, in another county, for trial. Medli. cotte was convicted of murder without tic jury leaving their seats. He was sentenced to be hanged, but a new trial was obtained and owing to a ruling by the Supreme Court on a technicality he was discharged. Mn Ruth's former husband, Voullaire, interested himself in her behalf and finally succeeded in saving her neck and securing her release after an incarceration of more than a yeai He took his two sons and a daughter back with him to St. Louis, and three or four yeai* afterward he married a pretty yonng woman" with whom he lived happily until his death fjom paralysis at the Southern Hotel five years ago. His widow came to New York and was until recently an employe with the Wilmer Mercantile Agency.