A SAD SEQUEL TO A BLOODY TRAGEDY.
[From the Louisville Ledger.]
Many of our citizens will remember the bloody tragedy enacted in the Spot Saloon, on the corner of Preston and Lafayette streets, some months ago, in which Michael Lang, a stranger in this city, was killed by a notorious Cyprian Josephine Lawrence. The woman Lawrence had been beaten by her " lover," a man named Terry Ridge, some time before, and, procuring a pistol, followed him into the Spot Saloon. Lang was totally unknown to either party, and had just stepped in to get a glass of beer, when the woman entered and fired at Ridge, who was standing near the counter. The ball missed its aim, and took effect in the breast of Lang, inflicting a wound which caused his death in a few days. Lang had a wife and several children at his house in Indiana. They were immediately sent for, and his wife was at his bedside during his last moments. His death affected her terribly. Frantic with grief, she bewailed the loss of her earthly stay and support. After the burial of her husband she returned to her homo in Indiana, but the place of her husband's death produced a strange fascination, and she returned to this city. Worn down by mental 'anxiety, she was placed in the infirmary for treatment for a physical malady, but the materia medico, possessed no remedy for a mind diseased, and she was discharged and advised to seek a change of scene. Friends conveyed her to her home, but the strange infatuation which induced her to linger about the scene of her husband's tragical death led her again to this,, city, and for the past few weeks she has been wandering about the city. She has her son with her, a bright intelligent little fellow, and hand in hand they have wandered through the crowded thoroughfares of the city — the mother and heartbroken wife in aimless vain search for the dead husband and father, and the poor little fellow — footsore, weary, and hungry — wondering where and when the long strange journey would end. Her actions in the past few days have convinced all who iitwe observed her that
reason had fled its throne, and on Saturday the police took charge of her, and, upon learning her condition, she was sent to Bishop M'Closky, of this diocese, who kindly consented to care for her until her friends could be notified of her helpless condition.
A SAD SEQUEL TO A BLOODY TRAGEDY.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3197, 12 May 1871, Page 3
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