A DREADFUL STORY.

Kumara Times, Issue 702, 28 December 1878, Page 2

A DREADFUL STORY.

! There are some things almost; too sacred to he given to the public for ten cents, but the following case of fiendish revenge ought to go on record, if only j to make an important addition to the of crime. On Sntter-street, | between Mason and Leavenworth, stands ! the house of one of the prettiest young ladies in town, and almost directly ; opposite is the residence of her “steady | campany” a young broker’s clerk. The I infatuated couple had conceived the I idea of connecting their rooms by means | ot a string telephone stretching from | one window to the other, and the ends ; of which weie placed under their respective pillows when they retired. By | this contrivance u general tug at irregular intervals during the night, was all that was necessary to inform one fond heart on the north side of the street that the other, on the south, had just awakened ; and before sinking again into blissful dreams desired to coo a few ; nocturnal murmers to the other. These tender preparations, however, were gloomily marked by another gentleman ! in the neighborhood, who we regret 10 , say, had been heartlessly jilted by-the

same young lady a short, time previous* The very first night this scientific lovemakiog was in progress) discarded youth repaired ’ate to the spot with some dissolute companions, and managed tb cUmb Up and cut the cord in the middle. They then attached longer pieces to the two ends, and ran them through the window of the bar-room at the corner below. And there) they sat, sending redolent of love, and whisky, one string and then the first along other, and listening with the demoniac chuckles and bacchanalian roars to the sleepy but mellifluous taffy that trickled back in reply. The dreadful truth might never have leaked out, however, if the young lover had not been electrified, at 4 a,m., by a maudlin request to “ Cheese it, Cully 1” while the young lady was paralysed by a sarcastic summons “to pull down her vest.” It does hardly seem, possible such outrages Can be committed in a city protected by over 8000 militia.