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midst of profligate associates, at an age when impulses are strong, and the principles unformed.
She led a vicious life for several years, and during a fit of intoxication married a worthless, dissipated fellow.
When she was eighteen years old, she was imprisoned for perjury.
The case appeared doubtful at the time, and from circumstances, which afterward came to light, it is supposed that she was not guilty of the alleged crime.
The jury could not agree on the first trial, and she remained in jail two years, awaiting a decision of her case.
She was at. last pronounced guilty; and feeling that injustice was done her, she made use of violent and disrespectful language to the court.
This probably increased the prejudice against her; for she was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for the long term of fourteen years. She was naturally intelligent, active and energetic; and the limitations of a prison had a worse effect upon her, than they would have had on a more stolid temperament.
In the course of a year or two, her mind began to sink under the pressure, and finally exhibited signs of melancholy insanity.
Friend Hopper had an interview with her soon after she was conveyed to Sing Sing, and found her in a state of deep dejection.
She afterward became completely deranged, and was removed to the Lunatic Asylum at Bloomingdale.
He and his wife visited her there, and found her in a state of temporary
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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