H. W. PHILLIPS.
MAN'S PERFIDY TO WOMAN.
Tlie Sad Story of a Confidiag Girl and a Villainous Lover. The perversion of gratitude which will prompt a man, when temporally balked of his desires, to slay the person who haa sacrificed everything for him, is incompre hensible to the members of the medical profession who have made the aberrations of the human mind a special study; the layman does not even at tempt to account for it to his own satisfaction. ■ The recent murder of Miss Maggie Wil liams in Cam bridgeporfc, Mass., is & striking case in point. Miss Williams was a hard working girl, of twentywho hadj been employed asl a domestic byj various families,! all of whom were much pleased with her. Wil liam E. Cm__iing ham was a har ness maker, about thirty years old. Between him and miss wiu_aansa.s-coiiK attachment sprang up, and as subsequent developments have shown he utilized this affection as the means of deceiving the poor girl in every possible manner. He even went to the length of getting her gold watch, ring and a sum of money with which to pay his board, but his landlady never received a cent of the ill gotten funds. Cunningham disappeared from his boarding place a few days prior to fche murder.
