The Murder of Helen Jewett. The graveyards of a community are excellent records, and in the beautiful cemetery of Nacogdoches, Tex., one soon notices the recurrence of the names of the Northern States as the birthplaces of the most prominent dead. The leading citizens of those early times seem to have come North and East rather than from South and West. This old town served as a haven of refuge in some cases, and in others as a stepping-stone to great wealth for many of these sons of other States; notably the last may be ranked the Thorn among family, and under the first count may be classed Richard Parmalee Robinson. He figured as principal in the murder case of Dorcas Doyan, alias Helen Jewett, which was tried in New York long years ago. Robinson was clerking and was engaged to his employer's daughter; when his mistress, the beautiful cyprian mentioned above, heard of her lover's contemplated marriage, a scene ensued -she vowed it never be, she would take means to prevent it; but that night as she slept her skull was cleft in twain, and with the hatchet belonging to the store where Robinson cler. ed. He was arrested and tried; the details were sensational in the extreme and horrible to a degree, but Robinson was of good family, and his father's money bought the witness whose testimony saved his life. This was done, however, on condition that he would go to Texas and change his name, which he didsimply dropping his surname and retaining Richard Parmalee. The man whose testimony had made him free committed suicide not long after by jumping from the yard-arm of a ship and drowning himself in New York Harbor; the me n- ory of his perjury, crazed him, it was said. This gave birth to the novel "Helen Jewett." Parmalee made many friends in his new home, and among those who liked him were many firm believers in his innocence. He afterward married a lady who came to Texas from New York and became Mrs. Phillips; after Phillips' death she wedded with Parmalee; from that union sprung a respectable and highly connected family. There are those still living who believe and say that Mrs. Parmalee was the same lady to whom young Robinson was engaged when the Jewett murder was committed. However that may be, she was mortally afraid of her husband, and never seemed easy until she had seen him in his coffin; perhaps she ever felt in imagination the murderous blow with which he had put her rival out of his way. -New Orleans Times. in a it