Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-12-18
From TIE Nsv- York Columbian.
UNPRECEDENTED vILLaINY.

UNPRECEDENTED tlLLAINf.
The following deposition exhibits pic
ture of villainy, which. for the honor of hu-
man nature, is rare indeed. Every good
citizen will join i, the wish that the unieel-
ing wretch should meet with his DESERTS
W*****, no doubt, intended to prevent
the victim of his base conduct from appear
ing in court as witness against him on the
4,h inst. The deep affection of the young
woman so overpowersti her that she could
not take any nourishment during her stay
here. 1t is gratifying to add, that her pa
thetc tale of suffering induced the police
magistrate to interest himself in her behalf,
AMI sum of money was Immediately col
lccted from gentlemen in the Ciiy-liall,
and on Tuesaay evening The Dung woman
took passage Tor Albany, intending 80 so to
her mcthei' residence.
.Nr. Spooner-l send you the following
deposition Tor publication, that it may con-
sign to the detestation Of all society the I'M
natural villain it r. iers to.
Yours, &c.
Police Office, city Of. ". York, Dec. 1918.
CHARLOTTE ***A**, daughter of Eliza
beth ******, Of the town of Chester, state
Of Massachusetts, being sworn, says
That on or about two years ago she was Sc
duced by young man, who then resided
in Albany, named MARSELLUS W***"*
that at that time she went to school in
Albany, and boarded with said WIS father,
then living in Washing ton-street, and was
then fifteen gears Of age, and the said W.
twenty three-that Sue was delivered on
the 10Th day Of September, 1917, Of a male
child, at the said Mr.. VS. house in Alba:
ny, OF which the said Masellus is the ia:
ther--lhal she continued in MS house until
the following December, when she went
with her infant to her mothers 10 Chester
thai in the same month the elder Mr.! w.
moved his family 10 Hestield, eleven miles
from Chester, Massachusetts, that IN the
month Of February, 1918, the said Marsel-
lus W. came to write in her brothers office
in Chester, being by profession lawyer
and told him, that if be would assist him,
W. in getting through difficulty be was
involved in with another young woman, he
would then marry this deponent-that her
brother did succeed in getting him OUT Of
that difficulty, but he avoided complying
with his promise to marry her-that about
two months ego her brother brought suit
against the said w. for seducing her, and
the trial was TO take place at Northampton
ON the fourth day of this present month!
that on Monday before last, said w. called
on her and told her privately, that if she
would 60 with him to New Lebanon, in the
state Of New York, he would marry her
and assigned as the reason for going there,
that it could he there done without publish
ing-thst she consented togo with him, and
on the following morning, Tuesday, her
brother being then from home, he, W. took
her brother horse and Wagon, placed her
and the baby in it, and drove of, as she
thought, 10 Lebanon-that when they got
to Washington, abou, twenty miles from
Chester, he said that as her mother was so
much opposed to her marrying him, he
would take her to New York and marry her
there-that they were six nights on The
road, during which time he passed her as
his wife and slept with her-that they ar
rived in this city about one o'clock, on Mon
day, yesterday the 30th Of November--
when w. stopped opposite private house,
the door Of which was open, told her 10 get
out and 90 into that house, and he would
follow her presently-that she did as be
told her, on which he drove Qf!!-that the
people of the house enquired what she
wanted and who she was, and on her bay.
ing explained the cause OF her entering, told
her they knew nothing Of him, the said w.
that in about an hour the people told her
she must 60 away, that she must seek some
where else for lodging-on which she
walked about the streets with her baby in
her arms uatil she was unable TO walk any