Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-06-18
Fredericksburg, Jasne l6.
A FEMALE MONSTER.

On Saturday last q niue C"i'u vas 'eh
at The house Of respectable man OF color
in the suburbs Of the town, under circum-
stances indicating degree of moral de-
prayity in the being that seemed to be his
mother, tina, well entities her to the cpl
,bat Of female monster The clreum-
stances of the Transaction, as related by the
woman of the house, are siinplv as follows:
On the morning of Saturday, strange
white man called at her doorand asked Sc
yeral questions about the town and neigh
bothond, and among others, whether there
was poor house IN the roSrn, and on gong
away, said that a woman with a chile would
pass along in short time, and requested
that Sue might be permitted to rest there
until he returned. In. about IN hour,
white woman with white child did come,
and stop at the house, and soon alter the
man returned with re r. shn,ents for her.
He had Some private and apparently mys-
ferrous conversation with the woman, and
they 10Th very soon departed, in opposite
directions, leaving the haplesS chila stand-
Ing in the street! The woman Of the house
finding the child thus abandoned, kindly
took him in the house, expecting that his
ocrems tor such she supposed them to BEL
would soon return, bu, the unnatural wretch
es returned aot.
The man is described to be about 40 OF
40 years OF age-rather spare and OF mid
die st,ture--light compiexion-head bald
---hair AID whiskers sandy. His clothes
were good, but dirty. 1t is strongly sus-
cecled he is the same person who was on
that day soliciting aid of the masonic So
cietles, in The character of distressed bro
tber.
The woman was not of so good an APP
pearance, being dressed in calicoe habit,
dirty and siovenly. So was probably a.
bout % OF e6 years Of age, He addressed
her by the name OF Susan.
The poor lite ofcas boy appears TO be
about four years old. His hair is Of a light
sun-burnt colour his eyes dark hazle, a
little inclined to be crossed and when he
is angry his brows are contracted into
dark yindictive scowl. His dress consists
efa coarse white Virginia cotton fIock =
His ideas are very contracted, and his Ian
guage vulgar and ndistinct. He bears EVIL
deut marks of the grossest mental neglect
and personal i'll treatment. He can give
no account o. himself. He knows no lame
but tina, OF Robert, by which the woman
called him. lie called the woman Suke.
He rquenlly says, 'Suke is gone.'' He
sometimes speaks OF the baby" His
t4rot as sore and bruised as il from
choaNi ne said 'Suke did H." There
was so . t,uise OH his side, as il froUl
kick, ana his ieet were sore and swollen
with walking.
We have cen thus far particular in de-
ScribiEg the man anu the woman that the
pubic may be guarded agalns, them, and
IN the hope that they may be brought TO
justice Cor this most unnatural act, which
cries aloud tor cohdign punishment.
II is conjecilred BY some that the poor
boy is mol the chi!d of the woman who has
thus abandoned him, bot that he has been
kidnapped from some poor parents, who
are now bewailing the loss of their child m
bitter grief /; AND has been used by these
people as their son for the purpose OF ex-
tarlng charity from the public, until ind
ing hiin become burdensone, they have lett
him TO his fate.
Transactions OF this nature are so uncom-
mon among Us, that this has excited the
moss lively indignation among our citizens;
ami il is ardently hoped tina; publication
OF the circumstances may lead to COM
plete Developments OF all the facts and the
punishment OF the guilty.
The woman said she came from near
Richmond. She did not appear to be ae-
quainted with towns.
The child is safely lodged at the poor
house, here he will be taken care OF.
Communicated fofihe Bait. Federal Gas.
Mr. EpIroa,
la few days since troubled you with tue
publication of lie ter from my>persecu-
TED friend at Algesiras, Another is al your |
service Yours. w.
.4tgesiras, .lpril IA, 1919.
Ny DEaR SIR:
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