The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1845-10-27
STOP THE VILLAIN

The last Mountain Wing contains notice of a
most dlabollcal outrage committed in Wythe-
vile, by scouadrel called John Right, who is
thought to be vending his way in this direction.
We hope that our citizens will be on the alert
that. should he make his appearance here, he
may he entertained among us as he deserves.
We annex the statement from the Mountain
Wing :-Danoitle Reporter
To The Public-Read! Read !! Read!!!
JOHN, alias JACK RIGHT-This fellow, after
lurking about our village for several weeks. left
on Tuesday evening, taking with him the unfor
tunate and degraded victim of his seduction.
He came from Knoxville, Tennessee, where
he has young wife now living. and suffering
the unspeakable pangs of his remorseless and in
human conduct. He spent the summer at the
GraySon Sulphur Springs. 1t is understood that
he is professional gambler and backlog.
The poor and infatuated young girl, whom this
destroyer has thus made the dupe of his misera-
BILE brides, and articles. and faithless Promises is
Margaret t.. Curry, the daughter of Thos Curry,
of this village, and about Is or l6 years of age
We have understood they are making their way
towards Lynchburg or Richmond, and will proba
bly, change their course and pass through Frank
lin county and the State of North Carolina 10 the
Sonth. They represent they were married in
this place, statement which is utterly false
They are travelling in two horse barouche. with
cover to it, driven by likely mulatto man.
Thus, whilst this unprincipled, unfeeling and
depraved wretch is decorating the heart of an in
noceni and coniding wife, and robing her home,
which he had pledged himself on the marriage al
tar 10 render virtuous and happy, in wrechedness,
sorrow and disgrace, he is conducting young,
creduous and unconscious girl from her parents
roof, TO lInger out living death in the charnel
houses of prostitutionl
Thus has he invaded with pestilence the do
mestlc hearth, and torn from her sacred domicil
the tavorlte daughter of defenceless and discon-
ISOLATE mother. BY this atroclty. he has filled her
house with desolatlon, and stamped everlasting
iniamy on her family, by the ineifable ruin of heI
daughter. We know of no character so vile. SC
deiesable. He is the vlest of robbers, for he
plumbers happiness The worst ofmurderers, for he
murders innocence; his appettes are of the brute
his arts of the demon; the heart of the child and
the curse OF the parent are the foundations of the
altar which he Tears to lust whose fires are the
fires of hell, and whose incense is the agony Of
virtue
we have made this painful exposure from a
sense OF duty, not only To the public press but Ia
the community, whose virtuOus sentiments have
been outraged by the commission of the crime
The citizens had no knowledge of it until it had
transplred. But they do not intend that such in.
famous conduct shall escape their severest censure
and they desire that the perpetrator shall be held
up to the public gaze. in the lud glare of his de-
testable vice
Let this be a warning to all not 10 admit int
their society, or to countenance slrolling vaga
bond, who exhibits no passport EXCEPT that of ;
professional blackleg and debauchee.
We wish the papers of Lynchburg. Richmond
Danvile, and everywhere else in Virginia, Norti
Carolina and Tennessee, to insert this notice il
their columns