Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-03-07
Madame RestelI.

A recent case of crime and cruelty
in which The name of Madame Res
tell is involved, is thus stated by the
victim of the seducer, in her affidavit
sworn to before Mayor Havermeyer
We give it without remark ofour own,
save that the poor girl is frantic at the
loss of her child:
City and County Of Me,o York, SIS.
Mary Apologize being duly sworn,
deposes and says that she is lately from
the city of Philadelphia, at which
place deponent was born and brought
up, and at which city deponent be-
came acquainted with Augustus Ed
wards, stock broker, and who is in
terested in the office Of the Reading
Railroad that some time since depo-
nent was seduced by said Edwards, and
deponent became pregnant by him;
that deponent told her situation to
him; he at first refused to do anything
for deponent, at which deponent
threatened to expose him to his father;
he then told deponent TO get some place
and be would pay deponent's board,
and for deponent TO pass herself off as a
married woman whose husband was at
sea; that deporent was unable to find
any place, and met him and informed
him Of the fact; ne then said he knew
of place in New York, Madame
Restell, who kept in Greenwich street.
and that he had made arrangements to
send deponent on there, as he had paid
the board in advance; deponent told
him she did not want to go, that she
would rather remain in the city; he
said deponent must 60. as he had al
ready paid the blu. and if deponent
did not 60, he would do nothing for
deponent at all; that same night ION OF
about the Goth November last past)
consented to go to New York-he
then gave deponent fourteen dollars,
and said deponet must 60 next morn
ing; consequently the following morn
ing deponent started for New York,
and the night previous Edwards hand
ed her the annexed paper Of directions
-"The boat leaves Walnut street
rfto-morrow morning at s O'Clock
You should be on board AT 10 min
utes before o'clock. Your passage
will be four dollars-when you get to
New York, which will be about three
O'Clock IN the afternoon, you get into
cab, and tell the cabman to drive to
Madame Restelps, in Greenwich St.
When you arrive there you have only
to say that you came from Philadel-
phia, snd are the person about whom
Mr.. Mason had written. On depo-
nent's arrival in New York, deponent
proceeded to the house of Madame
Restell in Greenwich street and en-
quired for her; she asked deponent
where she came from; deponent said
from Philadelphia, that deponent was
the person Mr.. 81. Clair Mason had
written to her about said the bill
had not been paid. and that deponent
must go to a hotel and stay until the
bill was paid and call again the next
day--that deponent said she was a
stranger and did not know where to 90;
and after some persuasion from dcpo.
nent she consented to let deponent
stay, deponent assuring her that the
bill would be paid the next day. Ac-
cordingly the following day man
whom deponent did not see) called at
the residence Of Madame Restell and
said that he had been sent by Mr.. Ma
son of Philadelphia to pay deponent's
board, and paid Madame Restell Sloo.
(which Madame Restell informs de-
ponent.) Deponent remained at the
said premises about four week before
the child was born, and in the interval
Madame Restell was in the almost daily
practice Of talking TO deponent; at one
time she asked deponent that if the
child was born alive and it was a fe-
male if deponent would not give Il to
her to adopt, and several times before
and after IFS berth she asked deponent
TO give il to her to adopt; that depo-
nent always refused her request; at an
other time she told deponent that she
had better remain in the city, that
there was plenty of men 10 the city
who would be glad to keep deponent;'
that deponent could get good living
by prostituting herself, that deponent
could dress well and i've in great style;
and other conversation OF the same
kind; that on the Illh day Of Deem