Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-09-15

sery. The girl was stripped of clothing
from head to foot; and the mistress with all
the fury of a maniac, scarifed her back
with the thin end of cowskin.
Tortured to madness, the girl made sev-
eral desperate, though vain attempts to
jump from the window, to escape the lash
of her cruel tormentor. Finally, she said
she stole the money, and, being afraid thai
she would be found out, threw the silver
down a well, and put the notes in rat hole
in the vault. The rat hole was searched
but the notes could not be found.
The husband now arrived home, and, at.
ter patiently hearing the statement ofaflairs
spoke kindly to the little girl, and she told
him different story. He became vexed
and applied the lash to her quivering back.
The blood ran freely, and the sufferer i'm.
plored for mercy. She was afraid to deny
the theft; but her obduracy in telling SC
many lies to hide it was a matter OF sur
prise. Night at last came, and Il young
man, relative of the family, returned to
supper. He was made acquainted with
the facts, and he thought of plan which
would bring the delinquent TO a proper
sense of her duty. After the family had
taken their evening repast, he assembled to
the room where the half naked, bleeding
girl was imprisoned, and asked her wha,
she had done with the stolen money!
"Why,' said the crying child, Il threw
part down the well, and gave the notes to a
poor woman, who lives over the way, in
- street."
A messenger was despatched, but the
woman had been very sick for three weeks
and she, cs well as her attendant, denied all
knowledge Of receiving the money. The
Young man took a bed-cord and making a
slip knot on one end, put the moose around
the girls neck, and said:
Come along! you black devil, you! you
shall be hung"
She followed after him, like a sheep 60
ing to slaughter; and, whilst he was fast
enng the rope to the handrall of the stairs,
preparatory to pitch her over, she said:
Il have but one request to make"
"What is that!' replied the pretended
hangman.
Uhy, that you 'cW let me sag my
prayers bCfore / die"
HIS undHtFttu EtSpollSt Optldtu FtiD
lcc,iHgly upon the nerves of the young man,
and he reluqushed his undertaking.
Some time after. OF the same evening, il
was thought eXpedient TO send for an alder
man. The worthy functionary came, and
heard the complaint, but, there being no
positive evidence that the girl was really
guilty. refused to send her to prison.
The next morning, the lady Of the house
resolved to proceed to the Mayor to ask his
advirc on the suhicct, and in taking her
walking dress from the wardrobe. she dis
covered her handkerchief, with the money
in one corner, dangling from the part where
she had pinned it the day before. Her Wis
it to the Mayor was Of course suspended.
Thus ii will be seen that poor little
lriendcss colored girl, honest as the sun
which darkened her skin, was almost tor
lurcd to dcath=-prompted to admit herself
TO be thicl-induccd to tell many lies re-
speeding the disposal of the money-and
all, too, by a woman whose elevated posi-
ton in society, and whose general character
for piety, should have at least induced hel
to adopt less Objectionable measures, for
the sake of honesty ana truth.