The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-02-25
have 'hc honor 10 be
Very Respectfully,
Your OFT Servant.
j. MyROBERTS
Joliet, Feb. li.h, 1885,
Madame RCsirli The hhOr,Iouis'.--Sfar,
iImu md IIOrIIh Entertainments.

Joliet, Feb li,h, 1854.
Madame Rc>irlI The Abor,Ion,st.-.Start-
ling ana liorrId Developments.
We Yesterday noticed the arrest oi this Hn,o5i
ous woman whose name heads this article, lur
producing abortion IN HE case of a Young wo-
man named Cofdv'n 4 Graut. wh o about sercn
Yeats since was induced hv wealthy resident
IT this ci,y named George Il Shnckiorl To leave
the home Of her parents At Portland. Ne. and
with him 10 visit New Orc,nS 81 lauis and
other cities in the pretended position Of wife and
who finally brought her TO this city and
caused to have produced upon her several abor
tons, rs the affidavit Of the victim, vhiCh we
grv0 will show Tbs charge against Madame
Rc.tcll 3. FIR producing these alorIions, and that
ara MT Nj Sha,k(ord for being accessory to theOr
production
CgrdrA 4 Grant sworn-S says lam %
yeats Of aEc. resident OF this CITY, AMI for the
last seven wears have most. OF the time. lived
with Geo L ~hackforl as his wifg | have CO.
hati'cI and lived with lin a. h,s true and law
iu wife and IA such have been introduced du-
ring this Period have bee. rari-nir by HIM five
times and on each time an abortion has been
CrolUced at DE instance AMI procurement Of
Mr. Shnckiori which has very much injured nv
constitution, Of this numtcr OF abo,llnnS two
were produce d in New lurk by Madame Res
tell at her house. No l52 Chambers street on
the first Of those occasions ! was ihsn advanced
between three and four months in pregnancy
Mr. : toll me that he had mnle arrangements
with Charles I. Lphman, Madame Rosi,il 8,
husband to procure an abortion and that he wa.
waiting f,r her 10 come TO his house went
there and saw Mr. Shackfori pay MIR LuEmln
$50 Mr. I. then SAID to me that could have a
lady n'tenilnt If | chose and then called Mad
amc lt,str'l into th' room who invited me rp
stairs Mr. ~hachford ut lhat time, told Mr.. LII
man hat was l!s wife and had been married
TO him after got up stairs Madame Il. .irl
sud that five were married it was pity 20
osc the child hat ! was pretty woman and
would have a fine child; she then converted
about other matters for the purpose OF krop.u.
Up my spirits she soon aferwarl performed
the operation which was very painful and On
the next day was delivered. and was yery sick
b Afterwards all my sollcl cln,h.n, was burned
up hy Mr.. Shlcki1rl ths ahp.'.un was rrolu.
ccd on The night q! he 81 Of Jauuarv. 1850. the
second abortion was produced On or about the
. 18th nt5nrEarv. lS5l.at that time | was board
i0, with Nr Sla hfrri II 40 III Gr,cnwi,h
s. in tha character Of his niece AMI he as my
guardian; was Lurn. that time Eo.r; to school
n Mrs. Hannah paISsrF, IN spring s., Nj
>hac.i ri having represented 10 the teacher and
the family IN which we boarded hat was hi-
wand ! was between three and fnur m,n.hs = J.
vlrC,d in pregnancy. when Mr. ShacH'uri ins .
ted In should ~ asoc.ul time 10 Madame
Ge.trlts ! refused at fret hrt was fua'y com.
PEELED ty hIm to- 20 anil submit to the operation
He conveyed me ani my trunk IN 4 carriage TO
the corner # Chambers and Greenwich S's
whorr we got out ant went into Madame Re.
tell; Nr ShacAiorl had at this time made an
arrangement with Madame Ic.trll fur me 20 re-
main her house for two week. Mr. Shack
ford stated 10 all persons It'll whom wohlarlel
that we were going to- Boston. ;he second nbor
i'm was produced by Madame RCst,,l On the
first nigh: after my arrival at her house was
delivered of child, AMI the sane night asked
her what she did with the child; lie said that
she had b'unci up remained at the hou-c
about Two weeks Ma 'luc Res-cil told me Ne
fore left that she had been informed bv Mr.
Sh,csorl that | could BE- trusted in tho matter.
When Mr.. Nhackiori came back from Boston We
both retained To The place where We had prcvi-
ogsly hOlr|cd where We remained Until suriug
when W. visited Saratoga Cape Nav 4 o'hor pl,.
ces, al the time passing as he wife Daring nv
stay at Madame Rr'telr. Mr I.ohman was there
every day Ani spoke h me each ltv aud knew
perfectly well the ohjcc; OF my visit havin, con.
voiaad with me aboutit ; in this instance the
money wa1 paid to Madame Resel and rot 10
Alr Lehman, as in the picyious case on my
third state Of pregnancy was At Cane Nav
with SIr. Shackf1rI. who brought me TO this
s,'y and put mp At the Girarl House for the pur.
r''c oi having another abortion performed we
arrived on n Sunlav in the month of October
1852, and the next day Mr. ShaCkford gave me
$50 and sent me again to Madame Restelr4 for
. D nppfhtr al inn I y ~ E,l -. l,,
going TO Mr. Tohm1n's office in Liberty 81. |
found her with her brother, Mr. Iohmnn being
in Europe she went with me to her hou-r. |
gave her the $50 and he again performed the
operation returned 20 the Girard House. and
with Mr. Shackiori procured Immediately to he
Westminster House. corner of Broome 81 and
the B,wcry on arriving went to bed end was
delivered the same night; Shack ford was with me
nearly all the time; after got well went to
sec my friends down East. whore | remained
three weeks, when Mr. s came for me and
brought me back to the city since that time I
have not been cncicHis nor have | had inter =
course with him, and since we left the Wesichcs
ter House, have continued to live with him NJ
his ward he lately built very fine d costly
house at Fordham Westminster Co. where he
took me last October. and / remained therc ns
hI' mIstre's ofi'c house, he having taken me
from school in Twenty seventh st where I was
learning music and French. The two other abof-
tons produced upon mo not performed in
the State Of New York: when | first became
acquainted with Mr.. Shackford. I was in the 10th
year ofmy age, and have lived with lin as his
warl aud ever since, a0 above stated
Mr. Shockforl for whose arrest n warrant had
arcn issued hy Justice Stuart, come voluntary in.
to court with his counsel Yesterday morning and
Icm1nlpl A lplriry in lis r,s, ubicL vna snt
down for Wednesday afternoon. Mt 3 o'clock
Madame R"s'oll j. in custody of policeman.
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Harrisburg Pa. Feb, II.
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