Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-02-17
The Reverend Seducer,

of the recent seduction of young and
pretty girl, 81 years of age by Metho-
dist clergyman in that State. The unlot-
tunste victim was carried to this city to
avoid detection. but the facts have been
made known and were detailed as follows
before Mayor Wood:
Some seven months ago. the preacher.
twhose name for the present we withhold
in order that public justice may not be de-
leated, as is alleged, had the girl in ques-
ton employed in his family as seamsTess.
During portion of this time his vile was
sick, and absent from home. These, TO
her unfortunate circumstances, favored The
object of her husband, who, as is alleged,
on several occasions, entered the room OF
the young woman, and by his smiles de-
vices and promises managed TO effect her
ruin.
Some particulars of his conduct we di.
yulged, and he, TO keep his wife IN the
dark and maintain peace and harmony IN
his family, as well as the congregation
over which he presided, prevailed upon
the young woman TO accompany him to
this city in order that she might here re-
! celve such medical attendance as was
necessary, and al the same time avoid the
probable consequences of an exposure.
Upon reaching New York, this sancti-
monlous parsonage engaged board for the
victim TO hisipassions 1.-THE Cooper House,
Broadway, and at the same time, securing
| the services of two accommodating doctors
of questionable repule, in White street,
paying them, it is said, the sum of $500,
10 attend the patient and procure an abor-
ton, besides leaving money with them 10
pay her board and defray other necessary
expenses. The Cooper House being
found too costly place for the purse OF
the priest, the poor gir! was soon removed
from there to Savery's eating house, Beck
man street, thence to suspicious house
in Sullivan street and lastly to house of
prostitution in West Broadway.
The quacks, TO earn their money, aaye
from time to time administered such med
icnes as were calculated 10 produce the
desired, result, out some three weeks ago
much to their disappointment, their pa
tent, whom they were slow Y numbering,
became the mother of an emacialed, sickly.
looking child, which Lived till about ten
days ago, when it died hnt not without
suspicious being raised by those in the
house that the quacks were in some man
ner instrumental in producing death.
The condition Of the poor girl was now
truly deplorable, and being without home
or friends in the city, besides being at the
mercy of the quacks she knew not where
to go or what to do. Since her arrival in
the city she has several times written to
her relatives at home making known some
of her sufferlngs but not portraying her
real condition.
A day or two since one of her brothers
arrived in the city and laid the matter be-
fore Mayor Wood, who, with his usual
commendable promptness, dispatched Of
fcers to the house in West Broadway
where the girl still was, TO bring her be-
fore him should she be able TO leave the
premises.
This was done, when she made leng-
thy affidavit stating all the principal facts
as connected with her case.
Other affidayits were taken, on which
Mayor Wood issued his variant for the
abortionsts who had taken the matter in
hand for the priest. One of them was ar
rested and brought before the Mayor to
undergo an examination on his alleged
participation in the nefarious transaction.
His accompIice will propably soon be ar
rested. The affair is now being thorough
ly investigated by the Mayor.
II is understood that several persons Of
high standing in the city are mixed up in
this disagreeable affair, and their compli-
city thereto cannot be ascertained till the
facts in the case are fully developed before
a court of justice. The poor girl states
that both the doctors alluded to, commit
ted outrageous assaults upon her person
while under their care. She al present
remains in one of the public institutions of
the city.
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