Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-01-04

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The child was Of size and age to
meet the case of Partridge's child. When
placed beside the daughter, girl next
older than the lost boy, the family resem-
blance was most striking and remarkable.
The same eyes, features, and shape of the
head, and the identical popularity of ex-
preston of countenance. The only diff
ference was that the boy was shade
darker in color.
On the other hand, when placed beside
the children of Nah-com, the Indian wo-
man, the same likeness and resemblance,
equally striking, was observable, with the
same corresponding difference, the boy
was considerably lighter in color.
The Indians and traders seemed to wish
to avoid everything like fair trial-as
if the whites wanted the child, whether
it was theirs or not. They resorted to
all manner Of tricks, and melted their
counsel to interpose every possible oh
stacle. When they could get access to
the child, they would paint and dirty its
skin, dishevel its hair, and make its APP
pearance as much Indian as possible.
When some gentlemen of Oshkosh,
who had formerly been Indian traders
and were we'll acquainted with Indians
and their domestic customs, first saw
and talked with the child. when it was
first brought from the Indians to the
City, they confidently said they knew it
was white child, and mentioned the
reasons why they knew it. They talk
ed boldly, everywhere, that it was awhile
child, and pledged their opinion to the
fact. These men were afterwards en-
ployed as counsel for the Indians in which
capacity they ignored all this, and when
called on to the stand, they denied posi-
lively and fully, what the writer and
dozen others had heard them say repeat
edly.
The writer was present at an interview,
and heard one of them talk to the child
in English, and heard the child talk back
in Indian. To a question suggested by
the writer, why it did not answer in
English, it replied witch was translated on
the instant, that Nah-com would whip it
if it did.
A scar upon the left foot, sworn to by
the Partridge family and friends, was
discovered by committee of women and
physicians appointed to examine.
multitude ofsuch circumstances which
cannot here be enumerated, served to
convince that it was a white child.
The writer of this was employed by
the Commissioner to write down the mi
nutes of the testimony. With others he
was thoroughly convinced that it was
white child.
But there was one point, which was to
him more corroborative than all else,
which was passed over without notice
by the Court and counsel on both sides.
The people of Waupacca, who first seized
the child, all testified that Nah-com had
with her four children, three of the rela-
tive ages and sizes which nature gives to
family, and this one besides, which in
age and size was nearly like the oldest of
the three, and when seen apart, was cas-
lily mistaken for him, as they were alike
light in color, and similar in feature, with
this difference, that that, unlike this, had
curly hair. They also testified that Nah
com called the other three her children,
and this sisters child. At the trial,
this other boy, the oldest of Nah-com'S
three children, was not seen, and could
not be found. A white man, by the
name of Caldwell, an Indian trader, tes-
titled that Nah-com had a child, ofthat age
and size which he had always paid her for
supporting, as he supposed he was its ia
Their. Heswore that the child in court was
the child; but his hair in color and charac-
cter, was like the other child mentionedb by
the Waupacca people, and not to be found
at the trial.
At the time, the universal public SEN
timent of the country justified the ar
resting the child from the sheriff, and its
transportation out of the State.
But sometime afterwards, another
chlldwas reputedlost in the same vicinity,
and another hunt and rising of the coun-
try was had. In the course of this hunt,
about two miles from the Partridge SUI
gar-camp, the skeleton of child was
found. This partially turned public SEN
timent into doubt upon the matter.
And now comes forward the fact that
Partridge himself voluntarily surrenders
the child, convinced, after three years ex-
animation, that it is not his.
Never was case which more COM
pletely puts at fault all human testimony,
and shows how utterly destitute of all
reliability it may be.
So strongly convinced was the writer
hat the child was white child, that this
announcement creates an unpleasant sem
sation. An instructive protest rises up
and saws va+ - &c moi 1,, JnItuu child