Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-21
[Pcom the \. Q. DsIta, Nov. 10

From the n o. Delta, Nov. 1O.l
| have heretofore Tefrained from any notice oil
the numerous publications, false and libelous as
some of them have been, respecting the unior
tunatc relation which has existed between Mrs.
Caroline Woodman aud Mr. Gardner FurnisS.
of New York. | should continue silent on this
subject were it not for the publication of the
scandalous proceedings by writ of habens corpus
gotten up by this heartless villain, .heiore
Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, I'M
der the pretenSc of rescuing Mrs. WoOdman
from confinement, but really with the view of
again obtaining possession of her person.
believe that the letters exhibited at trial
of this cause, and published in this evenings
Delta, purporting to be letters from Mrs. w. to
Mr.. F., are forgeries. They are not characteri-
zed either by her habtual language or style of
composition If in her handwriting, they must
have been prepared by Mr.. +. or his attorneys,
and copied by her at their instance. So far as
they report remarks as having been made by
me to Mrs. W.. they are false.
1t is difficult for one placed as have been, to
reconcile the exercise of husbands legal au-
thority with that degree of humanity due to a
deceived and guilty wife. 1t was my misfortune
that she should have erred, but il would have
been INV crime had abandoned her to the fate
which, without the exercise of my legal author
itY, must have hcfallen her. | therefore took
such steps as would place her under the prOtec'
ton Of her kindred so soon as mine should be
withdrawn. That adopted the only ettectuai
course of effecing this end, the following state
ment will show:
On the day after had detected the guilty
connection between Mr.. f. and Mrs w, at the
! New York Hotel, friend, whose family were
absent from the city, kindly received Mrs. w.
beneath his roof where she enjoyed every cOnI-
fort Her brother reached New York next day,
and had a long interview with her-her declara-
ton to the contrary, in Of the published let
tiers referred to, notwithstanding. She then dis
closed the fact of Mr.. FurniSS'S presence ut
the New York Hotel, and his having followed
her up wherever she had gone, had in view the
extOrtion of money from her. The affidavit
made by her a few days afterward, and now pub
iished verbatim in the DsLtG, will disclose at
once the villany of Mr. I. and the sulEerings OF
his unhappy victim.
| At this time she did not appear 10 realize her
position, and although urged her Immediately
to accompany her brother to Mississippi, aud
remain with her parents, she refused to so. Her
brother promised, however, to take ladies', then
under his charge to Virginia, and then return
| for his sister. Mrs. w. had been in the habit
| of taking OpiateS to excess, and having procur-
ed laudanum at this time, INDUCED in such free
use of it as to be quite unnanageab!e, as well
| as incapable of realizing her condition. After
consultation with her BROTHER resolved with
his approval, and after having advised her pa
rents OF my design, to place her temporarily IN
| u private asylum, where she would receive medi-
cal treatment suitable to her nervous derange-
ment, and be protected from future cOntaihila-
ton. What else could have done: / could
not abandon her. had kept her four weeks at
the house of generous friend, greatly to his
| Inconvenience and could not any longer abuse
this privilege. The result has justified my
course. Deprived of opiateS, aud properly treat
ed she improved so much thai, upon consalIa
ton with her physician, promised her that she
should he sent TO her parents in the month oil
! November
Sanford Hall, and then no allusion was made to
the past; no word of reproacb was uttered Ivy
| Inc. She expressed herself satisfied to remain
until ] could send for her, according 10 promise.
| All her letters were sent to her father, smother
and brother, and consulted them. | had not
only their approval, bat their gratitude.
| On my return from New York visited her
parents in Mississippi, and made arrangements
with her brother to 80 TO New York and bring
her to her parents. He accordingly left Missis-
sppi on the 24tb Of last month"; previous to the
commencement of proceedings in New York,
and without any knowledge of there having
been any interference with his sister, and should
have reached New York by the 4th of NoveIn-
Der. have to-day learned that she left New
York with him on the 9th of November.
While remained in New York, after placing
her at Sanford Hall, her physician visited the
city twice a week. invariably called on him,
and received from him note from her, inwhich
she as invariably acknowledged the kind treat
ment she was receiving. ! specially instructed
him to spare 10 expense in making her COM
Portable, and to permit her tOride out in car
rage when she was DESTROYS of doing so, but
always in company with an attendant Having
done this, thought had performed my whole
duty.
After had left New York, her self constituted
protector, not satisfied with having destroyed
her peace and reputation, having for several
years kept her insa state of distraction and
extorted from her large sums of money by
violence and threats of exposure, in a series
of letters now in my possession, endeavored
to retrive his character by affecting to be the
champion of her whom he has so basely in
jured.
Had my aim been more successful at New
York, death would have been just rctribution
and public blessing; but the greatest puniSh-
mcnt to suctl n wretch is to have gained safety
by flight, and 10 remaiabthrough life an object
of contempt and and aversion among all those
who scorn depravity. o. o. WooDMAN.
New Orleans, Monday evening, November 0.
From the New York Post.lN
THE NEWSPAPER { ovERLID--HOio to Sleep
Warm.-Will you allow me space enough in
your paper to suggest mode of keeping warm
during the approaching cold nights? 1t was
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