The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-10-20
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ScoundreIism and Female Weak

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ing details of folly and weakness not I'd
crafty a taste, for scandal, but-as it
says-in the performance, Of, a duty to
the public, and to exhibit an example
which may diminish the chance of ana
logous dangers, and blast with signal
contempt crimes which would be more
easily renewed if they were not known.
The facts are derived from authentic
sources .r3s 7o UUnbUTa iuode m
r. Some years since, Mrs. H., being
unwel, and entertaing small hopes of a
speedy recovery of health, was taken by
her husband to Paris, where it was hoped
that change OF climate and medical skill
could fight to greater advantage the
peculiar disorders with which her nerv-
Gus system was affected. But, course OF
treatment was long; and as important
affairs compelled the return:of Mr.. z. to
America, he was obliged to leave his
wife in France to the care of a family of
cOmpatriots and friends. 1t was then
convalescsnt into relations with one of
those young Americans, who are beg
carly gentlemen oil leisure and unprinci-
pied vagabonds, and who, having made
their escape from the family circle and
left the paternal roof, have no. other aim
in foreign Country than to crafty their
taste for pleasure by all, possible means,
without ever weighing against their van
ity any scruple of personal dignity or OF
self respect. i'iH n tfftii q. no 9e."a
Ready to engage in any plan Of raising
the wind, young y. was not slow to un-
derstand that out OF a woman deprived
of the double protection of her husband
and of her family an excellent speculation
might be made. Descending at first
the baSeness OF his designs, he devoted
himself to. the sick lady, and easily in
spired her with an affectionate gratitude
which he was not slow to impose upon.
The frt care of X, when admitted to the
place OF a friend, was to borrow, syste-
matically at first, small and then larger
amounts. No account was kept with a
man who gave SUCH proofs Of devoted at
tention. Sometimes he restored part
of what he had received but with fem
mime delicacy all reference to the subject
by her was avoided, and when, after an
intimate acquaintance Of more than a
year, Madame u. was a bout to return to
America, there was balance in her favor
of about 81 600, which her borrower
owed her. rt .-r3
After she had departed he was not
slow In perceiving that it would be diff
cult for him to continue to exercise his
industry in Paris where there was no
Likelihood OF finding another woman dis
posed to pay for his interested pretences
oflove. 1t naturally occurred to him to
continue his disgraceful liason upon this
side of the Atlantic, and with this
view he managed to entrap Mrs. z. into
a correspondence which put into his
hands series Of letters that compromis-
ed her, and constituted proofs of the ex-
lstence Of the most criminal relations
between them. This feat accomplished,
he repaired to the United States, armed
with those papers on the use of which
he had calculated.
He might then have been seen in his
Partisan dress, just disembarked, his
hair carefully parted in the middle in
front, rings on his fingures, chains on his
waiscoat, sometimes upon Broadway,
sometimes at the opera. But, not being
able to pay his expenses in New York,
he went South, where his victim had
been for some months under the conju-
gal roof There he threw off the mask,
and commenced playing roe fit only
for such filthy soul. He no longer
endeavored to obtain Mrs Z's money by
entreaties, but by menaceS and constant
intimidation. He must have money;
should she refuse it him, he would pub
lish her letters-he would send them to
her husband-and she should be driven
from her home an Outcast-should be |
pointed at in the streets. Money only |
could produce his silence. se
Terrified and distracted, the unhappy |
woman dared ref~se him nothing. To |
preserve her reputation-to obtain a mo-
mentary peace-she devoted to him the |
sum of Sl0o. her monthly allowance
from her husband, but this amount was
tar from satisfying the miserable man
who expended it all in debauchery. lie
must have more. The poor woman had
nothing to satisfy him with besides her
ewels, laces and shawls.. These she
sold to pay his debts and his board for
which, for example, he was $3.50 in debt
Feeble in mind and body, the poor wo-
man submitted TO this revolving treat
ment, until the wretch became so hard
ened as to strike her, " hen she saiddit
was impossible 10 keep him constantly |
supplied with such sums. .l. .-.
/, At length, in the hope Of extricating
herself from these affronts and violences,
she fed to the shore of the Mississippi,
where she was joyfully received by some
near relations. There at last she. hoped
she had escaped from the odious persecu-
tions which had embittered her existence
Vain delusion! She was followed by
letters, nenacing, implacable and odious,
Lyiving her neither rest nor breathing
space, and asuspending night nd day
over her head Imminent dishonor, ram
beyond reeovefyuofuT III ra.. faa s-r |
Later she came to the North, and her
venal prosecutor agarn dogged her steps.
In Boston and New York, in private
houses and in hotels, she was still follow
I'd. by odiouss persecutionS The friend