The weekly Butte record., 1858-12-25
The Prosecutions of Meloney.

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have felt or said before we are convinced now,
that Wand, (the man with pistol shot in the
roof of his mouth is no gentleman. At any
rate not elever gentleman. Convictions that
prior to our last weeks issue troubled our mind
have vanished before the magic wand of Mrs.
Wand. She has cleared up what was mys-
terry and dark, gleamless shade upon the pop
ular understanding. She has shown even to
the most benighted minds that she is the help
less victim of conspiracy at the bottom and
at the top of which is Wand Wand !!
Wand =. Don't our readers know how she
has cleared this horrible story of all its SEM
blance of truth? We will present a syn
opsis of the injured females letter and demon
strate.
She tells us in letter written by her own
hand or by somebody ese's, published in the
1 Sacramento Star, that our Controller is a SIAN
dered individual. She sets forth that she was
married to Wand while he was q Bavarian
peddier; that she had no occular proof that he
was Jew u Itil they had been married at least
year that he became about this time awful
ly petulent and disagreeable that by his bru
tality she was caused to be inflicted with pro-
lapsus uteri that he WAND came to Calfor-
MIA in 1852, and that after she came here she
found that he was nothing but a poor clerk,
I iph soto ba of, 1rfl,
forth that after being in California while,
she and her husband opened boarding house,
and that they there entered man and beast ;
and that Meloney was among the boarders.
She says that she went only few times to the
theater with Meloncy, and that whenever she
did so, her brute of husband told her she
might but that he always set up for her un-
til she came home. She went once to Pres
byterian Church Fair and after dancing with
Meloney didn't dance with David, CHATS her
husbands christian name) and after the fair
was over, and she had won some things in a
rattle, he, David. chucked them all in stove,
and acted otherwise with much rudeness She
likewise swears with much energy that she and
Meloney are wronged and persecute1 persons
and that the letters which Wand published as
coming from lover of hers in New York, are
all forgeries. Most vehemently does she deny
that the Controller ever took any liberties
with her, as has been charged. All these and
some more allegations, or rather, rebuttals, she
swears to before Justice of the Peace
Must we not conclude, after this, that the
spell which has settled around the name and
fame of our Comptroller has at last been lifted?
TIE attempt upon his own life by Wand was
all a humbug. He knew perfectly we'll that he
might shoot pistol into his own mouth with
impuuity. Every time he shot his mouth off
he knew he was making Mrs. Wands delicate
condition more awful and he knew that Me-
loney was a Lecomptonite, and maliciously
tried to ruin him 10 the eyes of Governor We'll
Ter and the balance of the Presidents friends.
If we were not convinced of Mrs. Wand's and
Meloney's innocence by hr communication
over her own name, the following from the
Star would satisfy US:
Since writing the article headed Mrs Wand
our attention has been directed to the editorial
in the Bee, of Saturday, in reference to the
card published by Mrs. Wand. The Union
and Bee express great anxiety to have Colonel
Melony come out with a statement O denial
of Wand charge against him. Lie has made
this statement to his friends. The moral edl-
| tors of the Union and Bee evidently intend to
try and trick the Colenel into a statement, in
which they hope to pick flaw to degrade so
noted and distinguished Democrat but the
r,lse will not win. We are authorized to say,
by the friends of Meloney, that if any gentle
man, editor, writer for or party concerned in
either of the papers referred to, or the cause
they espouse, SHALL individually, charge Colo
mel Meloney with any improper intercourse
with Mrs Wand, he viii answer such ndivid-
ual personally. Let any such try the expert
ment.
The valiant Colonel mustn't shoot his balls
at US. lie never did 1t ! He didn't He
didn't! and we never said he did. He is a
Controller all over and can always control him.
self and anybody who says he can't is
cussed liar He is moreover Democrat in
good standing.
BROKE JAIL.-Georgc White, horse thief,
broke out of the Napa Jail, on Wednesday of