The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-11-04
Tho Babe Of Beautiful Actress about
to be Sold as a slave-Three Years
History Of the Offspring of an Illicit

to be Sold as a slave-Three Years
History Of the Offspring of an Illicit
Love. EK ~ Trr . n
About four years ago, girl, whose dreamy
eyes had not yet seen the violets Of eighteen
Springs, was brought to this city from the East,
BY one Of our theatrical managers, and after
making her debit at his establishment, became
favorito with all Its habitues. She had been
engaged for juvenile tragedy parts, and her
sweet face, her delicate, almost exquisite,
features, her charming figure and elegant stage
department made her q favorite and won
sympathy from many persons whose long cos
mopolitan experience had made them quite
blase. - g,e -rr5. ...~.,
Among those who were most enthusiastic in
her favor, was young man from the northern
part of the State, who saw her first as
"Pauline," and ever after when he spoke Of
her to his friends he called her by that name.
Night after night he visited the theater, but
only seemed tolive when she wasupon thestage.
She knew him not, and of course never dreamed
OF the passion she had awakened, but still, like
"Claude Melnotte," he loved and dared to send
her flowers, and was happy when he saw them
in her hand.
At length he managed to be introduced to
his charmer, and his apparent devotion and
sincerity soon won her heart. Alone, without
friends, of rather melancholy temperament,
solely dependant upon herself, while at the
same time sick of the world and tired of the
part she was compelled to play in 1t, the SYM
pathy he had to offer fell upon her spirit like
soothing balm. Before they had besn ac-
quainted month they were inseparable, and
in the society of each other spent all the time
they could spare from their duties.
For several months this continued; but, like
Francesca di Rimini and her beloved Paolo, as
they read, one afternoon, they fell, and their
olden peace and content abandoned them, and
came never back. Still they were devoted to
each other, but their lives had been ideal, and
the terrible result Of having yielded to the
tempter did not mako itself fully known for
several months. Then they were disconsolate.
lie was unfortunate In business, she could not
prosecute hers, and there seemed but one path
for them to pursue. She left the tbeater for
the ostensible purpose of going East; but really
to become an inmate of one Of the Hospitals Of
the city, at which she became the mother Of
beautiful and bright-eyed girl, which she
gave to mulatto woman that it might be
cared for without annoyance to her.
A week or two ago this woman, whose
name is Heazelton, left her residence on Syc-
amore-street, between Third and Fourth, and
went to Maysville, KY, upon a visit to some
relatives, taking the child with her. She
had not been long in that city before she was
arrested, and, with the babe of the actress,
thrown into Jail. She remained there some
time, during which she managed to prove
that she was free woman, and under prom
ise OF leaving the State, she was liberated.
The child, however, was retained, and in
spite of her protestations that it was white
child which had been given her to raise, it
was kept in the possession of the authorities,
while she was sent to this city. ,..,.,.
A day or two since she went to one of the
Leutenants of our Police, and told the story
we have related here; also stating that from
the hour the mother of the child had left the
Hospital, she had not been seen, and that
nothing was now known of her. The father,
too, has not been heard Of, nor has he seen
his child since it came into her possession.
The child, she says, although she can not
prove it, is the offspring Of the illicit love of
the actress, and Of as good parentage as those
who, she fears, will yet make it a slave.
Meantime the Lieutenant has written to the
Maysville authorities In regard to the matter,
and now awaits an answer. What will be the
hoouHS VA Cdeo ntlh T6tuHlnb one Oh LQ6
mysteries lch time alon. can solve; but we
presume the woman or the authorities here
will be compelled to resort to writ Of habeas
corpus, and serve It on the Msysville semi
kidnappers. '....
The beautsous mother of the lovely babe,
perhaps, is weeping now over the fate that
separates her from her offspring, and with
breaking heart regrets that society will not
allow her to recognize 1t as her own. This
child's history, which began under such ex-
traordinary circumstances, seems likely to con-
tinue to be strange in the extreme. Never
knowing to whom it owes its existence, IL will
pass through life and play its weary part,
while the fact that her character, which has
been saved at the expense of the loss of her
child, will haunt the mother and embitter every
cup her lips shall taste, although they might
otherwise have been as sweet as Jove's own
nectar.