The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-28
The Sad New England Tale.

We give further incidents relative to the case
of the seduction and death of Miss Kendall
The Springfield Republican of Gath says that
some forty of the residents of CRANKY, Conn,
the neighbors and friends of Deacon Kendalls
family, visited the Springfield jail to see Reed,
the hypocritical scamp who had so abused their
confidence, SO basely betrayed the murdered
Miss Kendall, SO outraged his own marital
vows, and SO disgraced his children. Among
these visitors was Mr.. Kendall, the brother
of Reeds victim who brought with him the
little girl Of four years, the daughter of Miss
Kendall.
The iailor came out with the prisoner from
his cell. As he was walking down the steps
to the platform, the little girl caught his eye,
and involuntarily reached out her hands and
started forward--at the same time o smile of
recognition lighted up her countenanee-then,
falterng in child-like simplicity, as though she
was not quite sure that she knew him; but as
soon as he reached the bottom of the steps she
sprang to his arms, exclaiming, "Papa, papa"
| He bent down with suffused eyes, and affec-
tionately kissed her. Mr.. Reeds married
daughter then quickly stepped forward and
gave vent to her feelings in loud sobs, and en-
bracing her father said, sit is nag papa, too u
The young girl was asked if she knew who that
man was-referring to Mr.. Reed-and she said,
Eyes, my papa"
After he had gone to his cell, the child de-
i sired to see her sspapa,n as she expressed her.
i self and was taken to the cell where he reeeiv.
ed her kindly and talked with her. His married
daughter said to her father, For Gods
sake, father, if this is your child, own it,
| and she shall be taken care of. He replied
.if she was my child, would not be so inhu.
| man as to disown her"
| Mr. Reed still asserts his own innocence oil
| criminal relations with the deceased Miss Ken
| dali, or Mrs. Jones, and claims that his connec-
ton with Miss Kendall was an act Of humanity,
as he says will hereafter be shown. He says
that Miss Kendall was first seduced under a
promise of marriage by young man who went
to Mexico. Afterwards she had intercourse
with an Episcopal clergyman in Connecticut,
who is the father Of her child; that she sought
| the protection of the clergyman, who was then
a widower, previous to her confinement, and he
| turned her out upon the world with no one to
care for her, and to be disgraced; and that then
i he (Reed) became her friend and protector
the story may be true, but it is certainly quite
| improbable; and we suppress the name of the
clergyman (which he gives in his conversation
who is thus brought into scandalous relations
to this oppressively sad affair.
The evidence against him is simple and direct
and seems to leave no doubt of hi guilt of this
crime, nor of his conviction. That he has
lawful wife living in West Springfield, to whom
he had been married II or ls years, admits o
no dispute and for the other side of the case
! three or four members of this family wher
Miss Kendall (alias Mrs. Jones) boarded in Soutl
Boston, and where she lately died, will testif
that he was in the habit of coming there ant
living with her as man and wife, sleeping witt
her and addressing her, as she him, by tn
sweetest and most significant phrases of tn
matrimonial dialect.