The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-12-05

was peculiarly clear and Interesting. In
tie course Of the investigation the name
OF the alleged seducer TRANSFERRED, but up
to last evening the police were unable to
effect bis arrest The following is
THE FATHERS STORY.
James Anderson, being duly sworn, de-
posed as follows Il reside at No. $40
Becker street; my occupation IS that OF a
tailor; | am also sexton Of the Methodist
church am the father Of deceased; |
have been partially acquainted with Au-
gustus Simms for the past eighteen months;
he was in the habit OF calling at the house
for several months; after some months he
left off calling, for what reason do not
know; | have not seen him in the house
for the past twelve months. but | have
heard that he was there; the man who
works for me told me that he came there
during my absence; he appeared to watch
Inc when | went to church, and would then
90 in and see my daughter; these secret
interviews have been going on for the last
four months; these visits continued up to
the time deceased left my honse; he was
in the house the evening before my daugh
ter left. this was on the oath of October
MISS ANDERSON WANTS TO LEAVE HER HOME.
\ week before this deceased said she
would like to go to Newburg; |
thought it was very strange that she
should wish to leave her fathers house so
soon after her mothers death; deceased
said she felt so lonely in the basement
that we occupied that she was DESTROYS of
going to Newburg; told her that | would
get some girl to come in and keep her COM
pany if she felt so lonely; she seemed to
be satisfied then; soon after | asked her
what she wanted to go to Newburg for;
she said she wished to go up and see the
family with whom my wife was stopping
when she died; l asked her if she was go
ing to get married; she replied that she
was not; some six weeks previous, when
my son was brought in dead, Simms at
tended the funeral, and / could see then
that the intimacy still existed. During the
conversation about going to Newburg l
told bert hat if she was going to be mar
ried to tell me all about it, and have things
done regularly ] told her that she was of
age, and could judge for herself.
THE FATHERS SUSPICIOUS AROUSED.
/ told her that had tried to break off
her intimacy with Simms, but now things
assumed such shape that l would be glad
if she was married to him: thought she
was pregnant by him, and told her SO she
denied that it was so ; but said she could
not deceive me. A few days after this /
had a second conversation with her upon
the subject of her pregnancy. l told her
that she should not be ashamed to tell the
truth, as her condition spoke for itself I
told her to reveal her mind to me that /
was father and mother to her. She made
me no answer, and we parted: that was
the last conversation had with her on the
subject. On Saturday, the Goth ultimo ]
came home to dinner between twelve and
one O'Clock, and found deceased there.
SAD DISCOVERY.
Invent away to the church soon after
dinner, and on my return at five O'Clock, l
found that my daughter had gone; her
brother-a little boy-said that she had
left word to say that she had gone to New
burg. Ny eldest son wrote letter to her
that very night, telling her that she should
not have gone away, and requesting her to
return as soon as possible. This letter
was returned to my son, with note stat
ing that Clementina was not at Newburg
On the Tuesday or Wednesday following
the departure Of deceased, q letter was re-
ceived by Agnes Mann, a boarder in our
house, from her sister in Newburg. /
asked Agnes If there was any word about
deceased, when she replied :" Yes, that she
would be home on the following Wednes-
day." This she told me TO ease nay mind,