Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-19

A QUEER CoURT.-That is a queer kind
Of a Court they are holding in Joliet, Hi
nois, Ri. Rev. the Bishop (Whitehouse) Of
that Protestant Episcopal Diocese in the
chair of ecclesiastical justice. A lady com
municant of the Church of Rev. Mr.. Hager,
a Mrs. White, it seems, went gossiping about
the parish, entertaining old ladies at tea ia
bles, and young gentlemen in jewellers shops
with an account of certain tender intima-
tons made toward her by the psrson, during
rides and walks, and backgamoning, and
star gazing, and at other add times and on
divers occasions. To one young gentleman,
in a jewelers. shop, whom she had never met
but once before, it is in evidence that she
described, by actual imitation and REPETITION,
the very act she affected to be so much horror
struck at, when performed by the reverend
respondent in the case she has made up
against him.
An the acts she testifes to as having been
committed by him toward her are alleged te
have occurred ct times when other people
we're present, and those people vow and de-
clare that they never saw anything Of the
sort. One of the allegations is that he
squeezed her hands when shaking hands with
him and this turns out to be very pos
sible, as it is in the evidence Of a brother rec
tor that it is the respondents usual style Of
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suffered from it severely, and his wife has
more than once made the same remark, say
ing that the parsOn is a 4" terrible squeezer."
One Of the old ladies of Joliet was referred
to in the course Of the testimony as knowing
something about the matter in hand, but,
like a sensible old lady, as she appears to
have been, shs persistently declined to come
into court at any price. Every effort Uas
used to vile her into the presence Of EpiscO-
pal justice, but she "refused to hear the
voice of the eharlner, charm he never
so wisely"
So, as the mountain would not come to Ma
hOmet, Mahomet lin the persons of the BIZ
shops and the Council emerged from their
chamber and walked over to the mountain,
to wit, a Mrs. Low. But, Low as it was, this
mountain proved too high for the ascent, and
they could not come over it. Mrs. l.. denied
the grave procession admission within her
doors, and so, like the King Of Frances men,
who marched up a hill then marched down
again, the ecclesiastical divan refreshed to
theis secret chamber, and proceeded with
their Observation-Disclosures There Mrs. Whites
mamma was all ready to back up her virtu-
Gus daughters charges, but to her great cha
grin and indignation, her testimony was not
demanded by the Court; and at last accounts
thisIreverend body was on the eve Of visiting
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Everett a visit, it being understood that she
knows something more about the affairs in
hand, than she is willing to go to Joliet to
tell. Said we not truly, that this, taken al
together, is q queer Court?-Erehange.
ATERRBLE AND Fatal ACCDENF.-The
NorWaIk Reflector of this week contains the
particulars of a terrible and fatal accident
which happened ia LOrain county, on the
14th inst, as follows:
"While Mr.. Samuel Shattuok, of Camden,
LOrain county, was engaged with his two
sons in moving a barn on the premises ofMr.
Moses Holcomb, about one mile east Of Cam
den Center, on Thursday, the I4tb inst, at Z
O'Clock A. n, his son, Clark Shattuek, sgsd
about thirteen years, had occasion to 90 I'M
der the sill of the barn to adjust some Of the
machinery used in moving it, when the barn
slipped from the screws and blocks that sup
ported it and fellin such a manner as to bring
the sill directly across the boys breast, liter
ally crushing his vitals. The earth hid to be
dug from under him before he could be extri-
Gated after which he fingered, a most ter
rible spectacle to behold, until 5 O'Clock P. N.
of the same day, when death came to his re-
lief. The deceased was q lad of much prom
Use, and was a favorite among his friends and
acquaintances. r