Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-16
A HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.
Startling Revelation of Facts .. An
IdiOtic White Woman Ravished by
aNegrO.-Subsequent Birth OF an III.
legitimate Mulatto Child--The Per.
petratOr Mt Large.
From Tho Chicago Times, june ls.l

That the corruption in high life and In
| low is rapidly and fearfully increasing, that
| society is becoming utterly and hOpelessly
demoralized, are facts which, 1t Is presum-
ed, will not be denied. Revelations of the
| existence of these things cause no alarm
and elicit no wonder, because their fre-
quency has blunted the edge of morality,
and produced unconcern, where the same
state of things would, in years gone by,
have sent a thrill of horror throughout the
whole community. Yet even in these evil
times, there is limit to human endurance;
there are crimes which, even now, will call
for that stern retribution which violation
of the laws of God and man will demand
and insist upon.
OF all the damnable outrages ever COM
mitted since the world began, and of all
which the mind of man, or brute, or devil
ever conceived and carried into execution,
the one now under consideration is the most
pre-eminently diabolical About two years
ago a mysterious Providence decreed that the
mind, the eintellect, the reason, the God-given
powers of perception between right and
wrong should be taken from poor woman
living in this city. In her great affiiction
and misfortune, without friends as she was,
kind regard for humanity induced the au-
thorities to create home for the harmless
where she was cared for with that kindness
and solicitude which should ever be be-
slowed upon those who are victims to the
most pitiful and fearful calamity that ever
falls to the lot of human being. A year
and more only went to prove how deep
seated was ler malady, how permanent and
incurable fer awful affiiction.
At this me aaegrO was employed, among
other duties, to fasten the door of the place
where this God-forsaken creature slept
On one dark night that incarnate fiend
committed crime fouller and more heinous
than pen ever recorded or lips ever uttered
"a crime against which humanity shud-
ders and recoils from with horror-no less
a crime than the rGuishment of an idiot
Time progressed, nature took its course,
and a few weeks since groveling idiot,
unconscious of her wrongs, lay suffering
at our county poor house with the labor
pains of bastardy! 1t was sight which
would chill the blood of the veriest mon
ster that ever breathed. With mother
wild with agony, blasted with the curse of
insanity, with the leering gaze, the mean
ingless gesture and the ,horrid laugh of
crazed wreck, female child entered
wicked world la half breed was born-its
father negro, its mother an insane white
womanl
On Saturday the agents of the poor house
sent the illegitimate offspring of the wretch
ed woman to this city, and it is now in pos
session of an old colored woman named Di-
ana Edwards, living on Jackson street, near
La Sale. With the child in her arms she
applied at the armory for advice, in the af-
ternoon, and was directed to apply at the
Home for the Friendless.
The name of the black who perpetrated
this outrage is Richard Chase, vagabond
now living in this city, on Quincy street.
near Wells. Shall he. 20 unpunished? Is
there no law that will defend poor woman,
stricken with malady ten thousand times
worse than. death? Mol There Is no
statutory punishment that would not be a
mockery of justice! The torture, the gibbet
the guillotine, the stake, the bangman's halter
AL are inadequate. Could all these be
combined in one dreadful, lingering eternity
of torture, it would not wipe away the
damning, devilish crime which Richard
Chase, the negro fiend, has committed.