Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-31
GOTSCHALK IN A NEW ROLE.
His DisgraeefuI Intrtgues IN San
FranciseO-He is Compelled &c Leave
h City in Disguise.

Correspondent of the Chicago Times.
SAN Francisco, Cal, October 3.
The newspapers of this State have been
ringing for a number Of days with the
details of a s~candalous transaction that
occurred at the Pacific Female College,
near Oakland, just across the bay from
this city, not long since. The parties to
the affair were two young ladies of this
city, Miss Peck and Miss Able, and Louis
NJ. Gottschalk, the pianist, and LIE Gay, a
fashionable halter on Commercial street.
A brief history of the affair may not prove
uninteresting to your readers, as showing
something of San Francisco life. The
two young ladies, whose names are given
above, were the daughters of respectable
parents in this city, and had been attend
ing the Oakland College, for a considera-
Bile time. They were there when Colts
chalk came TO this country. How he
made the acquaintance of the girls is not
clearly established; but he did know
them to their eternal ruin, One
evening Gottschalk and LIE Gay
left the city in an open boat, crossed the
BAY to Oakland, a distance of eight miles,
and proceeded in a carriage to the college,
a short distance from the town. The girls
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out of the college by q deception played
on the principal. They were dressed only
in their night clothes, their other garments
being hid outside. The tender dsmsels
were assisted into the carriage, and away
the party drove to a hotel kept by a
Frenchman near the bridge, which spans
an arm of the bay that uns up between
Oakland and San Antonio, and then drove
to another hotel, where they remained till
near morning.
At the college, in the meantime, a storm
was brewing. The matron Of the mstitu-
ton had missed the girls, and they were
diligently searched for all over the build
ing. No trace of them could be found.
The stars we're growing pale ere the guilty
awoke to their true position, and became
anxious to return to the college. They got
into the carriage and rolled away to the
institution. As they were trying to steal
in, they were confronted blythe principal.
The trembling girls were taken before the
matron and there they acknowledged to
their guilt. They were expelled from the
institution, and their parents took them
home. The story soon : got on the
streets of San Francisco, and finally the
newspapers told all about it. The indig-
nation of the people against Gottschalk
and his halter companion was great, and
tar and feathers were freely talked of. LIE
Gay subscribed to an affidavit, stating that
he had no criminal connection with the
girl he was with. The girl and himself
were guilty of an indiscretion, hesaid, but
nothing more. Of covrse people believed
as much of the affidavit as the chose
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ridiculous. He saw apistol in everything,
and an avenger wherever he went. His
fears grew upon him at such an alarming
rate that he sneaked to the city prison one
evening, and requested to be locked up to
save him from the fury of the populace
The prison keeper complied with his re1
quest, and took thepoor, trembling wretch
inside, and closed the ponderous door,
Gottschalk was still afraid that he might
be caught, and wanted to go in a cell.
The prison was nearly full, and the keeper
was compelled to put him in with q negro
and a Chinaman. He said he did not Sc
duce the girl, but that she seduced him.
The steamship Colorado was advertised
to sail on the following day for Panama.
Gottschalk was afraid of an avenging
bullet, and he resolved to leave on the
Colorado and go to New York. Dis
guised as an "honest miner" from Dutch
Flat, the eminent pianist walked across
the stage plank on board the steamer. Not
even the leading citizens" who had
rendered him so many farewell concerts,
could have detected in the fascinating
rope, the irresistible gallant, the distin-
guished Gottschalk, in the dirty looking
individual who went limping across the
stage plank of the Colorado. As soon as
he got on board the ship he procured a
state room, went into it, and hired a man
to keep guard over him until the ship left
the harbor. This was the manner in
which Gottschalk left US,