The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-04
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=. SAN FRANCIsCo, CAL, Oct. 8, 1866.
The newspapers of this State have
neen ringing for anumbero of DAYS witt
1 the details of a scandRlous TRANSACTION
that occurred at the Pacific female col.
lege, near Oakland, just acrdss the bay
from this city, not long since. The
parties to the affair We're two, young
ladies of this city, Miss Peck and Mis-
Able, and Louis NJ. GottschalIS, the pi.
anlst, and LIE Gay, q fashionable hattel
on gomMerciaI street. A brief history
Of the affair may nob prove ,uninterest.
ing to your readers, as showing some
thing OF San Francisco life. The two
young ladies, whose names are given
above, We're the daughters of re-
spectable parents in this city, and had
been attending the Oakland college for
eonside BILE time; They were there
when GQttsGhalk came to this country.
how he made the acquaintance of the
girls is not clearly established; but he
did know them to their eternal I.nirfs
One evening Gottschpll5 and Ie Cav
let this city in an open boat, crossed
me bay TO Oakland, Q distance of eight
y ana proceeded in q carriage to
the college; a short distance from the
town. The girls We're apprised of their
coming, andgot out of the college by a
deception played on the princinnI.
They were dressed only in their night
clothes, their other garments being hid
outside The tender damsels We're as
sisted into the carriage, and away the
party drove to n hotel kent by a Frencbs
man near the bridge, which spans IN
arm of the bay that runs up between
Oakland and San Antonio, and then
drove TO another hotel, where they ra-
manned until near morning, Ia
b Az the college, in the meantime, a
storm was brewing. The matron of the.
institution had missed the girls, and
they were diligently searched for ali
over the building. No trace OF them
could be found. The stars were crow
ing pale ere the guilty girls awoke' to.
their true position, and become anxious
70 return to the college. They got into
me ts.aarFiage and were rolled away to the
steal in, they We're confronted Sby the
principal. The trembling. girls were
taken before the matron, and there
they acknowledge to their guilt, They
were expelled from the college, and
their parents took them home. The
story soon got on the streets of San
tr4nciseo, and hnall Y the neWspapers
told oil about it. The indignatfon Of
the people against GottschaIk and
MS natter companion was Rreat
and tar and feathers were ffeely
talked of. Lei Gay subscribed to an
aiiiidayit, stating that he had no crfmi-
nal connection with the girl he 1yas
with. The girl and himself We're f,uilty
OF an tndiscretion, he said, but nothing
more. OF course the people believed nS
much of the affidavit us thew chose.
The terror of Gottschalk was perfectIv
ridiculous. He saw n pistol in eyerv-
thing, and an aVenger wherever he
went. His fears grew upon him at
such an alarming rate that he sneaked
to the CITY prison one aveniTioS 01d -
quested to be, locked up to save him
from the fury of the populace. THE
prison keeper compiled with his REQUEST.
and took the poor, trembling wretch
inside. and closed the popdenous door.
dottschallh was still afraid that he
might be caught, and wanted to 90 IN a
cell. The Prison was nearly full, and
him in with a negro andfa China.
man. BE said he did not seduce the
girl but that she seduced him.
The steamship C0lorad6 was aflyer.
ttsedtto sail on the following day, for
Panatna. Gottsehalk was afraid ~ an
ayenglng bullet, and che Resolved to
leave on. the Colorado andlgo to New,
orN: Disguised as an t'honest miner,
from Butch Flat, the sseminent pianfStts
walked across the stage plank on board
the steamer. Not even the, fFIeadii11
citizens, who had rendered him s6
many farewell concerts could have de-
tected the fascinating 5i0Ite, the irresistf-
Die gallant, the distinguished Cots.
chalk in the dirty looking inlividnal..,
VINO Went, ltmptng acrosS the stage
plank OF the Colorado. As soon as ne
stateroom, went into It, and hired d
man to keep guard over him until the
ship left the haTbOr. This wasti fIfanl
ner in which GOttschalk left us.