Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-07-14
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P-roceedIngs Of the International Bus
ines college Cenyezt10 n-FOurth
Day, Friday, July rs


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MORNING. SESSION..
Convention Wss called to order at nine
M;nutes Of the previous day read and ap
q ts<l IA
Mr.. J. @. Bryant Of Baffslo moved % sas-
the order of business and proceed to
the election of officers for the ensuing
wear. CT f1I sashA
The soylowine officers we're elected
Prezident-Judge DIV. Bell, of Illinois.
Vice President-W-H d. Clark, Brooklyn.
Rscoraing seeretsryAW. Allan Miller,
Corresponding sserstaryEE ciPTch,
Washington.
Mr.. Hunt, of New York, presented the
report of the Committee on Permanent Or
ganization. The report was referred back
to the committee, with instructions to pre-
pare a detailed report to be presented st the
beginning of the next session.
On motion OF JIG. Bryant of Buffalo, Mr..
Id. Williams. of New York, was appointed
superintendent Of the Department of orna-
mental Writing, and Warren P. Spencer
and j. D. Williams, superintendent ef.the
Department of Business Writing.
Mr. Packard, of New York, presented a
resolution recognizing Mr. YzrfenP. sPen
Ger as a living representative of pure spen-
eerian Penmanship.i -
The President elect, Judge Bell, was con-
Quoted to the chair by Messrs. E. G. Folsom
and &c. Bryant, and was received by the
retiring President, Mr.. Packard, with ap-
pirate remarks, 70 which he responded il
an eloquent and fitting manner.
Mr.. Geo. Wiley, of Cleveland, being
present, was called upon 20 address the con-
vention, which ne did at some length, and
to the great edifcation and satisfaction of
| the members.
Letters were read from several eminent
gentlemen.
The Convention then adjourned.
A TALE OF CRIME-INHuNAN Ao<4& OF a
CouRrEzAS AND A RAvIsHER.-There was in
tense indignation manifested at the Police
Court, yesterday, during the trial of an in
human wretch named William King and a
vampire named Mary sheafer, accused of
accomplishing a rapo on the person Of an
innocent little girl-a mere ehiid-named
Hattie Angel. On Monday last Hattie, who
had been residing for a time with DIR. Lyons
family, of Erie, left that place foD Ashts-
bula, there to receive money from an uncle
sufficient to defray her expenses to Kala-
mszoo, Mich, where her sister, a music
teacher, is married and resides. Soon after
leaving Erie a vile courtezan, named Mary
Sheafsr, passed through the cars with a
subscription paper, seeking to raise funds,
as she said, to reach her friends in Michi-
gan, having lost, as she represented it, her
trunk, containing $3.50. Hattie. naturally
kind and sympathetic, expressed egTett that
she could give no aid, stating that she too
@was going to Michigan as soon as she could
obtain money for that purpose from ar un-
Gle in Ashtabula.
Here the contemplate cyprian conceived
the fendish purpose of making merchsn-
disc of the poor little girls virginity, TAX
ing a seat by her, Mary sheafer, compass
sionately a offered To pay Hattie's way 60
Detroit, and by promises and caresses won
upon the confidence of the u~nsuspecting
child. They arrived in this city on Mon
day without stopping at Ashtabula, and
proceeded to the Burnett House, where a
room was engaged for both. Hattie being
much fatfgued retired early, leaving the
eourtezan in the parlor with a villain named
William King, who had given Mary lCt
dollars to aid him in his fisndish designs
Soon after Hattie had retired, Mary came
in and made a besstly proposal to the poor
child, in behalf of King. The proposal
was Indignantly rejaeted. TIE l7onlGn then
read passages Of Scripture to Hattie, in or
der to prove that there SooHld be nothing t0rons
} ia L proposei Gctt Soon afterwards King
appeared, when, with the assistance of the
fend, sheafer, he accomplished his pur-
pose.
On Tuesday morning the little girl, in
terrible misery, protested her intention Of
exposing the two wretches-her betrayers.
Fearful Of this, they hurried her TO the de
pot, intending to send her out of the city
-anyvherei anywhere! so that then
fendish work might be hidden.
At the depot Hattie ran up to Officer Cas-
tor and said she wished to speak with him
this Sheafer tried to prevent in vain. The
little girl told, in her innocent and modest
way, how she had been treated. King and
the courtezan were Immediately arrested
and locked up. Mrs. DR.. Merrick, of Pros
pect street, kindly cared for Hattie and
gave her a temporary home, where she now
awaits the arrival of her friends from Ash
tabula, who are expected to-day.
The case was examined before Judge Alb
hey yesterday, the Court room being full
All the time during the examination King
and Sheafer exchanged glances and grins
Indignation ran to the highest pitch.
When Judge Abbey bound over both cul-
prits for trial at the Common Pleas Court in
bail of 1900 each, a murmur of applause
ran through the Court in spite of the call tC
order.
King has been q bar tender in Tom An
drew's saloon; he is about thirty years O
age, and has most repulsive p~hysicgnomY
Mary Shesfer is a low cyprian, Of about
twenty-five, and stands a fair chance o.
spending her next fifteen years in peniten-
tiary. Little Hattie is not yet thirteen
She is a pretty child, and remarkably intel
ligent.
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