The weekly Butte record., 1866-09-15
Ole 8utts 8ttorS.
Unnatural Cffme-A Sad Story.

1t does not often fall within the province Of
the pen OF public journal to chronicle story Of
wrong so foul or crime 30 unnatural and revolving
as the one il i our duty and purpose to set
forth.
On the 4th of July last it may be remembered
by many residents. youthful pair Joined in the
holy bonds Of wedlock. at the Washington Hotel in
this city The bride pretty. gentle creature,
in her teens, with dreamy look of serene hap
piness II her eyes, that bespoke the joy that was
IN her better than words The groom was ap-
parently very young. but seemed fuly conscious Of
what he was about. and proud of his prize as he
should be. The marriage celebrated without
anything ike pretension and the parties retired to
their home. on the Salinas, where they were well
known and generally esteemed. The compile i'm
mediately went 10 housekeeping at some distance
from the paternal roof Of the BRIDE and relapsed
into the little world they had created. World that
we could rest here, and NJ more. But no; we
must strip away the curtain from this domestic
Elysiunl, and expose the cesspooI of iniquity and
corruption the lnrked within its sacred portals.
On last Sunday morning the community not
little startled by the appearance of the Young
husband IN town, and his application for the arrest
OF his father-in-law charge of incest. Accord
ingly the so-ealed father arrested and brought
before Justice Callaghan on Tuesday. The accused
was held N answer on the charge before the Grand
Jury, and IN default Of 50 900 tail remanded
10 jail. The circumstances, as we have been able
to learn them. are as follows: The crime was com
mitted on the sh day of july only four days after
the marriage The newly married were il appears;
with few friends, visiting at the house of her
father; in the afternoon the father requested his
daughter to go with him, as he wished her to read
4 letter to him. She, however, refused until per-
shaded by her husband, when she reluctantly left
the room with her father She alleges that he took
her some distance into the brush preienee of the
letter, and then deliberately compelled her to sub
NIT TO his bestial embraces. She came back weep
ing bat that explained to the husband the effect
OF the bad news in the letter. She made no reyela
ton OF the facts to her husband any one and they
returned home. The young wife however it an
pears, brooded over her terrible secret and on a
subsequent occasion, when her father wished her to
go to his house she objected strongly and on being
INTERCEPTED by her husband, she informed him that
she was afraid of her father and made some re-
marks that called forth the young mans suspicious
On Sunday morning last, being unable to restrain
herself, she divGlged to her husband the revolving
affair OF the Sth of Jnly. The husband was thun-
der-struck. ard on the impulse of the moment took
her back and delivered her to the moral eper whom
she calls father, with the intention We understand
Of abandoning her. On the arrest of the lecherous
old cebauchee her parent. she was brought in, and
she made the recital as above, III a modest ana re-
fined manner, But, strange and more revolving
than all. it appeared from her testimony that this
was by no means the first or only occasion he had
perpetrated shis nameless wrong. He first violated
her person year ago last june within very short
time after her mothers death, and had continued
his abomlnable practices at his pleasure since. The
case has a curious phase here. We cannot see why
the girl did not apprise some OF the facts for
she must certainly have been coeni.ant of the en-
ormity of the crime.
The miserable old brute who is now in ja has
we believe, been living the Salinas where he has
a family OF children, some of tuem small. His
wife died about year and halt ago We under
stand he does noi deny having committed the act
but does not seem to regard it a crime. He now
ayers that his victim is not his daughter He saws
he purchased her when she was eighteen months