Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-05-04
Rum, ADULTERY AND STRYCHNINE.
Shocking Disclosures ut Osage--A Liber.
tine and his Kept Women-A Charge
OF Murder.

From the Usage North Iowan, pril Goth.
Our community has been thoroughly
! Disguised the present week by the de-
tails of a case of vice and domestic inf
deity, not common among us. Thorn
as Hawthorn, the keeper of a low dog
! gerry, which has been an eyesore and
disgrace to the town, sometime last fall
took into his family woman Of I'M
chaste reputation, ostensibly as a nurse
| for his sick wife. His wife went soon
after to. Massachusetts,, to visit her
! friends. The woman, Mary Bum,
alias Wilson, lived with him during
the wife's absence. On Monday last,
Mrs. Hawthorn returned, and upon at
tempting to enter her home, was bru-
tally thrust out by her husband, and
not permitted to see her children. This
was followed by IA criminal complaint
by her against Mary Bum, charging
her with :.dultei,y with Hawthorn. The
case came before Esq. Chase on preilm-
mary examination Oh Tuesday, ana re-
suited in the holding TO bail OF the oc-
PENDANT, in the sum of $500, to answer
at the next term of the District Court,
in default of which she was committed
to Jail. bag t1. ." F.
When Hawthorn came to Usage he
brought with him Mary Ward, young
girl, with whom, according to the testi-
mony of his own daughter, he had liv-
ed as his wife, in Linn county, in this
State. His wife who had been separa-
ted from him for some time previously,
Joined him just before, or shortly after
he arrived here. About six months af-
ter he had taken up his abode here, this
Mary Ward died in Hawthorn's house
ln of. Il x~c,
as was ascertained by a post norton ex-
animation of the body. AT the time, the
Hawthorns protested she had commit
ted suicide, but with parties who were
observers of their actions, and knew the
relations which the girl bore to them,
there was lingering suspicion that the
Hawthorns, husband or wife, or both,
were in some way responsible for her
sudden death. The suspicious were
based upon nothing tangible enough to
found a charge of murder; so the mat
ter passed over. On Tuesday Hawthorn
formally filed an affidavit against his
wife charging her with the murder of
Mary Ward. Mrs. Hawthorn is to be
examined before J. w. Thompson, Esq,
in Mitchell on Friday. What the tes-
timony is against her, we know not,
but hope that something may be devel-
oped which will clean up the mystery,
and bring the guilty ones if any there
be, to justice. :. .....
p. 5. Friday evening. The charge
against Mrs. Hawthorn before Justice
Thompson, is dismissed on the motion
OF counsel for prosecution.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT. - Mr.. Il. O.
Hitchcock met with severe mishap
on Tuesday last, by which he received
several cuts and bruises, and which will
doubtless forever deprive him of the use
Of his right eye. He was riding horse
occk down Main-st. at fall speed when
dog jumped up in front of his horse,
causing him to stop suddenly. This
precipitated his rider over his head on
70 the ground. Ed. hung to the rein,
which brought him right under the
horses fore feet, one of which was
planted in his face, intiicting deep CASH
es therein. One cork of the shoe struck
on the cheek bone, and glanced upward
into the middle of his right eye, pene-
trating to the interior chamber. DR..
Chase was promptly called, and dressed
the wounds. He is of the opinion that
Mr. Hitchcock will never see with the
Injured eye.-Osage Iowan, 2SM Ht.
from office to make way for pure John
s0nians does not seem to be beyond the
interference of human fallibility. The
President has just nominated one S. +.
Cary well-knoWn temperance orator,
of Ohio, to be Collector Of Internal Rev
enue for the second district of that State
but after the nomination was sent to
the Senate, His Excellency was inform
ed that, in recent speech at Delaware,
Ohio, Cary had spoken of the great dis
penser of collectorships as a habitual
drunkard, in whom no confidence could
be felt, except confidence that he would
get tipsy as often as possible. Hereup-
on, of course, 4. j. came to the concIu
sion that Cary was not a sincere friend
of his policy, and that his nomination
must he recalled.-Nicogo Republican.
INsANE.--An old and respectable res
ident of our town, Mr.. Ruben Osborn,
has become hopelessly insane. The
cause is probably religious excitement.
The first symptoms of. his infirmity,
were noticed by his family about tile
time of the Quarterly Meeting at Mitch
ell two weeks ago. 1t has been growing
on him ever since, and at the present
time, his demonstrations are so violent
as to make it necessary to bind him.
This afiiiction falls upon his family
with the more weight, as he is farmer,
dependent upon his own labor for sup
port, and his large family of children
seven in all-are all girls. The fami-
ly have the sincere sympathy of the
whole community.-Os I0W0n. 49,.
Iowa AND THE WAR.--From the re-
cent report of the Adiutant General it