Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-23

discovered that we were going in the
wrong direction to reach the hotel, and
were out on the bluffs. then stopped,
when he approached me, remarking,
Sarah, j have brought something for
you Thinking it was some present,
laughinely asked him 10 let me see It,
He produced Il bottle and told me To
taste it, saying that it was the incest ha
could procure in town. / tasted, and
said it was strong. He answered that
II was not SO strong a. to produce any
harm, and told me to take some more
or 1t. Out OF gratitude to the man. and
suspecting nothing, | drank some more
OF it. He then began to question me
about my approaching marriage, and
I intimated that 1 would never marry
MIR. Mooie. | took him up on this an d
asserted that | would, should he ever
return alive. After considerable con-
vcrsation on this theme, he urged me
to drink again from the bottle. / re-
fused, as | was already quite dizzy, and
requested him To permit me to go home
lie said ne would accompany me first
to the hotel tor the photoy graphs, and
then to my residence. accompanied
him uhs,ispectingly to his room at the
hotel, and then le!t it betrayed and
ruined woman.
Weeks and months of a.ony and
remorsc succeeded, and still l continued
to correspond with my soldier-l lower
But all my ton hopes, which for years
l had cherished, were shattered as by n
blow, Mhen | discovered that ] was in
way to become mother. Suffice ii,
l wrote to my lover and broke off our
contract. He has since married anoth-
er, and is living near Peoria.
still | bore up without despair, and
taking Il situation rs nursery governess
continued to fulfill my duties until my
condition could no longer be concealed,
l was forced to seek shelter elsewhere,
and applied to the author OF my ruin
for assistance. He sent me TO "a board
ing house, and then became the moth
e" of Il boy. While | was remaininesat
this place Mattock did not BAY a cent
for my board, and, as a consequence,
the moment | was able to hc about, |
was turned out into the street. | sue
cccdeh after a time in getting employ
ment and began. to toll for myself and
child. | applied to Mr.. Mattuck for
assistance again and again, but was an
swered only by insult and abuse
G0aded at last to madness, | went to
the store i'm which he was employed
and horsewhipped him heartily, and
also gave his rather II remembrance,
when he came to his sons rescue. The
particulars of this transaction were pub
lished i'm the Galesburg Il. ess in Febru-
airy, 1864. did not feel satisfied Yet,
and told him that Re mast do something
for his child, and upon his refusal |
took the child to his house and left il,
but when came to reflect on this step,
my mothers heart recoiled at such a
proceeding, and / Immediately set about
to recover the only object that was now
remaining to me on earth that / could
love. But Mattock was not satisfied
with the ruin he had already brought
upon me, and refused to give up the
child. The climate about Galesburg at
this time became too hot for MIN and he
removed to Chicago where he obtained
employment as travelling agent ior IA
wholesale drug house near the Illinois
Central Depot. Driven to the verge of
insanity, l followed him to this city in
search o! my child. ! went To nay Sc
duccr and impiorcd him to give t up,
Offering to forgive linn al the iniu.es
had suffered rom him If nc would b,lt
return the infant. iiut he treated me
with cnntuneIy and contempt, and
even tried To get me turned out of doors
by the people who We're giving me shell
ter AT last, in n fit of frenzy, | went
to his boarding house during his alb
sence, and seizing the portraits OF his
dead wife and children, res Ived not to
return them until he surrendered me
my child. He thought this fine OPP
portunity to ger rid of me by having
ne arrested, but | will follow him to
the grave, or | will have what is mine"
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