Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-04
MISCEGEN ALTON.

Radical Editor Plays the Role OF
Practical EquRIisf - BECOMES the
Father of a MuIaStO Child. Diseards
its Mother and Refuses 10 support il
Is ArraIgned for BaStRrdy. etc, etc.
One Of the fussiest Radicals that intest
this part of Brownlow's vineyard big
light in the G. A. Z. and the Loyal League
/ is Mr.. John Rhum, the editor of the
Radical German paper in this city, called
the Stats Zsitung. He is an active little
person, and turned upyestsrday before Esq.
/ Cassety, as a miseegenator. The unfortu-
nate sharer Of his guilt was a negress,
whose complaint, and subsequent proceed
ings thereon, thus appear in the papers of
Esq. Cassety's Court:
HANNAH's AFFIDAVIT.
State Of Tennessee, Daridsoa Couafy.-The
examination of Hannah Merryweather,
a cOlored and unmarried woman, taken
before me, T. d. Classify, Justice of the
Peace for said county, on this the I'd day
of September, 1867: The said Hannah
Merry weather, being by me duly sworn,
makes oath and says, that she is an unmar-
ried cOlored woman; that on the LIST day
of March, 1865, she was delivered of
male bastard child, and that John Rhum
of said county is the father of said child.
Sworn 10 and subscribed before me day and
date above written.
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HANNAH Y MERRYwEATHER.
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T. D. CAssITY, J. P.
THE WARRANT
Upon the filing of the above oath, Esq. |
Cassety issued the following warrant:
State Of Tennessee, Davidson county-To |
f. ]. Morris, Constable Of said county |
Whereas, Hannah Merryweather an unSs
married colored woman of said county, has |
this day upon examination on oath taken
before me, q Justice of the Peace of said |
county, accused John Ruhm, of said county, |
Of being the father of a male bastard child, |
of which she was delivered in said county, |
on the lst day of March, 1865: These are,
therefore, in the name of the State of Ten |
nessee, to command you forthwith to ap~ |
prehend the said John Ruhm, and bring |
him before me, or some other Justice of |
said county, TO be further dealt with aC- |
cording to law. Given under my hand and |
seal this I'd September, 1867.
T. D. CAssETY, J. P.
The writ was returned with the following |
endorsement:
Executed and set for trial 10 O'Clock,
Sep. 3, 1857
"(Signed) Ell. MORRIS"
THE EXAMINATION, ETC.
At the time set for the trial yesterday, |
the parties appeared. The woman Han
nah-a perfectly black countenanance, with |
regular features and rather pleasant ex
pression-made clear and straightforward |
statement of the facts in the case, reiterating |
the facts contained in her affidavit, and de. |
failing the circumstances of her seduction
and fall. She stated that after her condi- |
ton became known to Rhum, and before
the birth Of her child he cast her off, that
she has now to support herself by the work
Of her hands, for which she receives only
five dollars per month; that, in order to
get employment and do her work, she has
to get another woman to take care OF the
child, for which she pays four dollars per
month that at these rates she is unable to
support herself and child, and the object of
the proceeding is to compel the father to
contribute to the proper support of his off
spring Thereupon Justice Cassety re-
quired Rhum to enter into bond for his
appearance before the County Court on the
lst Monday in October, in the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars, with two securi-
ties in like sum. This he did, with Z. ].
Morris and B. F. Cook, as sureties. Han
nah then gave the following bond, which
concluded the case before the Magistrate
HANNAH's BOND.
State Of Tennessee, Ddcid8Oa cOunty-This
day came Hannah Merryweather before
me, T. D. Cassety, Justice of the Peace
for said county, and acknowledge herselfto
stand indebted to the State of Tennessee
in the sum of two hundred and fifty dol
lars, to be void if she makes her personal
appearance before the County Court Of
Davidson county, to be held at Nashville
on the first Monday in October next to
prosecute John Rhum upon a charge of |
bastardy, and not depart without leave of
the court-then this obligation to be void, |
otherwise to remain in full force and effect |
September 3, 1867.
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HANNAH Y MERRYwEATHER.