The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-15
Menus anO yllistrllnuD.
A strange Affair.
lFrcm the EvonIng wLseon.in. ocl. Q.

to THIS city in pursuit OF n negro who had
committed an assault and battery there on
Friday night seriously iniuring a boy
named Jones with a stone. Two negroes,
named Josiah Madison and James Cham
bers were arrested by the police yesterday,
and as both seemed TO plead guilty to the
assault, both were locked up, and last
night taken TO Racine. The two negroes
are bright looking fellows@one about 40
and the other 2G years Of age. They were
accompanied by two white women, a moth
err, 3J years of age, and her daughter, II
years old. The daughter is the wife nt
Chambers, aud was married 10 him at
Racine, and from this grew the ASSAULT on
the boy.
From conversations with Sheriff Barker,
and with the two negroes, we have the de-
tails Of one of those strikingly strunge
affairs i'm domestic life which 30 frequently
of late fash upon society, showing the
depravity which exists, and sicken us.
The white woman and her daughter lived
nj Madison, Indiana, where the woman was
married 10 a hard working mechanic. Mad
ison became acquainted with the family
and succeeded IN accomplishing the ruin
Of the woman. An elopement was neces-
sary to cover up the crime, and the woman
readily agreed TO it. She did more sunk
to the lowest depths of crime aud degrnda-
ton, she induced her daughter, n girl of
seventeen years of age. TO desert her home
aud fv with them, and also took three
Younger children. Madison also induced
the negro Chambers 10 come with the party
Some three weeks ago the party arrived
at Racine, aud on Wednesday last Cham.
bers aud the girl were married, Madison
aud the mother living together M man aud
wife. Tho feeling in Racine against the
parties wns sbronC Chambers, who tells
the story with an air OF sincerity. says the
girl and her mother urged him 10 marry,
and he finally yielded, the whole party
agreeing 10 go over TO Michigan and settle
on a farm The marriage took place and
the same night the boys of the city in large
numbers came to the house with horns,
kettles. drums, bells, and every imaginable
instrument of a hideous nature, aud until
very late kept up II chariyari. No notice
WAS takcn Of the boys, Chambers remNik-
ing with a smile, that il they wanted 10
have q little fun he did not care.
Their harus injured nobody. The
next night the boys anne again, with more
horns and Instruments, aud after keeping
up the noise went away as they LETT
throwing "A volley OF stones at the house. -
Again no notice was taken of them. On
Friday the bows came for the third time, on
this occasion they pcltiug the house furi-
ously, smashing la the windows, aud doing
other damage. Chambers says he went
out Of the house for something when "A
huge stone thrown from the party caine
whizzing 10y his ear. He picked mp the
stone aud hurled it back, not desiring 10
hit any body. Tho stone, however. hit a
boy named Jones, fifteen years OF age, full
in the face, intliciing n serious wound, and
%iniuring the boy 40 that he lay %lifeless.
The other boys IAN on, and giving informa-
ton that young Jones was killed, parties
went and found him and took him home
He still lies ia a state OF prostraion, but
will no doubt recover. 1.-The does he will
carry the marksof his evenings amusement
through life.
Seeing what they had done the two
negroes, Madison aud Chambers, with the
white women left the house aud set ont ON
foot for Milwaukee. They travelled on foot
to Oak Greek reaching there Saturday and
taking the tain to this city. They put up
at AN emigrant house IN the Third ward,
where they were iound Yesterday morning,
and ready 10 take the boat for Michigan.
Last night the two negroes was taken
bnck TO Racine where they will Ice held for
trinl. The white women went too.
The husband of the woman at Madison,
Ind, will b9 sent Tor, and will, no doubt,
come aud take back n portion OF his family.
The mother, who hns 40 foolishly aud
strangely thrown herself away, appears To
be n woman Of some Intelligence. She
wns last evening suffering from returning
reason and seemed TO be almost insane
from grief She can give no excuse for tue
singular step she has taken, only that IL
was necessary 10 conceal her first crime.
She says she will not 20 back 10 her hus.
band, but desires that the children should
90. She told nm officer that having "made
her bed, there is nothing else for her to do
but to sleep IN il. AIay rod pity her, for
she needs pity II ever a simple mortal did.
The daughter who has united her des-
TIMES with another no strangely, has some
traces Of beauty, but few OF intelligence.
Her hair, cut short, does not add TO her
beauty, but gives her an Appearance Of
stubborn aud pert ignorance. She says
she married Chambers because she loved
him, and she shall stick to him to the last
They may lock him up for what she would
have done in his place, but she can wait
until he comes out of Jail, and she would
like 10 see anybody get him away from her.
She hold up 10 the officer "A paper, which
she said was tho marriage lines, but she
would not let IL go, declaring that II was
better 10 her than hor life. She Is EVIL
IDENTIFY one of those strange beings whose
head has been turned, and who is bound to
90 TO the bad any way.
Much sympathy wns expressed for the
other children of the woman, two young
daughters and n little son, and il is hoped
that the father will at once take them away
T.ou, fIa ,rnvotnpoI nathan aud IN iha do
serted home in Indiana. ltl7f
Last night the two negroes in charge Of
the Sheriff left for Racine. They were for
| security handcuhed, but they said they
were perfectly willing 10 go back that the
assault was ~unintentiOnal, but Mt the most
was nothing more han any man would do
under the circumstances, Their greatest
fear was hat the women would be taken
from them, or that the people of Racine
would commit some outrage upon them
| for what they had done. Sheriff Barker
quieted their minds on this score, and
then they requested that the women should
bo Informed Of The state Of Affairs and go
with them An officer notified The women
at the hotel He found tho mother lying
upon the bed and crying bitterly, while
the Younger children were lost in aston
ishmeut at what was going ON. The little
boy in q very pqthetic tone asked the officer
if papa was not come TO take him home"
and saying II am ahnid of these black
men, they make mother ory." At these
words the mother went into fresh pRroX,
ysms OF grief but Chambers wife said
there was no need OF making such a fuss,
eve are in for it" she declared, 'Npd We
might as we'll see the thing through. You
may stay here aud cry ~ much ms You
please I'm going back and I'M going 10
stick by jim. If they kill him, they'll have
to kill me TO-" The party went back with
their new friends.