Litchfield enquirer., 1868-11-26
CRIME AND DEATH-ARRETT Ol
 DIR. PAUL N. BRENNAN.

On Monday last Dr. Paul M. Brennan, a physician who has acquired an extensive notorlety by advertising, was arrested in Springfield by Officer Kelley, charged with rape upon Miss Mary Sheenan, aged 23 years niece of John Me Carthy, shoe cut ter, and employed at the establishment of joyce Stevens < Treadway, State Street. About three weeks ago she gave birth to a boy, and on Sunday last died, it is stated by her friends from grief and debility. About the time the child was born she sta ted to her uncle, and the physician who at tended her. Dr. Paul O. Skiff, that Dr. Paul M. Brennan was the father of the child, andahad committed the crime with the aid of a drug while she was at his quar- ters In thls city for treatment for severe case of Neuralgia. The particulars of her story are as follows: She had previously attended special lectures sto women. sgiven by Dr. Hebbard, with whom Brennan was partner and which partnership was ab- ruptly dissolved for some reason, and had consulted Dr. Hebbard in reference to her case Afterward she called again when she was met Dy Dr. Brennan who informed her that Dr. Hebbard was engaged, and asked her to repeat her visit in the evening. In the evening she accordingly returned, when
 
 Hebbard was busy leturing, and that he would treat her case himself, promising in- stant relief. He prepared portion which she swallowed, and was then dimly con- sclous that he was passing his hands over her face. She resisted him, but her efforts In her partially stupefed condition were futile. While under the influence of the aFug her persion pion Ms66eald s6e Be to the m alter ouiet. as no further difficulty "oI,o come to her, and as in disclosing It sn0 wonld only iniure her own tepn p n1"olor' o. wI;la she could not harm hls. ohe' pnlz t;ally believing his representatlohs, n "rn fearing that in diyulglng the case nei p%n '',;s character would be wrongfuAy conp III onAl11 n',,, ed kept the matter secret un'll t.Ao n' ennroach of the time ot her conhu f'ntO warned her that she must tell Vne S"o i'J' t1,o
 of the outrage or suffer degreoa'loh el;ads ln '1 1 eyes of all her acqualntances @nu II. a,,i She had continued daily at her "oIAi i I ha' even the first pains of laoor aU.aoN 4So sho,
 VII. .ba was at her usual place ln the snop
 ". panl q Skiff of this city was aI thlS
 ,,o;nt called in. and after terrible sui1eflhe tha % unfortunate girl was delivered oi oo1
 Pafora Dr. Skiff would attend to the Gas l Is roo,ired a statement of the 1ac'S' au - rros given in substance the story we nav . ;',st raneafed. her dncle MT. McCaf1ny oee }, no also present This statement sue ae ,l hered to in her dying moments Ill tue pi' y ance of her father and uncle, the lA'IeI t 1ghon, took her words in wrlting-uuloeh' a. nately however, forgetting III I, ms o, l oct them in the form ot an aIluastu " c Id sha was too weak to speak lui'nsA. .'lnao.sl sl ' people declare, hr,lns1 haarfaa <:
 as it were, counteracting the utmost enc for her relief, and compelling her to St 1T, death as a means of escaping from T, great sorrow She died at lO c, o,clock, ot o, day night She was, as there IS suiilci lo' reason to believe, person whose chai 'o ter was unsullied by any departure IT. os virtuous life, and the feeling among r, ; | friends against Brennan IS intense. nd sympath1es of the community are decld ch ly with the friends of the deceased Wom ne Brennan waS held to answer ne bonds of S5, ,OOO. He denies the char 'he says the whole affair IS trumped up to ae' iure his business; declares he never saw as o,r,: asked to be allowed to look at me and treats the whole matter With cooi to difference. and as if nobody would oeli
 inc charge against him. Of the weakl o1 of case ill legal point ot view, tnele on. hardly be but one opinion. The long VI Hence of the unfortunate woman, ana uo lack of a sworn statement in the case l Is meaore grounds for convlctlon. In 'un- event of the release of the accused, he oca- discover. if he has not already, that to '., h;tbarto none of the best, slee 'Ro-,l hlot which many years
 All not erase. -Palladiuna.