Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-07
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Our personal in yesterdays LRDGEH
placing our worthy County Court Clerk
in st. Louis, when be was quietly attend
ing to his official duties here, was based
on personal in yesterdays appeal
Two young men from the classic land
Of the little Iulus," attempted to try the
speed of their horses on Second street
yesterday. They will probably hand in
the racing entrance fee to Commissioner
Pearne this evening at four o'clock.
Sarah Smith charged lie Boy Bradley
with assault, and be, in turn, charged her
with using toward him abusive and indie
cent language. Commissioner Pearne
equitably settled the affair by charging
them both Eve dollars each.
Charles Woods, a dusky imam and
brother" being desirous of getting free
ticket TO Nashville, took $l9 from q sick
negro woman on Court street. Justice
Griffith will Interview him to-day con-
corning his reasons for entering into o
financial operation OF such questionable
morality. lH Z
Twenty odd cases of trivial character
were disposed Of at the first district sta
ton this morning. One hundred dollars
were assessed and forty collected. The
irrepressible Kate Dunn, of the Dunn
battery, was up again for the offense Of
street walking, in which she has been
persistently engaged from early child
hood. The penalties of the law rigor-
ously enforced against her and almost
the whole family for at least thousand
times, have as yet had not the slightest
effect in bringing about any perceptible
reform in her hayward life. She seems
determined to die with the harness on.
The Cerogins wife-Abduciion Case.
Several paragraphs have occurred of
late in the city papers concerning an al.
legged case of wife-abduction, etc. All
statements 40 far have been inaccurate,
and threw but little light on the subject;
The case assumed legal Importance on
the 18th Of. August last, by Joseph Cero-
gina, late of the Lavinian land, taking
out q warrant against one Hannah Rhody,
negress, for surreptitiously inveigling
his lawful and welded wife, Caroline,
from the very bosom Of domestic hsppi.
ness, for the purpose of pluuging her
into life worse than death itself. In the
aforesaid allegation, Joseph, the allega-
tor. seems to have drawn more copiously
on his imagination than the testimony
brought out in the case would in any
manner justify. The facts ELECTED clearly
showed that Hannah Rhody had gotten
more character for influence than she
was in any way entitled to. The
wife, beautiful young woman Of
some sixteen years of age, never left
her Joseph's bed and board, so far
as that is concerned, as she has never
yet shared 1t with him. She was Joined
in holy bonds of wedloek. against her
most solemn protest, to Joseph Cerogi-
na,a young man of not over twenty-five
and not old and ugly as the papers have
if-by Father Snyder, in mere filial ODE
dience to her unnatural parents, who
we're DESTROYS Of making good
match for their daughter, even at
the sacrifice of her own wishes
and happiness. Even at the sacred
altar abe withheld her assent to o
union that she abhoEred, end instinct
lively felt could only be fraught with un-
happiness to herself, if not to all con-
cerned. She agreed to live with her
husband at her fathers house, detestable
as the relation vas, but never lived other
wise than as q stranger te him. She
never allowed him to enter her room
otherwise than mere visitor Cerogina
became importunate, and to escape what
was to her sheer prosecution, she left
his hopse and secreted herself the best
she could. Sha bad no friend" in the
full meaning of that term, end has, as she
most emphatically asserts, no intention
of ever having any, save on principles OF
true yomanly honor and virtue. Her
place Of coueeslment was discovered by
the anxious husband. who at once pro-
cured the warrant which We haze mem
toned above. Being discovered she took
strong grounds against returning. Her
trunk, clothes. jewslry, etc, had been
seized and retained by her mother, which
she forthwith replevied, and went yes
terday with an officer to her fathers house
to identify her property. The officer
took the trunk into possession and left,
but as soon as he was gone the unnstural
parents forced her into room, locked
her securely in, and at once commenced
to abuse and beat her. She, therefore,
obtained peace warrant against them
this morning from Justice Willard, and
will have them bound OYER this evening.
The case will be up for trial at O'clock.
The warrant of Cerogina against Hannah
Rhody was not sustained.
A Grand Musical Treat.