New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-13
OFFICIAL JoUsnAL or sTArE OF LOUISIANA
NEW ORLEANS SATURDAY, AUGUST - 1870

| was requested again to walk out on the side
| walk in the full light. She walked out, re-
marking that 'she would do very we'll to
go into the theatre after while" alluding
to the necessity Of appearing before the
large crowd. The boy stated that he was
sure she was the woman; she looked Just
like her.
1t is necessary here to state what should
have been before stated: the woman
"Sukey," and Aunt Jane did not believe she
was the woman, because they said the
woman who had the child was both better
looking and more stoutly built than Louisa,
During the ordeal the accused was much
agitated. But then it is only natural that
any woman would under such circum-
the test so well, however, that all who saw
her conceded that, guilty or innocent, she
was woman of iron nerves -,-,.--
After the Identification had been gone
through with, Colonel Badger and
Louisa returned to the central Office where
she remained until afternoon, when she was
sent before Recorder Houghton, and ar
raigned on the affidavit made against her
by Colonel Badger, upon which the reur1isi-
sition had been issued by the Governor.
She pleaded not guilty, and the Recorder
remanded her for examination on the twen-
tieth Of August, the day fixed for her sisters
and nephew's cases. -...
The bonds were placed at five thousand
dollars, but unlike her sister, she seemed
destitute of friends, and no bondsman ap-
pearing, she was locked up in the station
for transfer to the Parish Prison. .-...
The unfortunate woman several times
asked if nobody had interested themselves
in her case, or had taken her part, and upon
being informed that none had, she was
much depressed.
just before dark she was visited by Au-
gust Singler an intelligent young man, who
had seen the kidnapper giving candy to Mr..
Digby's child at the time she was lost,
and whose attention for several reasons had
been particularly called to her. He said he
did not care about seeing her in O "sunny-
face he saw petting the child, and would
know it again under any hat, circum-
stance, as it was, yividly impressed on his
memory. Under the full glare of the gas
light he took a look at Louisa sitting in a
chair, and Immediately pronounced her the
woman. He said he ''c0uld not be mistaken;
there was no possibility of mistake; she
was the woman She stood up and faced
him. and he repeated the former assertion.
than she had yet been in the presence of any
one previously. She did not speak word
and no word was spoken to her.
Mr. Digby has very quietly kept out of
the whole matter. He considers it a police
business, and leaves it in the hands of the
police.
He wishes us to state for him that dur
ing the sixty-one days his child was away
from him he never received one cent Of
money from man, woman or child.
He has been the recipient of much kind
ness. but it has never taken, and never has
he desired it, to take pecuniary shape.
He wished to thank Captain Williams, of
the jackson road, for his kindness in pass
ing him on that road whenever he started
on any scent for his child. .----
The Southern Express Company for
warded letters and papers for him free of
charge, and the Western Union Telegraph
Company sent his dispatches on the same
liberal terms. -'''-.-'
To them and to the press he also wishes
the public to know that he is under obliga-
tions. And last, but not least, in the hap
piness Of the present, he returns his sincere
and grateful thanks to Miss Huger, Miss
Allen, and the host of kind ladies whose
sympathies made their dark hour all the
lighter.
We understand that Mr.. Digby proposes
moving to another locality. His wife can
not live in the same house where she has ex-
perienced so much suffering.