The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-29
ku.kiUx Outrage.


ing:
SENT FoH.-A Deputy Sheriff has ar
rived from Monroe to take to that place
George Martin, who has been held as a
prisoner here, accused of stealing a
couple of revolvers and some other ar
tlcles from a man named Brewster, who
is in business i'll Monroe, and whose
wife left him to accompany Martin.
The fascinating George, as aforesaid,
was brought back to Monroe, and on
Tuesday tried before Judge Caldwell
for larceny. The Judge released George,
because no felonious intent was proven
in the carrying away Of the rcvolvcrs.
But the Bee reporter errs in saying
that the wife of Brewster accompanied
Martin. Mrs. Ludwig, the wife of
Woodworking mason, and mother OF
three children, was the companion of
George in his flight. When George was
about to leave Now Orleans on his re-
turn, and to part with Mrs. L., it is
said that in the presence of her husband,
who had gone down to reclaim his faith
less spouse, she kissed George exceed
ingfy, provided him with clean linen,
and declared when he got free she
would again "come to your arms, my
dearest" Ludwig, the poor, infatuated,
unscxcd husband submitted in silence
to tho degradation, and brought his
wife away. The two are now in Co
lunbi;,. Martin, the unconscionable
wretch, who has committed Il worse
crime upon society than if he had
burned a square OF buildings, has been
stepping around, apparently proud of
the despicable deed he has committed.
Old Bed Quilts has, it is said, to COM
plain of the loss of a considerable sum
Of money which he believes, we are
told, was appropriated from the profits
Of his store while Martin and Dan Wood
ward were clerking for him and he was
making laws in New Orleans. Doubt
less these individuals would deny the
! charge, nevertheless they are known to
have lost pretty heavily Qor thcm) at
cards, and the presumption of the
| knowing ones is that the money lost
belonged to Old Bed Quilts, and that
George and Dan lost at poker about as
much as came in over Q. B. Q.'s coun-
ter. At all events, Dan and Brewster
have been divorced, and they were
heretofore as thick as gum arabic. They
drank water from the same dipper and
looked honey upon the same colorcd
brethren and sisters. Dan being a rem
cgade, Brewster took him up, and said
to his "Colored Friends:'' eff am
not in, ask for Mr.. Woodward, his
word is as good as minc.' Dan, ac-
corlingly, became chief cook at the
sign of the cred, White and Blue Flag
And these two lovely cherubs frol-
iced together but Daniel "gambolcd
on the grccn,' and the money drawer,
like Dams hands, wouldn't GILL;" al.
though the "colorcd frienls'' contrib
utcd to stop the tilIer's quaking. And
George kept the books-multipIied,
added and subtracted but the old box
would not rcp1cnish. Brewster, when
George deca1npcd, ''s;,unt" Dan down
the river to stop the boat and arrest
George. Dan could not overtakc the
La Belle, not he and thus George got
away, to be brought back for the lar
ccny of the rcvolvcrs whereof he has
been acquitted. But the entente cO,rliotie
existing between Old Bed Quilts, Wood-
ward and Martin has been destroyed,
and we have to record that the I<u-
KluN have been guilty of another out
rage!