Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-04
A SAD STORY.

A few days since, the telegraph gave
the following item of news from South.
ern Oregon:
Jacksonville, Oregon, Feb. 25th.--
A shooting affray took place here to.
day, on the main street of this town,
between Valentine s. Rails and james
d. Fay, in which neither of the party
received serious injury. 1t seems that
Rails approached Fay, and accused him
of the seduction of his daughter, and
told him that one of them must die
Both drew pistols simultaneously, Rails
firing first, the ball striking the guard
of Fay's pistol and preventing its use.
Rails fred three shots, one of which
passed through pocket book in the
breast pocket of Fay's coat, lodging
against rib, but doing no injury.
After the shooting Rails mounted his
horse and rode quietly away.
The circumstances in the case are
fully explained by the following letter,
taken from the Herald of the 24th ult.
The author of this atrocious outrage is
man of prominence, both socially and
politically
JACKSONVILLE, Feb, Is, 1871.
To TUE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:
Dear Sir 81 have horrible tale to
tell you, which | have seen with my
own eyes, as did some fifteen others of
our citizens relate it to you. so that
you may be able to do the public JUS
tice (if justice can be done in suca
case) by holding he villain up to public
scorn and execration. What | state to
you is true, every word of it. \ man
lives in this town with his two sisters.
The house they live in belongs to him
During the last eighteen months be has
kept young lady as a hired girl to do
the work of the family. He and the
hired girl slept upstairs, a thin partition
Sc pa rating their rooms, while his sisters
sic pit down stairs. The young woman
is u very beautiful girl. aud a girl whose
charac cter stood high in this town. On
last Thursday morning, the 10th inst,
she disappeared from the house about
daylight. A messenger was sent to her
fathers house to ascertain if she had
gone home cher father lives about
seven miles from town.. The messen>
ger returned about / o'clock in The
evening with the information that the
girl had not been home Immediately
party of men. some fifteen of W..
started TO hunt Tor tie girl in the hills
back Of the house. We soon struck
her track. and tracked her abou: one
mile, when we found her in thick
bunch Of brush. with an infant wrapped
up in her dress The child was alive
aud comfortable; the poor girl was
almost chilled 10 death Had we start.
cd an hour later on her track. night
would have overtaken us before We
could have found the girl, and ere
morning she would have chilled to
death. The girl confessed in the pres
ence of her own moi her and Others, that
the father of the child was the man
at whose house she had been living.
That il is his child. the entire commu.
nity is we'll convinced. The girl is
about twenty-one years old, now She
Ioved this man as only woman can love,
and you can see what has been done
for her Is it not n nice man that can
turn his own dwelling house into a
house of i'll fame? His sisters are both
estimable ladies, and sympathise with
them to the bottom of my heart. |
have given you nothing but the facts in
this case, which you are at liberty to
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