Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-31

Is DR.. Hall3"
"Yss, whatever l learned about il, !
learned from him. Well, the truth is,
We were riding in q buggy together, and
we just happened to get talking on that
sort of subject, and all this came out"
MORE LIGHT.
Shortly after this our reporter left the
office OF Colonel Eaton n returned to
the APPEAL building to write up bis
itsms-it was then sfternoon-he found
on his desk the following letter:
Editors Appedt-For the sake of truth
and Justice TO all parties concerned ia
the incest case" please send a reporter
to Dunlap's to-day. He is q negro preach
or, and lives on a little street, on q bayou,
that runs from fernando oad east from
Jacob Thompson's residence. You turn
down from the fernando street car road,
right at Thompson's, going east about
two hundred yards to the bayou. There
you will get the facts Om any neighbor,
Little Yankee DR.. Hall lives just the 9TH
or side, on fernando street, adjoining
Mr.. provinces, and was the doctor who
waited on the girl last Monday evening,
riding so very fast on his horse.
By seeing to it to-day, all nelghbors
will remember the circumstance happen
ing on Monday evening, as the AVGLGRche
reported, and the facts can be secured for
future use, If needed. It is strange that
our horseback doctor should get two ca
ses so similar b same evening monday
It is strange that so criminal q wretch as
the brother should not be reported as to
name to the oficialsl The negro girl de-
MES her guilt to two doctors, mother,
father, and all to the last moment. The
beautiful and accomplished girl (whitel,
Of the AVdEGRcbe Of to-day, says that she
did so too. Again, what should be done
with such q doctor, who should request
all present to go out of the ROOM, tor fear
that the young LADY should be exposed,
but who betrsys both parents and girl
to get up a sensation? It has been sug-
gested by some physicians 20 get up an
indignation meeting TO ignore such q pro-
fessional betrGyeT, even If the girl was
guilty"
DR., HALL INTERVIEWED,
For the "sake of truth and JUSTICE the
reporter Immediately folded up the note
again, and went forth to ascertain what
facts could be gathered in reference to this
foul story which q qualified paper had
indiscreetly thrust under the noses of a
virtuOus people.
The negro preachers family consists of
four sons and two daughters, and, sure
enough, n of the girls had been confined
on the night in question. In order to
save our readers the pain of going into
details, let it suffice to say that the whole
description of the case given by Col.
Eaton as occurring in a respectable white
family of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES fitted
exactly to the facts here. 4 coIOTed son
Of the fGnsily held the DOCTORS horse at
the door while Esculapius went inside to
do q work of charity n professional
skill. Our reporter was not satisfied still.
He resolved to pursue his inquiries
further, and not to rush blindly into print
with the mere outlines, putting the sill
ing" in himself. He knows that q Jour
nalist that esteems sensation more than
truth will fail in his profession, hence he
went on, regardless Of labor and
travel, to sift this thing to the
bottom. He went to Coroner Moffatt's,
on fernando street, and having got some
supper there, he induced that gentleman
to hitch up his buggy and drive him to
DR.. Halls. and as Moffatt was acquainted
with the Doctor, he would do the favor
Of introducing our reporter in gentleman
ly style, because our reporter has an aver
sion to rushing in wildly to 6 quiet abode
and upsetting the arrangements Of q
whole family in a crazy hunt after incest
uOus s~ensRtionalism. The buggy arrived
at DR.. Halls, on fernando street, a few
moments after dark. The Doctors lady
admitted our reporter and the Coroner,
and showed them into the psrlor. Pres
emily, the Doctor came and setting him.
GGA III q " GeCCAf 1A~1Al& AAA1 AAaNAAL I
conversation at once. The scandal case,
Of course was. dropped on naturally. and
the Doctor expressed himself strongly |
disguised with the publication. He said
he merely told Colonel Eaton bout it as
a particular friend. 1t was done in casual
conversation, and there WAS no thought at
the time, that it would ever get into the
papers. "The Colonel and " said the Doc
tor. "were riding together in a buggy and
1 told him about the case. merely mem
toned the fact that such q thing had &C.
cured. 1 told no name. 1 never told a
name to any one"
"Does DR.. White knew anything about
his case, that is from personal know
"No; Idon't think he does"
well, Doctor, what about this cOlOred
"Oh, that is DR.. Whites get of, there
vas a case that night in q cOlored family
Town here st the back of Mr.. Thompson's,
but that is not the case in question"
"How is it that this case comes 10 be DR..
AFFAIR.""
"Well, 1 tell you how that was. When
his colored girl was first taken sick, L
jailed in to see what allied her. I made the
examination, and told the family what
the matter. They felt bad shout it.
Shortly afterWard they called in DR..
who said that it WAS q tumOr.
There was nothing more about IL until
Monday night, when 1 was sent for TO at
end the girl. When 1 was coming
away 1 was in the car, and very
Iingulsrly DR.. White was there.
Pm well acquainted with DR.. White, and
just reached over and whispered to him,
Lust delivered that tumOr case of
fine baby, ten pounds he said
but merely I'mi in, ha, ha.' That ,
8 how DR.. White got hold of the colored
ide of the question" J
"It's very peculiar, Doctor, that q colored
sse of incest should take place the same
light that the other one took place."
81 don't know about the guilt in this
olored case, though there was talk of it"
"What is the name OF this family2" h;
II shall never tell that myself to NOR ,
81. II would be a breach OF professional :
LoLor of which shall not be guilty" :
SIT is bound to come out. You know, :
octOr, shat an event Of that sorL cannot :
@ kept hidden long, particularly as most =
eople are talking about it." :
well, that is just what I shall be glad :
I, L would like it be Known tomorrow q
'om any other source than this, point r
lg to his breast) but l shall never tell" Z
"You say, doctor, that this little pro- r
,ssional difference between you and DR.. n
Vhite took place about this colored case,
nd none other?"
Certainly, of course it was the colored
lse." n
3" Did you give all the facts that were n
1blished to the AUdLdnche man?D a
" he called to me, after Colonel Eaton (
Id him on Tuesday evening, to know if b
hat Eaton said was true. He filled in Il
10 rest himself. He called in the next I
~ and wanted to get more particulars, o
1t l wouldn't let him have any. The h
nth is, 1 felt indignant az the publica- o
On. He attempted to worry some infor- il
alton ont of me, but I W0uldn't give it. 81
t last he said: Doctor, l want you to b
II me this n thing, was that girl white &
black?' told him simply black and
en- he said l was the DIST hardest man
get any thing out of that ever he came
IS Col. Eaton, of course, had no means
getting any information about this
ing from any other source. You told
"a of the DR.. White episode?" -.
q l DOM think Colonel Eaton learned -
it anywhere else." ~
Is there any real certainty that the -
SO is sure enough and Enthusiastically one y
the criminal character represented? ?" y
Well, l don't know that there is. l ~
MT know that there is any positive ~
Oof of it."
There may be nothing in it after alp" <,
Well, il is bad enough.D ~
OUR reporter represented to the Doctor
3 wisdom of telling the name of the
rty, but he would, on no account he
d., divulge it; he didn't care what
iuld happen.
Moffatt was present during this II
ervieW, but took little part in it. Our w
)orter did not attempt to point III
! 70 the Doctor the -unaccountable It
crepancy between bis statement in re- ra
ID TO DIR. White and the case and the tn
Of Colonel Eaton in reference to mi
same; the former, holding that the a
ored family were the subjects, and the CHI
that the white family were the pr
Ise Of the difference of opinion between pc