The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-08

| not. You know them, an,
WON'T YOU SAY THEY ARE PURE, GOOD GALS ?"
The Other Side-'sGive lie Back lily ChiId''-
Tennie's story.
"Childw said Tennie, throwing herself into a
lounging chair and running her fingers through her
snort hair; ''child I'm nearly twenty-sx years old
ana yet they treat me as II had no rights above
those OF child Of five. I've been the ruin OF all my
reatons yes, literally the ruin OF them all. Howa
III tell you how. BY giving them blood Till they be-
came the merest leeches. For years they have lived
this contemplate parastcal life and now enervated
and useless ike so many bloated corpses, they utter
the screams OF the infrm when attempt TO clear
myself OF the dead weight Wen show you up.
Wen put yon IN the newspapers Wen ruin you.'
This has been the cry at every attempt oil mine
| toward independence
"Your mOther9"
my mother - with little shrug OF the shoulders
swell, its hard Tor child to speak against her own
mother, but my mother has shown an insane deter
mlnaton ever since left or using my cairvoyant
powers as a means Of livelihood to force me to 90
| back to the business You see, began 70 show
wonderful clairvoyant powers when was only nine
| years old. began to make money by telling for.
| tunes, and then all the families
PILED RIGHT IN BAG AND BAGGAGE.
| gained great notorlety by my success, and was
|
| child needs, so that at fifteen l ran away, from
sheer desperation. was tired OF one thing Just as
| any child would be. But was making money and
they brought me back and kept me locked up for q
year. told such wonderful things Tor child that
| my father m ade from fifty TO hundred dollars a
day at hotels SIMPLY by letting people the strange
but people come to me or write to me and saw thai
| what told them as child has come to pass. As
grew older ana tne NO ,,
| around me l was forced to humbug. didn't want
TO- but was obliged to make money. Wnen was
In Cincinnati l had to support thrty.hve or forty
deadheads. didn't care for myself; gave all the
money to the family. The Spar family lived with
Miles, the husband OF my oldest sister, became blind
aud the whole family. eight or nine OF them, have
lived on me till week ago All these people, with
mother, were constantly in fear that would marry
and stop the income | never had any happiness
Vicky. When was travelling SUPPORTED shree
families IN elegant style. In Columbus l made
$4,000 IN six or seven months. and in ali that time
l bought myself only two calico dresses. l paid
$4,000 Tor boys clothes at one store in Cincinnati.
had thirteen or fourteen children to educate. Aunts.
unces, cousins to the lorteth degree hooked around
me- They called me the bank"
Here Mrs. Woodruff said-"We didn't want any
scandal, but II we had had
THE NERVE no OUR DUTY
years ago, 1t would have been far better. These
people were always working on my mothers leel-
fENSIE-At last l resolved to leave this business.
Mrs. WOoDHULI-I believe Tennie ought to use
the gilt God given ner, but not in the mercenary
way in which she was forced 10 use it-she had no
rlguJ 10 prostitute ner power.
TENNIE-I made up my mind to never follow for
tune telling any more Hcxy and commenced q
determined that should 20 back to fort Mas
telling. she circulated the bills that had on hand
she talked s to everybody about my wonderful pow:
boarding houses, and~ l was forced to
naIs my oara a house On s c
they upheld me. She was determined to separate
me from ylcky at all hazards ! boarded mother
everybody noticed how devoted ! was to her. She
would follow me unless shipped out privately and
try TO keep me IRON vicky. That she never do,
MY DARLING SISTER.
Then we took this house and brought father and
mother here. Then the Miles family and the Spar
family came; the Spars brought eight lul grown
persons and the Miles family five There was SO
much quarrelling in the mousse that put the little
girls to french school, so that they might not hear
they would leave me. At last there re was no
longer anything to be done but to put these people
mother, but she would 70. Victoria instructed her
attorney 10 ind suitable boarding place for
mother and the Spar family, aud secured their
board. We wanted mother to return She would
come and behave well for two or three days Till Mrs.
spar would d, can on ner. Last Saturday and
were happier than We had been In a long
time. Monday she went out marketing, aud said we
should have nice dinner. Monday afternoon Mrs,
Spar called, and that night mother raved till Jour
O'Clock about Colonel Blood, and screamed
''GIvE ME BACK MY CHILD ~
an show you up Colonel Blood You shant have
my chld.o
Here COOne BLOOD a1ilrrleQ tilat lie nearu the
mother aud the father deliberately plotting TO the
best way Of running himself Colonel Blood) Tennie
and Victoria, and when he (Coone BLOODY went into
The room and confronted them with wnat he had
heard the father said:-'lm glad it's all out; now
there Is no conceament; it's war 10 the knlfe;' or
words TO that effect. al intend To ruin your
The Marshal who dspossessed the Spar and
Miles families on a late occasion was present, aud
here testified to the threats that they made against
all concerned, after this 1ashon:'You Will be sorry
that you are mixed up IN this. Wen have Old
Blood behind the bars for this" &c.
"Eather and mOtherN said Iennie. "cau't get
over feeling that am about five years old. They
was no getting over the fact that tile time had come
when we must separate. One party the other
leave the house. There was such tnmuI that the
ing out, "Dainn Blood damn Victoria - she called
TINS
FREE LOVE HOUSE.
and went out or the door talking in this dreadful
manner. Even then offered to pay "a sufficient
sum for her board at any suitable place.
The mother was supposed To be, AT the time OF this
Interview (Tuesday evening", wlth the Spars.
The Latest Episode in the Family History
DR.. Spar. Found Dead in a IROlel.
At about eleven O'Clock on Tuesday night man
registering his name as Frank Spohor, New York
city," applied AT French's Hotel for room. for
winch he paid and was assigned to room No. 1872,
on the fourth floor. Three or four times yesterday
forenoon Mary Weleh the chambermad, tried the
door and found 1t locked, and at half past
two O'Clock r. NJ she procured a step lad
der. and, looking through the hall window, dis
covered the occupant OF the room lying on the ioor
in nearly nude state ana apparently dead, ms head
being against the panel OF the door. Mary gave In.
formation al the once aud Coroner Young was az
once notified, and. with DR.. Cushman, repaired to
| the hotel The was at first entered through
the window. Deceased evidently had fallen out OF
bed and struck his head against the panel OF the door
| with so much force TO partially burst II out
| DIR. Cushman made an examination OF the
body, ana could find no indications that death re-
! suited from other tnan natural causes. ApopeAy
! or heart disease may have caused death, tut DR..
| Cushman VIII determine tnat oy making post
| Inortcm examination at the Morgue, whittier the
! body was sent
In small saichel In the room was found pocket
| book containing two dollars amt nifty cents In
| money some medical prescriptions, an envelope
endorsed ''Dr. u. Il. Spar. 10 East rhirty-eight
street, which suggested the idea that deceased was
| none other than DR.. SPAR, brother-in-law 10 the
| female brokers, Mesdames Woodruff ~ Claim.
| There was also