Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-20


the said MacNulty may yet live to see the
error of his ways and feel that he has
prosecuted wronged and injured wo-
man.
1t is proper to state that Mrs. Barry
after being released from bondage, now
remains with her mother in this place
where we trust she may long be permitted
to breathe the pure air of her own, her
native Green Mountain State,
Very respectfully yours,
L. III. EASTMAN.
p. S. "This statement is entirely I'M
solicited"
HABEAs CORPUS CASE.
CAMBRIDGEPoRT, VT, Oct. II, 1871.
Mr. Editor Having seen letter in
the last issue of the TIMES purporting to
have been written by one. w. A. Mac
Nulty, p. NJ, and dated Culpeper, Va.
Oct. 6, 1871, and finding In said letter
several statements concerning myself
which were untrue, | deem it but right
that | should be allowed through the
columns of your paper. to make some
explanations and corrections concerning
the habeas corpus case.
In early life | was taught to defend
the right and lend helping hand to the
abused, wronged and down trodden of my
race; and as have advanced in life |
have cherished those principles, and
whenever and wherever mankind have
been oppressed and unjustly deprived of
their liberty, my heart has gone out in
sympathy for them, and my tongue has
not remained silent spectator of events
but has been loosed in their behalf. And
sir, when on the 10th day of Sept. 1871,
| learned from the lips of james w.
Barry, that he had incarcerated his wife
in the Vermont asylum for the insane,
my better nature said it was an outrage,
dark and mysterious, perpetrated upon
one whom he had sworn to love, cherish
and protect through life, for | was as
strong in the belief then, as | am to-day
that she was not insane. And on the
18th day of Sept, in company with her
mother and other friends, | went to the
asylum for the purpose of satisfying my,
self whether | was correct or not in my
belief as to her sanity. DIR. Rockwell re.
fused to let any Of us see Mrs. Barry, and
consequently our mission there was fruit
less. On Wednesday, Mr.. Barry called
upon me, and l asked him if he was not
willing that Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Barry,
mother should see Mrs. Barry, he replied
no, not alone. | then asked him if h,
was not willing that Mrs. Barry SHOULD
g come up to her mothers and stay few
weeks and he replied, he was not. HI
l then said she was insane all the time sh
was at home last winter, and that he
conditien then, was just about as it wa
+ the year previous, when they came iron
S Virginia. | satisfied myself last winte
$ that she was not insane After this con
e versation with Mr.. B., was satisfied be
II You'd doubt that she was not insane an,
e that she was unustly restrained of he
e liberty. And at the request of her moth
J er, (Mrs. Porter | caused writ ofhabe
IS as corpus to be issued. Mrs. Barry wa
a, brought to Newfane by Sheriff Phelps
E. and the case was continued until DC
s 10th, and on that day she was pronounc
IS ed sane and discharged. In the meal
g time went to Virginia with Mr.. Eas
r man, for the purpose of securing couns,
ID to attend to the taking of deposition
'e &C., notice Of which Mr.. Barry had ser,
he ed upon us. didn't engage any alto
u ney in Virginia or elsewhere, to malic
~ ously prosecute Mr.. Barry. 1 didn't 2
IN to Virginia for the purpose of huntin
us up testimony derogatory to the charact'
ct of MIR. Barry, he is to well known
1t this part of Vermont to need anythin
at of that kind 1t is true, that | arrive
no at Culpeper at ten, P. M, Sept. 20, an
Oh left at three P. NJ, Sept. 81. My bus
he ness was all transacted before II NJ. Ser
is, q. 1t is not true that w. A. MacNu
X ty, p. NJ, didn't have an opportunity
I'M seeing me. was in his office some Fl
on teen minutes and personally asked BIZ
1t if there was any mail for j. G. McCc
is lon. His deputy was at the hotel whe
al | stopped nearly or quite an hour befo
as | left on the train for the north, and
he conversed with him for some time.
ut, was at the hotel, from twelve NJ, unit
be three P. NJ, had Mr.. MacNulty been We
'al anxious to have seen me, he could ha
ng done so.
nd Mr.. Mach. says 81 have been inforr
IN ed that these gentleman went back
Vermont and reported that they foul
ne the evidence much stronger against N
18th B. than they expected" l pronoun
ay the above an unmitigated falsehood.
IN was not down there for the purpose
eet hunting up evidence against Mr.. B.,