Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-31
RATHER SENSATIONAL
A Full and Plain Statement Of Facts Touch.
ing the Avalanche Sensation.
Result Of Our Reporters Interviews With
Or. Hall and Colonel Eaton, Uni
ted States MarshaI.
A case that Admits Of but One Conclusion:
That II Smells like a Dirty Hoax.

1 - TU--W y T-T--D--TT0 . % TTU ETWT
Of the "hssh" sensation, published to th
city by the AVdldacke on Wednesda
last, We give this morning 4 full report {
the interviews of our city editor wit
Colonel Eaton, United States Marsha
who FIRST told the horrible story: also, {
q subsequent interview with Dr.. Hal
from whom Colonel Eaton received hi
information, who claims tc have attends
a white and black incest case on the sam
night and in the same neighborhood
This singular coincidence will strike on
readers as almost beyond the pale of pos
sibility and Is giving the color of 3 dirt,
hoax to the whole story. We Will hope
for b sake of the community, that j
viii prove so. Here begins the
INTERVIEW OF COL. EATON.
The first intimstion Of the scandal wa
given to newspaper men, by Col. Eaton
on Tuesday evening, ct his Office In tn
Waldran block. That was on the 18th O
the present month, and the day preceding
its publication in the paper on Jefferson
street. The APPEAL reporter called OF
Col. Eaton, as is his won't IN search o
news. He had q chat with Col. Eaton OF
various topics, with a view Of drawing
news out Of him, for he had told hin
shortly after entering shat there DGs ~
ReaDs. The general subject of scandals wa
entered upon, and in the course of CONVEX
satiOn Col. Eaton remarked that he haC
heard, the evening before, of q peculial
idiosyncracy in the moral world; it was
case, he believed, Of incest. The doctor
who attended the affair and took charge o
the resultant had told him the evening
before; had merely mentioned it TO him il
e casual way. The reporter thinks thai
Col. Eaton said something like this: 80.
course I don't tell you this for publics.
ton; it would never do to let that sort Of
thing get into the papers,"
Our reporter remarked to him then:
"Did you tell the AVaEGnche man
about it." and he answered:
sfWeli, yes, I believe I told Smelzsr.''
Then said our reporter, sit goes into
the papers surf as fate; however, I shAn't
put it in; q thing Of that sort would not
suit our columns, any how. | shall be
compelled to fOrsgO the short-lived noto-
riety that a nasty sensation OF that sort
would establish"
The reporter and Colonel Eaton then
continued talking on other subjects for
q few minutes, when he left the Office to
attend to his business about the city.
The next day the sensation appeared in
the avalanche, as was expected, but vast
" enlarged and beautifully sensational
lied to suit any sort of q vitiRted taste.
During the day q number of people
L1AL6 W Jul III ~ GG1-RAAAA hAaG al
outrage had been committed, and beg
ging Of the editors to resent it. We heard
also from reliable authority that the
whole story originated In a colored family
named Dunlap, that lives about two hun
dred yards off the fernando road to the
rear Of the residence of the Hon. Jacob
Thompson; that the doctor who attended
the case HALL was the same man who
told Colonel Eaton.
n E-rIo- kka Nar-Tu-,Io -1A u~-Nn-A
with the foul tale published, comes out
and says:
"An AUdLdnshe reporter yesterday in
terviewed the physician connected with
the case mentioned in these columns on
Wednesday:
This physician said l. The main points
as stated in the AUGLGnHe are true. 2.
The family is a white family and respect
There was nothing said in the first pub
about aDhite people, but there was
something said about accomplished,
beautiful and respectable" though DR..
Hall says he gave no such particulars.
On Friday our reporter had another talk
with Colonel Eaton on this subject. He
the conversation in consequence of
The great furore that was made in the city
about it and for no other reason, because
had an interview with Colonel Eaton
IN Wednesday, and the matter was hard
2 referred to. It was thought the matter
settle, that the Jefferson street sf-
would quietly submit TO the well
castigstiOn administered by the
APPEAL, and not attempt to play the
by entering on an extensive game
If journalistic bluff. The conversation
with Colonel Eaton, as we remarked,
on the peculiar scan. mag, and our
went into the business of a short
nservieW. He asked the Colonel in all sol
and earnestness "If it were really
rue that the crime could be laid at the door
If q white fsmiiy?"
The reply was: Eyes, I think that is so;
n fact, I know 1t to be Just that way"
"Hou say that they are q respectable
and sich?"
"Weu, they move among the upper
circles, are among those that can count
heir fortune by ten thousand; in fact,
hey are highly respectable; that is just
he fact of it."
1--WE beg readers to pay particular
attention to this conversstion.)
'It is very singular the doctor would
mention anything about such a matter
IS that when he had no intention Of hsv-
ng the parties p~unished?"
"Well, l can account for It; be did it, |
suppose, in q moment of thoughtless- |
less, not dreaming that it would have got
ut in 1.-THE way thai 1t did. IshOuld never
ave told the AVGLGnehe man about it If l
hought for a moment he was going to
lse IL. l did not think they would use
heir columns for such a purpose as that.
did not give it as a piece of news at all.
merely mentioned it rs g popularity in
be moral atmosphere, q rare case of
weakness. l never was more sur
rised than when 1 saw it in the paper,
nd DR.. Hall, l believe, felt highly
ldignant about it,"
"You observe now, the vast difference
publishing a paper with q moral
rinciple and a high tone, and n without
I" 1 was certainly very much put out
bout it. 1t struck me as mighty silly, to
~ the least of It, 10 seize on such a skel-
Of a tale as 1 told, and work it up to
le ciTcumStantlal narrative of horror
lat startled the community next morn
"Well you told me for certain that this
hole thing occurred in a white family,
you say, much as it is published in the
" %, yes, that is more or less true; it is
1t a fact, however, that the young man
sway. He married several months
fore the GccONchnenL Apprehending Il,
was coming, he separated from his
lie again, so that she would not know /
about it. He was not out of I
wn at all. He was right there. He held :
9 Doctors horse while he was inside
oking after his sister. There never was +
man so scared AS ne was when the !
hole developments were made up /
Vhen the cat was let out of t
nth a pinch Of snnf,p At tEis point q
Q Colonel detailed q very peculiar evil n
nee Of fear and cowsrdice that the :
Jung man evinced when confronted by +
} indignant PARENT. 1t is too oSorifer-
3 to mention, and we shall let 1t pass. n
10 young man, however, was mortally
gbtened, as he had a right to be. a
Where is the Lothario now p" \
Il believe he has since left the city,"
Colonel, sis il not rather odd that a col 4
case OF the same sort should have a
Cured on the SGHIe night in South
and be attended by the same
All! that colOred case is DR.. Whites n
10. 1t was be got out that story. He n
somehow, about that that night :;
d be went around 70 the APPEAL office "
d tOldit."
~ ell, there was a case of that sort,
n9D L.
Yes, L believe there was something of !,
It kind. There is some professional :,
lousy at the bottom Of Whites talk ~
,ause he was not called in in the incest y
70. He was physician TO the family for y
years, but when the girl was first n
sick her parents called in DR.. Hall =
see what was the matter with her. He y
de an examination and said she was !.
ieate. The family were 30 indignant ~
.he opinion he gave-highfalutin TAM !.
YOU kDoW-that they put him out.
a short time afterward, DR.. White was u
led on, and he said there was nothing
matter with her. Here was q differ IL
o Of opinion right away. Nothing ~
kes professional men so mad as to have =
In opinions cOntrsdicted." ~
he reader viii see, according to this -
that the well known physiciauu ~