The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-03-04
The scanaalou. Affair at Jacksonville.

AHe SCdHaaiouk AHaT at JacKS0nV1lles |
Letters from Jacksonville to the Her
aid, dated February 18th and 18th re-
spectively, contain charges of most
scandalous and outrageous wrong, said to
have been perpetrated by Jas. d. Fay,
Democratic State Senator from jackson
county, upon young and handsome
young lady, whose character had previous
ly stood high in the community. Fol-
lowing is the substance of the letters
above referred to
have horrible tale to tell you, which
I have seen with my own eyes, as did
some fifteen others of our citizens. L
relate it to you, SO that you may be able
to do the public justice Gf justice can be
done such casey by holding the villain
up to public scorn and execration. What
| state to you is true, every word OF It,
A man lives in This town with his two
sisters. The house they live in belongs
to him. During the last eighteen months
he has kept young lady as hired
girl to do the work for the family. He
and the hired girl slept up stairs, thin
partition Separating their rooms, while
his sisters slept down stairs. The young
woman is a very beautiful girl, and a
girl whose character stood high in this
town. On last Thursday morning, the
10th instant, 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
messenger returned about o'clock in
the evening with the information that
the girl had not been home. Immedi late
ly party of men, some fifteen of US,
started to hunt for the girl, in the hills
back of the house We soon struck her
track, and tracked her about one mile,
when we found her in thick bunch of
brush, with an infant wrapped up in
her dress. The child was alive and com-
Portable; the poor girl was almost chilled
to death. Had we started 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
presence of her own mother, and others,
that the father of the child was the man
at whose house she had been living.
That i. is his child the entire community
is well convinced. The girl is about
twenty-one years old, now. She loved
this man as only woman can love, and you
can sec what has been done for her. L
it not a nice man that can turn his dwell
ling house into house of i'll fame His
sisters are both estimable ladies, and !
svmpathize with them to the bottom Of
my heart.
, Following is from the letter Of the 9th
wrote you yesterday giving you the
facts in a case just developed which i:
truly heartrending. If you had hearc
the wall that went up from the poor gir
: when we found hee, nearly chilled t.
5 death, you would never forget it. Tho
5 girl now tells that she had the child il
Fay's stable.
, We are unable to account for the fac
: that, although the sad occurrence relatet
above occurred on the 10Th, (Thursday
the papers of Jacksonville, both issues
e we believe on Saturday, two days afte
8 that date, neither Of them make tn
!: slightest mention of the affair. O
! Saturday, the 25th, telegram fror
$ Jacksonville gives the following accoun
: of shooting affray in that city on tina
e date, between Valentine S. Rolls, til
father of the girl asserted to have bee
h seduced by Fay, aud her seducer:
e A shooting affray took place here tc
i. day on the main street of this town, be
e tween Valentine S. Rolls and Jas. D. Fa
y in which neither of the parties receive
i serious injury. 1t seems that Rolls az
l preached Fay and accused him of til
seduction of his daughter, and told hr
that one of them must die. Both DIRE,
f pistols simultaneously, Rolls firing frs,
! the ball striking the guard of Fay's piste
and preventing its use. Rolls fire.
three shots, one of which passed througl
It the pocket book in the breast pocket Z
Fay's coat, lodging against rib, bu
doing no injury. After the shooting
e Rolls mounted his horse quietly and roa
e home.
s Until the reception of fuller information
with regard to this outrageous and scan
dalous affair, we refrain from comment: