The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-06
NEW YORK SCANDAL.
Arrest Of woodruff & Ciahin-Thf
Free Love Champions ." Jail for
Printing Obscene Lit"rature-Nr
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Printing Obscene Litcrature-Gr.
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Mrs. Victoria Woodruff and Miss
Tennie Clafiin, OF the firm OF Woodruff
4 Clafin were arrested at their office
in New York on Saturday on suit
brought against them for publishing in
their Weekly q series Of scanda!ous
articles implca,ing NJ. Henry Ward
Reecher and Theodore Ti,tons family.
The charge against them being the
sending through the mails an obscene
publication. Proceedings againstthem
were FIST taken hy Mr.. \. y. ChaIlis,
the well known broker, who Friday
night applied for warrants for their ar
rest for a gross, s,ande-ous, malicious
article upon him. These warrants
were accordingly issuei, bUt before
they could be expc1tci some one, acting
in behalf Ct anO'her hheled party, Gas
il = sa'd). and importing the aid OF
Comsrock, the famous enemy OF obscene
literature. had warrants issued against
the women hy United States Commits
s;oner Osborne The athdavits in the
case were made bv Albert Anderson, q
rnstotlice clerk, p Mr. Woodlev, OF
BROOKLYN, and T. W. Reese, clerk in
, the Independent newspaper office, who
swear to the sending Of the offensive
publication through the mails by the
accused.
The witnesses in the case. William
Moody. a negro and G. D. Miles, who
mailed the papers, were sent TO the
House OF Detention.
When arrested the two women were
in carriage preparing for flight, with
u large number OF their obscene papers
in the vehicle with them. They were
taken 20 the Commissioner : office in a
carriage. and not giving the required
hail, $500, were conveyed to Ludlow
street Jail. to wait uDyi Monday morn
i~c, when the hearing will take place
Tuev manifested their usual holiness.
desrarting on the way 10 prison on the
outrage Of Their arrest and confinement
over Sunday They insisted upon be-
ing FURNISHED suitable apartments at the
Lui'.w street jill.
Colonel James D'oo3. alleged hus-
band Of Mrs Woodruff. editor o.
U53iiN f. C',fu'S WtsIiL and VIM.
\. >mi h. liz publisher. were arrested
and locked no at the Second District
Police Court in default Of bal, tor ex-
animation. The fee NJ against Wood
hull ard CiaA n is intense throughout
The CITY, ard threats OF mobbing them
hive been freely INDUCED in.
Captain Lsary, upon q warrantissued
" the Mayor, seized Woodruff d
Cla:l n's establishment, together with
the books and furniture, and 50 much
o. the Iibelous mater as HAD not been
soil.
In Jure last UlaTaN l. C'7F.rS
Weekly suspended publication 1t was
received a few days ago, the first num-
her of the new issue bearing date No.
vember >, and in q card to the public
the editors explain the cause OF the
suspension OF their paper They state
that they were driven rom their publ
cation office, and were unable TO pro-
cure another; that in all New York
they could neither rent an office nor
dwelling. nor obtain board either at ,
hosriing-house or q hotel. They de-
CIarei war as follows:
And we now declare our intention to
carry the war INTO africa Since those
who have climbed intothe trees OF sham
morality, looking and splitting down
upon IL, will not come down for the
turf which has been used against them,
we shall now proceed to the use OF
stones, with the intention to hurt We
mean TO break some eggs, If the
omelettes we make DO not prove palata |
bic to the partakers; and we mean to
inaugurate the Universal Washing
Day, so that the dirty linen shall no
longer be concealed TO tester and rot,
breeding pestilence and social ruin"
Under the head OF the BE echer-
Tilton Scandal" Mrs. Woodruff pub