Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-21
RODDY's WAR.
Miss Fanny Il. ShOtweII, alias Car
lOtta r.. bhOtwell, alias Mrs. Car
lOttR y. ROddy. on Trial under
Charge of Larceny-A Case that
Hinges ON an Opera Glass.


Hinges ON an Opera Glass.
The New York Sun of the 18th has the
following court news concerning Gene
raj Philip d. Roddy, of Alabama, whose
command was known in the Forrest
cavalry as " Roddy's war;
The much-agitated case Of Fanny e.
Shotwell, alias Carlotta F. Shotwell, alias
Mrs. Carlotta r. Roddy, indicted for
grand larceny on the complaint Of Gen.
rhlIip D. Roddy, of Alabama. was on
the calendar for trial in the General Ses-
sions yesterday.
Judge Fullerton opened for the prose-
enhon with long speech. He said that
'ne prisoner was a young woman, well
educated and richly endowed with per-
l'Sonai attractions. he proposed to mar
rate the history Of her acquaintance with
General Roddy, the complainant.
THE GENERAL S SIDE OF THE STORY.
In 1867 the two were introduced by a
mutual lady friend in this city, and the
General escorted the young lady to her
home. He met her again in the same
lady house, and again escorted her to
her residence. From that time, at her
urgent request, he visited her frequently
and contracted an intimacy which
lasted for several years. When the inti-
macy was well established, the prisoner
wanted money occasionally, and got it
by asking the General. At first the
sums she desired were small, but re-
quests became demands, and hundreds
changed to thousands. The General
felt himself to be in her power, and she
generally obtained all she required from
him. He was then a married man and
the prisoner knew it, By dint of threats
OF exposure to his wife and children the
prisoner extorted from the entangled
General more than fifty thousand dollars
from time to time, and he had reached
point of desperation when, if the sirens
demands were not complied with, the
complainant must adopt the dread alter
natives Of jumping off a convenient
wharf or blowing out his brains
THE SEPARATION.
Coming down to comparatively recent
events, the Counsellor said that in 1872
the complainantand the prisoner agreed
to separation. He then, in considera-
ton of a release from all other claims
upon him, handed over to her large
property in the shape of bond for
large amount OF stocks Afterward she
commenced suit on this bond, and the
defendant in that suit, General Roddy,
he could not defend it without
an exposure of his relations with the
plaintiff, made a new settlement. He
paid the plaintiff lnow the prisoner) her
demands, and relied upon her promise
to restore him his $4,000 bond. There
was no fulfllment of this promise, and
the prisoner renewed her extortions by
TO apply to the Generals
real wife To escape this the General
FLED. TO EUROPE.
Arrived there, his composure was soon
by letter from the prisoner
which informed him that he was deeply
interested in some legal proceedings in
this country, accompanied by a report
of the arrest of man named Evenet
for the larceny Of the $4,000 bond which
he supposed to have been destroyed.
The turning up of the bond in this con-
nection amazed and alarmed him. He
that he had twice paid for it,
and concluded that it had been stolen
from him. He hurried back to America,
and for time succeeded in hushing up
his real connection with the bond, which
was first stolen from him and afterward
from the prisoner. But he could not
evade the prosecutions of the prisoner.
She sued him on various demands, using
the name of Carlotta F. Roddy. She
him wherever he went. In
Washington and elsewhere she lay in
wait for him. When occasion offered
she chung tohis carriage and made street
scenes. In short, she followed him
everywhere, and prosecuted him fear
fully. At length the result of
THE LATE BRINKLEY DIVORCE
suit afforded her a new plan of proceed
ings. she went to the Generals BUSH
ness partner and demanded certain
sum of money. The demand was not
needed, and she then sued for support,
alleging abandonment. When the GEN.
eral settled these suits, she waited but
q short time before she sued him again
for divorce and alimony. He went to
see her, and she called his attention to
facts known to no one but himself from
which be inferred that his trunk had
been robbed, and on examination of the
.runk be missed seven English sover-
signs, an opera glass and valuable pri-
rate papers. The counsellor concluded
ais speech by styling the prisoner an