The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-25

tnoee who desire TO make any explanation
that may be necessary to vindica,e per-
son, whom no 10 more or less interested IN
any thing that may appear in them.
The point We arc aiming at Ia: there
seems TO be In the minds of the people oi
Cairo,a strong opinion tina, we, up here
are quito lawless people. The recent
trouble with Officer John Hogan seems to
have more or lees aroused great deal Of
indigns,ion against US, aud more cs.
peeiall agaiast lhesnAersigncd. E
TWO SIDES. Nt
There are always two sides TO every
question. Whom they are known, per-
baps the public will think differently.
To givea full and succinct statement o'
the whole ease from beginning to end
would take pretty large volume and IL
would tire your roadcrs 20 peruse il, rs
we'll as i, woald be requiring too much OF
you to publish it.
THE THEBEs SIDE.
| Il shall try aud be as brief as possible
| lie, me commence by saying, that about
the Hrst of last August, | landed here,
and Immediately on my arrival was
met by y person who Informed me that
man wanted mo 10 attend TO n case for
| him. | found him in wagon ready TO DO
taken TO Cairo, to be locked up in the
county Jail.
! Hooked into the case and found that
| his bond was not accepted on account OF
his bondsmon no: bong responsible; he
could not give other bonds therefore was
com mittod.
| | took the case in hand and accom-.
plished what l undertook in compliance
with law and got him liberated on bond
| That mans nameis
/ ....I H..H SMITH, A1ARIAH.
At FIRST thought he was terribly mis-
treated and felt considerable interest in
his case, though u perfect stranger
] After awhile found that nv views
wero unIounueu, because no played dirt
upon me; and for several days he
kept coming to see mo on business, and /
invariably told him that | wanted moth
ing to do with im--becauso he was Il
man l would not trust
ALL THE TROUBLE
arose between him and his wife.
About ten days after informed Smith
that would have nothing moro TO do
with him, l WAS sitting in John Woods
store at this place, when Mrs. Smith came
in with u gentleman and stated her case
TO me, and l informed her that if she
could sustain on trial what sho told me
there was no doubt but what she could
gain a suit If instituted.
About that time her father, Abram
Clere, of Chester, Ill, carno down and
employed mo 20 attend to his daugh-
tori iu,arNAt, sbt~in,Ns n divorce and all
other business which she desired mo 10,
and assure you she was at my heols all
tho time to bring suit against this and
tina. one; and ,as the Almighty is my judge,
/ kept her from bringing several suits
which would have cost her ten times as
much ~ the amount claimed in each case.
4 acted consciontiou.ly aud faithfully for
hel, because | ielt convinced that she
would lose everything If her beautiful
Though prosecuted husband, rs no would
like to make people believe, could only
get his hands on it.
At the last January term of tho Alex
ander circuit court obtained
DIVORCE
Tor Her besides attending to replevin
suit, which Smith instituted against hcr
amounting to about s5O0--whieh was
Withdrawn, otc.
| continued TO act as attorney for Der
until they won't tosothor again, ana then
| became utterly Disguised and would
have nothing t, do with her.
After they went together again,
most unnatural mother that che
il, she began to strip her children
Of tho last mOuthful Of meat in the house
and LOT, them 70 tho mercy OF the com
munity, to 10 with that man Smith.
|, THE cMLDRES ARE rIcKLY
and the property left by the father was
being gradually and slowly taken away
from them, and who was there to caro- for
tho orphans2 1t would make the heart
of . stone melt to pity to 500 how those
poot innocent children have boon treated.
ono may talk rs he pleases,
bu, when family of help
less childrep, being left with plenty
by tho hard work of an honest father, has
been stripped of every penny and not
change Of clothing to their namo; how
could one stand by and witness tho very
act, l.nlawfh, making them feel the psngs
of hunger, aud ths consciousness of being
sband oned 10 tho merciless public, with
dry eyer
An FOR THE DIFFICULTY wITn HOGAN,
that can he esplained,satisfsstorily,a AZ we
: hons ~ the public.
on tho "a Of June, A. d..