The Republican journal., 1875-05-13
The Wilton Outrage.
From the Dubuque Iowa) Herald.

From the Dubuque tloWa) Herald
From the Davenport Gazette we learn
that there now comes a very interesting
supplement to the business in which Il
dozen or so of the women OF Wilton en-
gagged in on the night Of the 9th inst,
when they smashed in the windows and
broke down the doors OF the house of Mr.
Elias Corey, 50 as to get at the person of
his daughter Ella, 4 girl of sixteen years,
who was treated TO 4 coat Of tar and
| feathers by them, when her father was
| absent in Nebraska 10 be sure she had
company that night, valorous young men,
who fled when these ladies entered the
house
Mr.. Corey returned to his home last
Thursday He found every window open
as before the glass and sash were put in
place, the doors broken down, and the
posts and sills thereof hacked as if with
strokes of an AK OF Ratchet. His wife was
not there - his undutiful daughter had
driven her away; his daughter was not
there, women of Wilton had driven her
away the home was desolate and unin-
habitable. He found his wife and her
children and provided for them. He came
to Davenport and found his eldest daugh-
ter in the house of poor but respectable
colored woman whom she knew years
ago, and whose humble home was the
only place on earth she knew Of, in her
fallen condition, in which she could find
shelter and care She had done wrong,
she knew that, for she had relatives in
Davenport to whom she did not wish to
90 on account of her shame. A poor,
motherless girl Of sixteen, with father
hundreds of miles away, she had fallen
| into wicked ways, and had been driven
from home by women who ought to have
tried to rescue, before Furnishing her.
But the destruction and the assault are
matters Of the past - the penalty to the
law breakers who assaulted and destroyed
is with the courts OF Justice, which are
open for everybody who is injured unlaw
fully
A suit for damages has been entered in
the circuit court of Muscatine county 1t
is entitled Ella Nj. Corey, by Elias Corey,
her next friend, against Mrs. John Wiley,
Mrs Edmund Anderson, Mrs. Elizabeth
Adds, Mrs Elizabeth Moore, Mrs Rich
ard Porter, Mrs. Charlotte Dixon, Mrs.
Ellen kean. Mrs. Edward Carleton, Mrs,
Eliza Bentley, Mrs II. W. Scott, Miss
Kate Wiley and three other ladies whose
names will appear in the petition in due
time, but are now unknown. The par
ties named We're recognized as being par
! Elephants in the assault on the plaintiff
with hands of violence and with tar and
feathers The plaintiff sues for damages
to the amount of $50, 1000. The petition
has it that, after the assault, the defend
| ants babe her leave the town, and two of
| them led her from the house to the street,
she clad in her thin under garments-the
night was very cold-and conducted her
for some distance from the house; then
needing her appeals for mercy, and her
tears, they allowed her to go back to her
home for warm clothes, and left her to
her fate with her tar and feathers and
windowless home.
But there is another suit against the de-
| PENDANTS above named. 1t is brought by
Elias Corey, father of Ella who petitions
the same court for the recovery of $1,000
damages done his property This suit is
| brought in accordance with sec. 1895, of
the code, which was enacted in view of
Just such acts OF lawlessness which made
Mr. Corey's house almost q ruin. The
girl Ella is now with her father, at Wilton.