The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-08-18
WOodhuli's Productions.


The following. taken from the New
York Sun, is a statement made under
oath, before Notary Public, by Joseph
Treat, NJ. D.;
From April To October, 1873, | was
for six months directly connected With
Victoria e. Woodruff and with the pub
lication of her paper, BOOdhHH IL CiGJ-
lsn'S Weekly, either in her own Office or
the printing office whence the paper
was issued. A large part of this time
was in her Office, dag and night; and
quite "A portion of il she, Col. Blood +,
Colonel's brother George and myself
were all i'm the Office day and nigh., that
is, in the suits of three rooms; 80 that il
was As If we were all one, and | could
not but be intimately acquainted with
every thing. | never knew Victoria TO
write a word. Col. Blood penned her
every letter or note, however brief, and
signed her name. Her great lecture at
the Chicago Spiritual Convention, held
in September, was printed in the Office
beforehand, the manuscript being in the
I Colonel's handwriting, and reading the
greater part OF il in discharge of my func-
ton 10 "hold copy" for making correc-
tons. After the whole had been struck
OIL, and while halt a dozen separate
copies were lying around the Office to
/ dry, heard her ask him in her Office
what title he was going 10 give the lee
ture, and he said-as il it was already
there on so many different slips-"The
\ Elixir of Life; or, Why 20 we Die?'
/ Her Introductory lecture at Chicago,
instead of being printed, was copied
for her in large, fair hand by George
\ Blood, from the Colonel's manuscript,
anc Z afteTward read il holding copy, v
preparatory To its appearance in the
| Weekly. So her lecture, revolution
or formatiOn-whichPn delivered at
Cooper Institute in October, was before
hand printed in the Office, from the
I Colonel's Manuscript just IS her lee
ture in Nineland in August was in type,
TO be read from the printed copy.
I The day before her trial was TO come
on, the Colonel wrote a letter for her 10
the press, he making two copies and !
four Cfor the six morning papers, the
/ Star only of all publishing ID, with her
name signed 10 each. When they were
all finished he read her copy; but she
was very much dissatisfied, saying
the letter did not at all make the point
she desired nevertheless she let il pass
/ handed in the six copies, and when
the editor of the World saw the sigma.
ture he asked: "Is that Mrs.
WOodhull's signature" | had, without
thinking of il, signed her name instead
of the Colonel. The long article, "Ir
Memoriam," in her paper on the death
of her sister, Mrs. BROKER, purpOrtiug
10 be from herself, but set from Ia,
/ Colonel's manuscript, she did not read
till il was in type and waiting to 90 il
the s'fOrm,m when she objected to i
most seriously and earnestly as mo-
what she required; but, il being TN,
last moment, she said "Well, put i
in" Her editorials, "holding copy,
| read week after week, in his hand
Often myself and the printers saw hin
writing them. right there in the print
ing Office, compositors perhaps waiting
for copy. He would dash them off :,
rapidly, they would be only half exc
cuted, and the compOsitOrs would mo-
be able 10 read them, ana would have
to come TO me. She frequently got thu
paper after il was out, and read he
own editorials, laughing and enjoying
the surprise of the good thing-thel
trere a surprise. Again and again, IL
connection with her trial, her fear ros'
To absolute trepidation, but each tim'
the Colonel made her defy the who'll
world, and when she came 10 read sh'
found how brave she was.