The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-08
EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1876.
woodhuIi,s Productions.

The following, taken from the
New York Sun. is statement made
under oath, before Notary Public
by Joseph Treat, NJ. d.
From April to October, 1873,
was for six months directly con-
nected with Victoria g. Woodruff
and the publication of her pa
per, Woodruff 81 Claflin's Week
iy, either in her own Office or the
printing Office whence The paper
was issued. A large part of this
time i was in her office, day and
night; and quite portion of ii
she, Col. Blood, Colonel's brother
George, and myself were all in the
Office day and night, that is, in the
suits of three rooms; so that 1t was
as if we were all one. and l could
not but be intimately acquainted
with every thing. l never kne "
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 Colonies handwriting,
and reading the greater part of it
in discharge of my function to
'hold copy" for making correc-
tions. After the whole had been
struck of, and while half dozen
separate copies were lying around
the Office to dry, heard her ask
him In Ter Office what title he was
going to give the lecture, and he
said-as if it was there on so many
different slips--'The Elixir of Life /;
or. Why do we Die 2" Her intro
ductory lecture at Chicago, instead
of being printed, was copied for her
by George Blood, from the Colo
nePs manuscript, and / afterward
read it "holding copy" preparatory
to it's appearance in the Weekly.
So her lecture, "ReVolution or Ref
ormation-which? ?" delivered at
Cooper Institute in October, was
beforehand printed in the Office,
from the Colonies manuscript
just as her lecture in Vineland in
August was IN type, to be read
from the printed copy.
The day before her trial was to
come on, the Colonel wrote letter
for her to the press, he making two
copies and four (for the six morn
ing papers, the Star only of all pub
fishing it, with her name signed
to each. When they were all fin
ished he read her a copy; but she
was very much dissatisfied, saying
the letter didnot at all make the
point she desired; nevertheless she
let it pass. handed in the six cop
les, and when the Editor of the
World saw the signature he asked
'Is that Mrs. Woodhull's sigma
ture ?" 1 had, without thinking of
it, signed her name instead of the
Colonels. The long article, ain
Memoriam," in her paper on the
death Of her sister, Mrs. Brooker,
purporting TO be from herself, but
set from the Colonel's manuscript,
she did not read till il was in type
and waiting to go in the "form,"
when che objected to 1t most seri.
ously. and earnestly as not what
she required but, it being the last
momenb she said: "WeA, put it in"
Her editorials, ''holding copy"
read week after week, in his hand.
Often myself and the printers saw
him writing them, right there in
the printing Office, compositors per-
haps waiting TOR copy. He would
dash them of so rapidly, they
would be only half executed, and
the compositors would not be able
to read them, and would have to
come to me. She frequently got
the paper after it was out, and read
her own editorials, laughing and
enjoying the surprise of the good
thing-they were surprise. Again
and again, in connection with her
trial, her fear rose to absolute trep-
idation, but each time the Colonel
made her defy the whole world,
and whom she came to read the saw