, 1876-10-16
A MERCILESS WOMAN,
Elsie Hoilenbeck's Skill! in Tortur.
ing Another Of Her Sex.
Some Samples from the Letters in the
Catskiil Scandal Case,


against Alice or Elee uo,lenbeck, upon the
charges Of having sent through the mali 10 Mrs.
Mary F. Wetmorc, vile oi Dr.. Calvin II. Wet
more, Of Cattklll, lttters Of scurrilous ma
turc. charging that lady with all manner Of In
decent oiienses, and bonai!ng Of the writer's
criminal intimacy with her husband. II having
become understood that the casc was TO bt
brought on for trial In Catsklll
Wednesday, last, large audience
gathered in The old.fa4hioned County
Court-House, Ard patiently waited throughout
the unsentlmental hearing Of cause IN which
It waa respectively claimed by learned counsel
for prosecution and defense that M !nfurtated
man had pursued a harmless bull with pocket
knife and Inflicted = wound upon said animal,
and that m inturlatcd bull had pursued harm.
css s, man a, and imPsled itself upon the point Of
Hol!enbeck was, to the great disgust oi thc au.
acncc, put over to apcclal scssion Of the
Court, about the 10Th Of November.
THE HISTORY or THE SCANDAL
1t fs claimed BY DR.. Wctruorc's friends
tTal; but Mr. Antsooy e comstosE ssaED' says w
f{snt {snnS eoms r.. what 4,v may Ills ta,s q de-
nails sslI all bs | pe9|orned 's Mrs. s' b. weimess sss
ls pleasant. arnlab,c looking lady, who, upon
the death OF her fist husband, sumo nineteen
years age, married the Doctor, and lived hap
Is dark-complexIone,l, su,ooth-spokeu man,
nbout II wears old About ten wears ago te and
bis wife were living At Leeds, near catsklll.
Near By, nt settlement called Lme strcct,
lily OF Germans called lullcnbeck There were
three girls fl the family, Of whom Eelc, then
girl Of Is or 10, WAS tic Youngest, They were
described by the Doctor 10 hTa wife aiter bis
first professional visit rs "very lively girls.n 4
few years passed On. and thr Doctor, moving
from Leeds, established himsclf In rood praas,
ticc In CatskIll. In tLe ] meantime 10 EisIe Ind
likewise removed to Catsl11l, taking up her
Icy, mud becoming frequent visitor at the Doc
tors office. About this time, rs Mrs Wct,pore
clai,ns, she discovered her husbands intdclity
She attempted TO nut q stop 10 what she hull
discovered, thereby iacurrinE the deadly hatred
Of "EIse.'' ~ '' "''''
EtstB noLLEynEcK,
Miss Alice Tor Etse) Hu]lcnheck stauds air
feet high in her stockings, and has lie nroni-
uent cleek-boncs md The 6{rrcinr black eyes OF
he called a handsome woman; hut q fatr-clcar
her stridtig and not ui,prcposscsslug appear.
s"Tino ,rrtt,@n an5 somt =, tha x.i9a ~ H. ~
nnas' %ste ittsas a''u u.s. seur 10 Lne WE o. !he NAV
huuSs ui'ntIcae ane WY wv !ttleFsi SoMS %
hpc esse o 1Itds tsas. roset pesoa .. nearly
nne wal, ny ;,cn thox ..onoa NJ ~ ~. "
sard. IL ia and thcY invariahjv .lit mil III ,ate
fsossnaster dccstieI lhavinu rrad one or twn1
tfat icy were UNFIT Tor lie sys. Of his young Jug
employes' ana thereafter himself sealed them.
Why Mrs. Wetmore received them 30 long in g.
lenyct remains " he learned upon the trial, III.
o tc Society ior the suppresson IL mo ot VICE. a
s y Tss arrS,tea On the oate
throtivh t,,e mails 11rc, t,,s .rost H.. W.
more icft hcr hm.bani. !. herauenn she eovs.
!. oftcr ~. ,ir,s arrost ,va. ot.ei; ., 'to ,th,
t,,., nnrtnr ,, t.os,. m ~, ~ ~ Lss W." ~
mnrkable letters mny be- anncn5ei1 Ia ilimstrstc
The nature of E1aiess nttart mnnn Mr. Wct,
,nnrn Tov an III in tia s, VIII ,on.,4, "sE
srstched scrawl, M mispeied eli d and as "nn1amstisal
but hhs 10 dcGrce IN ueVlllshncss.
AND TIE LETTERS SHE WROTE.
llere ts an extract from the ttrst one. The
Mr.. WyRant re1crreu 70 was "a uentist, who has
sanee IenaoFsu 1,.o 1fom t Iatskm; tnaeea tMese
citizen. bank President, lawyer, or merchant Of
s oSs e II Mp S0aef T0 sas poor
We'll. Mary, hone You had rood time yestcr.
day running arounl town and reporslnc thas and
jaughln stock for Cntsktij,' That was q mlstake
i was With Wygant in Albany and stopped al tho
sams piaee you and him stopped III, but did not 60
by the same nsme.
The sgl1" H. referred s4 70 in the followine was
brother Of ur. Wctuore's, Who at the time WAS
very Ill and has since died:
Mnrv. mcant IN knocp h., M, or yon sn.rrd,v
n vnn fni,nwed mr. 1Sid von ~, n AZ. hit a.
we1e ~ 1 "" tnor,mv soT WvrnnfT Coi sav1 III icoi M
mann. ~ Wetm,,sel whcn XII, dics H. !, go,n r.
Inv thal nlsce Tor concort saIoon =" md ten he
nsys the3 s imcanina het faT,tlvG
Soyy'i hn rhor Wr"antt,s wrr,ou snr n,nrc A"'"'l
II va. yuu, Nary, III be glad when be dies, be.
cause Cal can't tell anything more that happened
on tue Chatham train Fce Cal often, vas out
nome 'no ca ray on. r,,r evG:y Trr anaay sA
The following letter, Mira; Wctmorc asserts,
was directed IN bcr h'isband's handwriting. The
first part Of 1t Is devoted to Bcurrilous abuse:
Mary, when you draw pistol on me take good
Min IA, hsyG ittie 5nr tint hs rkn snyen tft,ct
TMt, weeks avo yon was IN Church. and sse . yon
90 wliio Mrs' pue1in was praying cot I'M and
,Srnt I",vn IN sre t.a for nf n,,rsn tnH IL ,sas
alone. Df courte va lad nIce Tine. Why diI
YOU not cone down. stayed an hour with Csl in
your room
This IL OF coar6cr sort:
N.ry when ynu fol,ow ms vo, b,a h.+t.- ~.
ramvs vot caribiy hu.inexs M xnnT ,satrhinr md
,nIyire ,vliI thcn h. nvar THAI "t, tSt ~ I r"1
,narlsie orer 1,.a, rfava xstn III. insc,itiip,n.
:, tierc ifes the Roy AZ oid dodnr: ac ma hnigci
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