Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
The CLANCY Sensation.

That shell to pay" story as told in
last weeks Democrat is likely to be
found lacking some OF the chief ele-
ments OF first class sensation. The
stories told by Mrs. CLANCY are want
in consistency to such degree that
there is not much left in the way OF
sensation. The one told in which
man is made to appear at the win
dow, just after Mr.. Chaney's depart
ure early in the morning for Chicago,
and that she struck him In the face,
etc., with boot jack. lacks several
points to make it entirely creditable.
She says that the man thrust his head
in at the window, and held it there
till she hunted up the boot jack Gin
the dark OF course) and struck him in
the face, and as he withdrew his face
she struck his fingers a smashing
blow as they lay on the window sill.
She showed the blood on the window,
which had run from end to end and
trickled on the floor. 1t is fact that
from her statements OF the striking,
blood could not by any possibility
have flowed from the bruise In such
quantities. This fact would seem to
stamp the entire story as impossible.
The story that she was attacked in
the cellar last week was well told,
and but for outside circumstances
might be credited. She asserts that
on going into the cellar she saw avalise
on the right hand side OF the door.
While examining 1t man sprang on
her from behind, grasped her throat,
and by some unexplained method
got around in front, when he ordered
her to leave, etc., then kicking her
until she fell senseless on the ground.
The bottom OF the cellar is muddy.
and there is no indication OF any
struggle, or the imprint OF her body
IL she had fallen senseless. But there
is mud an her clothing, and a man
bearing the description she gives OF
the assaulter was seen to leave the
house at about tho hour she names
half past three o'clock. A prominent
business man OF this city says that
he started to go to the north part OF
the city at about twenty minutes after
three. When one square from Mr..
Chaney's house he observed the man
with the valise come out OF that
house. He saw him go into a house
on the street, stand at the door a
moment talking to the person who
had opened the door; then come out
and enter another house. The man
was pedler OF some articles and a
very nice appearing man. AS our in
formant neared the CLANCY house he
saw Mrs. CLANCY come out OF the
back door. perfectly well in all re-
spects, and complacently begin to
collect some articles in the back yard,
This must have been later than half
past three o'clock, and no other per-
son was seen on the street at, or near
that hour. 1t could not have been
possible that an outrage OF this kind
could have occurred before this time,
and this was at later time than that
mentioned by her as the time OF the
outrage. How the woman was bruised
or how she got mud on her clothing
or why she should tell this story, IL
untrue, are matters OF inference on
which no light has been shed. One
thing is quite certain she has never
given a full account OF any OF the
numerous outrages reported. In
every one the personal appearance OF
the perpetrator. or some vital point
was always indefinite; and although
she is a very timid woman she mani
tests no fear Of harm to her person
Notwithstanding the repeated,-so-
called-"warnings tn leave"