Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-14
NUMBER 3O4.
A MODEL cINc1NsAr1AS,
4 School Teacher Who Sought to Turn HIS
School Into q Rarem.

| "A Se!'cct AeacaeF " so oOuUitC 20 1Hrn HIS
School Into Harem.
/ cincinnati Enquirer.
The evidence against Jesse P. J. DeBeck,
principal of the fourth district school. &C.
cused of taking indecent liberties with ona
of his girl pupils few days since, continues
| to accumulate until it piles mountain high,
leaving little room for hope that he will be
able to overturn it. On the day of the open-
| ing of the examination of his case against
pretty Fannie Hampton, he informed the
representatives of the press that he was GO
ing to literally bury her beneath load of
testimony against her character. s:Oh, Pil
give you the richest reading you ever saw"
was his remark, 'I'll bury her,
I'll use her up completely; I'll show her
character to be the vilest you ever saw. I'li
! give you the heaviest dose you ever had be-
fore this thing is ended, and the poor little
shrinking, timid girl was obliged to sit for
hours listening to bis efforts to blacken her
character by attempts to overawe her school
mates and successful work in that line
among the teachers. How far he succeeded
in this the testimony of the former session
to cause to testify against his alleged victim
| refused to do SO. Now that this seeming
"blutf game' is seen and understood by
| those who know him of old, they are rising
up in honest indignation and coming for
ward to testify against him OF what they
know of the insults they have personally re-
ceived at his hands. On the evening sue
ceeding the first day of the trial an En-
qusrer reporter learned that a young girl,
Emilia Hoff, one of his pupils, had a COM
plant similar to that of Fanny Hampton to
| make against him. Visiting her at her home,
the reporter obtained, in the presence of her
mother and two or three witnesses, the girls
statement, which was published in the En-
quirer of the following day. 1t need not be
repeated heI e: it is fresh in the memory of
every parent whose children are members of
the schools of the city; that of unfortunate
Fanny Hampton need not be told it is upon
the mind of every mother when she kneels
at night by the bedside of her darlings and
upperlnost in her thoughts as she kisses
them good-by in the morning. Yesterday
was published the charges made by Nellie
Leonard, who was pupil in the school III
which he last taught, of his deliberate in
suits to her by which she had been driven
not only from the school but from the city.
Yesterday afternoon an Enquirer reporter
learned that there were still others who had
similar complaints, who had been deliberate
ly insulted by him while under his charge
and intrusted to his keeping and watchful
care, and proceeded to investigate little
more upon his own account. Among those
whose statements were obtained was a young
girl, named Clara Mears, whose story of
wrongs is even more pointed and painful
thar that of Nellie Leonard, detailed in yes
terday's Enquirer. She was, she says,
called to his room by him on some trifling
excuse on a certain day during the school
term. When she entered she was told to
close the door, which she reluctantly did.
Then he told her to como to him. She came
part of the way, when he ordered her to
come nearer, but she replied that she could
hear from where she stood. Finding that he
could not get her into his clutches in that
way, he then seized her and forced her, in
spite of her struggles, to allow h1Ea to kiss
her, and, she states to her companions, took
other liberties with her, which, they report,
makes her case more aggravated one than
that Of Nellie Leonard, published yesterday.
The facts given above, she says, she is will
ing to testify to.
Among those called On last night was an
other girl, who was also an attendant upon
the Baymiiler-street Intermediate school
during his time of service there. She is the
daughter of a wellknown citizen of the West
End, and gives her statement with great
frankness, though she prefers not to figure
personally in the matter unless necessity
should require. She does not hesitate to
denounce him as q vile man, and one who
deliberately studied to insult and bring his
pupils into wrong.
'.One day." she says, ~ can give you the
exact date, too, it was on the 10th of January
last, he sent for mo to como into his room.
When l went in he told me to shut the door,
and then called me to him. Then he told
me that he heard was going to leave school,
and said he hoped wouldn't do that Then
he put his arm around my waist and pressed
hard against me, and [ told him yes, l was
going to leave school, and tried to get away.
Then he pressed harder with his arm and
then tried to kiss me. I struggled to get
loose and finally succeeded in breaking away
from him before he had accomplished his
object, and ran to the door. He overlook
ne, though, and caught me and led me hack,
and tried to get his arm around me again,
when got away from him again and got
out Of the room. l went home, but did not
tell my folks for q long time for knew my
brother, if he knew it, would be very indig-
| nant, and there might be serious resalts.''
clio didn't succeed, them III his pu,pose?"
queried The reporter.
$40, bat it was not through ony fault
Of his. lie was determined, and ii was only
by my energetic resistance and fortunate
escape that he was prevented
"And do you think such conduct occurred
on his part toward his girl pupils in any
other cases?"
ooh, yes, numbers Of them. / know of
nearly dozen girls whom he has insuited
in the same way that he did Nellie Leonard
and myself, and even worse. He is, I am
! sure, q very bad man, and [ am glad he has
| been exposed, and hope that he will be
forced out Of the schools, for he is a danger
GUS man in the position. There are plenty
| Of girls who were in his schools who will
testify against him.
| There are also serious charges of his
cruelty to children in the schools, how he
held boy out Of tho third-story window
until he was nearly frightened to death; how
he terribly beat his pupils, and other matters
Of interest.
| Ell. DeBeck is o nauch-maTgied man, too,
with all his other eccentricities, being now,
1t is said, enjoying the companionship Of 0
fourth wife. he is a man of not over forty
and seems to have been remarkably active
in his specialities during his brief career
OI his married history there are some IN
written stories that are almost past belief
The above statements of his victims are
only sample cases. There are more.
The Best Democratic Fight of the Year.
Washington, d. c., Sentinel
Mr.. Poehler, q Gernan-American Demo
crat, has been elected by a majority of s5e
over Strait, Republican, in tho Second Min.