The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-08-29
Wisconsin Correspondence.

REEDsBURG. WIS.,. Aug. 18th, 1873.
ED. DEMOCRATIC PRESS The people of Iron
ton, this County. have just been wrought 70 .
high pitch Of excitement by the pc, petration
Of q crime more diabOlical in character than
any heretofore placed on the calendar of eur
Courts.
The circumstances connected with the crime
are SO smlrchy and foreign to all claims Of hu =.
manity. as to render particulars in detail not
desirable; hence. are withheld out of respect to
the patrons OF your paper. l have observed
that the Democratic Press is not a repertory of
dcmoralizing scandal; but am sure 1t is willing
to aid by its influence in exposing and holding
UP - scorn reprobates Of this peculiar heinous-
ness. The crime Is incest-flther and daughter.
The culprit-Dr. e. Feal-has been u resident OF
this town about fifteen years. His reputation
has never been above suspicion. His life has
been peculiarly manifested in hydra form. par
TALLY screened from observation and criticism
by professional and clerical pretcnsions. Not
wtthstanding being silenced in preaching. and
excommunicated from two Christian bodies. he
still clung 10 the old disguise and thus partially
hid the darkness of his character from public
view.
The victim is his only child, and motherless
No one to counsel, or advise, or teach her the
proprieties Of life. except this miscreant, to
whom the appellation of father is a misnomer;
who. instead Of exercising that parental care
and sOlicitude father would naturally bess ow.
has sacrificed her on the altar of his unhallowed
lust. She is but q teen years old, and endowed
with fair degree of intellectual and personal
attractions, for whom the future. under more
propitious circumstances. might have held en-
during happiness. unclouded by the recollection
OF the vile usage of an migrate parent. Nov
the hope and sunlight of life will lie under this
dark shadow that will constantly hover along
the dreary path OF her blighted life. And what
adds to the crime the - blackness Of darkness"
this hydra. clothed in his fair colored habili-
ments Of righteous professions, endeavored to
spirit away his victim at the dead hour of night.
Persons living near by were made aware of
what was contemplated. by the victi N herself !;
hence her rescue. and the arrest Of this clerical
monster: He was committed to Jail at Barab 70,
be held for trial at the coming term of the
Circuit Court. What bitterness Of soul and
stinging of conscience must inevitably accom-
pany his reflections, If the moral waste Of bis
life is not SO barren rs be destitute Of all pa
rental feeling. Incarceration in jails, or dreary
abodes within the gloomy confines of state pris
ons. but sligh ly at me for the perpetration of
such inhuman deeds. For such crimes. no pen
atty. seemingly. can mete just retribution. So
revolving is it contemplate. that it would
seem the very demons of the Internal abodes in
haies would shrink with horror at the near a.
proach of such spurious humanity.
YECAL
SOMEBODY in the / olisville Corrier-Journa
wildly suggests that since most Oft writing in
newspaper Offices is done with lead pencils, It
would be well to reconstruct Richelieu's aphor-
ism thus: THE pencil called the Faber's more
potent than the saber."