Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-07
THE SEDUCER SHADOWED.
True Love First, but Seduction the Sc.
quel-RetributiOn Follows, and the
Seducer Dies an Outcast.

Sedalia Democrat, Sd: There are but few
people in Sedalra who did not know John j.
| Galllven, telegraph operator, who acted as
| manager OF the company In this city In 1876.
He served as messenger-boy In the office in
| 1878, and by strict attention to business
| mastered the art of telegraphy, and was Civ
en- an Office in Texas. His father died There,
| and John supported his mothers family. In
| 1876 John, having been appointed manager
| in the very office he served as messenger,
| moved back to Sedalia with his mother,
| who, in addition to her own family, brought
a pretty young lady with her, who served
| in the capacity of domestic. This girl
went by the name of Josephine Huarly,
and was originally from Canada. John soon
| showed decided preference for the society
of the young lady, and finally under promise
| of marriage, seduced her. The result of
| this criminal intimacy began to show after
| they had been living here some months, and
John expressed willingness to marry the
| girl, as he had promised to do, but the moth
| er violently opposed such step. When the
| time rolled around for the girl to become a
mother, she was bundled up and sent to
| hospital in st. Louis, to pass through the try
ing ordeal among strangers. She had rela-
tives in that city, but would not go near
them to publish her own disgrace. In due
course of time she gave birth to boy, the
very image of its father. She returned to
this city with the little pledge, and again APP
pealed TO John to comply with his promise of
marriage, but his mother still stood in the
way and forbade the bans. The young moth
er was induced to take trip to Texas, and
during her absence John and his mothers
family removed to st. Louis, where he got
employment in the Western Union office. The
girl returned from her Texas trip to
this city after few months absence to plead
for that acknowledgment due her, but found
her seducer gone. She sought the advice of
friends, and was told to follow him up. She
communicated with him by letter, and made
an appeal that would have melted heart of
ice. He replied that if she would come to St.
Louis he would marry her. She went at once,
with bright hopes before her, and he met her
at the depot, and would probably have carried
out his promise this time only for the int1u-
ence brought to bear on him on previous oc-
casions, and he was again induced to disgrace
his manhood by giving the girl the dodge and
leaving her to care for herself and child as
best she could. The Gallivens at once went
to work, pulled up stakes, and departed for
parts unknown. Some days after their depart
ure the girl was surprised by receiving dis
patch from John, telling her to join him at
Omaha. True to her womanly instincts, she
was willing to follow the object of her love
and cause of her disgrace to the ends of the
earth. She started Immediately to Oma-
ha, and arrived there only to find that
her seducer had again given her the
dodge. She then came to this city,
and after remaining short time, started
once more in search of the one who was I'M
worthy of such devotion as hers. Johns
name, it is said, was placed upon the tele
grapher's black list, which would prevent
him from getting employment in any Office
in the United States, and he became wan
derer. 4 letter was received a day or so ago
by a lady in this city from her husband, who
is in Texas, and who knew John well, stating
that the dead body of the seducer had been
found under a railroad platform, in town
in Texas, some days prior to the date of the
letter. in advanced state of decomposition.
1t was impossible to tell whether he had
crawled under the platform and died, or
whether he had been murdered, and his body
secreted there. 1t is possible that an avenger
of the girl has followed him in his wander
ings, and has melted out justice to him. Or
it may be that the lashing of guilty con-
science drove him to a suicides death, and,
after taking poison, he crawled under the
platform like a poisoned rat into its hole, to
die where his struggles would not be seen. In
either event it looks very much like just
retribution