The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-05-15
REFUTING A ISLANDER.
The Parties S'andered Give the base
PrOmuigator the Isnominy 80 Rich
" Deserved

The following is letter partly iu reference
10 sensational article which appeared in an
obscure newspaper in this city. THE TIMES
was aware of these slanderous rumors long
before they appeared in PRINT; but it is not
Its peculiar province TO give credence to Idle
rumors. Below Is tue letter:
EDITOR LEAvENwoRTH TIMEs:-An arti-
Gle appeared in en- obscure Leayen worth pa.
per .ome time ago. headed, a Country
Grammar School," complicating a school
teacher and a young girl, pupil OF said
teacher. Names are omitted for wise reas-
ons, as the narrative is wholly false, except
In one particular that the girl staid after
school hours, as others had done tie same
thing. But challenge and defy them TO
find the school boy that ever saw or heard
anything of An Indecent or ungentIemanly
character that has occurred in or about the
school room since l have been teaching in
said school. The charge OF crime Is wholly
false ard s-anderous, as report, read pub
licly, made by three committeeman Of high
standing will testify, This report is given
under the hands ofMr. Bauserman, Mr.. Ev.
ans and Mr.. Kelly, who heard all the eyi.
dence and read their report in church. Of
which the following is a true copy:
APRIL 10, 1873
We, tie con miitee selected TO investigate
the difficulty between Sister Jayia Mills
and Brother AIonZo Robinson, have ascer-
| tanned from the statement of the parties and
testimony produced. that no such repOr,
our Judgment, no testimony to sustain II, but
testimony contradicting the report.
JOSEPH KELLY, }
J r. EVANS, Directors.
EATSEPMANt
Thus il is seen that the charge of seduction
and criminal Intercourse is wholly uniound-
ed, aud that The young girls lover.
spoken OF in sad article, and his
Sc ing atioat the falsehoods, contained in
SAID article. The paper referred TO has done
great injustice by not publishing the report
of said committee, which they promised I'm
said article they would do.
Furthermore, a reporter or an editor that
makes charges against parties upon rumor
and withholds the names of the actors, from
the fact that he would be holden amsnab1e
| to the law, acts the part of a coward,
The committee that inves tigated The stories
manufactured by Robinson was not able al
the time of trial TO get the most damaging
part of proof against him, but II has since
cOn. e TO their knowledge, aud suppose they
thought best to withhold It, as II would not
be in order TO embrace il IN their report, as
| IL did not come 10 their knowledge on the
day Of investigation
Robinson, when asked on the day of trial
| for his proof besides his own story as no
GAINED Ia have Others, said he had zone after
the man to come TO the trial, and he would
not do II, which was a lie, ss he very well
Knew when he stated, for he mad gone 10
said man and asked him not TO come 10 said
trial. and also told him the other party could
not compel him 10 come. II can be proven
by testimony unimpeachable, that Robin
son said, on the ght hat he claims that
the school tesche, "entered her bed room
window and dallied with her until nearly
dawn" that he was going to make something
on nfi h..tK-
the girls father, "MllIis and Cook - Ihe'facts
are Robinson il an irresponsible scalaWag
and attempted TO make money out of ,his in
famous lies, but he has been baked and
turned out of church, while the girl is still a
member in good standing. A few of Robin.
sons friends have perverted truth and Just.
ice in helping along with these Stories
But let,it suffice the public TO know that the
action'of the church: and report of commit
tee speaks for itself. The girl is II years of
age instead OF IA or 10. And inste I'd of being
taken away from school by her mother, She
never was taken out of the public school and
is now being sent TO subscription school
taught be me.
l.have read of gorgon horrors of the trans
formation of men into swine, by Circe's po-
tent spells, of harples whose touch was pol
luton, of the cold -blooded assassin with his
knife wreaking- with the life blood OF his
victim, OF the midnight incendiary, placing
the torch to his neighbours property: hut
were the whole grouped into one revolving
picture, that picture would not be so soul
sickening and heaven-daring. GOO -iishonor-
ing and hell deserving as the one made
by the foul mouthsd slanderer: for he
lets himself below the plain of the ,deviI and
becomes moral leIer. st. James says "the
tongue is a fire, world of iuiquiiy, So is the
tongue among our members, that IL dedleth
the whOe body, and settefh on fire the
course OF nature, ard IL is set on fire of
hell" There is law for a highway robber
the cold booded murderer, the assassin and
midnight incendIary. But If a brute drsgs
down virtue, into the shiny pit of hell, by
his foul tongue, and has no property at his
back, then, i am told he is not amenable
TO the law. The said Robinson has cody,
deliberately, willfully and maliciously lied,
and after lies too numerous TO mention he
has failed wofully in his devilish scheme and
his bolts of slime have fallen, like SauIs
yavelin, harmless; or rather returned to the
fountain OF corruption from whence they
came. Being destitute of manhood and shame
ne stu fingers in the neighborhood, with |
breath more pestiferous than the Bohou
L pas, and a soul blackened by its own tur-
pitude- His lies have already been disproy.
ed before a church committee and hold my
self ready TO make good in court all the /
charges made in this article.
h, Cook.
LANSING, KANSAS, May sth, 1879