The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-30
SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED IN
FANTlCIDE.

AND HEART EssNESS.
The exact day and year when Charles
Reynolds took to wife a widow woman with
well grown daughter, is, for our present
purpose, matter Of no particular moment
1t is enough to know that such matrimo-
NAL alliance was formed, and the conse-
qucnccs, the crimes and criminal purposes
that followed, we shall detail to our readers
as they were detailed to us.
Reynolds lives within -, or twelve miles
of Cairo, and makes a living by farming
and teaming. He and his new wife lived
together after the manner of people in their
condition in life, until last fall it became
apparent that the daughter was enciente. In
November Reynolds visited Cairo, and call
ing upon widow Hill who lives some
where in the vicinity of Fourteenth and
Walnut and telling Mrs. II. that he had
married daughter who was about to give
birth to her first child, and that the hus-
band being down the rirer, he, Reynolds,
wanted to secure place for his daughter
where she could command proper medical
skill and good nursing Mrs Hill protcs-
ted that she was not in 4 condition 10 re-
ceive such charge, and that Mr.. Reynolds
must, therefore, look further Reynolds
left. Next evening when Mrs. Hill return
ed to her home from which she had been
absent a short time she found the young
woman in the house, walking the floor and
suffering the admonitory pains Of matern-
ity. There was nothing left for Mrs. Hill
to do but TO give the sufferer such accom-
modations as her home would furnish A
colored midwife named Hester Davis, was
called in, and during the night the girl gave
birth to boy baby. This was on the 2jth
day of November, 1878 About the LIST
day of December, Reynolds came to Cairo
to arrange for the care of the
child, and finally made arrangements
with colored woman, Adelaide Myers, on
Twentieth street between Commercial and
Poplar, to take charge of the infant, agree
ing to pay her three dollars per week for
her trouble, partly in wood and partly in
money. Delivering the child into Adel-
aides hands, Reynolds promised to return
next day and pay her So in adj
vance; but ten days had elapsed when he
returned, and he then paid her only one dol
lar and a half. Yesterday week ago, the
girl-mother of the child, visited Adcl-
aides home, confessed that the child was
hers and her step-father was the father Of
it, She declared further that her step
father had treated her with great cruelty
would, not for fear Of exposure, permit her
to bring the child home but compelled her
to work hard and increasingly to pay the
expense, he said of maintaining the child
in Cairo. She had come, however, to take
the child home, and would provide for it
the best she could but was
apprehensive that she or the
child or both would be killed or badly
treated. She was determined, however, to
submit to no longer separation from her
baby. The girl had come into the city on
horse back, riding mans saddle. Mount
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that she couldn't carry the child on horse
back without lmperilling her own life as
well as that of the child So, handing the
child back to the charge Of Mrs. Myers,
she said she would 90 home, and, on the
morrow, come for the child in two horse
wagon Mrs. Myers had bought and Dor
rowcd milk of her neighbors, and had
brought the child safely through the winter;
but had seen nothing of Reynolds. The
dollar and half he paid to her ten days
after leaving the baby, was every cent she
had received from him.
About one o'clock last Sunday after
noon two horse wagon drove to the
vicinity of Mrs. Myers home, and few
minutes later Reynolds and his wife
made their appearance, and announced
their purpose to take the child home; but
intimated no purpose to pay the so or go
dollars Mrs. Myers had earned in taking
care of it. Mrs. NJ. had become much
attached to the child-now nearly four
months old-but still expressed no desire
to keep it. Abscntng herself from the
room moment, she overheard spirited
discussion between Reynolds and his wife,
concerning the tcl-tale countenance of the
infant. Mrs. II. declaring that the babys
face would expose the husbands crime
and he declaring that it wouldn't.
The bearing, the looks and manner Of
Reynolds and his wife, excited Mrs. Myers
fears for the safety of the child, and as
they were preparing to leave the house with
it, she says she gave them u warning,
after the manner 70 lowing: "I'ye
brought that child safety through the worst.
II won't die unless you kill it, see you
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