The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-18
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THURsDAY...........MARCH IS, 1850.
THE WILLIAMs-DANIBLs GOSSIP.

has ieaIheu iOuB ere buls lnat one
Thomas Daniels, Of Albany, accused
Mr.. i. L. Williams, OF Douglas county.
of running awayn with Mrs. Daniels
last Summer. We know nothing Of
Mr.. Williams, and little Of Mrs. Daniels.
and only comment on the matter be-
cause 1t involves principles Of vital i'm
portance to every woman in the State.
We learn that Mr.. Williams has been
friend Of Mrs. Daniels aud her fathers
family for twenty-five years or more
Last Summer be left their house las he
has often done befOre) and went of TO
the Rocky Mountains upon business or
pleasure. Because Mrs. Daniels han
pened to leave home on a visit to her
mothers sister about that time, Mr..
Daniels, in a sudden ft Of chronic ieal-
ousy, or, which is far more probable, a
ht Of chronic meanness, proceeded to Al
oany and caused the serious charges re-
ferree to in this article to be published
in the Democrat, and the same was re
published and unfavorably commented
upon by nearly all the papers in the
State. At the same time the unworthy
husband commenced 8 suit for divorce,
relying upon the inability Of his wife to
defend herself during the absence Of Mr..
Williams, to her an important witness.
The parents Of Mrs. Daniels, hearing Of
the dishOnorable course pursued by
Daniels, wrote to Mr.. Williams the par
tieulars thereof, and he instructed them
at once to prepare to defend their daugh-
ters reputation against the attack so
numerically made upon her. The case
was before the Linn County Circuit
Court the two last terms, and was al
wsys persistently opposed by Daniels
and his attorneys. Finally, last week,
after violent opposition by Daniels, who
found il impossible to make further de-
lay, the Judge directed him to proceed
with his case, when his attorneys,
with trembling limbs and CULVER
ing lips, arose and announced TO the
Court that they had not one particle Of
evidence Of any kind against the poor
woman This fact Of itself is a full and
complete vindication OF her character,
and a direct admission that the whole
proceeding was malicious - that the
charges were false and without any
foundation whatever.
What next? The sequel will show.
Mrs. Daniels had carefully procured her
testimony, and was amply prepared to
show beyond any possibility Of doubt
that every charge against her was fab
ricated falsehood, and, further, that
Daniels knew them to be false when he
prepared his papers and filed them in
Court. The attorney for Mrs. Daniels,
following the law, precedent, and the
decisions Of all the courts Of equity in
this State, had set up for her a cross
bill, and, upon the failure Of Daniels
to obtain any evidence against her, very
properly claimed the right to introduce
her testimony, disproYe the accusations,
and then take a decree in her favor;
but the cruel law, expounded by
crueler Judge, was against the poor, un-
fortunate woman, and this gallant "lord
Of creation" perched upon the judicial
bench, stood upon his dignity and pro-
mOlgated to the world the arbitrary,
tyrannical, barbarous and unheard-Of
decision that a slandered and abused
woman had no rights in his Court that
he was bound 10 respect, and that a di-
vorce could only be granted to q plain
tiff bishop disagrees with the Judgel,
and, upon his falling to prove him
self entitled to one, the defendant must
get out OF Court.
There is sweet justice for you! How
DO the women Of Oregon like il? II an
uuPriucipied vagabond of a husband
sees proper, he can accuse his wife of
anything his morbid propensity and in
genuity may conceive, drag her into
Court, force her to employ attorneys,
pay fees, and perhaps be TO great ex-
pense in procuring her evidence, and
publish her ia the newspapers; then, If
the miserable poltroon learns that she
has succeeded in procuring testimony
sufficient to acquit her, he can slink
away out OF the courtroom aud say TO
his hoOdlum associates, al made it hot
for her for a while, anyhow"
Away with such law aud justice
And to the voters Of Oregon, who will |
soon be called upon to elect a judiciary,
We say, away with such judicial nonen-
titles as the one in question, who has
just made the decision above referred to /
Elect men to the bench who will pro-
tect all citizens alike, aud not endeavor /
to shield Iow-lived criminal in an at /
tempt 70 crush an innocent woman.
Mrs. Daniels is innocent, and her rep /
utatiOn stands higher to-day than II she
had proven every charge against her to /
have been false by score Of witnesses.
No more complete vindication Of her
character could have been had; and /
justly, legally and equitably she was
entitled to the relief that she set up in /
Der cross-bill, and which was refused
her by the Court.
The Albany Democrat, which pub
lished the charges for the purpose OF
making capital against a member Of
the Republican party, makes reparation
In Its last issue, aud asks all the papers
which copiei tie attack to print a cor
rected statement.
The people Of the East are becoming
interested in Western mime and mining