The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-03-27
Our BrOadb briIn Letters.

Our Broadbrin Letters.
Compromising Felony, o., Ais We'll
That Ends Wsll-Divoroes Obtained
by Villainy and Perjury Death d
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The Army Of Salvation.
| NEW YORK, March 70, 1880,
EDITOR CHIEF: s....s.z#s.
Tt is remarkable what difference
there is between young men. Two
young men in the adjoining counties
of Kings and Qusens were put on trial
q week ago, for exactly the same Of
fense. Each had professed to love a
young girl. Each had betrayed, aud
then abandoned her. Each was tried
for the offense both were convicted.
The circumstances in each case were
precisely similar; but, while one OF
them is doing the State service in
Sing Sing prison for three years and
a half, the other is cavorting off with
his bride to Philadelphia, Washing
ton and Richmond, the happy hns-
band of fair young wife, instead Of
a close cropped prisoner in . convict
suit. jacob A.. Post, young and
dashing lawyer was affianced to Miss
Sarah A. Pettegrew, lovely belle of
Fort Green Place, one, of the most
fashionable districts in Brooklyn,
called the Hill" It was not long
before there was trouble in the house
of Pettegrew, and Mr.. Jacob A. Post
was the only man in the world who
could Get matters right with Miss Pet
tegrew. This Mr.. Jacob A. Post re-
| fused to do, and the consequence was
that Miss Pettegrew invoked the aid
of the law. In pursuing this course,
there were only two things chat Mics
Pettegrew could possibly help to get,
and they we're, either satisfaction or
the man. She, like sensible woman,
preferred the habeas corpus, but if she
could not get that, then she went in
for the next best thing, satisfaction
and fortunately hope for herself, she
got both. The trial took place week
ago, and all the young lady alleged
was fully proven to the satisfaction Of
the jury; both parties were exceed
ing1y bitter, and when Mr.. Post was
convicted of the ohense charged, as
they conducted him back to jail, he
swore by the big boot that he be :
blessed If ho wouldn't 60 to the
States prison for life rather than
marry the aforesaid Miss Sarah A.
Pettegrew. The fatal Monday came
when Mr. Jacob A. Post was to be
called up for sentence. On the one
side was States prison, with cropped
Lead and a striped suit; on the other
y lovely young wife, 3 brown stone
front, kid gloves, swallow tailed coat,
white chokers, ETC., etc, so Mr.. Post
concluded that States prison was not
the thing for jacob. l don't exactly
know what you call "compounding .
felony, but certainly this case looks
very much like sit!' Mr.. Post commit
ted . felony /; Miss Pettegrew COM
pounded it; the magistrate winked at
tit; q Methodist minister assisted at
the ereymony !; madame Mere Petite
grew gave them her blessing; Sarsh's
sisters said they were all delighted,
aud the little dramatic episode wound
up with hands all around; and, Is l
said before, the happy pair are now
doing Philadelphia and the National
Capital by way Of a bridal tour.
In most Of our daily papers can be
seen an advertisement something like
the following =. Absolute divorces
procured without publicity, address
Mr., r. No. -. Park Row. This ad-
vertisement, so sin,pl.a and unpretend-
ing in itself, covers more deep-dyed,
double distilled villainy, than all the
rest Of the advertisements in the pa
per put together. The stock in trade
of these gentry is perjury, rank and
foul, and for the cash consideration
agreed on, they will engage to blast
| the reputation Of any man or woman,
! and to furnish any number Of sub
orned witnesses, who willswear with
out ! tremor, to the existence Of
crimes that never occurred, though
it drove the poor victim to States
prison or to death. A case was nm
earthed last week which reads more
| like q romance than an Ger true tale.
Eleven years, ago, > young German
girl, who had lost both of her parents
in her native land. sought the pr0tec-
tion of her uncle who was settled in
the State of New York. The girl was
young, beautiful and accomplished,
and it was not long before she at
tracted the attention Of farmer who
lived the neighbor of her uncle. This
/ man, Stritz, was cou,se, rough, val
| gar fellow, the very antipodes Of the