The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-01-28
THE COURTS.
An Extraordinary Morsel of Nastiness
The Circuit Court.

An extraordinary M0rsei OF Nastiness'
Judge Goodspeed's wing Of the Circuit Court
has been engaged since Wednesday morning on
the case of Fa,snb /. Cdrdrly VS.. Dr. j. II camp.
field, an action OF trespass; damages claimed
$4,000; f. F, Bull, of this city, and J. S Ewing,
OF Bloomington, for plaintiff; Leland ~ Gilbert
of this city, for defendant.
The case, us rare bit of nastiness, has attract
ed not a little attentlon,-not only on account of
its nastiness, but also on account of the most uu
usual charge against the defendant Since the
trial opened the court room has been crowded
with spectators, old and young, the crowd hour
ly growing more dense. So impatient was the
crowd awaiting admission on Thursday that the
glass Of the court room door was broken in! 1t
is certain the 10; polloi are Interested There are
no vacant seats, and standing room is at pre-
MUM The bar, and especially student life, is
also well represented With thoughtful antci
patton, rail was erected enclosing about two
thirds of the room, to which only the bar, mem
bers Of the court and reporters were admitted.
There has been no room 10 spare here, either.
The jury was soon obtained, the box beng
filed early on Wednesday afternoon. Most Of
them are farmers, married men, and past the
meridian Of life. About o'clock Mr.. Bull began
his opening for the plaintiff consuming the rest
of the day. On Thursday morning Mr.. H. T.
Gilbert made the opening for the defendant.
We do not propose to record this case in detail
The FREE TRADER has no desire, nor does it
make prctentions to attempts TO interfere with
the field of the Police Ga-ette, The details of the
trial are not fit to be read in any respectable
family; and on that account we have heretofore
passed in silence all developments in the case:-
the explosion caused by the knowledge that a
child had been born to the plaintiff, an unmar-
red young woman, grand daughter of the late
Judge Cavalry young lady born and raised in
Ottawa; nor also, the extraordinary affidavit
which she filed, commencing this suit several
terms ago in this court. Nevertheless, the case
coming to trial (Which Is the greatest surprise,
after alb our readers have the right to an out
line of the suit.
The case presented by the plaintiff is about
this: In March, 1879, the plaintiff being trQu-
bled with that quite common female complaint,
falling Of the womb, called on DR.. Campteld,
who had been her late grandfather's physician,
for treatment. The Doctor treated her-for
time at her house. On one occasion she met
him on the street, and asking him to call at her
home, he suggested that she go to to his office
which he assured her would be perfectly proper
and be also ,ess expensive for her. Thercupon
she wcnt-wcnt several times, and particularly
during September, 1879. His conduct was per-
fectly proper and gentlemanly. On one occa-
sion, however, having operation to perform,
he wen. to a saloon near by after wine, which he
gave her to drink. Shortly after she had drunk
the wine she began to feel a peculiar sensation,
a;,I,, ;,,t a., ~,
eyed and saw both sides of the room; and she
called his attention to the fact She then be-
came insensibe and can only recollect that on re-
covering she went out of the operating room in
a dazed condition MA a door into back hall,
and thence through the building to the street
the first time she had been sent out of the office
in that way. At several other times she was
given similar peculiarly tasting wine, having a
similar effect, which wine she believed to have
been drugged. On one of these occasions she is
led to believe from subsequent events that he
accomplished her ruin. Counsel for the plaintiff
said he thought the theory at first absurd on its
face; but he has found on examination Of the
books that there was drug, a rapid and perfect
intoxicant, which, administered by inhalation orr
taken into the stomach as with wine, exctes the
amatory emotions, the Intoxicating effects OF the
drug passing of rapidly. Whether the Doctor
gave ner ether or no, plaintiff will not say Ger.
tainly he must have known of its effects; and
the books are full Of cases where women have
become pregnant while under the influence of
drugs or intoxicating liquor. When the signs of
pregnancy appeared, plaintiff, being innocent of
the evil fallen upon her, contrary to all woman
nature under the circumstances, made no secret
OF the matter, attributing the cause to some dis
ease. She called on the Doctor about it, and on
other physicians. They told her she had tu-
NOR, which she talked of everywhere to her
dress maker and her friends. In December she
went to the Doctors Office for the last time tell
ing him she was going to Bloomington to visit
friends of her mother. He tried to dissuade her
Knowing her condition, and finally told her she
should not go. She did gO--the last place she
would have gone to had she known her cond-
ton. She returned from Bloomington in Janu-
airy. Then at the Doctors request she wrote q
letter to DR.. Byford, Chicago, describing her
symptoms. This letter, which she placed in his
hands for additions, she says DIR. Campfeld kept,
and never sent to DR.. Byford. After she wrote
DIR. Byford she went to consult HIM personally. |
On his telling her her trouble she was very in.
dignant ahd denied that such could possibly be |
the case. After she came home DR.. Campfed,
assisted by DR.. Stout, performed two operations
upon her which, but for her own acts, would
have produced, as no doubt intended by DR..
c., an abortion. Still later Drs. Hathaway, Dyer
and Stout (the latter of whom plaintiff agrees was
entirely ignorant of her misfortune, but was, she
insists used as tool for Campfeld) made an ex-
animation of her, pronouncing her in an sd-
vanced stage of pregnancy. She was then CON-
PEELED to admit the fact, on their judgment,
though still absolutely ignorant of the author of
her misfortnne. On the 10th of NAV 1850 abe