The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-26
HEARKEN TO HAINLINE.
She Has Not skipped the Towr, and VIII
Prosecute Cleveland.
From the Springfield Register, "a

From the Springfield Register, "a
A week ago the Register noted the
fact that Hon. Henry Cleveland one of
the representatives, in the Legislature from
Rock Island county, had been arrested on
a charge of bastardy, on complaint of Mrs
Anna Hainline and had given bail in the
sum Of $500 for his appearance before JUS
tice Schroyer on the 10th of July,
on which date the case had
been set for hearing We
had not expected to refer to the matter
again except to report progress from
| time to time if the case should come to
| trial, but as it is still the subject of CON
siderable comment, a few words would
seem to come in appropriately at this
| time The Journal as everybody knows
| is always averse to handling such cases.
and it did not even find room in its col
ums TO note the simple fact of Gle veland's
arrest, II is barely possible that it did not
hear of it, or if it heard of it perhaps its
gratitude to Mr. Cleveland for the i'm
portant service he rendered
the party in the dis :
graceful proceedings in which Hon jesse
W
| it to throw the mantle of silence over the
case. Now, however, after week has
elapsed, it has displayed sufficient enter
prise to refer to the matter, but it does so
in such manner as to leave it open to
the suspicion of entertaining a disposition
to write the complaining witness down-to
decide the case against her before it is
| tried. 1t has come to the CONCLUSION
| that the case is one of
| blackmail, and cites one or
two very unimportant circumstances,
which may or may not be true, to sustain
this view. and concludes its notice of the
matter by saying that Mrs Hainline has
skipped town" Now the Register is in
! position to know that she has not
skipped town, for representative of
the paper saw and conversed with her
| yesterday. She stated to him that she not
| only had not skipped town, but had no
| intention of doing so. She denounced
.ihe Journals article in reference to her
self as untrue in all essential particulars;
| declared her condition was as she had
| stated it to be in her complaint before
| the justice; that Mr. Cleveland was the
| cause of it, and that nobody was better
| aware of the fact than he Cleveland had
spent much time in her company; she
thought great deal of him. and he
pretended to think q great deal of her
more than he did of any one else He had
endeavored to get her to go to Rock
Island and engage in business there, but
| she had refused to do so, for the reason
that his family lived there, and she did
not wish to come between man and
| wife. She was very emphatic in all these
statements, and also in the declaration
that she would press her suit against
him, unless he prevented it from going
to trial by a compromise. He had, she
said, made certain promises to her, and
| did not propose to ''be left" The
| Register, of course, has no means of
knowing whether or not the statements
are true, but inasmuch as it is under
stood Cleveland admits an undun init
macy with the woman, it sees no reason
| to doubt them. That she wants money"
is true. That's what bastardy suit
means, and its not necessarily black
mail either. If the complainant can
establish her allegations, she is entitled
| to recover; if she can not, then her case
must fail. So far she seems to have
proceeded against him in a lawful man
ner, and while every one is entitled to
his OWE opinion in regard to the case, it
is perhaps not exactly fair to pronounce
final judgment in advance of the judicial
| hearing.