Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-24

BUFFALO, July 2l.-Ihe Evening
Telegraph last night publishes a three
column story about Grover Cleveland 3
private life. The paper prints a long
Communication accusing him of various
immOralities and says that the min
listers Of this city and newspaper men
from elsewhere have been Investigating
the = e, matter. The Telegraph says
" The story is that Maria HAlpin was
woman lost the responsible position she
had long held with Flint Il Kent, of this
city, as the ~.
RESULT OF HER RELATIONS
with tho noted politician . son, who
bears the Governors image If he does
not bear his name, Is now living.
The woman implored Grover Cleve-
land to redeem HIS pledge to marry
her and properly care for his child and
its mother. Her former female friends
with two exceptions-discarded her.
She was woman of culture, proud
spirit and hitherto unhlem ished life.
She insisted that Cleveland
SHOULD MARRY HER,
but he refused and she took to drink.
Sha threatened the life of Cleveland
and the boy, and it Is charged that he
procured the services Of Robert Watts
and another detective to work up the
case against her," fa'f
The Telegraph continues Natur-
ally enough Mr.. Cleveland's despera-
tion increased. Finally one night in
the ia IL Of 1877 one of these detectives
and physician now living in this city
surreptitiously entered the rooms at
No. IL Genesse street where Maria Hal.
pin still lived with her boy, who was
at the time about two and one-half
years old. They forcibly seized the
mother and despite her cries and stub
born resistance
Il TORE HER FROM HER BABY,
rushed her down stairs, violently drag
ged her into hack they had in waiting
and within an hour landed her in the
Providence Lunatic Asylum on Main
street near Humboldt Parkway. The
, lshrieks of the woman and the heart
lrending cries OF her baby aroused some
of the neighbors, but the work Of fabduc
I ton was speedily done. There was no
pretence oflegal warrant for the seizure
/, and the poor woman was landed In thu
l asylum without legal process.
The detective who assisted In thu
] work told an acquaintance soon afte
!, that he got less than $50 for the job
Q and said the woman resisted so stoutl,
l. that 1t took all his nerve and strength
i to overpower her.
It "Dr. William Ring, an honored citi
o zen of Buffalo, was then attending ply
o Isician at the Providence Asylum
n When visited by Telegraph reporter
Y he said that he remembered Maria Hal
,s pin we'll He says she was brought
N the asylum
MI WITHOUT WARRANT OR FORM
ID oflaw. When he examined her b
A. found that she was not insane. St
In had been drinking. The managers {
I'd the asylum had no right to detain HI
es and she left in few days-that is, :
soon as she chose after her terrible q,
..lperiepce.
~ "The wretched mothers first inqu
no ry after leaving the asylum was for h
UT baby. He had been spirited ava
I'M but her mothers love and zeal was n
lc- to be easily cheated and she soon d
We covered his location and set on ft
ID. legal proceedings
Die TO RECOVER HIM.
er- An exposure of an infamous conspira
ou was feared ,and to avoid 1t the child "
o. Surrendered.
we Lawyer Whitney, her attorne
lid ,corroborates the story and says tt
ng an agreement was made in Groy
yea Cleveland's handwriting, where
av Maria Halpin was to receive $500 a
40 Surrender her son, Oscar Folsom Cle'
he land" The paper gives many deta
!, =, of the occurrence and the publicati
has created u sen nsation.