Delaware weekly Republican., 1884-07-31
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BUFFALO, July 2i.-ThA Evening
Telegraph last night publidilasa q three
coiumi story about Grovsf @eveland'
private life. The paper prth1s long
Communication aeeusing klnN various
ifnmorelittea and says thAtlFthe min
listers OF this city and Newspaper men
from elsewhere have been linvestigating
the matter. The Teie&raph says |
"The story is that Mariaf HAipin wss
wr0nged by Grover Oieyeland. Tha3
woman lost the responsibility position she
had long held with Flint ~ Kent, of this
city, as the
RESULT OF HER RELATIONS
with the noted politician son, who
bears the Governors Image II he does
not bear his name, Is nov living.
The woman implored Grover CIeve-
land to redeem his pledge to marry
her and properly care for Ills child and
Its mother. Her former female friends
With two eeptions-discarded her,
She was woman of culture, proud
spirit and hitherto nnblelnished life.
She insisted that Cleveland
SHOULD MARRY nER,
but he refused and she took TO drink.
| She threatened the life of Cleveland
and the boy, and IL Is charged that he
procured the services of Robert Watts
and another detective TO work up the
case against her" A-
The Telegraph continues "Natur-
ally enough Mr.. Oleveland's despera-
tion increased. Finally ,one night In
the fall of 1877 one OF those detectives
and physician now living in this city
snrreptitiously entered the rooms at
No. II Genesse street where Maria Hal
pin still lived with her boy, who waf
at the time about two and, one-haii
years old. They forcibly seizeh the
mother and despite her cries and stub
born resistance
TORE HER FROM HER BABY,
rushed her down stairs, Violently drag
ged her into hack thoy had In waiting
aud within an boar landoi her In the
Providence Lunatic Asylum on Main
street near Hunt ooldt Parkway. Ths
shrieks OF the woman ands the heart
rending cries OF her baby arDused SOM
of the neighbors, but thework afabduc
tion was speedily done. There was nc
! pretence oflegal warrant for th4 seizure
and the poor woman was landhd In tn
!, asylum without legal process.
The detective who assisted In th
work told an acquaintance seaRs Rftf
. that he got less than 800 forH jol
and said the woman resisgal al Autl
that IL took all his nerve and rengt
: to overpower her. M
"Dr. William Ring, an hon BED cit
(, !, zen of Buffalo, was then attend #pg phi.
!, sician at the Providence Asylum
!, When visited by Telegraph Eeporte
! he said that he remembered Matia Hal
/ pin we'll. He says she was baought
j the asy lum
4 WITHOUT WARRANT OR FF1iM
81 oflaw. When he examinedl her
10 found that she was not insane. 81
had been drinking. The managers ,
q, the asylum had no right TO detain h
ie and she left in few days-that is,
h soon as shs chose after her terrible Q;
0, perience.
is "The wretched mothers first inqu
rt ry after leaving the asylum was for h
IS baby. He had been spirited ava
r but her mothers love and zeal was n,
es to be easily cheated and she soon di
be covered his location and set on 70
a. legal proceedings
az TO RECOVER HIM.
"a An exposure of an Infamous conspira
NO was feared and to avoid it the child W
"a surrendered.
,ai " Lawyer Whitney, her attornt
ha oorroborates the story and says u
an agreement was made in Groy
an Cleveland's = handwriting, where
In. Maria Halpin was to receive $500 a
"a surrender her son, Oscar Folsom Gle
~,, land" The paper gives many deta
M of the occurrence aud the publicati
M has created a sensation.