The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
THE FOUL ISLANDER
Comptetety Refoted by the Categorical
Arasacer Of Mr.. Blaine to the In
terrogotorieS-Th comments of
the Indiana Newspapers on
the A,iQuity.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September
2O.--1r. Blaine's attorneys to-day
filed answer to the interrogatolies of
J the Sentinel, which were filed Sep
tember 8. These heterogeneous were
as follows:
First-What was the maiden name of your
wife?
Second-When and where did You make her
acquaintance?
Third-State whether you ever lived in the
| State OF Kentucky. Ifso, in what employment
you were there employed and at what place
and at what time you were so employed?
Fourth-State whether the person whom
you aiterward married liHed in Kentucky at
| that time, in what employment she was en-
ed?
Fi1h-State when you finally left Ken
| lucky; iiyou at any time resided there: where
| YOU went therelrom; where you were next
| empoyed, and in what business or calling?
| SiXth-If you answer that the maiden name
| ofyoul wife was Harriet Stanwood, state when
| she finally left Kentucky: where she went :;
witt b %Aom' and when and where you next
seventl when and where were you mar
lsi.se-ssf01ff0 81 BTarcu, 1851?
I Ninth-Give date and place of your mar
riage and names of persons besides yourself
| and wife who were present on the oc casion?
TenthAWhat acquaintance had you with
| Jacob Stanwood?
| Eleventh-What relation, fanny, was he to
the person to whom you were married and
| what conversation or interview did you have
| with him before said marriage concerning
| same, and where did said interview, if any,
occur; and what was said and done therein
Twefth-Was not the first child of said mar
riage horn on the 18th day of June, 1851?
| Thlrteenth-Whatw was the name, how long
| did it live, and with whom?
Fourteenth - When did said child die q?
| Where was buried? And ifin any cemetery,
| give the name of the cemetery?
| Fifteenth-Was any tombstone or monu-
ment erected at the grave of the child? Give
| the date of its birth, and by whose directions
| was such tombstone erected?
| Sixteenth-Was there any inscription on
| said tom stone at the time oft erection, or
| shortly thereafter? If so, give sadinscription
i'll words and figures as the same was origi-
nally craven on said tombstone.
Seventeenth-Did not said tombstone bear
| the following inscription relative to the birth
| OF said child: "Stanwood Blaine, born June
! Is, 1882"
Eighteenth-Has any portion of said in
| scription on said ombStOne been erased since
| its erection? 1fso, what portion?
Nineteenth-What acquaintance have you
| with the book called THE life of James q.
Blaine" written by Russell H. Conwell, with
an Introduction BY Governor ROBBIE and pub
| lished by E. c. Allen & Co., Augusta Me-, in
the year 1881?
Twentieth-Were not the proofs of such
work submitted to you for revision?
Twenty first-Is not the statement made
upon the sixty eighth page of said book as
| follows: "Miss Stanwood in March, 1851, be-
came his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa correct
st tement as to the time and place of your
marriage?
Twenty second-Did not you communicate
to the author of said book for his use in such
work the time and place of your marriage as
aforesaid ?
Tothese interrogatoriesM Mr.. Blaine responds
| as follows:
MR.. BLAINE's RESPONSE.
l, James G. Blaine, of Augusta,
Maine, on oath, depose and say, in
answer to. the foregoing interroga-
tories:
First-Harret B. Stanwood.
Second-In Georgetown, Kentucky, in the
spring of 1913.
Third lived in Kentucky, as assistant
| Professor or tutor in the Western Military In
| stitute from January. 1913, to December, 1851
| In 1913 and 1919 the Institute was at George
town; in 1850 at Blue Lick in 1851 at Drennon
| Springs.
Fourth-The lady I married lived in Ken
| lucky from he spring of 1913 to the spring of
| 1851, engaged as a teacher in Colonel T. f.
| Johnson'S Female Seminary-the first two
| years at Georgetown, the last year at Milers-
| burg
Fifth finally left Kentucky in the latter
| part of December, 1851, went to New Orleans
on business, and thence directly to Augusta
| Me, which place / reached February, 1852
| and was next employed as principal teacher
| in the Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruc-
| ton of the Blind, in Philadelphia.
SiXth-My wife left Kentucky in March,
| 1851, accompanied by myself as far as Pitts
| burgh, Pa, and thence travelled alone to New
| York where she was met by her brother Jacob
| Stanwood. and under his protection proceed
| ed to her mothers residence. in Augusta, Me-.
where next met her February 8, 1852.
Seventh, eighth and nnth-I was married
in Millersburg, KY, on the Both of June. 1850
! in the presence of Sarah G. StanwOod and r.
] l.. Blaine. The marriage was secret. Having
doubt subsequently of its vitality under the
| laws of Kentucky, which then stringently re-
| quired license from the clerk of the County
| Court, had the marriage soemnized a sec
ond time in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10Th of
| March, 1851, in the presence of John o. Lee
| moyne and David Bell.
Tenth and eeTenth-Jacob Stanwood was
| the eldest brother of my wife. l had no ac-
| quaintance with him at the time of my mar
| riage; had never seen him nor heard from
him in any way, directly or indirectly before
my marriage. | met him for the first time in
| February 1852. | had two letters from him
after my marriage, and before met him-one
| warmly welcoming me as a member of the
| family, the other inquiring if he could pro-
| mote my business interests by n loan of mon
| ey. had no othercOrrespondence OF any kind
| until had personally met him in February
| 1852. My wife had two other brothers, neither
| ofwhom I had ever met when l came to New
ENGLAND in February, 1852, nor did ever
meet any male relatives of my wife before
my arrival in New England in February, 1852.
Twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth-My first
| child a son, was born in the house Of his
| grandmothar, on the 18th of June, 1851. His
| name was Stanwood Blaine. He lived with
| his parents in 1852, 1858 and part of 1854, in
| Philadelphia, fiied July 81, 1851, and was bur-
| led in the Stanwood family lot in Forest Grove
cemetery, Augusta, Me.
THE INFAMOUS WORK OF vANDALs.
| Fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth-A
| his grave the year afrer his death, thus in
| scribed: Stanwood Blaine, son of James q,
and Harriet B. Blaine. Born June Is, 1851
died July 81, 1854. ~
Eighteenth-I have not myself seen the
| stone since the first week in July, but have
| reason TO believe, and do believe, that since
| that date many letters and figures thereon
| have been defaced. and that the figure in the
| year 1851 has been entirely removed | have
no means OF ascertaining by whom this was
| done, but have reason to believe, and do be-
| leve, that a photograph was taken Of the de
| faced stone by the procurement Of one of the
| publishers OF the NelO Age, Democratic pa
per published in this city, and that copies of
said photograph were sent TO divers and sun
| dry persons, including the publisher of tho
| INDIANAPOLIS Stdndid1d-de fen dant of this Suit