The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-02-25
HERE IT IS.
ITS DECEIT, ITS WRONGS
AND ITS WRETCHED-
NESS.

A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY
RUINED BY AN AUSTIN
OCULlsT g.
An item in Thursdays STATESMAN Gre
ated some discussion and paragraph in
yesterdays paper of the same tenor pro-
voked widespread comment and put
EXPECTATION ON TIP-ToE.
The facts, would they were not facts,
upon which these paragraphs were based,
y known only to THE STAsEsMAN re-
,rter and an eminent physician of this
city, and possibly some two or three of
his most intimate friends.
On Wednesday last he received tele-
gram from DR.. Client, of Bolton, a prom
inent member of the medical profession,
and at one time president of the Texas
Medical association, conveying brief men
ton of most deplorable occurrence, the
legitimate result of a
HEINoUs, VNPARDoNABLE
crime, which has blignted forever the life
of beautiful and accomplished young
lady, and with ruthless hand has scattered
woe and unutterable wretchedness in the
social circle in which she moved. The
telegram stated that
FULL PARTICULARS
would be sent by mail, and Thursday
night they were received. From these
particulars, embodied in lengthy letter,
The STATESMAN gathered the following
facts, which bear the impress of truth SO
Enthusiastically that to withhold them from
the public would be criminal.
In the city of Bolton lives DR.. H. G.
Client, who, as physician, has a state
reputation, and of whom his people can
not speak TOO highly. During the month
of April, 1883, the State Medical associa
ton convened in Bolton, and among the
visiting members was
DOCTOR M. sALM,
an oculist of this city. DR.. Client had a
little daughter whose eye was diseased and
DIR. Salm was called to examine, and sue
cessfully treated it. At this time he met
Miss Clara Hill, an orphan girl, but withal
prepossessing and intelligent. She, too
had diseased eye, which DR.. Salm sue
cessfully operated on and removed. His
DodIluS Wdo UhdU VI u anu hAc
department such as to attract to him DIR.
Ghent,, and ever afterward, when visiting
Bolton, he went to the doctors, where he
was received with true
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
and treated as a friend and brother.
During the month of September DR..
Client, liberal and generous, received
into his family as one of his
own daughters, the orphan girl
Miss Clara Hill, whom he and his family
had known for years as most excellent
and attractive, pure and viltuous young
lady, as she was, until
coming under the subtle influence of
the pruriency of DR.. Salm, whom, it seems,
is nothing more nor less than
FOUL DEBAUCHEE.
He made frequent visits to Bolton, and
each time stopped at DIR. Clients. Last
May he went to Bolton, and, as usual,
stopped there. 1t was on Sunday, and DR..
and Mrs. Client were called away from
homo, and missing the train at Temple
failed to return that night, and of course
left DR.. Salm, Miss Hill and DR.. Clients
children to pass the night alone
THE SEQUEL.
After May Miss Hill was changed wo-
man. The days and weeks and months
went by, and still she was changed, but
not a shadow of suspicion fell athwart
her young life. Mrs. Client, however, no
ticed change in her physical condition,
and on more than one occasion called the
l. "A l>,,4 l.,.4l l. o,,l
his wife attributed it to disorganized
functions, and not until last Sunday night
did they discover the true cause, and on
that night poor Miss Hill, deceived and
ruined, gave
to child. In the anguish of her soul she
divulged the tale to her best friends, DR..
and Mrs. Client. Told how Salm,
with all the insidiousness and artful wiles
of crafty, designing, lechery libertine
sought to accomplish her ruin here in
Austin at one time, appealing to her that
his services in saving her life was com
pensation enough for her honor, and for
all she held dear. Adrift upon the wild
sea of life, innocent of its great wrongs,
and It's greater villains. No mother.
blessed counselor, and the star of hope to
which the needle points, to guide the
young to honorable lives. No father.
She fell. She told all to DR.. Client She
told how he failed at Austin, and how he
succeeded on that Sunday night. Thus
was the confidence of true gentleman
and friend betrayed, and young lady's
life marred and made wretched forever.
DOCTOR sALM
has been a resident of this city for some
years, but his character at times has been
the subject of some very ugly rumors,
and from the foregoing it appears now
that such rumors had foundation in fact.
For the young lady there should be pity
and commisseration. For DR.. Salm, the
despoiler of her honor, and the author of