The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-16
A HORRIBLE STORY.
A Little Girls Account of the
Suffering She Endured While
Among the Gypsies.

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Among the Gypsies.
Taken from an Infrmary and for Five
Years Subjected to Terrible.
Treatment.
Her Escape.
A little less than three months ago
the citizens of the little town of Gettvs-
burg, Darke county, o., were Mortified
by story told them by waif calling
herself Cora Dobbins, writes a Shelby
vile correspondent of The Cincinnati
Commercial Gasctte The childs story
was so horrible as to create the Wild
est Indignation, and but for the fact
that she would tell some her name was
Cora Dobbins and others Cora Green,
this letter would have been written in
Ohio, with detailed account of the
manner in which the girls tormentor
was mobbed
An exceedingly pleasant drive of
some seven miles, going east on the
Michigan road from this place brings
you to the elegant, not to say .palatial.
farm residence of Mr.. Leonard Powell
This gentlcman's home is surrounded
with all the wealth and luxury that a
successful life brings to the industrious
farmer 1t is just such home as all
wish for, but few ever secure. The
beautiful dwelling. the elegant lawn,
the walks. which are bordered with the
sweetest flowers. the spacious outbuiid-
ings, the herds of fine, sleek kline, with
great fields of sweet-;cented clover in
full bloom, the fields of waving wheat,
the songs OF the birds-make the scene
one worthy of the artists bes. endeav-
ors. To this elegant home your corre-
spondent, this morning, wended his
way. and there heard one of the sad
| desl, most shocking, and heartrending
tales that ever fell from the lips of a
mortal.
In this beautiful home taken there
through the act of pure philanthropy.
is now Cora Doolittle, child only ia
| years old, who has suffered all the tor
of the days of the inquisition. AS she
| 'Ncco DSlptS lllC llllS IL WIS
! hard 10 believe that her story could
/ possibly be true, and were it not for the
sears that cover her body, from her
very toes to the crown of her head
any person would be justified in disbc-
/ lieving her. The child is bright in the
ways of the world but thoroughly ig-
norant as to books. She is not hand
some neither is she homelv. her bright
| sparkling gray eyes being so quick to
see everything that she is rendered at
tractive. Her hair is blonde. complex
ion fair and ru,ldy, and her build is
strong and elastic. In conversation
she is adroit, and shows the cunning
of the people she has lived with so long
Dressed in neat, light lawn dress,
with pale blue ribbon at the throat,
the Child was neat, and We're it not for
Il horrible scar across the left cheek and
a bullet wound in the forehead she
would be considered by some rs hand
some. This child's mother was Susan
Doolittle, n poor, uubefriended woman,
who found her way to the county
asylum, four miles south of here, be-
fore the child was born.
When the little unfortunate babe was
nshercd into the world Mr.. Hugh Dob
BINS was then superintendent OF the in
''i'' ne' .hi iSteiieu 'iie p'.pe
generally called her Cora Dobbins. 1t
was this fact that made her give the
name of Cora Dobbins at Gettysburg
One evening in 1881, when Henry
Spellman was acting as superintendent
of the asylum, man and woman
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