The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-11-10
WHIPPED BY GIRLS.
A Man Surprised in His
Home by Three Figures
in White with Horse
Whips and a Pistol.
A RICH NEWARK SENSATION.
He Says They're Bad Girls; They
Say He's a Bad Man---0ther
State News.
Special to the Sunday Mornino Ns,Os.

Special to the Sunday Mornino Netos
NEWARK, Nov, 8 1886. Eyes, l helped
to give Jim Morehouse good thrashing,"
was the emphatic exclamation of pretty
Nettie De Aublene in reply to question
whether it was true that she and her sis
tiers had figured in the mysterious whip
ping match on Beach street on Tuesday
night of last week.
my sisters, Minnie and Edna, and
myself made up the whipping party"
continued Miss Nettie, as she clenched
her right hand, stamping foot vigorous
ly, land we intend to give MIN more
at the first opportunity"
Few people, even among those living in
the vicinity of the scene of the horsewhlp-
ping, seemed to understand who the par
Elephants in the sensational affair were,
outside OF the fact that James Morehouse
was the victim. AS matter of fact the
attack on Mr.. Morehouse was an avowed
Whitecap event, under the auspices of an
alleged Jack the Ripper. Mr.. Morehouse
says that he realizes that he will be
obliged to be on his guard to repel the adj
vances of the good looking but warlike
sisters. The girls say that he will do well
to keep his doors locked if he hopes to
escape further punishment.
HOW THE WHIPPING OCCURRED.
Mr.. Warehouses; residence is at No. IL
Beach street. The house is of frame, two
stories high. and is approached through
an alleyway. The building is painted
white, and its general surroundings are
builder, and has a shop adjoining his
dwelling He separated from his wife
some years ago. He admits that he was
fercely attacked by the De Aublene sis
teps, but Is not disposed 20 grant that he
was severely hurt Members of the
ft1nf = h.
the dwelling say that the girls beat him
numerically and hammered him over
the head with the butt of revolver,
\ MorehouSe says that he had turned the
girls, who are relatives of his, out of his
house, because he didn't like their con-
duct. The girls declare they departed
from the Morehouse domicile because
Morehouse attempted to treat Edna De
Aublene improperly, and had repeatedly
made improper advances towards the
Others
Morehouse says that his mother and the
mother of the De Aublene girls were half
sisters. He had not seen Mrs. De Aub-
received letter from her asking him to
pay her a visit at New Haven. Her hus-
band had deserted her, taking the house
hold furniture with him, leaving the
woman penniless and with five children,
ali girls, to look after. Mrs. De Aublene
house, and her place was patronized by
Yale College students. She was making
money rapidly when two of her children
were stricken with scarlet fever Her
boarders abandoned the house. Months
later, according to Morehouse, she opened
an establishment patronized by colleg-
ians 1t acquired an unfavorable reputa-
ton, and members of local Woman's
Christian Union prepared to take posses
sion of the younger children, but were
frustrated by one of the older sisters, who
took the young ones to Hartford. After
the mothers death Morehouse says that
he visited the sisters, furnished them
needed assistance and returned home. He
says he RENTED weekly sums Of SIS and
So for the younger sisters, Edna and
Annie.
THE GIRLS ARRIVAL IN NEwARD.
One afternoon two years ago he was
surprised at being visited by Edna and
Annie, who asked him to take care Of
them, as their friends in Connecticut had
turned them adrift. Morehouse says that
he procured the girls employment in a
corset factory. Edna was then fifteen
and Annie thirteen years of age.
II allowed them to keep their earnings
SO that they might clothe themselves and
in many other ways made things pleasant
for the little girls" said Mr. Morehouse.
''They were fond of dime novel literature.
Soon after their arrival Edna wrote to
an acquaintance named Ryan, who re-
sided in Hartford, Conn. She told how
she and Annie were confined in gloomy
stone building behind iron bars and kept
from communication with other girl pris-
oners. They described the jailer as
fierce looking being, who represented
himself as a relative. They told of futile
attempts to escape, and limited that they
were being reserved for q horrible fate.
They explained to Ryan that if he
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get 1t through the assistance of boy
who was friendly to them.
A FAIRY PRISON STORY.
The Hartford Chief of Police was shown
the letter, and he Immediately communi-
Gated with Chief of Police Tuite, of this
city A detective was stationed at the
Newark Post Office, and when the girls
and taken to headquarters. Morehouse
was summoned. and the girls fell on their
knees and denied having sent the Hart
ford letters. They were taken home by
Merehouse. A year ago Minnie and
Nettie arrived at Warehouses; and Annie
was returned to Hartford. Morehouse
says that the girls displayed a fondness
for the company of young men. He in
tercepted their letters and has in his pos
session one sent to Nettie by Harry
Wood, of Hartford. Nettie is invited TO
meet Harry at a New York hotel Some
VI tlltS5 l5ttefS 4COubdlutu lll1pIOpcI Aldb-
ter, said Morehouse, land put my foot
down on the girls gallivanting. /
ordered Minnie's fellow, a Walter Wicket
haus, of this city, to keep away from the
place. He pummelled me about pretty
lively and kicked me into the house. /
sent the girls away on Wednesday, three
weeks ago."
On Tuesday afternoon two weeks ago
Morehouse received the following let
fsr:
The people downstairs are going to
move out and you will be alone in the
house, SO will make you call either the
last of this week or the first of next, and
give you a first-rate thrashing, you dirty
loafer. l will put your nose on level
with your face; knock your two eyes into
one, and your teeth win go sailing down
your throat one by one. You had better
buy few yards of linen to tie yourself
up with when l get through with you.
Will not come alone, but will bring
friend who owes you
Expect us between ten and one o'clock.
JACK THE RIPPER"
THE ATTACK ON MoREHoUsE.
II was sitting in my room reading an
hour after the receipt of the Whitecap
missive," said Mr.. Morehouse, when the
door softly opened and three figures with
their heads enyeloped In white cloths,
entered. One OF them locked the door.
They were the De Aublene sisters. Nettle
demanded the Harry Wood letter, and
a - ~ l.