The old Abe eagle., 1891-12-18
FOR THE RENEFIT or ROSWELL.

on a jury, on or about March 7th, 1891,
in a case of the state Of Colorado against
one DR.. j. w. Long charged with adultery
committed in Las Animas county, Trim
idad being the county seat where the
trial was held before Judge W. G. Hines,
county judge. Long was convicted and
sentenced to Jail for sixty days which
term he served. The State Board Of
Medical Examiners, of Colorado, revoked
his license and afterwards refused to re
issue license for him to practice.
The circumstances of the case as
shown by the testimony were outrageous
but as the jury could render verdict only
upon that portion of the testimony
which pertained to Las Animas county,
Colorado, his sentence was wholly in
adequate to his crime. This beast in
human form left his own family, for
whom the whole community at Russell,
Kansas, have the deepest sympathy in
their afliiction, and deliberately seduced
the respected wife Of a citszen living
near the same place, thus destroying the
peace of two homes and two families OF
children, Eight months afterwards,
according to the vile brute's own testi-
mony in court at Trinidad, they were
prevented from eloping together on
account Of the sudden violent illness Of
the lady, at which time she gave prema-
ture birth to a child Since that time
this worthy (0 family physician did
elope with the lady taking her tovarious
points in Kansas, Indian Territory and
Colorado and the lady gave birth to an
other child which was living at the time
Of the trial above mentioned and was
adopted by family living near the
Spanish Peaks in Las Animas county,
Colorado, and the injured husband con-
doned the soducted wifc's offence and
took her back east with him at the con
clusion of the trial. The lady swore
that this last child was the child OF the
said DR.. j. W. Long, and the despicable
cur not only did not denyit but conducted
himself in the most nonchalant, disgust
ing, braggadocio manner during the trial.
There are two crimes for which there
exists no adequate punishment and for
which eternal punishment can never
make reparation--one is rape and the
other is seduction, and no community
can feel safe with an animal loose among
their homes who has been guilty of even
the intent of either of these great crimes
Our only apology for presenting this
delicate matter for the consideration
Of the public, is the oncrous duty of
every man to aid in protecting the
homes Of his friends and neighbors, and
while life lasts we will be found in that
line and especially at the threshold of
our own humble home.
LATER-We have Just heard that
this Dr. J.W. Long is at the bottom Of a
scheme to defraud }. L. Zimmerman
out OF home by contosting his right to
piece Of government land upon which
Zimmerman had placed good improve
ments and cultivated fair portion and
performed all other requisites to comply
with the law and that Longs testimony
is the only vital evidence to substantiate
the grounds for contest.
This being the case we feel further
called upon to state that we would not
believe Long under oath and in the
cause Of justice are willing to make aft.
davit to this fact and all other state.
ments made in this article.
Further, there are more than a dozen
people here in White Oaks WI lived at
Trinidad at the time OF The trial and who
remember the circumstances as pub.
llsned at the time, and il this Long ie
the same villain tried there, we can iur.
nish other atiidavits in Trinidad Of the
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