Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-04
HELD TO COURT.
TIE HEARING OF JAMES P. BAOHNAN AND
SUSAN MULVBY,
Before Justice Gillsspy, at the jail, Yesterday.
Both Defendants Held for the
Grand Jury.

The preliminary examination OF
James P. Bachman and Susan Mulvey,
on the charge Of committing an abor-
ton, by the use OF drugs and instru-
ments, upon the person Of Ethel c.
Cooper, aged about eighteen, came of
at three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
before Justice Gillsspy, at the jail. The
State was represented by Prosecuting
Attorney Howard, and the defendants
by Hon. Geo. w. Atkinson and Capt. B.
B. Dovener. The victim Of the unlaw-
full act, Miss Cooper, was present with
her mother She is quite pretty young
girl, former resident of the Island, and
not at all the sort OF looking person u.s.
ually figuring in such scrapes. The
Mulvey woman, jointly charged with
young Bachman, with the commission
OF the crime, is rather heavily built
oman of about forty-something, and
appeared in a fur-trimmed cloak and
diamond earrings, looking fairly pros
porous for these times. Young Bach
man is about twenty-five.
Miss Cooper was first sworn, and said
she had known young Bachman since
last July. He was her regular company,
calling upon her regularly ever since,
up TO her trouble. She first saw Susan
Mulvey on the twenty seventh of Janu-
airy, last, at Mulvey's home. 1t was on
Saturday evening. She met her by aD-
pointment, Bachman making the APP
pointment to meet her at drug
store TO go and see the woman.
Witness had then been pregnant
about ten weeks. Bachman called on
her that evening, and begged and in
sisted on her going to the drugstore 10
meet the woman. Witness had, previous
", attempted 70 destroy the child, upon
the advice OF Bachman, but the
effort was of no avail, and Bachman
then told her he knew a woman who
did such things, and thus got witness
to meet her. He told witness be would
see about the woman, and witness could
see her, but witness didn't want to 90.
On the Friday before January 27th
Bachman said he had found the woman,
and witness must meet her. Witness
said she didn't want TO 60, and Bach
man said he hated to see her go, but
they must She met Bachman at the
drug store, and they went TO Mulvey's
house. Witness was to be Miss Porter,
of Fulton, and Bachmsn was to be from
Elm Grove, in case the woman asked
who they were, but the woman asked
nothing as TO who they were, but pro-
ceeded at once TO business by asking
number OF questions. She said to wit
ness: "0h, you needn't be afraid, for
there's just hundreds come here"
Witness said she wasn't afraid
of the operation, but didn't want to
come" Bachman went out into the
kitchen while the operation was per-
formed. The witness described fully
this and a subsequent operation, AID
the result The MulveY woman asked
witness to come back on Sunday or
Monday, but they didn't go back until
January 31st, she then going after being
urged by Bachman. Witness had left
her home that evening to go to church
with a girl friend, but the friend didn't
meet her, and she went TO the house
with Bachman. The same operation
was gone through with this time as
upon the first visit. Mulvey told Bach
man they were to come back again the
next evening, but they didn't go again
until Sunday evening. BachmaD called
on her at p. N. on that day, and he
made an appointment with witness 10
meet him at the poStoffice at z p. m.
She met Bachman on Twentieth street,
and went to the house. but Bachman
wouldn't come in, saying he
was afraid Of meeting some
one, and he would remain
outside, The woman used different in-
strument that time, and witness suf-
fered great pain. The woman then pre-
scribed brown ginger root tea. Muvey
told witness 90 come back the next day,
as she was going away on Tuesday. She
met Bachman outside the house and he
went with her TO a drug store and got
the ginger. Bachman soon left her,
and witness went home and went to bed,
and the next day she was too III to see
Bachman, who came TO the house on
Tuesday and saw witness, and Wednes-
day morning a physician was called.
The child was born Thursday. Her
mother did not know what was wrong
until the physician called.
On crosS-eXamination witness denied
that she had ever suggested Mulvey's
name TO Bachman, MOI request Bach
man to find out where she lived. Bach
man suggested the woman himself, and
found where she lived. She detailed a
number OF facts, involving consulta-
tious with a girl in the store, with
Bacnman, etc, before he visit to Null
vey'S.
The defendants were held to Court,
Bachman in s., 900 bail and Mulvey In
81. 600, bonds being furnished.
In another column appears the details
OF an arrest on a Federal charge, which
case seems intimately connected with
the above hearing.