Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-25
SHEPARD Medical InSiLlta.

original act aid keep alive other portonSt
that the original act could not be at once
dead and alive That proposition the court
sustained and ordered an acluittal.
But the Beecher people were not yet
through with. the fair publishers.
They were indicted for criminal libel-still,
however for the publication of the Challis
article, which well served the purpose of a
cloak-and were tried before Judge Suther-
land in the New York general sessions. Tho
| trial, which aroused much public interest,
lasted nine days. The pressure brought to
bear in the prosecution was somewhat evil
denced by the fact that besides District At
torney Phelps, there also appeared for the
people ex-Judge William Fullerton and
Henry c. Knox. The late Charles w.
Brooke represented the defendants. But
Challis' appearance was against him. The
smiles of Tennie and Victoria warmed the
hearts of the jurymen toward them, and, be-
sides, there was a general feeling that the
prosecution was intended to serve another
purpose than that which appeared upon the
surface, and SO another acquittal was the
result. But the woes of the sisters were not
yet done. There came forward a woman
complaining that she had intrusted money to
the winsome brokers to invest and that they
had converted it to their own use. She
secured a civil order for their arrest and
heavy bail some 100000 or $4,000, was
named, and for a short period the firm OF
Woodruff & Clafiin fingered in LUDLOW street
Jail. Security however, was soon obtained
and the case came to trial in the civil court.
The testimony Of Commodore Vanderbilt was
considered necessary to properly present the
case of the defendants but the crafty fnan-
cier did not care to put in a public appear
ance In connection with these fair danes.
But Victoria Woodruff said he should come
upon the witness stand. and come he did,
and upon his evidence they won the case.
Commodore Vanderbilt died. The heirs
got into squabble over his money. Sud-
denly, in 1879. Victoria Woodruff and Tennie
Ciaflln sailed for England. There are these
who know why they went, but that is a
matter that is not necessary to go into at
present. But those who knew them best
IN this country were certainly the most
amazed when the cable one day announced
that Victoria Woodruff had married John
bddulph Martin, the head of financial in
stitutlon whose history dates back to the
early days of the sixteenth century and
that Miss Tennessee ClaHn had married
Sir Francis Cook an enormously wealthy
baronet, who, even at that time was famous
throughout Europe as the owner of the
Montserrat estate at Clntra, the beauties OF
whose palace and whose groves are sung by
byron in his immortal "Childe Harold"
rms news seemed so incredible that for
some time ii was not believed
Both women returned TO this country in
April, 1880, and their coming was actually
prefaced with an announcement made I'm a
paragraph OF the London Court Journal
,Wno,,, whlcn pore about 1t suspicion of Victoria
Woodhulls authorship, and numerous copies
OF which were sent to this country In al-
vance of Mrs. Martins arrival The lines
referred to read as follows:
Mrs j. Biddulph Martin, who. a dozen
years ago. when she was Mrs Victoria Wood
null, drew such crowds to her lectures in ST.
James nan, has received pressing invita-
tlon to visit her native couRtry-Amerlca-
and once more lecture in the principal cities
OF the United States. the invitation being
accompanied by offer of Il 900 for each
lecture. This popular lecturer and philan-
thfopist has not accepted this invitation her
health not permitting her to undertake so
arduous an engagement; but. were she 10 do
so, she would, 1t Is said, give away In charity
the whole OF the proceeds However. she
leayeD for New York In few days, and ii
may therefore, not be out OF place to mem
tion that her lectures had the effect of rals-
ing the moral tone OF all who came under
their influence"
Victoria Woodruff raising the moral tone
or community was a suggestion to make
angels weep. Mr.. Martin accompanied the
sisters on their voyage to this country and
later they were Joined by Sir Francis Cook,
but, strange to say, even the unbemished
regulations OF their spouses did not win for
them welcome in this country, and they
soon returned TO England.
What world this Is, and what remarkable
people there are In IL.