Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-05-06

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; almost exactly the same phraseology
, as the first, but including newspaper
by title, and that act was declared to
be in repeal of the former ore. The
Indictment against Woodruff and Claflin
was found under the second act, but
it afterwards found that the offense to
which the indictment related rad been
committed before the passage Of the
repeating act. In the latter act was
clause which directed that any of
Tense committed prior to its passage
should be punishable under the original
act. When the jury had been sworn
and the testimony of one witness begun
and a trial thus made, counsel for
Woodruff and Clafin put before the
court the proposition that the repeating
act could not repeal part OF the original
act and keep alive other portions; that
the original act could not be at once
dead and alive. That proposition the
court sustained and ordered an acquit-
tai.
But the Beecher people were not ye.
through with the fair broker-p publish
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libel-still, however for the pubica
ton of the Challis article, which well
served the purpose Of cloak-and
were tried before Judge Sutherland in
the New York General Sessions. The
trial: which aroused much public in
terest, lasted nine days. The pressure
brought to bear in the prosecution was
somewhat evidenced by the fact that,
besides District Attorney Phelps, there
also appeared for the people EXJudge
William Fullerton and Henry c. Knox.
The late Charles w. Brooke represent
ed the defendants But Challis' APP
pearance was against him. The smiles
of Tennie and Victoria warmed the
hearts of the jurymen towards them,
and, besides, there was general feel
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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 in
trusted money to the Wnsome brokers'
to invest and that they had converted
it to their own use. She secured civil
order for their arrest, and heavy bail,
some 1000 CT $4,000, was named
and for a short period the firm OF
Woodruff & Clatlin 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 consid-
cred necessary to properly present the
case of the defendants, but the crafty
financier did not care to put in public
appearance 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.
Old Vanderbilt died. The heirs got
into squabble over his money. Sud
denly, in 1879, Victoria Woodruff and
Tenne Cladin sailed for England.
There are those who know why they
went, but that is Il matter that 1t is
not necessary to go into al present.
But those who anew them best in this
country were certainly The most
amazed when the cable one day an
nOuced that Victoria W0odhull had
married John Biddulph Martin, the
head of financial institution whose
history dates back to the early days
Tennessee Cahln had married Sir
Francis Cook, an enormously wealthy
balunet, who, even at that time, was
famous throughout Europe as the own
er Of the Montserrat estate at Cintra,
the beauties of whose palace and whose
groves are sung by Byron in his inn
mortal "Chide Harold. This news
seemed so incredible that for some
time it was not believed
Both women returned to this country
in April, 1890, and their coming was
actually prefaced with an announce
ment made in a paragraph of the Lon
don Court Journal, which bore about
it suspicious of>Victoria Woodhull's
authorship, and numerous copies Of
which were sent to this country in adj
vance OF Mrs. Martins arrival. The
lines referred to read as follows:
Mrs. J. Biddulph Martin who
oozen years ago, when she was Mrs.
Victoria Woodruff drew such crowds
to her lectures in St James Hall, has
received a pressing invitation to visit
her native country-America -and once
more lecture in the principal cities Of
the United States, the invitation being
accompanied by the offer of one thou
sand pounds for each lecture. This
popular lecturer and philanthropist has
not accepted this invitation, her health
| not permitting her to undertake so ar
duous an engagement; but, were she to
do so, she would, it is said, give away
in charity the whole of the proceeds
However she leaves for New York in
a few days, and 1t may, therefore, not
lie ont of place to mention that her
lectures had the effect of raising the
moral tone Of all who came under hcv
influence"
Victoria Woodruff raising the moral
tone of community was sight Is
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