The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-11-22
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Ruined by prominent Business White
Man" of ClarksVilIe.
To The Nashville Globe:

Ruined by "Prominent Business White
Man" of C~IarksVilIe.
To The Nashville Globe:
The young colored girl who cam
here recently from GAINESVILLE to hide
her shame, gave birth to a child which
she hid away under the steps of the
home OF the people with whom she was
stopping. This method of trying to
dispose of her offspring, the ocular
evidence of her illicit love affair with
a prominent business white man" of
her home OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES an
other chapter in her story of crime,
another step in her downward course.
Some where she was stopping
discovered a bundle under the door
steps which doubtless from a knowl-
edge of the girls appearance or condi-
ton gave rise to suspicion, and an Of
ficer was called in. The contents Of
the bundle was the body of a dead in
FAINT. When the girl was confronted
with this evidence of her shame and
crime, she broke down and confessed
all. She was taken to the City Hos
pital, and when her condition will
permit Of it, she will be taken to the
Police Court, where she will have to
answer the charge of infanticide.
Here are two paragraphs from the
Banner of November IA on the matter,
and to say the least, they significantly
express a good deal:
"The girl claims that she lives in
GAINESVILLE and was sent here by her
parents when her condition was dis
covered. She charges that a promi-
nent business man is the father of her
dead baby. She exhibited a letter to
the officers from her mother in which
the writer said that the girls father
had already got a lot of money from
the white man.
"The officer declined to divulge the
name of the man mentioned in the let.
ter, but he says he is prominent all
right enough"
Heaven pity the children of such
parents as Louise Miles had (for that
is the name Of the unfortunate girl
The mother that could sit down and
deliberately write her daughter in,
forming her that her father (tht
daughter's) is bartering in her shame
that is, exchanging it for cold cash, g
money consideration, shows that she
was ever unfit to be a mother. An(
the fathers part in the affair is proc.
positive that he is less than a man
never having been fit to be a father
Instead of the world being too small
for him and his ruined girl child an(
her seducer, the public, through hi
wife's letter to their exile and crime
stained daughter, is made war; of tn,
fact that he is getting lots of none!
from the white libertine, one o
/. Clarksville's prominent business
men. Louise Miles father shoul,
E have at least, exposed the villainy o
her white lover, the prominent bus
> ness man." or committed suicide. TIL
e Negro man that will not protect tn
e sanctity of his home against a whit
O despoiler as quickly and as surely a
against a black one is a moral as we
as a physical paltroon and pigmy. TIL
officer who read the girls letter woul
not divulge the name Of her whit
paramour, but it is presumed that h
q had no qualms or scruples about gi7
ing her name, as it appeared in tn
a Banners account of the affair. He
name appears here for the very goo
L reason that every Negro woman VIII
makes illicit love with any white ma
should be known and exposed. TIL
white libertine's name however prom
nent in business he may be, would a
-e pear here with the girls if it were bl
known. She must bear the brunt
scorn and disgrace, while he, becau'
of his being a prominent bushes
man." goes free. That "prominel
70 business man." though white, seel
out a Negro home to desecrate wit
u his lust. No man in GAINESVILLE wou'
lead a mob quicker than he, were co