The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-01
THE .JEFFERS ONIAN

tending it's DEATH she is led to believe that this
man. Smith, bribed the doctor to give it poison
in order to kill it. Left alone again in the world
and among strangers she applied to her seducer
for money to sustain life but was answered with
threats of arrest if she did not desist and leave
the country. This she refused to do, and the con-
sequence that she cast into prison with
out knowing what she was arrested for.
Here she remained for several days and was com
PEELED to sleep in large room along with drunk
ards, negroes and demons of all kinds until she
informed some one on the outside of the prison
that she there, when the mayor ordered her
release. Then after she had been out of jail only
a few days she spirited away to Savannah,
Ca, where she remained couple of weeks and
on hearing her story the police raised money
enough to send her back to Atlanta where she
again arrested at the instance of Mr. Smith,
and sent out to work with the changing the
streets. Once, while in prison, she says she did
not eat a meal for thirteen days and had no
water to drink only when some prisoner would
spirit some to her unseen by the guards, and it
seemed to her that her seducer had the officials all
on his side in prosecuting her and if possible to
kill her and end all trouble Thus matters worked
until about last Christmas eve, when carriage
was driven up in front of her house and the driver
informed her that her lover Hoke Smith, was de-
srous of seeing her at his Office Being delighted
to once more meet the man who she had
worshipped, and who had plighted his love for
her, she entered the carriage to go where she
bid but instead Of being taken to the office Of
Mr.. Smith, she was taken to the railroad depot,
for the purpose Of sending her out of the city,
but she resisted at the depot and was put in jail
for the night and Christmas day was again
taken to the train and under the guard of man
named Lennon Simmons, she started northward,
not knowing where she was going. This was the
last time that she her home.
When Miss VanderVer arrived at the Union De-
pot, on the End of last month"; the man who had
accompanied her disappeared from her sight and
she has not seen him since and she thinks that
he has either returned home gone west. His
trunks were checked to Ogden, on the Union Pa
cifc, and it is supposed that he intended taking
her to California and leave her, but probably
thinking Denver good place, deserted her
A few days since named Lee Smith ar
rived in Denver from Georgia and paid the Chief
for money advanced to Miss Vanderver, and also
gave her two dollars but aside from that she has
no money to pay her bills. She is penniless and
alone in a city of strangers and the poor lady
doesn't know what to do She is DESTROYS of rails
ing money enough to return to Atlanta, and should
she be successful in getting the money, there
will probably be sensation in high life in that
great city of cotton expostions shortly after her
arrival there
AS will be seen from the above the child
died in Atlanta The fact that such child
had been born was widely known: the lznowl-
edge of its death was probably confined to a
few. Therefore, it was natural for people to
suppose that when the unfortunate woman
was kidnapped she took her babe with her.
What utter heartlessness and lack of prin-
ciple is shown in Smiths abandonment of
the child, and his crimes against that trust
ing girl
THERE ARE OTHER CASES.. but we
will not go into them now. It is lifelong
record; and to paint the black side of it
would tax the pen of Dean Swift