The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10

ilNed with my Stepfdther, put L 1Ound
ne had O that morning and no
one knew where he had gone. That
was the end Of everything. ] might
have changed my mind about dying
had ] been able to find my relative,
but now | NaS determined to end it
all. The rest was not hard. | just
kept going each day. Although l
had "A cent IN my pocket ! cid not
even buy a bun and when | was found
! still hal the cent ina my purse. The
only thing | had was some water. The
day ] fell in the streets ] was Apply.
because 7 thought the end was near.
| was sure | was dying when | be-
cam" unconscious, but after | aWoke
again | found myself here in the hos
pital, with a nurse bending over me,
anw now they say l am going to re-
cover. And for what?"-Harriet
Nugent.
(Alleyne ireland. in n. /. World.)
Twice within the past month Har-
rier Nugent. t~wenty-one years of age,
has attempted suicide-once by taxi
ing poison. once by deliberately starry
ing herself to death.
Behind this simple recital of fact
lies one of the most ira ic, and, at
the same time. one of the most
shameful stories which has ever
shocked the moral sense of an Amer
lean community.
= 10 tlI' ot'iS Vi tOW Il JUDI
rsss corporation. by means of bribery
and perjury, robbed an innocent
young girl after she had been terribly
mutilated through the criminal care
lcssncss of one of its agents. Not
content with robbing its victim, this
great corporation wreaked a savage
revenge upon the lawyer who had
dared to champion the cause of the
injured girl, and. by means of false
evidence bought and paid for by its
legal counsel, drove its antagonist
from the ranks Of an honorable pro-
fession, ruined his career, estranged
him from the woman to whom his
troth was plighted and brought his
father and mother in sorrow to the
grave.
Harriet Nugent, who was recently
picked up starving in the streets Of
brooklyn, secured a verdict for $1,000
against the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way Company eighteen years ago. Not
4 cent of it has ever been paid.
The verdict has been sustained by
tho highest court of the State. the
money is in the hands of a receiver
who was ordered by the court to set
1t aside for the specific discharge Of
the judgment against the Metropoli-
tan Street Railway Company, and,
Notwithstanding all this, Harriet Nu-
gent. whose original verdict together
with interest for eighteen years
amounts to $1,000, finds herself ir
such an extremity of suffering an6
privation that she seeks death as a
welcome relief from her hopeless.
misery.
ON May 5, 1896, little Harriet M
gent, three years of age, was playins
with another little girl on Madison
street. New York City. A horse ca
approached, but the drivers atten
ton was fixed upon something which
interested him on the sidewalk. II,
drove his horses over the little chilt
and one of the car wheels passed Owe
her left leg at the knee.
So serious was the injury that tn,
leg had to be amputated, and an
other result of the terrible shock sh
received was that Harriet Nugent los
the sight of one eye.
The mother brought suit for dam
ages against the Metropolitan Stree
Railway and in January, 1897, a jur
In the Supreme court, New Yor
county. rendered a verdict for $500
in favor Of the injured child.
Against this verdict the Metropoli
tan Street Railway appealed, but o
May 2S, 1897, the Appellate Divisio
or the Supreme court handed down
decision affirming the original vel
dict.
Again the railroad appealed, BIT
pending the hearing of the case tn
metropolitan people decided upon
very different course of action
Through the agency of Louis f. il
liam and Henry A. Robinson, the fol
mer being chief claim agent of til
Metropolitan and the latter (sino
disbarred for unprofessional prat
tices) its chief attorney, the witnesse
upon whose testimony Harriet N,
gent had secured her verdict WEI
bribcd or inundated, and several
them went to the offices Of the raj
way company and signed affidavit
To the effect hat they had given fal.
evidence at the first trial on the pc
suasion of Harriet Nugent's attorne
BENJAMIN O~ppenheim.
with its purchased and perjur,
evidence all in good order, the Metr
poiitan Street Railway went befo
Justice Charles IL. Truax and ask'
for an order setting aside all previo