Year: 1879

SERVANT GIRLS CHARGES AGAINST DENTIST


AND A PHYsIcIAN-AlLEGED SEDUCTION AND


MALPRAcTIoE-THE ACCUSED DECLARE THEIR


INNOCENCE


II the story told by young girl in the Jefferson
Market Police Court yesterday bears the test Of the
formal examination for which it is set down. the
veil of secrecy will be stripped from shameful
crime as the police records have borne for many
day. By Jennie Rigney. Brooklyn serving girl.
charges are made which brand two seemingly
spectacle practitioners with infamy. and make
them amenable to the heaviest penalties.
She came before Justice Bixby yesterdays
PALE difhdent girl. who had apparently just
left bed OF sickness-and made her narrative tho
subject Of two afldavlts the one charging outrage
and seduction. the other conspiracy and malprac-
tice. She had pretensions to beauty but her ap-
pearance witha in her favor aud she threw suf-
fcent feeling into her recital to it with
ing sincerity. She lived ut No. 372 Kent avenue.
she said. but had gone from there to
take service ut No. 13 West Twenty sixth
cember. 1873 George w. Weld dentist, re-
sided there and used the ground floor for an
oihce. She had no communication with him other
than such as her domestic duties entailed till one
day when she was suffering with a toothache. she
went to him to have it attended to. He suggested
its extraction. She demurred a little but when
stretched i'll the dentists easy chair he pror to
administer ether to deaden the pain. He used the
anesthetic, she declares. and while she was
under its influence succeeded in accomplish
ing his purpose. The dentist, she says, persuaded
her that no i'll consequences would befali her. and
urged her to q continuance of their intimacy by o
promise of making her his wife. During her stay in
the house he paid her constant attention and did
everything to convince her that he actually in
tended marrying her. At length she understood
she would soon become q mother, but he shrked
the matrimonial question adroitly at the time,
surfing her it would be matter of only
short delay. The exposure OF her condi-
ton would ruin him, he said. and at his
solicitation she consented at length to accompany
West Twenty ninth street, against whom the second
affidavit is drawn. There she alleges, the latter,
with Yields assistance treated her with instruments,
the consequences of their appearing in the
of three days. Since that she has been quite ILL., and
after being prostrated at home TOR quite while she
was removed to the Roosevelt Hospital. whence she
had lately been taken home again.


THE MEN COURT


After the Justice had questioned her at some
length he issued warrants tor the arrest of Dentist
Weld and Dr. Pape. Officers Kelly and McSally, Of
the Court Squad, went to the house in Twentysixth
street, where they found the former and Officer
Murray. of the same command, succeeded in taking
the physician into custody Both were arraigned
in the Jefferson Market Police Court. where. hear
ing the charges, they summoned their counsel. Weld
imposing figure and address. They denied the
charges toto and through their legal adviser de-
manded an early examination which accorded
them by the Court. The complainant promised to
be in attendance when required and withdrew to the
anteroom There she reiterated her statement.
her going to the house in Twentysxth street. and
had only been induced to accede to Yields PROPOSE
ton through confidence in his promises and fear
of her shame being made public.