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Ii(tvOr. Day and a New Trial.To the Editor of The News:Tomorrow is the time settoaWiebe- „ ore the court the reasons why Dr. Day * should have a new trial and there seems! f£ x be an impression prevalent, among a \ certain class at least, that it will be wgranted. ^Just why she is entitled to such a favor ir it the hands of the court no one seems to d know or even able to make a decent! n £uess, except that she had no counsel, and we conclude that with those who hold to such an opinion it is only “thewish that is father of the thought, ’ ’ andthat it is simply a morbid and criminaldesire that such crimes as hers shall be winked at by the authorities and that such offenders shall go unpunished.Does anybody really think that she is not guiltyWe have not heard that question rawed by those who hold the views above set forth, and with them it seems a matter not worthy to be considered.Has it come to pass in this community that because the defendant is a woman and chooses of her own free will to defend her cause without a lawyer, that twelve men, good and true, and sworn to well and truly try the cause, will find her guilty without the proof to establish it beyond a reasonable doubt. Such a thought is abhorent to our civilizationand is not believed by any reasonable man.But they say: ‘-The girl eame to herm trouble and got the* doctor to help herout! And right here some honest folks may be deceived. Let us turn to the tAidenceand glean the storv.One Cora Chupp. in the winter of lssj), was a quiet, modest country girl of seventeen years, living in poverty with an aged g; andmother and without the care of either parent. She became engaged to Samuel Wisler, and in the fond couti- * deuce of that engagement, loved “not wisely, but too well” and being overtaken in her folly asked that the ceremony should be pronounced at once. Instead j of doing as he should, Wisler proposed to [ go to Dr. Day for au unlawful purpose. *At this she was horrified and said “that ewould be murder” and “that she would never do it, no matter what she suffered. ” lading m this, he again promised he would many her at once if she would go to Dr. Day and be examined and prove to him that what she said was true. To tins the poor girl in her weakness and unsuspecting faith, consented, and on Easter Sunday was taken by her seducer to the office of the wily and scheming Dr.Day, and under the most bland and smiling promises of its fair occupant, yielded up her person. Once within that fiendish grasp she lost all power to help herself, and although she stoutly contended that she needed no treatment whatever,the victim was given the very pangs of death before she was allowed to rise, under the pretense that some parts were out of place and needed replacing. In due course of time, and on a couch for days together, where life and dea li held the scales in almost equal balance, her nature relieved itself of the embryo being that had been ruthlessly murdered on that Easter Sunday. Time went on and Cora made no complaint, but Sam Wisler’s sky got cloudy, for in that neigborhood a storm was brewing that he could not undestand. He became alarmed and proceeded to the office of the county clerk and obtained a license to marry Miss Cora Chupp. Here again the* noble character of the injured girl showed out beypnd lepioach and almost beyond the character of ordinary mortals. All alone in the world, and deceived, sad at heart and plundered of her good name, w hen he came at last to pledge anew his broken vow and offered to seal it with the forms of law, her only answer came: “No,Sam Wisler, you deceived me once; you shall never have the chance again. ” Is not that evidence of character? She never complained, but when her neighbors raised a row and caused her to be subpoenied, she came to court and told the simple facts, first to the grand jury, and later on to the court and jury. Yetthat brazen creature, Mrs. Alford, who dubs herself “Dr. Day,” and about whom we hear so much sentimental stuff, stood up in open court before the assembled crowd and called this poor child of ill fortune ‘ ‘Miss Belle Gonorrhoea, ’ ’ instead of her proper name, Miss Cora Chupp, thus applying an epithet too vile for woman’s tongue, especially in public, anddid it only to be smart and humiliate the poor girl.We begin to question which of our “Knights Errant,” who “standby a woman who is in trouble,” w;ill choose to show their gallantry. Will they stand by Cora Chupp, who was deceived*, robbed and almost murdered or will they stand by the butcher of the innocents?
Newspaper Details
Goshen Weekly News
Goshen, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 01, 1889
Page 4
Full Page
Clipped by
Aaron G.
OH, USA 17 Jul 2018
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