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SPEAK THE TRUTHREGARDING THE MAN LOVE CASEThe l'ueli III lh« CW. Ik 1lroii(til Outii Ihe Trial.We have been surprised at Ihe course of certain Henry county papers, in the manner (hey have (rented (he recent eanw of the State of Indiana vs Enrl Mnlovc, in which Miss Nellie Butler, a Hcmy county girl, was the pmweufing witness, and the victim of (he unhappy circunifctuuocx. The comments would indicate that the State of Indiana lmd pnnrinited itself to be used by unscrupulous men for tire purpow of jkitvxtiling a inun, who, under a promise of marriage, had destroyed the good name of n fair girl of thk* county, andahnOBt taken her life by a criminal operation upon her person.These comments, wc nro sure, were not marie from the evidence produced in the cause, for from that «uno evidence a jury of twelve good and lawful men of our coanty prononuccd this young man guilty of the iufmnnu* i-large. Some of these papers make the statement that the defendant in the cause admitted the charge that he bad twn nuduiy Ultimate with the youug girl, aud that lie was the father of her (then) unborn chiM;but tlut lie (the defendant) hud offered to right his wrong, and condone for the sin by marrying the young girl, and that the father of the young lady would not permit it, uml kept these twoyoung pen-pie from uinrryiug.Till* allegation, mi far us it prmins to the father, is entirely falv and was so shown by thu etidvuce. A moment's tlmoght should coulino* nuyouu tl»t fl*o parties most interested in haying young Manlove many the girl were, first, Nellie Butler herself, and after her the father and mother of Min Butler. For Mr. or Mrs. Butler to have oppwd the marriage, under such circumstances, woukl have been eriminnl, hut the evidence iu the cmv showed that they did not. The facts di-clo^il by I lie trial showed that when shame came to tld* young girl, sbc told her lover about it, nuil also her mother and father. Tbeu these three hud a talk with Euri Manlovedaughter marry a man who has violated ' every sacred promise, and added insult 1 to injury?The Moalovrs are respectable people, but no more so tluu are the Button. A Htuty county borne has been entered, and under the goi-s or lore, shame has i come upon the family. A Henry couuty jury has said this young man wag guilty, l and should be punished.METHOD IN HER MADNESS-Tli* Wlf. of Cliarln M».h All* rid. With - Kn.or.•|il III; Olio of the saddest tragedies ever enacted iu Henry coanty w;w thul of the attempt nt self destruction made by the wife of Chnrlcs Nash, on Iasi Friday uf-jterooon. Tlic family lives about two | miles northeast of MU Summit, and Mr*.I Nosh became a mother bul a week be-' fore. At the btne the gave birth to the child she was suffering with a form of fervor bordering upon typhoid, bat was grlting on favorably, and had luunifmtcd no sign of delirium, or mental vagary, i previous to thin time.Mrs. Nash's husband, mother, und a I girl had all been in the room. and she • disposed of them by scuding her muthcr I uml girl to the kitchen with a request to prepcm her aouiefhing to eat: and then asked her husband to go to the cellar and get her un apple, l'lie instant the rdfln via vacated Mrs. Nash sprang from her bed. went to n ilrewier. opened ITHE OLD WAR HOR8E*Rears, Klrki. and Ctiarfaa-TlMn Trl« lo Kuu Away With I h. faalalBre.a drawer, out a razor, stood iu front of the mim r, and drew the keen blnde four limes mrm. her throat, making the gashes five or six inches long, and smue nf them very deep. Her mother Inn id (he sound of the drawer being opennl, mid hurried back to the roum. just as tlie lust stroke of the blade was being made. To the inquiry of the mothrr as to what docs this menu? or words of the same import. Mrs. Nnsb made reply that it was awful, bot this was the cunso, ut the same rime pluciug one baud on the l«ic.k of her head.Mr. Simmons, who w«« the find penun to reach the house, raid to The Tribuue that lie had never witnessed such a : bloody vreuc. except during Ihe war. ‘ Rn atn'iil lint, tie dortCF utfd sTttUCfKThe Tribune husn't endorgd, petition-cd for, recommended, or otherwise taken a hand in the question n« to wlio sliall lick stnw|M aud read postal curds in the post-office nt New Castle after February next. Tlte Tribune occupies the position of an interested spectator.However, the interviews published in the cuckoo organ in the K. of P. block nre a marvelous manifestation of the old play. Do as I do. ami say what I tedl you to ray. All this talk about traitor, wobbler, and such like, is hut un idle tale, rej*ut«d now for the purpose of bolstering up a boas. If the editor of The Tribune knows anything of the man nt whom these thrusts ore mndo, he knows that far thirty years kist past he has been a Republican tv«ry year. The time lias not yet cornu in Heury coanty fcr uuy man to assume that I am the Republican party in this county, and opposition to he is treason to the part)’!The editor of the Press las no personal knowledge of (he thing* he U publishing ou (binsubject, and it is not probable, that congressman Johnson will be much influenced by anonymous utteruuces given publicity through a paper that has uniformly opf»»*?d him—especially when they emanate from u man who posed as an original Johusoa man, and switched off before the nouiinntiou was mode, simply because ho Ihought it good poli-rtcs lo do so.When you avenge up these matters, there always comes a time wheu a spirit of fatriKt* take* hold of the public mind, anil uo doubt such will be the case in thU iustancu, which causes men who have been ueutral oh between as-pirauts for the office, to lake sides in favor of Ihe oue who is maliciously and unjustly attacked. In fact, tho editor of The Tribune lit* positive knowledge Hut such i the case already, nud that men whose Repuldieauisin will tort” 100per cent, have written Congressman Johnson, staring to him that the unwarranted nnd false charge*, as given throagb the Piv-e. impel tlreui to no longer occupy a urntral iKbit'.nti. but to chumiNUU theTy\uiaiIV.inFIKA
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New Castle Tribune
New Castle, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 10, 1897
Page 4
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Thomas H.
IN, USA 02 Feb 2018
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