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Seduction And Death

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
June
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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i he papers contain on account of a cise of Seduction, Abortion, ond Denth, in Farming. ton in tliis State. The seducer was a married man, ond hia victim, a youngr lady of much respectability residing in his family. w sliail not en! er into the revolting cletnila The arrivol of tbc relativos is thun mentioncd in un exchunge: "The scene presented on the orrival of fj,fl nfflicled mother nnd sister from Detroit snid to Iwve been heart-rending to tlie last'de8 gree. When that t=ad inrelligence was cotn" municated to tliat loo fond and unsuspecljn pnrent. tliot her ntighter Iny in thecojd arnfg of deoth, ut Furminton in t hi -s county, it qnired the utmost powers of persuasión on the part of t.ie mesfenger who was despule hed lor that pnrp.ihp, to convince hè' of the foct.. Shecould not nnd wonld not oplieve it. Sh& was Mireïha iier clnld was tVn snfe with lier friends in ToJed, and slie reniainod partU ally incredulons until .he arrivf d nnd snw lior with lierowri eyes! The wifeof i)e vilo se ducer was nlso present, and with all theeloqnencennd enrnestness of w.unons confi,lenc and tricd oflvction, profefltrd her husbnnd's innocenceand the impossibiliiy of his liavinff had" i.ny thing to do in the perpetraron of so foul u crime, un'il her mouth wns closed by his confe.-s-ion, to hei face, that he v-osihe jroiltv vre!cli!" b 3 The abortion wns produced 'm eome way by violence, btit her death resulted from subseqenily toking cold. So t oppears from the testimony beiore the jury of inquest. Tiie seducer, nomcd Plumstead, is a gfntlemnn at large, ond is üke to be; foradullery lins ceased to be a crime, and is now only "on iiuliscretion." All the Stnte muy be couverted into a general Sodotn, and thern is no low to restrain iniquity in this respect, but cvery man is left to do that which he picases, whatcver be the consequences.

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