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NOTE: Contributors are listed below their
contributions. Anything that doesn't have a name on it was
contributed by myself, Sharon Wick.
Source: Barre Patriot - Massachusetts
Dated: July 5, 1850
A verdict of $15,000 has just been rendered in Preble
county, Ohio, against Dr. William R. Winston, for
seducing a young lady entrusted to his professional care. |
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Transcribed from the
New Hampshire
Sentinel, 1850-07-11
Trial For
Seduction – Heavy Damages
A trial
came of recently at
Eaton ,
Ohio , in which appeared Michael
Keever, plaintiff, and Dr. William R. Winston,
defendant. The action was to recover damages from the
defendant for debauching plaintiff’s daughter, Harriett
Keever. The parents of the young lady placed her, by the
solicitations of the doctor, under his charge, to be
treated for club or reeled feet. The young lady was
removed to the residence of the physician for treatment.
The patient was operated upon for the lameness, after
which the doctor went to his patient’s room every
morning to wash and dress her feet. In the course of a
few days, while washing her feet, the defendant made
improper advances to his patient, and finally, by force,
and against the will of Miss Keever, and while she was
scarcely able to turn in her bed, accomplished his
infamous design, and sent her forth to the world a
ruined and dishonored woman. The young lady is about
nineteen years of age. From evidence given, this was an
aggravated case, and after argument from counsel and
charge from the court, the jury retired, but shortly
returned, giving a verdict of $15,000 damages for
plaintiff.
Contributed
by Nancy Hannah. |
Source: Daily Ohio - Ohio
Dated: Oct. 29, 1851
Among the gratifying results in
Ohio, we have recorded none with more pleasure than the
election of our old friend, Abner Haines,
formerly of Wayne Co., Indiana, but now a citizen of
Eaton, Preble county, Ohio, as District Judge, from the
district composed of the counties of Butler, Preble, and
Darke. We are gratified at the success of our old
friend, and we are particularly gratified at the defeat
of that political apostate, Elijah Vance, who,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, "began his apostacy from
principles while in the Constitutional
Convention, and closed it in the late campaign by
bolting entirely from his party and joining the whigs of
Butler, Darke and Preble, to obtain the Judgeship for
that Judicial District. He is defeated in all the
three counties; in his own by 553; in Darke by 260; in
Preble by 143, making the majority for Mr. Haines,
his Democratic competitor, 956. This is a wise
disposal of a dishonest and unprincipled trickster.
Thus perish all traitors!" Indiana State
Sentinel
Contributed by Sharon Wick |
Source: Albany Evening Journal - New York
Dated: November 20, 1866
- A man in Lewisburgh, Preble
county, Ohio, having died of delirium tremens, his wife brought
suit for damages against two men of whom he had been accustomed
to buy liquor. The County Court awarded her $500 from one
of the men, and $200 from the other.
Contributed by Sharon Wick |
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Transcribed from the Inter Ocean, Mar. 14, 1877
WILL
CONTEST
Columbus
, Ohio
, March 13.
– Smith M. Danser, of
Camden , Ohio ,
uncle of the late Mary M. Danser, of New York , who left a fortune of nearly a
million dollars to charitable institutions, is here, and
has taken steps to contest the will.
Contributed by Nancy Hannah. |
Source: Cincinnati Daily
Gazette
Dated: Dec. 14, 1882
THE PREBLE COUNTY BAR.
More About the Judge Who was Asked to Resign.
To the Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette.
EATON, O., Dec. 13, - In the news items from Eaton in
yesterday's Enquirer we notice the proceedings of what purports
to be a meeting of the Preble County bar in reference to the
recent conduct of Judge James A. Gilmore, of this county.
The undersigned members of the Preble County bar beg leave to
any that no meeting of the Preble County bar took place on that
day, and no proceedings were bad by them as such. The
resolution referred to in these proceedings was passed a few
days ago at a meeting of the Preble County bar, a notice of
which meeting and resolution appeared in your paper of the 8th
of December. AT that meeting all of the members of the bar
residing in Eaton were present except two or three young members
and also Mr. Freeman, who signs this article, and who is
in accord with said resolution. At that meeting the
situation of affairs with reference to the subject matter of the
resolution was fully discussed in a temper and manner as fair to
Judge Gilmore as could be desired, and the resolution
passed with but one dissenting vote. This is the only
meeting the Preble County bar has ever had on that subject, and
the resolution then passed is still in full force and unrepealed,
and expresses the views of the bar on that subject then and now.
This pretended meeting of the bar on yesterday was composed of
five young members of the bar, and was without the sanction or
presence of the bar, and was simply a small, self-constituted,
white-washing committee, of which the Preble County bar know
nothing, and with whose proceedings they had nothing to do
whatever. These young men say that a majority of the
members of the Preble County bar was not present at the meeting
of the bar on the 7th of December, and that therefore the
resolution was not a fair expression of the bar. We have
two or three members residing in the county some distance from
Eaton, O., who were not notified of this meeting. But all
the resident members of the bar at Eaton were notified, and all
were present except as above stated. What these gentlemen
mean by the phrase, "fair expression," we are unable to
conjecture. Whether it means that the resolution was too
harsh or too mild, or whether it was not couched in terms
sufficiently elegant or refined to meet their sense of
propriety, we are unable to say. But certain it is that
the resolution as it passed on the 7th of December is the view
of the Preble County bar on that subject. And we would
respectfully admonish these gentleman that if their proceedings
were intended as whitewash the recent conduct of Judge
Gilmore, it is entirely too thin for any benefit in that
direction.
[Signed] B. Hubbard, L. T. Stephen, I. E. Freeman, Thos. J.
Larsh, W. A. Neal, J. H. Foos, Robt. Miller, Marcus L. Holt,
Elam Fisher, A. M. Crisler. |
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Transcribed from the
Philadelphia
Inquirer, 1909-09-05
Slayer of Woman Must Die
Eaton,
Ohio, Sept. 4. – Harry Rife, slayer
of Lida Gilmore, was today sentenced by Judge Fisher to
be electrocuted on January 19, 1910. The jury
deliberated on the case fourteen hours. Mrs. Lida
Gilmore, a widow, was the public librarian of Eaton. She
was highly respected. Rife, it is supposed, was enamored
of Mrs. Gilmore.
Contributed
by Nancy Hannah |
Transcribed from the Eldorado News 9/29/1927
Probate Court
The last will and testament of William P.
Acton, decd, was admitted to probate and
record.
Adelaide Acton was appointed exrx
of the estate of William P. Acton,
decd. Bond
$4,000., Appraisers, J. E. McCord, Fred
VanSkiver and Thomas Donohoe.
Application to admit to probate the will of
Leroy Parker, decd.
Hearing Sept. 26, 1927, at 10 a. m.
Lizzie Spitler was appointed
admrx of the estate of Emanuel Spitler,
decd. Bond $?200.
Appraisers C. E. Hillary, Spencer
Smith and Ira Gephart.
Noah Nill, guardian of
Elsie Nill et al; filed final
account.
Mary P. Austin, exrx of the estate of
Della A. Bourgoyne, decd, filed
inventory and appraisement
Contributed
by Nancy Hannah |
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