Friday, August 17, 2012

Norman S. Avery of Chicago . . .

. . . has been arrested at Chicago for a most revolting outrage on his daughter, a girl sixteen or seventeen years of age.  Avery deserted his wife and children about nine years ago at Buffalo, and the daughter only recently hearing of his whereabouts wrote him a tender letter to which he responded by asking her to come to Chicago and keep house for him and cheer his loneliness.  The dutiful girl joyfully complied, but no sooner hand she placed herself in the power of her unnatural enemy, than the outrage was committed.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 2

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