The Leavenworth Weekly Times

Dastardly Outrage

There is published in San Francisco a weekly paper known as the News-Letter, which seeks a monopoly of the business of traducing respectable women. The readiness with which it will publish a libel on a woman was recently illustrated, and, as the case involved a statesman of great recent prominence, the circumstances will be of increased interest. Senator Jones, of Nevada, has been in receipt of anonymous letters, assailing the reputation of Miss Georgiana Sullivan, his fiancee. For a long time the Senator paid no attention to these dirty slanders, but his attention was called to a coarse squib upon the young lady's father, Mr. Sullivan, in the above-named paper.

Mr. Sullivan, accompanied Senator Jones, visited the office, and told Mr. Marriott, the editor of the paper, that he held him personally responsible for the paragraph. Mr. Marriott replied that the society news, written in imitation of the "Walks Among the Churches," of the Chicago Times, was sent by mail.

A plan was formed to detect the contributor of this exquisite gossip, and he was caught in the act of dropping a letter into the post-office, addressed the News-Letter. It was found to be a young society man, and a well-known lawyer. An order was obtained by Mr. Sullivan from Mr. Marriott, for possession of the letter, and it was found to contain a very obscene and scurrilous attack upon Mr. Sullivan, his daughter, and her affianced husband, the Senator from Nevada.

The hand-writing was identified as that of a sister of the young man who mailed the letter, and furthermore, as that of the anonymous letters received by Senator Jones. The dastardly author was a rejected suitor of Miss Sullivan. She has not been the only lady, for it is stated that the man has for some time been engaged in "writing up" Society News for the News-Letter, and anonymous letters to young couples engaged to be married, and to husbands and wives.