Indiana State Sentinel

Wholesale Seduction, &c.—A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, writing from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, under date of June 5th, tells a horrible story, in effect as follows: "Of three sisters in one family at that place, two have been positively seduced (one having become a mother, another being enceinte) and a third is rumored to have shared a like fate, all being the unsuspecting victims, it is alleged, of one man, Jonathan Gibbons Mills, a surgeon dentist, from Lancaster city. While addressing the elder sister, he had been forbidden the house by the father, on account of another alleged offence of the kind which he compromised with a poor girl; but he afterwards covertly got the artless sisters to meet him separately at his office, and, promising marriage to each, they so relied upon his attachment that neither made a confidant of the other. Mills is a widower, but he is suspected of having made way with his wife by unfair means.

He was arrested and taken before Squire Snyder on a warrant for fornication and bastardy. Not being able to procure bail, he offered to marry the mother of the child; but the ruin of the next youngest daughter being now made known, the popular feeling savored strongly of the application of Judge Lynch's code to the culprit, while the father, almost distracted with sorrow, loaded his musket, intending to have summary vengeance on the despoiler of his peace and of his family. The villain to save himself from being lynched, made a speedy retreat to jail, where he now is awaiting the various actions which will result in some seven to ten years in the penitentiary."