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The Police Gazette was a popular newspaper in the nineteenth century. Below is an article that I cut and pasted from a website centering on the Gazette.
THE ORIGINAL POLICE GAZETTE (1845)
CURIOUS SEDUCTION CASE____His Honor, Judge Edwards, of the Circuit Court,
delivered several decisions, one of which, on a motion for a new trial in a
case of seduction, disclosed some very curious facts, highly illustrative of
the morals of the up-country folks. The case was tried by Judge Edmonds, at
Hudson, September, 1844, and in which John D. Cater sought to recover
damages from William H. Cook, for the seduction of his stepdaughter, Sally
Ann Irvin.
At the trial, Sally Ann testified that, in the summer of 1843, she was
living as a maid servant in the family of Edward P. Livingston, Esq., where
the defendant was a hired man. One warm night, she, Sally Ann, went to sleep
with another girl in a small room in the long hall, when the girl proposed
to smoke some cigars, which they did; the defendant soon after came in, put
his hand on the bed, and asked who slept on the front side; a boy who was
also in the bed said "Sally Ann"; he then got between the two, when she
tried to get up, but the defendant lay on her clothes and she could not get
away, and he tickled her so, she was out of breath, "and had to give up,"
and the seduction followed.
The jury gave $350. damages. A new trial was asked, on the ground that
a stepfather could not maintain the action, she being in service elsewhere.
The court held he stood in loco parentis and denied the motion.
With such goings on in the Forties, and others to which we will call
attention in due time, it is evident that the National Police Gazette had
work to do, and especially with female virtue valued as low as $350. And,
possibly, incidents such as this, and others to be related, may go to prove
that the Police Gazette did play some part toward laying the foundation for
an improvement of later-day morals. For, while it is true that the sex, one
time referred to as the weaker, is being caught in ticklish positions even
today, yet is it not worthy of note how casually mention is made of flappers
of that period smoking cigars? And we criticize our modern damsels for
puffing the pernicious cigarette!
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On a more disturbing note, my search of the internet for arrests that involved tickling had about a 95% ratio of adults mishandling children. Scumbags giving the tickling community a bad name. Let's hope that Howard Stern can turn that around.
THE ORIGINAL POLICE GAZETTE (1845)
CURIOUS SEDUCTION CASE____His Honor, Judge Edwards, of the Circuit Court,
delivered several decisions, one of which, on a motion for a new trial in a
case of seduction, disclosed some very curious facts, highly illustrative of
the morals of the up-country folks. The case was tried by Judge Edmonds, at
Hudson, September, 1844, and in which John D. Cater sought to recover
damages from William H. Cook, for the seduction of his stepdaughter, Sally
Ann Irvin.
At the trial, Sally Ann testified that, in the summer of 1843, she was
living as a maid servant in the family of Edward P. Livingston, Esq., where
the defendant was a hired man. One warm night, she, Sally Ann, went to sleep
with another girl in a small room in the long hall, when the girl proposed
to smoke some cigars, which they did; the defendant soon after came in, put
his hand on the bed, and asked who slept on the front side; a boy who was
also in the bed said "Sally Ann"; he then got between the two, when she
tried to get up, but the defendant lay on her clothes and she could not get
away, and he tickled her so, she was out of breath, "and had to give up,"
and the seduction followed.
The jury gave $350. damages. A new trial was asked, on the ground that
a stepfather could not maintain the action, she being in service elsewhere.
The court held he stood in loco parentis and denied the motion.
With such goings on in the Forties, and others to which we will call
attention in due time, it is evident that the National Police Gazette had
work to do, and especially with female virtue valued as low as $350. And,
possibly, incidents such as this, and others to be related, may go to prove
that the Police Gazette did play some part toward laying the foundation for
an improvement of later-day morals. For, while it is true that the sex, one
time referred to as the weaker, is being caught in ticklish positions even
today, yet is it not worthy of note how casually mention is made of flappers
of that period smoking cigars? And we criticize our modern damsels for
puffing the pernicious cigarette!
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On a more disturbing note, my search of the internet for arrests that involved tickling had about a 95% ratio of adults mishandling children. Scumbags giving the tickling community a bad name. Let's hope that Howard Stern can turn that around.
