Suffragette to Visit Marietta

Marietta Daily Times, May 9, 1912

Miss Laura Clay of Lexington, Kentucky, an officer of the National Woman's Suffrage association, will be in Marietta on Wednesday, May 22, and will deliver an address at the assembly room of the court house that evening at 8 o'clock.

The meeting here will be held under the auspices of the local suffrage campaign committee, on which are Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Coil, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Morgan, Mrs. Charles H. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Middleswart and other prominent men and women.

It is expected that an active campaign in behalf of the extension of the suffrage to women will be launched in this city, in common with hundreds in all parts of the country, the National association and state organizations being more active than ever before. There are many supporters of the movement in Marietta.

 

Guilty

The Marietta Register, Semi-Weekly, June 20, 1884

The trial of Mary E. Hovey, which occupied the court almost night and day for four days, on a charge of perjury, resulted in a verdict of guilty. The penalty is imprisonment for a term of three to ten years. A new trial was asked for and the motion will be heard July 2. The grounds are considered slight and the chances are that Mrs. Hovey will be the second woman sent from Washington County for perjury. Mrs. Hovey's crime consisted in swearing out a warrant for a woman by the name of Kauf, charging her with stealing a watch which at the time was pledged to another party to secure a board bill.

The circumstances occurred some two years ago and were related at the time in the Register.

The case called a great many witnesses into court and in some aspects was scandalous. The defendant is a woman who has flaunted a disgraceful life in the face of decent people in Marietta for many years. A great many, several of them women, were dragged into court by her attorney and felt contaminated by the atmosphere surrounding the case, because they knew nothing bearing upon it and nothing good of the defendant. The verdict was one expected by all who heard much of the trial.

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Mrs. Hovey has not eaten anything since going to jail and says she is sick. Her nervous system has been under a terrible strain and she should giver herself up to a little sleep and healthy nourishment. She or several others have been guilty of perjury and the jury found against her. The result is not less than three years residence at the capital and she should make the best of it.

 

Escape of a Slave

Marietta Intelligencer, June 19, 1845

On Wednesday the 11th inst., the Steamboat "Allegheny Mail" passed this place bound for Pittsburgh. She grounded on Carpenter's bar, five miles above this place, and in the course of the night a servant boy of John O. Price of Maryland, aged 15 years, made his escape from the boat to parts unknown.

The account Mr. P. gives of the matter is this. He had been to Cincinnati and while there this boy was permitted to go where he pleased. He made no attempt to escape, and was apparently anxious to return home to Maryland with Mr. Price, who thinks the boy would never have left him had he not been over-persuaded by professed friends, as his mother and other relations are in Mr. P's hands.

When he was missed on the morning of the 12th inst., it was feared that he had fallen overboard. But some of the hands on the boat say that in the course of the night, they overheard a man in the garb of a Quaker, who is from the western part of this county and who got on board the boat at Harmar, talking with him and endeavoring to persuade him to escape. He was also missing and it was then concluded that they had gone off in company.

Mr. Price desires it to be understood that if the boy wishes to remain at liberty, he can do so. He will give no reward to any body to return him or give information where he may be found unless the boy wishes to go back. If however he desires to return, and will call at Mr. John Marshall's in Marietta, Mr. Marshall will "ship him" to Wheeling and make arrangements so that he can get to Mr. Price's residence at Golden P.O., Maryland.

If the boy is half as anxious to get back as his late master thinks he will be, he will doubtless be thankful to us for giving him information that he can have the privilege of returning. But if he prefers liberty to slavery (and strange as Mr. Price may think of it, there are a great many black as well as white boys who do prefer it), he will perhaps make good use of the privilege he has already taken and save any body the trouble of "shipping him" to Wheeling or elsewhere.