The Express Driver's Abandonment: A Frontier Scandal

During the past week, circumstances of a most revolting character have been developed, the narrative of which is quite repugnant. The story told, and which is substantially true, is that James Seaman, who has long been driver of an express wagon in this city, went into one of the farming settlements thirty or forty miles north last summer to assist in haymaking. While there, he led a simple girl astray. He returned to this city, and shortly after seduced another girl. The girl here has given unmistakable signs of approaching maternity, and the same is said of the girl down the Sound. When these things became known to Seaman, he saw that the only way to escape punishment for the terrible wrong he had done these girls was to leave the country. He accordingly sold his horses and for what they would bring, and with the proceeds left for parts unknown. Seaman has a wife and children here, and a father-in-law and mother-in-law, the distress of whom at these unexpected and dreadful revelations can be imagined. The injury Seaman has done himself, his family, these poor girls and their relatives, merely to gratify a temporary lust, is irreparable and incalculable, and for which hanging is none too severe.