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From: "Carole Dilley" <>
Subject: [Bklyn] Brooklyn Union Argus, 13 September 1877 (News)
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:20:37 -0300


BROOKLYN UNION ARGUS
Thursday, 13 September 1877

MISS REEVE'S WRONGS
The Story as Told in Greenport - Drugged in a Restaurant - An Outrage that
Has Awakened Indignation

The New York Sun, this morning gives the following account of the case in
which Dr. MEYER is charged with malpractice:

Quiet little Greenport, Long Island, the home of Miss REEVE, the victim of
the recent malpractice in this city, is in a state of indignation. Mr.
Isaac REEVE, Jr., the father, is an old and highly respected inhabitant of
the place, the proprietor of a large coal yard, and principal owner of the
steam ferry boat, the Cambria, running between Greenport and Shelter Island.
The daughter was born in the village, and has always been respected there.
The story as briefly told in Greenport is as follows:

Miss REEVE, who is only eighteen years old, formed in school three or four
years age, the acquaintance of a girl named Jenny FORSYTH. They became
intimate, and Miss FORSYTH visited Miss REEVE at the home of her parents in
Greenport. In May last, Miss REEVE came to pay a visit to friends in New
York, and while here again met Miss FORSYTH. They frequently went out to
walk together. One afternoon they met Miss Hattie HUME. The trio were
joined by two men, and all went to Solaris' restaurant for luncheon. There
another man was introduced to Miss REEVE. He called for wine and urged her
to drink, but she rejected it, and called for a lemonade which was given to
her, and , although she thought it had a particularly dark color and
singular flavor, she said nothing. She was soon persuaded to drink a glass
of wine, and after that she became unconscious, and while unconscious she
was taken to a house in Thirty-fifth street, and there, before she recovered
her senses, the outrage was committed.

The girl dared not tell the truth. She withheld it until she could no longer
keep her secret. Then she consulted the woman who betrayed her and a
friend, Mrs. PETTY, but did not admit her parents to her confidence. The
girls planned with her, and one afternoon she told her mother she was going
out to visit a friend, but would soon return, and putting on her hat and
shawl she walked out, but did not return. She left a note informing her
parents she had gone to New York to look for a situation, but that they
must not worry, for she was perfectly safe, and that if she did not get a
place within two weeks she would return home.

Thoroughly frightened, Mrs. REEVE at once sent for her husband, and together
they came to New York by the first train to look for their daughter. They
went direct to the house of a relative who is familiar with the ways of the
city, and who promptly offered to join with them in the search. Detectives
were engaged, and a clue was worked quietly until the girl was found at 348
Second avenue. For a time her life was despaired of, but now, assured of
her father's sympathy and forgiveness, and with his loving care and presence
to sustain her, she is improving.


BRIEF MENTION
Police Captain Louis WORTH, of the Sixth Precinct, has started on his summer
vacation, to be gone a week, visiting Saratoga, Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

Michael SCHNEIDER, of 173 Ten Eyck street, fond of beating his wife
Elizabeth, was sent on a vacation of sixty days to the Penitentiary this
morning by Justice GUCK.

John GREENMAN, of 20 Humboldt street, was held by Justice GUCK this morning,
charged by Bernard BLANG, of 33 Debevoise street, with attempting to rob him
on Debevoise street on last Sunday night.


Transcriber
Carole Dilley

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