Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 12, July 10, 1858 — John Shaqi
Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 12, July 10, 1858
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Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 12, July 10, 1858
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann’s Forced Seduction of a Lady on Randall’s
Island—Simeon Draper’s Lascivious Propensities—Most Damning Revelations.
Some years since, there was a lovely domestic circle in our city,
consisting of a husband, wife, and three children. The father died, and
the widow was cast upon the world, without means to feed and clothe and
educate her precious offspring. She had been the favorite daughter of
affluent parents, and was educated by the ablest teachers. In
conversation, she was eloquent and impassioned, and her fluent and
melodious words, as they flowed from her red and pouting lips, and her
even and pearly teeth, fascinated all who had the envied fortune to
linger on her luxuriant language, and pretty smiles, and dimples, and
most extraordinary purity of expression. Governor Simeon Draper fastens
his voluptuous eyes upon her, and her fate is sealed. Three years since,
Gov. Draper proposes that she become a matron on Randall’s Island, and
she accepts his proposition, and he procures her a situation. After she
began to discharge her matron duties, Governors Draper and Bell (now
Supervisor), entered her domestic apartment on Randall’s Island, and
asked her what she had in the next room, pointing their fingers to her
bed room. She said they might look for themselves. They replied: “What
are you afraid of?” She said: “I am not afraid, but I do not desire to
go into a bedroom with two gentlemen.” They then seized her, and strove
to drag her into her bed room, when she resisted and finally screamed,
which alarmed them, and they withdrew their hands, and said: “You need
not be afraid to go with us into the bed room, singly, as we know that
you have let a _friend_ go with you into your bed room ever since your
husband died, and enjoy your fascinations to his heart’s content.” She
said: “If my _friend_ has done the thing of which you speak, neither of
you shall.” Governors Draper and Bell then retired, but Draper soon
returned, and proposed to buy two cloaks for two handsome girls who were
about to leave the Institution, and said that she should go to the city
and buy them, and at the same time purchase one for herself, regardless
of price, and send the bill to his office, and he would pay it. She
objected on the ground that if she accepted the proposition, he would
expect licentious favors in return. Draper said that he was so anxious
to stay with her, that he wouldn’t mind giving her $50 in cash. She said
that she feared her _friend_ would hear of it, and withdraw his
affections, and might kill him, and perhaps her, as he truly loved her,
and was of a very jealous and impulsive nature. Draper said she needn’t
be afraid, as he could never hear of it. She then accepted his
proposition to go to the city and purchase the cloaks, and directed the
bill to be sent to his office, which was done, and he paid it. At this
time, a fervent friendship was budding into bloom and blossom, between
herself and Governor Daniel F.
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