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Show Dr. Garron. The abovo are the title and namo of an eccentric individual who ia temporarily tem-porarily sojourning in tho city jai'. The fellow, we understand, ia not unknown throuchout the territory, and the chances are that the public will shortly be better acquainted with hia character than at present. Tho cause of his couOnement at this time is serious in the extreme. A young country girl, 17 years of ago, charge him with seduction, which, we believe, be-lieve, 1 1 io self-accouuted doctor does not deny, but pleads aa excuse his desire and intention to marry the complainant. It appearj from the statements of the girl ami the admission admis-sion of Gerron, that they have been living together as mun and wife no marriage ceremony having been performed per-formed for about tbreo weeks. The girl, who is the daughter of reapoct-ible reapoct-ible parents residing at Corn Creek, usserta that some weebB ago she met Serron there, listened to his promises nd being ignorant to a remarkable legree of the deceits and immorality i 1 of renegade mankind, readily accepted ac-cepted his oily words as truth, and became a willing victim to his designs de-signs and lust. She Bays he promised prom-ised to marry her tho truth of which statement he admits but has not doue bo, and at last the eyes of tho poor girl have been opened to a realization of her degraded condition and the enormity enor-mity of her seducer's crime. Her dream of love and a life of happiness r has been dispelled in its infancy, and , now the ruined victim seeka to punlah her destroyer as the enormity of his crime merits. Aa stated above, Dr. Gerron is a most eccentric character. His history, his-tory, as related by himself, is long and not uninteresting. Briefly, it ib this When an infant he was stolen by tht Walla Walla tribe of Iudiams, will: whom he exiBted twenty-nine years. He finally mad hia escape and resumed re-sumed his life among the whites, his occupation and means of livelihood being the recital of his semi-romantic story in public, a trifling monetary tai being imposed upon listeners. He also essayed to practice the healing heal-ing art according to the materia, med-'to med-'to of the red man. Ho has teen engaged en-gaged ior a:x years in a fruitless search for the whereabouts of his parents, whom he traced to the banks of the Mississippi, somewhere in the vicinity of St. Louis, but thore he lost the trail, and hence is to all intents and purposes an orphan of perhaps fifty summers. His narrative closes with a brief account of hie experiences experi-ences in this territory, one of which lias brought him to jail. We understand he has "lectured" in one of tho lower wards, on which occasion he ornamented hia btad by a crown of feathers, such j - as dime novel and poetry Indiana always wear io pictures. After hia arrest yesterday he was taken before Justice Pyper and hia preliminary examination was set for to day, his bonds being placed at $500. He was unable to procure the bond , and hence was locked up. |