BOSTON WOMAN IS CONVICTED ON SLAVERY CHARGE
SAN FRANCISCO', July 29. ■ Mrs Elizabeth Ingalls, a prominent member of Boston society, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and fined 2500 dollars today for holding her negro maid in slavery. The prison term was suspended, and Mrs Ingalls was placed on probation for five years. In addition, she was ordered to pay the maid 6000 dollars for 30-years’ unpaid service. The United States Attorney told the court that the Government did not wish to oppose probation, because Mrs Ingalls had a record as “a good Christian woman in other respects.” During the trial, the prosecution alleged that the negro maid had had a child by Mrs Ingalls’s first husband. Mr Walter Harman,, in Boston, 30 years ago, Mrs Ingalls then told her that, as “atonement,” she would have to remain with her. The maid had worked for Mrs Ingalls ever since without payment. Mrs Ingalls’s husband was tried, but the jury failed to return a verdict. No decision has yet been made whether he will be re-tried.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 July 1947, Page 8
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