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Gen. Dorris, of St. Louis, whose wife was lately inhumanly murdered by her grandson, was formerly a gambler and a negro trader. He won the “Dorris block” of St. Louis, of J. B Lucas, in one night. He won on three 9s, and to this day St. Louis gamblers call three 9s a Lucas. Mrs. Dorris (nee' Sarah Henderson), the murdered woman, was a hard hearted creature in the old times, and was a partner in her husband’s negro speculations. According to the Post-Dispatch, in the old times negro women with infants at the breast were sold at very low prices, because nobody wanted the trouble of having the children about. Dorris bought such women whenever he could get what he considered a bargain. He would turn the mother and child over to his wife, who would take the child from the breast and raise it by the bottle. The woman was then ready to be sold again at a profit. Whatever Mrs. Dorris could realize from the sale of the child she was entitled, by a bargain with her husband, to keep for pin-money. The grandson Brown comes rightly by his wickedness. - Champion.Date(s) of Creation
2/11/1882
