From the Richmond Examiner, 1/3/1866, p. 3, c. 4

THE DISGUSTING EXHIBITION AT CHIMBORAZO – A SIMILAR CASE IN RICHMOND FORTY YEARS AGO. – It will be remembered that we published a statement to the effect that a negro woman living near Chimborazo had been delivered of a litter of puppies. We now learn that these animals have human heads and canine bodies; they were originally five in number.  One has died, two have been sold to a Yankee, for exhibition, for one thousand dollars, and the wretched woman has refused an offer of five hundred dollars for the two which remain. The woman will be sent to the Poor House, and when she is sufficiently recovered she will be sent to the Penitentiary. Hanging would be far too slight a punishment for such an abandoned outcast as this creature must be.

About forty years ago, when pine trees were still growing on the north side of Main street, where Twenty-fifth street now runs, a negro woman, named Sally Ham, was the mother of three creatures such as we have described above, but they all died soon after their birth.

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