The sun., 1861-12-14


CnILI REN RESCUED III LEGAL Authority
IRON TuE KsILKR TRoUPE.-About two years
since, seventeen children were engaged ia this
city, Boston and Baltimore by Mr. Louis Kel-
Ter, TO appear in his tdJLedur for tho term Of
one year. lie took them TO South America,
Cuba and other places and at length their pa
rents, hearing that tho treatment Of the chill
dren was cruel, and not being able to communi-
cate with them, applied to Mayor Wood to use
bis endeavors with our Consul at Havana to OBJ
tain their release. by the steamship Columbia,
on Thursday last, six of the children were re-
coiyCd here, with the following letter:
CONSULATE GENERAL OF TIE CsITRD)
STAIEs or AMERICA AT HAVANA,
December 6'h, ls6l.l
Sir Il have to acknowledge the receipt Of
your c,mmunica ion of the 18th of O:tOber last,
and 10 state in answer, that after having had
Mr.. Louis Keller before Court Of Justi sew
,fal times, and good deal of trouble in other
ways, succeeded in compelling him TO place
under my charge the children, Jane and Eliza
beth Cooper, Luciia B.bcock, Jane Murray,
Eliza and Elizabeth Brown, and Julia and Geo.
Gallot.
Charlotte Holmes wss sent by Keller togoth-
er with three other children. named Jenkins by
NHt bbeaih'i bAitihlNiNi W Nhp oVbh
ult.
Julia and George Gallot returned to Keller
of their own accord. Julia is not in a co:di
tion to 20 to "A cold climate as will appear by
the enclosed documents, one OF which Is a let
ter from the children TO their mother, and the
Of her a doctors certiti sate, showing her state
of health. ! have letter from Louis Keller,
in which he binds himself TO take them to New
Yoik, wirhou fail, in May next lie is now
going to Yucatan, as he can do nothing at pres.
ent in this Island with the remainder Of his
company
Fom all appearances Mr.. Keller is entirely
destitute Of means All his effects have been
seized by his creditors, and he is utterly unable
10 pay for the passage of the children to New
loIk. | do not thirh he Is indebted TO them
for wages, the contrary his supplies in cloth
| /, =, shoes ard other expenses payable by them
s,lves under contract, seem to have far exceeded
the wages earned. | have had TO pay a consi-
| dCrable amount for their board during the last
| eight or nine days, and have requested Capt
| Adams, Of the steamship Columbia, TO take the
| two sisters Cooper, two sisters Brown, Lucilia
Bal cock and Jane Murray, on TO New York, to-
day. The passage money will have to be paid
him when an arrangement can be nave for the
| requisite fund.-.
beg of you to see that tho two sisters
Brown (whoee parents reside in Boston, arc
taken care oftlll they are sent for. have on
this DAY written to Mr. Phllo s. Shelton, TO
| whom their mother was recommended by Me-.
| Amos A, Lawrence, Of Boston, and who wrote
me in bohalf of these two children.
| The mother of Iuclia Bibcock wrote to
| have her child delivered to Simon Elmacho
E,q., the Consul for Venezuela in New York
am, sir, respectfully,
Your obedcut servant,
K. W. SHUFELDr,
Consul General.
To Hon. Fernando Wood, Mayor of New York
The children, aud friends Of the children
, CONF Lin Of very severe treatment and persona
i'll usage on the part of Keller towards hi
troupe, sufficient, according to their statements
to initiate the strongest legal proceeding
against him on his return. The children stat,
that letters written to them by their parents
and friends never reached them. They were, il
is alleged, never allowed to speak to any one
outside of the troupe upon pain of punishment
and the parents of most Of them being poor
Mr.. Keller is reported to have oontemptuously
replied, in answer TO the children's threats o.
exposure of his treatment, that " he didn't care
what they said"
Little faith is placed by the children and
their friends in his promise to send back tn,
Gallot children in May, as it Is stated that h'
promised and pledged himself to send them al
homo year ago.