Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-11
DETAIL FOR THE BOARD.
THE BARBARISM OF TO-DAY.

Henry and Margaret Vanderbilt are I'M
der arrest at Hackensack, New Jersey, for
inhuman treatment of a girl named Mary
Ann Ferrill, thirteen years old, whom they
had obtained at one of the charity institu-
tions of New York. When the child APP
peared before the grand jury, her face was
swollen and deformed the lips split in sew
eral places, whole handsfuI Of hair torn
from her head, her eyes blackened and
SCARED, the whites of them being scarcely
discernible, her jaw-bone fractured by
blow from a broom-handle, her right arm
dislocated, and her entire body black and
blue color.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, April4.
Lawrence Hart, of Warsaw, Indiana, was
arrested near Mount Vernon, Ohio, last
Friday, and taken back to Warsaw, Ind,
whence he had fed after the preparation
Of one of the most frightful acts of brutal
ity on record.
About six weeks ago Lawrence Hart took
from the pOorhouse at Warsaw a boy
four years old, named Winfield Hines.
Three weeks afterward the child was miss
ing. Its mother made inquiry as TO what
had become of it, and was told that it had
been given away TO a man living in Ohio.
Not satisfied with this, she succeeded in
interesting some prominent citizens in the
matter, who began to make an investiga-
ton, whereupon, Hart having fed after a
long search the mangled body of the child
was found in an old well. At the coroner's
inquest, Harris wife testified, and others
testified, that from the very first Harris
treatment of the child was brutal and cruel
ia the extreme; that be whipped and beat
it without mercy almost if not quite every
day, and that on one occasion he spent
nearly a whole day in torturing il in every
way the most hellish wantonness could sug-
gest, first whipping it with leather strap
then with a strip Of board, until it was
not able TO walk, and then put 1t down in
the cellar, where ii laid down in the damp
and chilly air and went to sleep. Then he
took the poor child from the cellar and
plunged It's head into cold water, and COM
PEELED il to remain out of doors until its
feet were frozen. He then took it into the
house hung itup by the stairway BY means
Of strap passed around the body, and held
Goals Of fire on a shovel under its feet
After torturing it in this manner for a
while he took il down and made it walk
the floor backward and forward, occasion
ally striking it with leather horse whip,
until e fell at last, exhausted and senseless,
on the floor
Ii further appeared that the day the
child died, Hart whipped it, first out of
doors with a stick Of some kind, until it
was so exhausted that il fell asleep at the
table while they were eating breakfast.
Upon this Hart flew into a rage, said,
On You, will see if / can't keep you
awake and thereupon seized horsewhip
and whipped the child for some time, and
finally struck it a severe blow on the tenn
pie, either with his fist or the butt Of the
whip, and knocked its head against a stair
way, causing two more severe bruises on
the back part Of its head
He then allowed his wife 10 put the child
10 bed, and she states that she tried to re-
store ii, but it died that night, when Hart
took the body away.
Prem the Cincinnati Times. April l.
Some time since we gave the particulars,
80 far as they have iranspired, Of the kid
mapping Of a little boy named Eddy Hill,
about one year since, from the Children's
Home. aad who was recently found in the
possession Of a woman named Rosa Morris
His story, which Is plain and direct, is,
that The husband of this woman enticed
him away from the Home, snd has ever
since kept him concealed.
She has received relief At different times
from the Relief Union, representing this
child a. her own. When discovered he
was covered with bruises, bis nose was
broken and his eyes blaekened. There was
not spot on his body of the siEe Of ones