The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-17
From the Cincinnati Times. 7th. !

YouthfaI Depravity-Tbe Daughter.
OF n Clergyman snd mn cx.Coanty
Omciall Found in N House Of HI
Fame.
Two Dung girls, one of sixteen only,
another but three years her senior,
daughters cf respectable citizens in
comfortable circumstances, are the un-
fortunate subjects of this sad story OF
departure frsm home, from friends, from
decency and from virtue. The elder Of
these two victims of waywardness, Miss
Louisa, is the daughter of preacher;
the younger, and less experienced and
confirmed reprobate, has always had q
good home with her father, n man of
business. The two girls have not been
long intimately associated-only for a
few months past, we believe. The eld-
er, a sprightly, well educated and rath-
er fascinating girl, has been longer un-
der the bane ofevil influences than her
younger companion, had, in fact, been led
astray before the two became we'll ac-
quainted. The story told now is that
the younger girl, Mollie, was the most
forward of a small circle of young girls
of good families who are looked upOn
by young men of their acquaintance as
unusually bold and wild i'll their be-
havior for girls of their age. The facts
are these: On the 23d of May last, IN
the absence of Louisa's father from the
city, the two planned to escape from
their homes and enter hOuse of evil
fame. They arrived at this determine
ton after much deliberation, for they
had been talking ofitat times for weeks.
The spirit of lewdness and wickedness
seemed to have taken full possession of
them. They encouraged each other in
their conspiracy against their own wei
fare by talking over repeatedly and
magnifying to large proportions the pet.
ty grievance of their home life, until
they had convinced themselves and
each other that each was sadly abused
young woman, and that their only means
of happiness was to be found in life
of shame. They had planned to do thus
and so on the 23d of may, but were frus-
trated The elder girl had made an un-
derstanding with II wealthy young man,
and had coniidcd to him their little
plans for future happiness. When this
young gentleman studied over the af-
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to the conclusion that for his own safe
ty lie had better break the engagement
and apprise the father of his daughters
intentions. He did this, and thus was
the plan spoiled. The would-be run
aways could not secure their clothing.
However, they soon concluded to leave
without their clothing, and in the
course of two or three days their bed
rooms were found vacant when break
fast was announced.
The elder girl had made arrangements
that secured them admitIance to sever
al houses, in their efforts to avoid dis
covery by their parence and the officers
who were set upon their track. They
went to several bad houses Of the first
class. on Sixth, Third and Sycamore
streets, sleeping here and eating there,
taking breakfast in one house, dinner
in another and supper 1T third--al-
ways moving, in their determined eff
forts to escape from all restraint. They
made a trip to Louisville, stopping at u
notorious house conducted by Jennie
Laws. While there last Sunday they
received warning from one of their as
socjates here by telegraph, that detec-
tivcs were going to Louisville and In
danapolis in search of them. Corclud-
ing that they would be safer under cover
in Cincinnati, while the hunt
was elsewhere, they immediate
ly returned here, stopping at
= bird Street house. They were dis
covered, however, by an acquaintance,
who informed their parents that they
had returned. The fathers, in company
with Sergeant Williams, of the Ninth
street district police commenceda a new
search night before last, and about four
o'clock of yesterday morning, captur-
ed them. They took them Immediate
ly to the Ninth street station and lock-
ed them within cells there. During
yesterday they had an opportunity to
study in the society of their degraded
cell neighbors, the future that they had
cuurted-to hear language from the lips
of women so degraded as to be horrible
in their moral ugliness-language be-
yond the conception, in its profanity |
and vulgarity, of any but the most de-
graded mind. The younger girl shud-
dered and wept, and shrunk away into
a corner of her cage. The other, who
had all along acted, in a measure, as
her protector, curled her lip in scorn,
and maintained her composure. She
quietly remarked, 81 have turned ont,
and I'll never turn back, but you will
never find me sinking so low AZ that.
| think can take better care uf my
self.r
"You don't know anything about it,
child" said a harlot who occupied the
next cell, "yod've only taken few
lessons; you haven't graduated yet in
This school,"
The younger girl was taken out by
her father, and committed to the House
Of Refuge. The other was liberated
asst evening, being nineteen years of
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