The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-15
Murder Of the Innooents.

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General orders from General officers, pro-
bibiting corporal punishment we are car
featured in Harper's Weekly as utter and
aalnnable barbarians.1 The superior moral
ity of our oppressors can be judged from
The following horrible details found in the
New York Tribune:
Il is getting to be q serious question
among Christian men and women whether
We ought not to, have society for the pre-
yertion Of cruelty to children. We had
not recovered from the sickeniug horrors
Of the case Of the Rev. Mr.. Lindsay, who
whipped his little son to death because the
child would not say his prayers, when we
were called upon the other day'to record
hightful instance of child torture near
Hackensack, N.-Jo which fortunately came
TO the knowledge of the authorities before
il had eliminated in downright murder. =
a man and his wife, named Vanderbilt,
had taken an orphan child. one Mary Far
frell, from an asylum; for the purpose of
employing her as o servant. e For about
eleven months the husband Knocked her
sbott with a broomstick, and the wife beat
her With an iron dipper., They used to
take her to the cellar, strip her naked, tie
her up by the wrists, lash her with horse
vhiptill the blood ran down her limbs, and
then rub the raw flesh with brine She
made,her escape at last, and was found one
morning. in The open fields, with bare feet
and legs, and wearing only a single thin
undergarment, so saturated with blood and
filth that it had to be peeled from her body
like scab. She appeared in court with
evidences of torture so pitiful upon her
person that stout men wept at the specta-
Gle, Her jaw had been broken her hair
had been torn out by handfuls her face
was swollen and deformed her lips were
cut open; her eyes were blackened and
Scared her whole body was bruised and
discolored. Little, wonder that the neigh
bors were with difficulty restrained from
wreakipg lynch law vengeance, on the au-
thors OF the outrage. 81 ~ ~ -
The same day we reported the discovery
of the dead body of an infant in an alley
way in this city. Its throat had been cut
from ear'to ear; the head was nearly sew
cred from the body; there, were three or
four cuts about the neck, as if inflicted by
the trembling hurried hand of woman.-
On that day, also, another case of intanti-
eide was added to the long list which dis
gaces orr annual police calendar, An
unknown woman was seen to drop bun,
die in TweDty-Sixth, street. When opened
it was found to contain the murdered body
Of child, killed by strangulation.,. NO
" Que of the most shocking and inhumar
childmurders that we ever read Of, occur
ed in the early part of March, in Warsaw
Indiana. An abandoned woman named
Hines apprenticed her little boy, four years
of age, to MIR. and Mrs. Harl. The,
were to have kept the boy until he was Q
age but the process Of conquering
him; which the man Hnrl immediatel,
commenced, was too severe for SO tender
baby, and death relieved him of the charg
at the end Of four weeks. The day afte
his introduction to his new home the poo
infant was whipped with ga blacksnak
whip :" because he did not know his letters
He was scourged with knotted wagon
whip, beaten with straps, knocked out 0
his chair for falling asleep, bruised wit
clubs and bits of board until his, flesh wa
like jelly. One day the brute Harl hang
ed him by the waist from a hook in tn
wall, took off his shoes and stockings, an
kindled fire under the souls of his feet
When the flames began to die out, tn
cbild's mother, who was present, was CON
PEELED with dreaded threats, to, bring fres
Goals. This torture lasted nearly half a
hour. Then the sufferer was taken DOW
and tied to q bed post. Spent with pair
he fell asleep; for this crime he was locke
up half naked for two hours and half on
cold February day in cellar. AT nigh
the executioner dipped his head in bucl
ct Of water and imprisoned him again i
the cellar. Then he turned himiout L
doors in his shirt and trowsers. After til
burning said Harris wife, in her testimon
i nGourt.. the child was not able to!ru
around as usual" Sometimes, as a varii
ton of the torture, the boy was hanged u
BY the heels. One day. after he had bee
whipped as usual, he seemed "yerylpoorly:
be 4did not talk any, and at noon he wa
put to bed, Early in the evening Ha
sent his wife to- her room. 1t was very LAT
when he followed her. "We had no col
yersation that night" says Mrs. Harl 18th
child was not there in the morning" Mr.
Hines, the mother, suspected foul play, on
applied to q magistrate. "A search va
made, and the body ofthe poor boy wa
band in trunk at the bottom ola WE'LL
Harl made his escape, but has since bee
Gptured. The women were both arreste
and tried as accomplices in the MURDER
They we're acquitted after an examination
which seems to show that the mother, VIII
had done little or nothing to prevent I'll
foul cruelty which had been exercised und
her very eyes, was the worst criminal
The three. H * AZ
A few days ago a German carpenter W,
arrested in Chicago on charge Of whi
ping his daughter to death. The neig
bors, alarmed at the horrid outeries of Il
little sufferer sent word to the police
when the officers entered the house Il
nan land his wife were absent, and I'll
Fhila was found dead, lying on her fa
upon bed. Her back was mass
Wounds (; her garments were saturated wi
Blood (; herne was purple with the mari
ola clutchered hand the eyes were ope
and the face was distorted with agony.
These, things are, Too sickeniag for COZ
sseat. We used to 6elieve that The soho
sale Killing Of children by slo,o torture 70
arefnement Of soickedaaess IN qohich E
Vaad led the qcorld; but the records Of I
hsiyea'- or t,co go far TO tra@ger the b
pfs-eminence TO ourselves. Murder By
ash seems atm0stto hare become an e.
ds'aic, and one Of the worst features an
Sase is thai, acoaaen. are SO often imphcat
" the snndtural brutality. d state Of
csty in arhich such horrors can Jeco,