The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-13
Anhuman Treatment Ofan Orphan
Girl


The dull proceedings of.the Berger
county court, which is being held al
the court house in Hackensack, N. j.,
were yesterday enlivened ly the reci-
tai OF a revolving case of cruelty, in
which young girl only thirteen years
OF age was almost beaten to death.
The details are sickening and abhor-
rent in the extreme, and were it not
that the bruised and MANNED child ap-
peared in court with the CHASTITY scars
on her person could scarcely be be.
lieved. A brace of fiends in human
form named Henry and Margret Van
derbilt, living in Pleasantville, about
six miles from Hackensack, N. j.,
came last May to New York and made
application to the asylum for orphans
and destitute children, under the man
agement of the Sisters of Charity, for
young girl to perform general house
work. They took with them to their
home bright, intelligent girl named
Mary Ann Farrell, who, for the last
eleven months, they have tortured in
the most inhuman manner without
any cause. In fact, they batted her
about like shuttle cock, the husband |
using broomstick and the wife an iron
clipper. At times he would take her into
the cellar, and there, the child stripped,
naked and tied up by the wrists, he
would lash her with a horsewhip until
the blood trickled down her limbs;
not satisfied with this, he would com
pei her to wash her bleeding wounds
with brine, thereby increasing the ag-
ony. During all this time she never
spoke to a human being: Whenever
persons visited the house she was
locked up in the kitchen until they had
departed. On several occasions she
has attempted to escape, but was never
successful nvtl last Tuesday evening,
when she left the house by the back
way. All night long she wandered
about the fields, her only covering
being short chemise and sack, with
out any shoes, stockings, or drawers
She was found in the morning by a
of Justice Brickell, lying
PROSTATE on the bare ground. When
brought to the Justices house her un-
der garment, which had not been
for long time, was thorough
ly saturated with blood and matter,
and to remove it it was necessary to
peal it from the skin. JUS
tice Brickelps good wife kindly took
her under her charge, where she is
now receiving medical treatment, with
fair hopes of recovery.
Justice Brickell arrested Vanderbilt
and his wife, and held them to bail in
the sum of $500 each to answer any
charge the grand jury may bring
against them. The Irish inhabitants
in the neighborhood of Inglewood,
hearing of the affair, became so in
censed that they resolved to lynch
,hese human monsters, but the execuS
lion of the plan was frustrated by the
energy of their priest, who threatened
TO denounce to the authorities the indi-
viduals connected with it. The case
was brought before the grand jury yes
terday, when the girl made her state
ment, which was borne out to the let
ter by the revolving appearance she
presented 1t is supposed her perse-
cutors were indicted, and if so, their
trial will take place in few days.
Our reporter visited the child yester-
day, and witnessed more of the effects
Of the racking torture she was sub
jected to than has yet been related
Her face is swollen and deformed, the
lips split in several places, whole
of hair torn from her head,
her eyes blackened and SCARED, the
white of them being hardly discernible,
her jaw bone fractured by blow from
q broom handle, her right arm dislo-
Gated and her entire body of black
and blue color. Strong, stout-hearted
men who witnessed the sight, wept
like children, while the girl stood by
her protector staring at them with a
gcze. A reporter handed
her a few shillings in fractional cur J
rency, when she remarked it was the
first money she ever held in her hand.
Mr.. John p Martin will act as guar
dian for the girl after the trial is over.
For the present she will remain with
the family of Justice Brickell. To
make sure of Vanderbilt's conviction,
persons are endeavoring to find girl
whom he had with him, who was also
at one of the asylums, who
they charge was even more unfortu-
nate than her successor.-New York
Trihuna Wadnesdav