Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-09-23
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STARVED To DEATH.

FIsHKILL LANDINe, Sept. 16.-But
brief despatch has been sent relative to q
horrible case of starvation i'm the O'T3rien
Menagerio Troupe, which performed at
Stormville, Dutchess county, on Thursday
night Connected with the troupe is
performer known as Atalie, the Man with
the Iron Jaw, and also French woman,
who is denominated the strong Woman.
They take with them also little boy, seven
years of age, whose name 1 cannot asccr-
tain, but who, it is stated, was purchased
in Paris by the French woman for S100,
especially to aid in the performance. 1t
was this little fellows duty to be thrown
about by the Man with the Iron Jaw in
various ways, every one being dangerous
in the extremeT-as, for instance, in one
scene he is fastened to the iron-iawed man
by.a belt, and the two are drawn from the
ground to the top of the tent, where the man
fires pistol and is let down then in some
way the little fellow is hosted up the same
distance, hanging by ingenious contrivan-
ces from the mans jaw. He is also requir-
ed 10 aid the French woman in a scene
where she places 6-pounder on her shoul-
der, and he gets up on it and fires il off 1t
seems, therefore, necessary that he should
not become too heavy for the business.
While stopping at Stormvile the French
woman from some cause is alleged to have
tied the little boys hands behind him and
shut him in a room alone. Staggering to
the window he begged the cook to put up
a ladder and give him piece Of bread and
butter. She had to throw it on the floor,
when he snatched it up and devoured it
eagerly. Another boy, said to be the real
son of the French woman, observing the
movement, informed her of it. She at
once flew into rage, and going to the
| ,o 1ao i'm,
! fully, saying "How dare you do so whom
| told you if you did l would pound you2"
The little fellow begged of her not to whip
him, for he would not do 1t again. lie did
not look as ifhe had drop of blood in his
! body. When his condition was ascertain
ed, a DR.. La Mount was called in, but he
died the same night, and was buried the
next morning. The doctor has said he
died of starvation. Parties are already
moving for the arrest of all concerned, and
the inhabitants OF Stormvillc are so indign-
ant that if they are brought there it is fear
cd they will meet with violence. The
Poughkeepsie Eagle of to-day says that the
cruelty practised by this woman and the
| iron iawed man on the children have at
tracted attention elsewhere, and both have
been denounced by the press. These par
ties were arrested in Philadelphia months
!
managed to escape punishment.
MEETING AGAINST THE NEW York
THIEVES. Es.-Ex-Mayo Havemayer, life
long Democrat, presided at the New York
Meeting. The bonds of the city have been
thrown out of the Money Exchanges in
Germany, and such men as August Bel
mont, the Agent for the Rothschilds in this
country, took part in the meeting. In two
years these thioves, who have had charge
of the city and city affairs of New York,
have increased The debt S63, ,000,0 900, which
was unknown to the people. The debt is
never upwards of 102, 900, 900, with large
floating claims, the amount of which is not
known. These are the men that charge
the Republican Administrators with extra
vaganCe, while the United States debt has
been decreased in two years upwards oi
1920, ,000,000, and taxation diminished
within the last two years not less than
$50, 900 annually.
Oswald Ottendorfer, the editor Of the
great leading Democratic organ, tho
S~AArs ZEITUNo, made a speech, and
says that the thieves must be made to dis.
gorge the moiiey.