Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-28
LOST LAMBKINs.
The Two Hsaas Girls Who Lived In New
Orleans and Went to Chicago.
Chicago Times, s5th,l

Chicago Times, 25th,l
Mrs. NJ. A. Stockton, of New Or
leans, reached this city on yesterday
morning, and last night at eight
clock started on her return with the
young girl, Adele Burnett, who came
here a week ago, in company with
Rose Stuart from New Orleans. The
two misses, about fifteen years Of age,
left pleasant homes in the latter city
and came here with the full purpose
of entering upon lives of sin and
shame. They started from home on
Thursday, the 18th, and reached Chi
cago on the following Monday. Their
destination had by some means been
discovered by Their friends, and a tele-
gram to the superintendent Of police
here caused their arrest two days
afterward in a fashionable house of
ill-fame on Clark street, and they
have been kept since at the Harrison
street police station. Rose Stuart is
still there, and will probably be sent
to the House of the Good Shepherd,
as her friends have sent word that
they do not are to have her come
home.
Both of the girls belong to respec-
table families, and, while the Stuart
girl seems to have become rather bad,
the other is said to be innocent OF
wrong. They say they were induced
to come to Chicago by the mistress OF
the house where they stopped in this
city, who spent some time in New
Orleans a few weeks ago, They were
in each Others company, they say,
going home from a matinee, when a
little girl stopped them in front of a
hotel and said a lady was within who
wanted to see them. They met the
woman, who said she lived in Chicago,
and urged them to go with her and she
would give them a home with all the
pleasing surroundings which they
could wish they should have fine
clothes, rich jewelry, and ride out in
phaetons and be the pets of her home.
The glowing prospect turned their
heads and they consented to come.
They quietly packed up their keep
sakes, and a day afterward were pro
yided with tickets and some spending
money by an agent of the woman.
TheySwere taken to the train, put in
charge Of the conductor, had the
company part of the way of a noted
gambler, were put into a carriage at
the depot by the conductor, as he had
been directed, and sent to their des-
tined abode. They were petted and
Aattered for two days and lived in the
midst of scenes they had never before
known. They had found a paradise
on earth at last, but with a perfect
understanding all the time of the
character of the house in which they
were. Then came the telegram re-
questing the arrest Of Adele Burnett.
She was taken to the armory. When
Rose called on her on the following
day she, too, wa put under arrest.
Adele has a mother and a step
father, too poor to pay her passage
home. Mrs. Stockton consented to
come and get her, and have her ex-
penses paid when they could afford it.
Rose said she hoped to got home.
where she would be sure to become a
better girl after all she had seen while
shut up in the station, of the sad end
to which such women come as those
she had almost cast her own lot with.
If set free to-day she would not 90
back to the palatial house on Clark
street, Notwithstanding the induce
ments which were held out to her.
She has a mother and brothers and
sisters at home who are financially
able to get her home if they would,
but she says she doesn't care to beg
the kindness Of them.
An effort wa made to get a pass for
her to New Orleans, which has not
yet succeeded. The House of the
Good Shepherd is likely to become
her abode for the immediate future.