Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-10
AN INTERESTING CASE.
A Mistaken Father Attempts Illegal Et
cOvery0f Mis- Indenturcd Child.

AN INTERESTING CASE.
A NIistaken Father Attempts Illegal Re
cOveryof Mis- lndentured Child.
A case of considerable interest to the
management of the Children S. Ho,oe and
TO parents having children therein, was
disposed of by Alderman Barr yesterday.
VIM. Nixdorf, q widOwer of the First
ward, this city, a poor laborinS man, had
two Children son and q daughter-sent
to the Home. The little girl, about twelve
years old, under the rules OF the lnstitu-
ton, was duly indertured to Philip H.
Moore, living on the Wabank road, in
Lancaster township. A report reached
Nixdorf that Moore had beaten the little
girl and:otherwise treated her cruelty; So
LIE went to Noorc's to take her away. She
was at school at the time, and
Nixdorf went to the school house
and took her away. After leading
her off for some distance, he was met by
Mr.. Moore, who insisted on taking the
girl back to his home, and after some
trouble su cceeded in doing SO. He then
sued Nixdorf under the law which pro-
vides punishment for those who entice ap
prentices to leave their masters and Nix
dorf sued Moore for assault and battery on
the little girl. The cases were heard to-
gether before Alderman Barr, and the tes
timony showed that Mr.. Moore and his
wife instead of being cruel to the little
girl had treated her with due Kindness,
provided her with plenty of food and COM
Portable clothing and sent her to school IS
provided for in the indentu-e, and that the
little girl preferred :ying with them TO
going home with her father. The case Of
assault and battery against Mr. Moore was
promptly dismissed.
Mr.. Nixdorf acknowledged that hc wen:
to the school and took the little girl away
after lie heard she had been abused, but
he plead ignorance Of the law, and said he
thought he had a right to take her home.
e. N. Sproul, esq, who represented both
Mr.. Moore and the Home said there was no
desire to press tie case against NlxdOrf,
provided he obligated himself to not again
interfere with the little girl OK attempt to
take her away. NixdOrf made the neces-
sary obligation, and the case against him
was dismissed.
The Home management have been much
annoyed by incohsidcrate parents attempt.
ing TO get their children out OF the Home
after they have been duly entered there, or
in getting them away from the persons to
whom they have been inden.uled. Parents
and guardians S!lould understand that
after children are admitted to the Home
they will not be dismissed except
upon the most satisfactory evidence that
they will be rs well provided for and as
well educated outside the Home as in it {;
and that after inmates have been regular |
Iy indcntured to learn trades, they must !
remain with their employers until their |
term of service expires or until their in
denturcs have been legally cancelled. On
the other hand employers should bear in |
mind that they too are liable TO punish
ment for i'll usage towards their appren-
tices or for neslecting to strictly fulfil all
the terms of their contract as specified in |
the indcnturc.
Children are only admitted to the Home
upon the urgent application of parents or
upon a showing Of some public interest de-
manding their admission but to sever !
their relation with it ut the whim of every
unreasonable parent would bc highly de-
moraliZing to Il well conducted institution.
Diving Accident.
Yesterday morning us Mr. Jacob Diehm
and wife, of Penn township, were on their
way to Lancaster, the left front spindle of
the top buggy in which they were SEATED
broke entirely off when nearing the school
house building, in Mannheim borough.
The horse commencing to kick and run,
Mr.. Diellm was .jerked out of the buggy
on to the ground, and at Arnd:' store the
animal, which had kept Oh running, jumped
over the iron railing Oh to the pavement,
the wagon and continuing his
course on the pavement up to Prussian
street, was caught in front OF Mrs. Dhicn-
derfer's boarding house. The wife and i
three -year-old child of William Ruth, who
>fpl ,sf,1v |
thrown ON the pavement. None of tie
three, however, is supposed to be seriously
injured but one Of the hOrsc's hind legs
was somewhat laceratcd and bruised