Daily Republican., 1880-02-02
AN lNHUMAN sHEPHERO.
A Wolf In sheeR's CiOthinE--Inhu-
man TFeatment Of Children-The
Wretch Arrested and ImprisOn'
ed for Trial.

ed for Trial.
For some days past the New York
papers have had long accounts of the
discovery of iDhuman treatment of
children in benevolent and charita.
BILE institution called the "6hepherd's)
Fold" The superintendent of theI
"FsId" was Rsv. Mr.. Cowley, Pro-
tsstant Episcopal clergyman. There
were about twenty-five or thirty chill.
dren of tender years, ranging in age
from two to fifteen years, children of
poor parents, and many with no pa
rents, who were consigned to thu Rev.
Cowley's care, to be fed, clothed aud
trained in the way in which they
should 60. Cowley instead OF being al
good shepherd proved to BE- wolf in
sleeps clothing, and instead OF iced
ing and clothing the children he almost
starved them and allowed them to 60
dirty and naked. The cruel treatment
of these children came to the notice OF
the Society for the prevention OF cruel
ty to children aud the cass was brought
before the Grand Jury of New York last
Saturday. The Sunday New York
"Timss" in describing the affair says
At ll.20 superintendent Z. Fellows
Jenkins, Of the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, appeared with the five
little girls whose testimony has already
bsen taken before Judge D1nohue.
They were all neatly dressed, wore nsw
shoes and white stockings, and had
their hair brushed in ringlets, which
fell prettily over their necks. Their
cheeks, by good feeding, had become
rosy and dimpled, and few would have
recognized in them the wan, thin child
rem, who vera taken from the Fold
some weeks ago. Mr.. jenkins lead
them up the iron stairway into the
Grand Jury room, where they we're ex-
amined for three quarters of an hour by
Foreman King and the other jurors.
Fanny McCurdy, the "Smike" Of the
Fold, related how Mr.. Cowley had
beaten her with poker because his
shirt fronts were not properly ironed,
Emma Bowman told how h1 hal knock
ed her down with his clinched fist, and
then danced on her with his brogans;
how, on another occasion, hs beat her
on the hands with a cat.Of-nine-tails,
composed of a wooden stick, Is Inches
long, with thongs OF leather. Lizzie
Halves, who was locked up for three
days on bread and water, and Bessie
Lawrence, told how they and the Y
other children were fed on the pint
Of condensed milk and pailful OF water,
and about the thin bean-soup and small
rations of German black brsa1, which
made up their breakfasts and. dinners.
The Jury were also shown pictures OF
the starved and emaciatsd child, Louis
Victor. The vote on the charges against
Cowley was practically unanimous, and
and at II. 80 o'clock the Grand Jury
had filled out and signed % indict'
ments against the tx Shepherd one
for each OF the children rescued by the
society.
The indictment in the case of Louis
Victor, child of years, which is con- !
sidered the most atrocions OF the lot
divested of its legal verbiage, sets forth
that Edward Cowley, "b-iug an evil
minded and el)y-disposed person,
did, on Jan. l, 1880; unlawfully, will
fully and wickedly neglect TO provide
for the child Louis Victor, of which he
had the care and custody, neglecting to
administer to ii proper, wholesome. and
sufficient food, meat, drink, warmth,
clothing, bed-covering and means OF
cleanliness, and did thereby cause the
health of the child to be injured against
the form of the statute. in snch cases
made aud provided" &c, The second
count charges that Mr.. Cewlry willful-
ly neglected to provide the child with
proper medicine, attendance and care
the child then bsiuB diseased, sick,
and ailipg its body ahi limbs. The
third count charges Mr.. Cowley with
having "unlawiully, willfully, and
wickedly" assaulted, beat, and i'll.
treated the child Louis Victor. The
fourth count also charges the accused
with assaulting the chilt and keeping
him imprisoned tor three days, as we'll
as inficting other injnries. Th- fifth
count charges an aggravated assault
that Edward Cowley beat, bruised,
wounded, and ill-treated the boy Louis
Victor, by throwing him on the ground
aud Jumping on him, thereby inilicting
divers bruises, hurts, aud wounds, up
on the head, neck, breast, sides, back,
and other parts of the body.
The oifense in law is assault and bat
tery--a misdemeanOr, punishable in
each case, on conviction, by a years
and fine of not less
than $3.50.
"You will have to find twenty five
sureties of $500 each, one on each in
lictment-$l2, 900 in ALL" said Assis- ,
tant District Attorney Bell; then he
added softly, "or go to the TOnbs." a
Cowley's under jaw dropped at the
Mention of the sum he had no idea
hat it would be one quarter as much.
He sighed, shook his mead, and motion 9
ID that he was ready to 60. He was !
hen conducted into the lower office,
where he was introduced to Warden
Finn, and Keeper Hennessy made the +
oliowing entry in the prison books; t
edward Cowley, born in England,
;2 years old; married; is Protestant
Episcopal clergyman; charge, cruelty :
o children; no bail in this case"
A crowd of reporters surged up to the I
prison gate as it closed behind Cowley,
,ut he waved them angrily away, and b
laid to the Warden imploringly, I
Don't let those fellows in on me, for
GOODNESS sakol' Mr.. Finn respected e
his wishes by keeping the crowd back p
Until the Shepherd had been taken upI :,
o third tier and safely locked into Cell X
70. "a, the one formerly occupied by
he notorious thieves, "Tommy" Price, N