Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-02
HAD s8EPHERD COWLEy.


 Much to the satisfaction of every body who has read the testimony concerning the treat ment of the children who were so unfortunate 1 as to live at the charitable institution" in New York city known as the Shepherds Fold, the shepherd of the fold is now in the Tombs, with twenty-five indictments against him. Unless the Rev. Edward Oowley is greatly belied, he is 8 criminal of singular vileness. It seems that he was, some years ago, employed as the superintendent of 8 home for friendless children, maintained by charitable society, but was dismissed for misconduct. He then set up on his own ac- count place professedly similar in charac- ter, and managed in some way to obtain rec ognition and subsidy from the city, according to the bad plan in vogue there. by which many private establishments are adopted as 8 part of the city's charitable institutions. This Cowley had in his place many children fifteen years old and under, whose daily diet con sisted of breakfast of small piece of bread, with condensed milk diluted with water, dinner of pea soup, and supper like the breakfast except that the allowance of con- densed milk was only half that at ths morn : AAS A1ShAs oA OAiJ G~o d6S5 RI SAo GAE, Thanksgiving and Christmas, was the bill of fare varied from that above given, and then only by substituting natural for the condensed milk. The children were very scantily clothed they were crowded together at night in small bedrooms, with insufficient bedding and no night clothes their persons and clothes were filthy, and swarmed with vermin; they were often punished with a stick or cat o'-nine-tails. Their appearance was extreme ly pitiable, their gaunt, pinched faces and wasted limbs giving convincing evidence of the inhuman cruelty with which they were treat ed. The Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Children interfered at last, taking the children under it's protection and bringing Cowley before the courts. After the intro duction of part of the evidence his counsel, Judge Fullerton, retired from the case, de- claring that he could not s'bring himself to the odious task of cross examining and trying to break down the stories of these wretched children"
 Had not the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children taken hold of this bad shepherd there is no telling how much more harm he might have done than he has. He seems to have had things all his own way. The President of the fold is reported as ad- hitting that he was never inside the institu- tion. MT. Gerry, of counsel of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, has vainly hunted fer any responsible trustee who has recently, if at all, been inside the fold, and there has been no supervision of it by any one, not even by the State Board of $I,o4 had loS cited against the shepherd but seems to have been so hoodwinked that it's officials have never looked in his direction since It is de- voutly to be hoped that there are no more Shepherds Folds'' in New York city, but Mir. Cowley's career goes to show that there easily might be.
 After Cowley was sent to the Tombs he was interviewed, and in the intervals of his weep ing he declared his innocence of the dreadful cruelty charged against him and sworn to by the victims of it. He places himself in the attitude of martyr, and declares that if he is doomed to suffer and the Almighty sees fit to chastise him for the sins of others he is ready. ''Say," said he, s'that I am resigned to the will of Heaven, and hear the door of my prison close with hope in the goodness of God.'' Before he hears the door of his prison open it is probable that he will have an oppor- tunity to exercise great deal of resignation.