Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-28
THE OLD. OLD STORY
OF Love Betrayed-A Deluded
Girl, HOpeIessTy P~aralyzed,
Who Prefers a GiIded Lite
OfShame 10 a Brothers.
Love and Protection.

The young girl stated yesterday to
have been sent to the Mission from a
house of low repute, is a well-to-do
farmers daughter. She is just six
teen, budding into a beautiful woman
hood. The letter from which
passages were quoted was
from her betrayer, who brought
her here under promise of marriage.
A policeman heard that at a bagnio
on his beat there was a young girl
who seemed to be astranger, and cried
all the time. He Swallowed the house
a few hours, and found tina rumor
true. Be then managed to procure
an interview with the young girl, who
with tears in her eyes implored him
to take her away from that vile place.
Her story was full Of pathos. While
a simple
FARMER DAUGHTER,
she had met during one of her even
ing rambles a good-looking
stranger, who managed to get into a
conversation with her. After that
she met him at every turn, saw him
everywhere, and won by his constant
attention, yielded in a moment Of
weakness, upon his promise to marry
her and introduce her into the gayety
and fash of city life. "And this"
she said, is the boarding house this
the
GAYETY AND DASH
of city life. l would rather die than
live another day in this fearful place.
I am afraid to say one word Of all Il
see, and even now l know somebody is
listening, and if you don't take me
away l shall suffer for what l have
said. They try to make me talk and
act as they do, and the one they call
the mistress uses oaths that make my
hair fairly stand on end. Only last
night she wanted me to take
A HACK RIDE
with a number of half drunken row.
dies, and l would not do it. I'll
| die before will p The unfor.
tunate girl continued in this
strain for some time, moaning
and wringing her hands and pleading
so pitifully to be sent home. This
last request could not be granted, but,
as before stated, she was sent to the
Mission Home, where she will be
kindly treated. Forty girls, from the
ages of ten to twenty-five, are under
the care of its kind mistress. Many
of these went there under similar cir
%cumstances, one more being added to
the number yesterday. The last acqui-
sition was
AN ORPHAN.
Names are suppressed in the hope
vain perhaps--tha pride and peni-
tence may work a change. The cir
cumstances in the last case are some
what different, but not less illustra-
tive in detail.
A well-dressed youth called at the
police headquarters yesterday and
begged assistance in regaining his sis.
ter from a house Of i'll fame, at No. 7
Adams street. He stated that his
mother had died several months since
leaving him and one sister, about
eighteen years Of age, to take care Of
themselves, He had struggled hard
iol the support of both, but she, be-
coming dissatisfied with their poverty,
had entered a life of
GILDED SHAME.
Until the night before,
he had not known where
she was. He had searched the city for
her, but at last as he passed the door
of the above named place, ran against
her as she stepped out upon the
street. He was Mortified, and more
deeply grieved still when he detected
the odor Of whisky upon her breath.
He begged and pleaded with her to go
with him home. She refused, and he
was Obliged to take her by force, but
she
MADE HER ESCAPE
about daylight in the morning by
crawling from the window. Captain
Davis went with him to the place he
had seen her the night before, and
there they found her. Tears and pit
eous pleading from the brother, who
prayed her to consider and to remem-
Der their mother to think and not
bring disgrace on the family, failed to
move her. She said she would never
quit the life she had adopted, that she
had a friend who would look out for
her wants, and see that she got more
comforts than her brother was able to
give her. Finding
PERSUASION UNAVAILABLE,
Captain Davis was compelled to use
harsher means, and, ordering her to