The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-04-12
A Horrible Record OF Crime.

| tullH Oh inc COnuillOl W Whith ih"uJ
children were found during the year.
The following are few specimens taken
from the report:
A little girl but four years old was
rescued from q saloon-keeper who was
selling to her bottle of rum, and tho
precocious little topper was placed In
home for children.
Thomas Smith, father OF little boy
fifteen years old, was arrested by the
Society, fined and imprisoned for com
peling his son IN DO contestant III
walking. match at the American lnsti-
tute Building, where one hundred miles
were made in twenty;four hours, ana
where the little fellow tainted long be-
fore the task could DO completed. .
At No. S3j Eleventh avenue, officers
of tho Society found Michael and Alice
McKcndra both drunk and surrounded !
by three children. The rooms they oc-
cupicd were rccking with dirt, ycrmin
and horrible stenches. The ouly article
of furniture WAS mattress spread upon |
the floor. The children, aged six years,
two and n half years and Bin months,
were wallowing in yomits aud oxcre-
mcnts, ard were all starving. The little
child of two and q half years was totally
blind. The baby shortly died. tho other
two were cared for In public institutions,
4 and the unnatural parents were sent SIX
4 months to the Pcnitentinry.
/ The Society rescued little girl only
:. eight wears old, whom man named
4 Geo. Walker was III the act Of abductin2.
@ The girl was restored to her parents, and
- the liidnapper punished. ,,,
q -Four children, Mamie, John, William
@ and james, aged respectively thirteen;
II ten. seven and six years, were rescued
d from their parents, Thomas and Cattle
r rine Wilson, who occupied n hut IN
!, New York locality known as "Hclls
ii Kitchen" and who have since been sent
- 10 the Pcnltentiary for highway robbery.
Il. The interior Of the hut was counter
part of old Fagin's quarters, and the
children were being subjected to the
If same training that young Oliver re-
n ceived. They were sent to the New
IS York Catholic Proicctory.
p John, Rosa and Peter, all under seven
Ic wears of age, were taken from their
< parents. Patrick and Maria Boylan, at
k 3J3 West Fiilicth street, and were COM
II iortably housed in an Asylum. They
70 were all naked and were found crouch
ID ING in corner to escape the blows OF
rs their father and mother, both OF whom
Us we're in beastly state Of intoxlcatlon.
is Patrick aud Maria were committed. NJ
ii mcrous other cases ara detailed in the
Ill report. One where little girl only
ID. uiuo nine years of age was rescued iron
US n man who had attempted to outrage
x. her: another in which little girl wn
Ill delivered from father attempting NJ
N, unnatural crime, and still another il
OF which was saved little mothcrless bo
mt named Husley, compelled by his fathe
nd to sleep through December in an opc
ted cellar on Twentieth street, whcr
led his cars and hands were frozen, an
10 where he was frequently bitten by I'll
l8e rats. Ii is of little consequences IN who's
to name the Society does this human
ave work. 1t is Of little consequence VIII
lch thc motive that prompts it. So long
1t the hungry are fed, the naked clothe
nd and those who perpctrato the inhuma
ut, ity arc punished. no long ought the ii
lhc name Society to be encouraged and 81
""' tanned. 1-----
odv The story of John duncan, OF Alfor
,out England, the "wcayer-botanist, h
fin been received with the warmest syl
tie pathy by scientists and scientific soc
md lies the world over. Although only
,nqe moor weaver. toilius at the loom for
rnlv daily bread, he has by lifetime OF
,cs, dustry and earnest devotion to sciel
hen added very materially to the bo'anl
he knowledge of his country; and quite
es Gently presented his large and very
q as liable hcrbarium to the university
does Aberdeen. His scientific labor, III
that ever brought him no pecnniary rewo
the and extreme old age found him dope
, he, ent for his daily necessities upon
accd ochial relief. Recently the worthy,
aca- botanist' needs have attracted much
the tcntion, and fund now raising Tor his
vail. lief by voluntary subscriptions
reached the respectable proportions
about 1925. Her majesty, the Quo
presented Gl0. The money sabscni
be is to be placed in the hands OF bot
riue of trustees, who will make ample prov
aud ion for Mr. Duncan during the remo
was der of his life, and on his death will
tho vote any sum remaining to the pro
tt, in ton Of science. The wcover-botam'
after now in his eightyScvcnth year, M
}. In feeble health.
ife in A. ,r