Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-06-07
A Horrible Record Of Crime,

The New York Society for the Preven-
ton of Cruelty to Children, in its las.
annual report, gives some narrowing de-
tails of the condition in which many
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 o saloon-keeper who was
selling to her bottle of rum, and the
precocious little topper was placed in a
home for children.
Thomas Smith, father Of little boy
fifteen years old, was arrested by the
Society, fined and imprisoned for COM
pelIing his son to be O contestant in q
walking match at the American Insti-
tute Building, where one hundred miles
were made In twenty-four hours, and
where the little fellow tainted long be-
fore the task could be completed.
AT No. 835 Eleventh avenue, officers
of the Society found Michael and Alice
McKendra both drunk and surrounded
by three children. The rooms they oc-
cupied were reeking with dirt, vermin
and horrible stenches. The only article
of furniture was mattress spread upon
the floor. The children, aged six years,
two and half years and six months,
were wallowing in vomits and excre-
ments, and were all starving. The little
child of two and half years was totally
blind. The baby shortly died, the other
two were cared for in public institutions,
and the unnatural parents were sent six
months to the Penitentiary.
The Society rescued little girl only
eight years old, whom a man named
Geo. Walker was in the act of abducting.
The girl was restored to her parents, and
the kidnapper punished.
-Four children, Mamie, John, William
and James, aged respectively thirteen,
ten, seven and six years, were rescued
from their parents, Thomas and Cathe-
rine Wilson, who occupied a hut in q
New York locality known as "Hells
Kitchen" and who have since been sent
to the Penltentiary for highway robbery.
The interior of the hut was a counter
part of old Fagin's quarters, and the
children were being subjected to the
same training that young Oliver re-
ceived. They were sent to the New
York Catholic Protectory.
John, Rosa and Peter, all under seven
years of age, were taken from their
parents, Patrick and Maria Boylan, at
353 West Fiftieth street, and we're COM
fortably housed in an Asylum. They
were all naked and were found crouch
ing in corner to escape the blows of
their father and mother, both of whom
were in beastly state of intoxication.
Patrick and Maria were committed. Nu.
merous other cases are detailed in the
report. One where little girl only
nine nine years of age was rescued from
a man who had attempted to outrage
her; another in which little girl was
delivered from father attempting an
unnatural crime, and still another in
which was saved little motherless boy
named Husley, compelled by his father
to sleep through December in an open
cellar on Twentieth street, where
his ears and hands were frozen, and
where he was frequently bitten by the
rats. It is of little consequence in whose
name the Society does this humane
the motive t6ss tts 8 so Hhaa At
the hungry are fed, the naked clothed,
and those who perpetrate the inhuman-
ity are punished. SO long ought the HUI
name Society to be encouraged and sus-
tanned.