The daily gazette., 1883-07-11
JERSEY JUSTICE FAILS.
A FEARFUL cRlMr TO GO uN-
PJNlSH %.
A5REooRD OF AWFUL BRUTALITY,
Story of the Frightful suiIerings Of Poor
Girl--No Effort TO be NJ ade to Punish the
Guilty PARTIES.

ATLANTIC CIT4, July 10-If "Jersey JUS
tice" has become proverbial Jersey humanity
was disgraced by the revelations made to.
day before the coroner's jury In the case of
ClRrissa Bounds. Three of the men who
were at the coaling at the time of her awful
cremation left their work yesterday, the day
after her death. and went to parts unknown.
hese were solomon Mannery, his son Glen
Mannery, and John Thomas. One of the
witnesses TO her death, and, If there was
foul play, as the evidence to-day In some re-
spects tended to show, one of the parlici-
pants In it, white boy of 10, named Jee
Kelsey, testified Jefore the coroner's Jury,
The testimony of Conrad Grantee, Joseph
Kelsey, Mrs. Patterson, the woman who
nursed Clarssa Bounds on behalf of the city
authorities until her death, and of Dr..
Boardman Reed, the physician who attended
her, more than corroborate the disgusting
details of callous indifference to the most
heartrending agonies ofthe girl on the part
OF the justices of the peace of the several
townships of the county and of the overseer
OF the poor of Galloway Township. The men
who could tell the most of the night of the
tragedy were not brought before the coro-
ner's jury, although their companion, Joe
Kelsey, testified to their present whereabouts,
The father of Clarissa Bounds was not pro-
duced, nor her sister-in-law, who knew of
and were partly responsible for her inhuman
treatment.
The nurse, Mrs. Anna j. Patterson, testi-
fed that the girl was brought to her sister.
in-law'S house in this city on Saturday,
naked, with the exception Of a filthy skirt,
lying on her wounded and bleeding back,
in pile of hay which stuck to and filled
her wounds; that the sufferer had no other
clothing, DO bath or dressing for her wounds
and no change OF position until the follow
ing Wednesday, which was exactly one
week from the time OF her fatal adventure
at the coal pits, and that the body of the
shrieking and agonizing victim was ulcer
ated, raw, and the wounds already so ad-
vanced in the stages of sloughing that she
co aid scarcely stay in the room with her.
Clarit sa said, before her death, that her sis-
ter had abused and neglected her, and that
she was cold, hungry and often left alone
In the house without a fire.
"Clarissa told me, " said the nurse, tsthat
her doctor did not even dress her wounds
after she had come to this place, and that
she was unconscious from the time of her
burning until she came to town, which was
our days. This was the time when the
overseer of the poor was trotting her around
t 'e country and she was lying on piles of
hay at night in the woods. She said that
she had been begging through the woods
the day OF the tragedy and, having nowhere
else to go, had sought refuge from the cold,
stormy night at the coal pits, where these
men were. She did not know what, If any
thing, they had done her."
The nurse further testified that on the
Fourth OF July Tommy Thomas, a younger
brother OF the collier, John Thomas, who
was with Joe Kelsey and Clarisea at the
colliery, had come to see Clarissa at her the
nurses house, and that Tommy said, in
Clarissa's presence, and in the presence of
the nurses mother also, "It is shame, but
God knows had nothing to do with it; Joe
Kelsey ought to be stuck full of pine splIn-
ters too, and set on fire." Yet this Tommy
Thomas was not brought to the inquest
Dr. Boardman Reed, who had not waited
on the deceased during her life, said that
yesterday he made post examina-
tion OF the girls body. Her stomach and
the upper portions of her legs were q mass
of sores. There were various burns and
marke on the upper part of her body, which
might have resulted from violence, and her
hipbones protruded through the liberated
flesh, which had dropped away around them,
although death had occurred only few
ho1rs before.
In the face of the admissions of Tommy
Thomas, and the astounding absence OF the
men who know most about the incidents of
the poor girls wounds, the coroner's Jury
brought in verdict OF death from injuries
accidentally received, censuring no one.
Such verd'et is regarded among many of
the most intelligent citizens of this place
with great surprise and considerable indig-
nation. Tonight on the streets comment Is
being made freely on the neglect with which
the injured girl was treated by her sister,
brother-ia-law, and the physician who was
first calle to see her, as well as on the fact
that her horrible wounds were not dressed
until exactly one week after they were in
ficted. In view of the verdict, it is not
thought any criminal prosecution will fol-
low unless public indignation should be-
come so strong as to demand it,