The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-18
RIOTOUS GIRLS.
The Amazons IN the San Francisc co
Reformatory Nesting ina
Body-A Fight With
the Police.
California.

their fourteenth and twentieth wears
in the cheerful asylum on Porrero
avenue, near Sierra, number year In
and year out about seventy OF course
there are hundreds, and probably
thousands of young Magdalens in the
city, but only small proportion re-
taken into The police court an SEN
fenced to the Industrial school, from
which institution they are transferred
10 the care of the sisters of Mercy
at the asylum. The mentors have
no easy task in the management of
their young charges, as anyone having
an acquaintance with the genius hood
lum, feminine gender, peculiar to San
Francisco, can well imagine. The
majority of their charges are morally
degraded, and it is q popularity of the
species that the younger they are the
more depraved they try to be. Still,
the Sisters accomplish
GREAT DEAL OF GOOD.
Though it is to be fearel that the
brands plucked from the burning are
few and far between. Considering the
turbulency of the young spirits in
their charge, they maintain fair order
during the week, and are only called
on to exercise unusual discipline on
Sunday. Then the girls are allowed
the freedom of the yard, and the re-
llglOus services are all conducted In
the open air when the weather per-
mits. The principal d difficulty has
been with hoodlums en- the outside.
who congregate on the hill back of
the yard and tantalize the prisoners
by indulging in all sorts of antics cal
culated to inspire them with di,cpn-
tent with their imprisonment Scarce
ly Sunday passes without the arrest
of some Of these young scoundrtl~, ami
subsequent punishment in the police
court for disturbing a religious meet
ing. Yesterday the Sisters had an
unusual ordeal, and it Was not due t.
the outside either.
SHORTLY BEFORE NOON
one Of the girls IN the yard misbe-
haved TO such an extent that the Sis
ter ia cnarge ordered her back to her
room. The girl refused to obey, and
when the Sister attempted to use
force, half dozel OF her companions
came TO the rescue, and roughly as
saulted the Sister. Officer VIM. Burke
was pass ng at the time, and was sum-
moned, when the ripple that disturbed
tine usual calm assumed the proper
tions of Barbary Coast riot Against
such assailsnts the officer could not
use his club, and their number babe
fair to overpower him. Tor by this
time the entire school was In revolt.
The mild Sisters were powerlesS in a
battle of strength, and could only
pray, but this afforded little relief to
ahe overwhelming officer One of the
young despsradoes in petticoats pro
cuced a penknife in the thick of the
light, and gradually working her way
through the struggling mob, stabbed
Burke in the arm. He had paid little
heed to numerous tugs at his hair and
Inusrache, and two slsps and blows
from tiny fists but the blood-!ettiug
steel made matters assume
A MORE SERIOUS ASPECT,
and no one felt more happy than
when the gate opened, and Officers
Gilfoyle, Price, Davismess, Cliff ,rd,
OConnor and Ribby, who had been
summoned by telephone from the
Seventeeth-strest Station charged to
his aid at double-quick. Even then
the maddened girls were not dismayed,
but dividing themselves into squads,
they battled with the re, ehforcements
with hearty good will. The odds
were too great, however, and one after
another the limbs of the Law seized the
girls and dragged them into the cells
and bedrooms, and then returned for
more. Still they did not escape with
out some hard knocks and when the
last refractory girl was locked up
comparison of damages occupied near
'1y half an hour. Gilfoyle was unhurt,
but had his hat entirely ruined, Burke
lost some hair and was slightly cut in
the arm, Price lost several buttons,
and the remainder showed up choice
assortment Of scratches and rips of
more or less consequence. For some
time after their confinement the girls
ratified the doors and shouted, sang
and yelled, but they finally quoted
down, and by dark the asylum was as
quiet as country church-yard. A
call on the Sisters elicted littls infor-
(nation, and they firmly declined to ex-
pose the identity Of the ringleaders or
he original cause of the riot.
A Fair Offer