Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-15
JUVENILE TORMENT.
A WALL FULL OF INSTRUMENTS or
TORTURE.
Museum Of the Society for the Prevention
Of Cruelty to Chfldren-Ths prince
Leo Law"-Maggie, the "An-
gel Maker"
New York Hearld.l

New York Hearld1
Hanging on the wall in the office Of the So
ctety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children is frame containing two protraits,
beneath which Is large pair Of sheara In
one portrait a child is shown to be cut and
bruised all over her body and her counte-
nance Is sorrowful, while in the other she is
shown to be healthy and happy. Beneath
the photographs and shears are the following
printed lines:
LITTLE MARY ELLEN"
Rescued from the cruel treatment of q
woman named Connolly,
by the
Officers Of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children.
1874
I. Condition of Little Mary Elem vhen
z Little Mary Ellen one year aftsrward
in q happy home.
8. Shears used by the woman Connolly in
beating and cutting Little Mary Ellen"
@That little girl was the cause of the estab-
Hshment Of this society,"" said SuperiLtend-
ent jenkins to a Herald reporter, as he
pointed to the pictures Of little Mary Ellen,
@and from this society like societies have
sprung up in London, Liverpool, France, It
aly, Spain, Calcutta, and nearly every state
In the Union Quite q girl, heyl Yes; q
lady came to Mr.. Henry Bergh one
day and said that she had tried in vain to
rescue the child from the woman Connolly,
and asked for his assistance. He went to
her aid, rescued the child, and then issued
the appeal which resulted in the organiza-
OF the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, which hope one Of these days
will be in building as big as the postoffice.
~You may know what o blessing the soci-
ETY. has been," resumed Superintendent
Jsnking, "when you look at these instru-
ments Of torture that we have wrested from
the cruel hands of parents and guardians"
Turning to one side the superintendent
brought the reporter before whole wall full
Of every conceivable kind Of eapon and
other means Of torment, each one ef which
mutsly spoke columns Of human
woe There were violins and tambourines,
rawhides and chains, sticks of wood and
iron pokers, and leather Straps with big iron
buckles
"Those violins and tambourines are relics
OF the padrole system, which we broke up
some years ago." said Mr.. jenkins, when
Antonio Giovanni Aucarola was sentenced
to five years in Auburn prison. Aucarola
came out Of prison a short time ago, and,
comm to see US, said he intended to leave
the country, as he could no longer carry on
his business There is a possibility that tho
system is yet carried on to q small extent,
the bootblacks around town probably being
the victims, but we rarely discover any dan
gerous existence of it
THAT base ball bat was used by Q man to
beat his stepdaughter, who was but Is years
Of age, and that shoe-brush alongside of It
was used by colored man to chastiss his
baby, 2 years old. The man who used the
club was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment, and the shoe-brush wielder got only
one month There's big piece of kindiing
wood that q drunken mother killed her boy
with. The potato masher you ses hanging q
little above was the means of almost Kidding
a dsndish father Of his little, unloved boy.
The child was missing for a day or two, and
we found him crouching, almost dead, be-
hind an outhouse door. The boys sister.
too, was discovered in q pitlAble condition,
suffering from neglect and ll-treatment"
~What was that old broom used forl" asked
the reporter, in puzzle.
@As a buck and gag. The broom was
passed across boys legs, under the knees
In that position for days, with his wrists tied
into the house, where the father was belab-
oring the boy upon the naked body, while in
this position. with long, thick strip Of
leather. Long welts had bean cut into ths
boys flesh"
A little pair Of red socks were said to have
been worn by prince Leo" who was the in
nocent cause Of the -Prince Leo law" They
had leather buttons, and were used by . lit
H. 49, k,<l ! %l III
the Tivoil thsater. He had been hired from
his father in Philadelphia, who farmed out
al his children for Eleading the blind and
other like professionals" /" by man who sup
ported himself and his alleged wife on the
little fellows earnings The boy would
climb up wire, carrying . heavy piece Of
gas-pipe as a balance pole, and when hs
reached the ceiling he slid to the stage.
There was rope around his waist, with .
slack of about four feet, and held by . man
In the flies, but the physicians said that bad
the child fallen the rope would have caused .
rupture. The boy was adopted by a gentle
man in Brooklyn and is now in Missouri
Besides other cruelties the boys trainer
would stand him on a horseback and horse
whip him and bend him back and forth to
make him supple and keep his bones pliabla.
"A bo1ICA hOOP WAtA 5hok y uhAkS Ii ~ wa
described as having inflicted wounds on .
girl baby but 0 months old, and q clothes
line was said to have been used by
. boy in an attempt to commit suicide
because he could not remain out doors late
at night An iron spoon and an iron pot
handle had grim histories A mother had
painted the walls of her kitchen red with her
little boys blood by the aid Of them
Nav% 60 tba x.,oI f,,n Of dr,olo H1d1ou,
was glass full of pistols, knives, and packs Of
cards and bottles of brandy and whisky that
had been taken from the New York youth,
beside the pistols and shelves Of liquors and
nursery bottles Whole quarts of whisky
had been bought for the small sum Of 10
cents, and captured while the little messen-
ger was on his or her way to q besotted pa
rent The milk bottles bad never been
taken from Maggie McCloskey, 1the angel
maker" had been used to feed six babisa
Relics Of Shepherd Cowley were legion
Upstairs in the society's building half
dozen baby wanderers had thrown aside
their toys and were dreaming Of the good
soul who had taken their mothers placo-
Matron Mary Jenkina
Virtues Of the Hair Pillow.
[Cor. New York SUM-
When was . student, suffered much
from sleeplessness, and, after trying many
remedies, I hit upon this one: discarded
my feather pillow for one of hair. Ths ef
feet was wonderful slept soundly the
whole Of the first night, and have never, ex-
cept when feverish, been 50 wakefu -
usually was before. Although feathers ara
excellent for preventing the dispersion Of the
heat Of the body, 50 much fault has been
found with feather beds that they have quite
generally gone out of use, and it is strange
that feather pillows have not been sent after
them. Feathers In pillows are open to the
same objections as feathers in beds, and
even their chief virtue, that of keeping up .
high temperature, is defect in q pillow:
certainly when one-hah Of the head is kept
at blood-heat by being buried in feathers,
and the other half is exposed to the air, both
halves can not be at the most favorabls
temperature.
A hair pillow does not get warmed up to
an uncomfortable degree, because it rapidly
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